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> Are there any plugins out there that make this easier for novice-coders?

Not really you will just have to bite the bullet and learn to code a little, or, and if you’re running a a site that you hope to capitalise on in some way then consider employing developers to handle this aspect – freebie help will only take you so far – quite far with mercimes help but ought to be considered a helping hand to kick start you off.

In view of the help in progress on the other thread this one is closed.

== but if I wanted to change it to reflect something closer to the Frisco for Buddypress theme, but instead Red, Black and White to suit my website, how would I go about this? ==

@jakeyboy1989 You could do that by using Firebug, Firefox add-on, and/or copying the styles of the BP elements from Frisco onto your current WP theme’s stylesheet. I suggest you do that after you implement the template changes I will post here later.

So to continue with fixing the alignment of your BP template files, I need the content of your theme’s loop-page.php file in pastebin.com as well.

@famous sorry, there are no plugins that does what you want at this time. You’d need to create one OR hire a developer to do so OR wait till someone releases this kind of plugin at the WP plugin repo.

@bigjosh – their are some privacy plugins that will allow a user to choose who can see their details
such as: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-privacy/

If it’s possible to wait afew weeks, this feature has also been written for Core, to be included in the next major release (bp 1.6) Here is the developers announcement of the feature – http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/profile-field-visibility-in-bp-1-6/

@starprintbrokers Go to BuddyPress > Pages and check if Registration is still associated with a Page. If it is,resave page. Don’t know why that’s acting up with Salutation theme. If you change to bp-default theme, does the register issue also happen there or is it resolved?

== I need to fix up the alignment still (which is another problem) ==
@jakeyboy1989 Fixing alignment and making BP template files mesh in with your theme’s styles at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/publicprivate-sites-cross-posting-content/?#post-128351

== Im still having some issues getting the template to work though. ==

@jakeyboy1989 I can see by the source code that you’re using Blogging News by Colorlabs. To help you fix alignment and some styles: open up your Blogging News theme’s header.php, Copy all, Paste in pastebin.com, Click submit, Post generated URI here. Do the same for: index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php.

And did you go through Appearance > BP compatibility process? It looks like you have not finished with Step 3 – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#step-three – where you need to fix alignment, then keep the bp.css enabled and adjust some styles to your theme.

Code has been updated and posted at http://wp.me/p1I84P-3O

@artisantopia Per scan of your theme’s HTML structure, you’d need to use the first option, i.e., change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your Alyeska theme folder in server during the compatibility process.

Closing duplicate post of https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/remove-register-link-from-admin-bar/

@zturton you should be contacting the theme author for your premium theme. We have no ready access to the theme. Either there are missing files or you have to configure BuddyPress settings in theme options panel, if any or the theme needs to be updated.

For anyone looking, this might be helpful:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-xprofiles-acl/

http://buddydev.com/buddypress/buddypress-globalsitewide-unified-search-update-for-buddypress-1-5/ ?

@storyaday change to bp-default theme and check if issue is corrected. If so, contact your custom theme author about the issue.

Don’t be too hasty to post a review until you’ve determined the cause of the issue

Also it’s worth checking carefully what a plugin says it’s tested to / works with. If a plugin does not say at least BP1.5 personally I would avoid it.

@davidvess Sorry for the inconvenience. We are aware of the issue. You can search via Google in the meantime. Thanks.

@babray for multisite installations @valuser‘s recommendation is spot on. For single WP installations, you could consider http://buddydev.com/buddypress/blog-categories-for-groups-plugin/

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-members-loop/#accepted-parameters
e.g. “

@khanyay what theme are you using? If you’re using a WP theme and activated BP Template Pack plugin and gone through Appearance > BP Compatibility. Make sure that you did not deactivate bp.css in the final panel.

That plugin has been tested up to WP 3.0.1 only == BP 1.2.6/1.2.7. It’s just weird that your site went down before even activating the plugin and that you don’t see the plugin’s folder in wp-content/plugins/ since that’s where you should manually uninstall/delete the folder.

– Check wp-content/uploads/ folder via FTP and see if the zip file of the plugin is there and delete it. If by chance the kaltura plugin was unzipped there, delete it as well.
– if the above doesn’t work, then rename the whole plugins folder from wp-content/plugins to wp-content/plugins-xx. You can rename it to correct folder name later.