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I appreciate your response. I also appreciate that you personally have made a specific effort to help people find plugins that are up to date and work with BuddyPress – with your BuddyPlug plugin.

However, your response is typical of what I’ve seen here before. It’s actually somewhat condescending – and that’s just as disappointing and frustrating as the reality of trying to get these products to work as hoped.

The “It’s FREE!” response is lame. There are many free web products that are awesome – including all of those I just ranted about above. I’m not saying that the work being done here is not appreciated. I’m saying that I’m frustrated with the results I’m getting from this piecemeal approach to creating a website. If all of the pieces worked as advertised, integrated and up to date, I would be quite happy.

I’m sorry that feedback – even in the form of a small rant – is so typically dismissed here. Based on all of what I have read in the forums here, I feel confident in saying that there are countless others who feel the same way as I do.

Thanks so much for pointing out my options. Characterizing my post as useless is your prerogative. That’s too bad, as well.

Hi Hugo-

You just cleared something important up for me: The new file structure is not just a restructuring of where the files are, but also within the files themselves. (And the files in /buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/ are the new style. Are these the template files that theme compat uses, too?)

Yes, I built this theme the old way, where you create a child theme of whatever (I used Twenty Twelve), then copied the templates and css over from bp-default into the child theme, then went to work. It’s not a child theme of bp-default (precisely, but more or less). The BP Template Pack took care of the JS with BP1.6.

I’ve tried adding theme support and the js file, but as you mentioned earlier, it also needs ajax.php to do the work. (I don’t know how to make that happen.)

Thanks,

-David

Hi Hugo-

I came across this comment on trac that appeared to be in the wrong place but sounded similar to my problem: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4869#comment:17

I’ve found that if I install Boone’s GitHub version of the template pack and only enable the JS file portion of it, it works (if my buddypress templates are back at the root of the theme, not in a buddypress folder).

Is there a better way? (I’m also concerned that 1.7 is going to unexpectedly break a number of customized themes like mine.) What’s funny about this is that with 1.6 I used the template pack, then deactivated it while working with 1.7-beta, but it appears that I need it again.

Thanks for your help,

-David

This weeks question & answer:

theme customize

Question Summary: How to add custom css to all widgets?

Solution: In our theme, you can target all widgets with article.widget. An example:

article.widget {
	background: #fff;
	border-radius: 6px;
	margin: 10px;
	padding: 10px;
	box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0,0.3) 0 1px 3px;
}

Found it – Buddypress Real names…

Hi Hugo-

Thanks for following up. The theme was built against BP1.6 & 1.7-beta, so the buddypress-related template folders (activity, blogs, groups, etc) were in the root of the theme. This resulted in the theme being rendered correctly, but, with BP1.7, the js support disappeared.

I’ve moved the bp-related folders into a “buddypress” folder at the root of the theme (as described in your article: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/). Moving the files causes the output to be garbled. For instance, on a single member’s profile page, a div#content is being created inside of the div#content provided in the main template `buddypress.js`, and, while the object-nav (activity, messages, etc) is being rendered, the header and the main content area aren’t being populated. Structurally, it’s like the entire buddypress output is being wrapped in the theme’s page template. But not completely, because the end of the file isn’t being rendered.

As you can tell, I’m not exactly sure what’s going on. 🙂

Thanks again for your advice,

-David

Thank you @charise

@bphelp

thanks for your reaction! May I ask which forum you exactly mean? Is is one of the forums of buddypress? I cannot find any forum with this name.. or is it a different website?

Thanks, Anne.

@aces

thanks for your reaction! Do you happen to have any idea how I can re-install buddypress? when I re-install (deactivate, remove, and then install again) the installation wizard won’t start again and I still see my ‘old’ settings and pages. I would like to re-install buddypress because it might not have been installed correcty, what means that re-installing perhaps could solve my problem.

Thanks! Anne