Mercime, I’ve got the willingness to learn new skills but I need to receive clear instructions. To date, I’ve had instructions that have not worked when I put them into practice. It doesn’t help when I’m receiving them in terms that I don’t understand. If you want to lock out noobs, please say so and I’ll go elsewhere.

I’m not asking for much. Again, all I want is to be able to insert a logo of my choice at the dimensions I specify without it repeating. I’d also like to make my child theme work as expected without either locking me out or preventing new registrations.

To date, the instructions I’ve received here on the forum have not facilitated that. When I thought the problem was resolved I marked the thread resolved. A day or so later, I got header errors and couldn’t get into the site until you (correctly) told me that my child theme was the problem and I’d have to rename it. Which I’ve done. And I’m grateful to be able to get back in. Thank you.

Now I need to know if it’s possible at all to make a BuddyPress child theme that works properly with a header image of my choice or am I stuck with the massive dimensions specified by the default theme?

If so, please tell me, in terms I understand, how to do it.

@Kyneee I have an option to register, and users get an email with login and password, but it doesn’t redirect to their profile and no page is created for them. So they login from the hompage and it just refreshes the home page and that’s it. I’ve registered 3 users and it shows them logged in but all they are is registered, nothing else.

== Please be aware that when you go WP Multi-Network and then go BP MultiNetwork, you would be expected to know or to learn how to make some changes in database ==

@mercime Sorry I did not notice that in the documentation. I am in the process of having some custom development work done on the site so paying for professional help is not a problem.

BP Multi Network is a very specialized, somewhat complex plugin that is probably only supportable by the developers. I wonder if @wpmuguru or @johnjamesjacoby would be willing to provide support?

@elangley

@mercime

The installations instructions are not very clear for BP Multi Network, for instance,
deactivate BuddyPress on your sub network(s).
Edit your database and remove the bp- settings for the subnetwork from wp_sitemeta and wp_X_options where X is the blog ID of the main site in your sub network.

Edit your database? Not sure I would know what to do there…

@elangley
~eric

@mercime thanks for the response. To answer your questions:

WP version = 3.3.2
BP version = 1.5.5

Hosted w/Hostgator

I went through the Installation Wizard, step-by-step and confirmed everything. I performed and confirmed each step several times.

Site URL: boostego

WP Theme = Themefuse: Sportedge

I did not install and activate the BP Template Pack plugin to make the theme compative with BuddyPress. I’m not sure of what the steps would be to “fix the HTML structure of the BP template files”. Could you please elaborate? TIA..

after work tonight im just going to try and follow this guide….

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

is that what i need to do to fix it?

Thanks again

When searching these files, i cant find the exact code you wrote. for instance in activity, i found

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Thanks, Hugo, but this is what the problem is; I want to do a thing I never have a problem with anywhere except with BuddyPress and it’s a simple thing I want to do.

Since I understood precisely ZERO amount of your post I can’t do anything with that information. This is the problem with BuddyPress: if you’re not a coder, you’re screwed.

Is it not possible at all to give me instructions I can understand or provide me with code I can copy and paste into the appropriate files? The advice I took was from this website. I followed them to the letter. I copied and pasted the code. The website is a disaster.

What I need is either clear instructions that I understand and can immediately implement or code that I can copy and paste. I also need to be told *where* the code needs to go and whether or not anything else needs to be in that particular file. I’m a noob. I know that. But I’m a noob that wants to learn and I can’t learn when I’m a) confused and b) frustrated.

I have either received a) half of the instructions I needed to do this or b) the wrong instructions from the beginning.

What I need is all the instructions, and they need to be correct, or I’ll have to look for another solution because BuddyPress is not the one for me or the website I’m working on.

Hi again Paul,

I noticed that you’re not able to sign up with usernames such as “activity”, “groups” or “members”. It seems like BuddyPress stops users from being able to do this to stop any conflicts. I’d pretty much only need to add “about”, “login”, “terms” and “contact” to the list of ‘outlawed’ usernames as these are the only pages I need on my site right now.

Hope you can help.

@Hugo I don’t think @kramugs was being particularly helpful.

Thanks, Mercime. After that, what can I do to fix whatever is causing the problems? So far I’ve found BuddyPress to be a profoundly frustrating experience because the instructions for customizing the theme are too vague to follow correctly.

All I want to do is add a header banner that doesn’t repeat and make sure the registration page works as intended. How can I do that? When I followed the instructions given me, I ended up with a mess.

I’ve had to revert to the default for now. Is it really that hard to a) add a new header image at 401 x 80px and set it to *not* repeat?