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You’re talking about Step 3 then.

There are two methods to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress, what you choose will depend on the current HTML structure of your WP theme:

A. First method – changing 16 BP template files transferred to your WP theme folder during the BP compatibility process
— Example using Motion theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

B. Second method – creating header-buddypress.php, sidebar-buddypress.php and/or footer-buddypress.php and adding to your WP theme folder which already contains the BP template folders after compatibility process.
— Example using Twenty Ten: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/
— Example using Twenty Eleven: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-eleven-bp-1-5/

All themes can use First Method but only some themes can use Second Method.

If you need assistance in analyzing if you can use the Second Method for your theme, please post codes of your theme’s header.php, sidebar.php, index.php, page.php, and footer.php in respective pastebin.com pages.

There are two methods to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress, what you choose will depend on the current HTML structure of your WP theme:

A. First method – changing 16 BP template files transferred to your WP theme folder during the BP compatibility process
— Example using Motion theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

B. Second method – creating header-buddypress.php, sidebar-buddypress.php and/or footer-buddypress.php and adding to your WP theme folder which already contains the BP template folders after compatibility process.
— Example using Twenty Ten: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/
— Example using Twenty Eleven: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-eleven-bp-1-5/

All themes can use First Method but only some themes can use Second Method. If you need assistance in analyzing if you can use the Second Method for your theme, please post codes of your theme’s header.php, sidebar.php, index.php, page.php, and footer.php in respective pastebin.com pages.

All of your revised BP page templates (except “Register” and “Activate”) are laid out correctly from IE 6 to IE 9 per test site link you gave in first post. Double-checked this in my computer as well as the online IE simulator at http://netrenderer.com/index.php

Download /registration/register.php and /registration/activate.php from your server and double-check that the layout has been updated per instructions given above. Reminder: there’s an extra script required for /registration/register.php file as I noted above.

I think just as with any library of scripts (and it is a library of scripts (CSS / js) and images) it’s to be considered a toolbox not an ultimate solution. There are already a few WordPress themes using it. If you wanted to use it to create a BuddyPress theme it could be a good option to speed up the process.

My only note of caution with things like that is to avoid the attack of the clones so to speak. Yes, it’s great but some variation is also great The web would be a truly boring place if we all had the same looking sites.

It’s not an easy problem. If you’ve got any good ideas, then we’re listening.

Closing thread, duplicate of:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/custom-selectbox-issue/

BP Template Pack plugin does not work if BuddyPress is not installed and activated first. I had assumed you had done so before.

A child theme uses as it’s core the parent theme, it references any template pages you copy over from parent theme to child theme. The child theme files are used in preference to the same named file in parent theme likewise any functions files are read in order of child theme first then parent theme. All you need for a child theme to work is the style.css file with appropriate header block.

I would follow mercims advise to copy over header.php and simply remove the physical markup or enclose it in php comments, display: none simply hides the visual display but doesn’t remove markup so technically it’s still there.

Those are constants, the whole point of them is that you can set them yourself and override the BP ones as the bp ones check to see if they are defined first somewhere. Try it ou, either in bp-custom.php or functions.php

Why don’t these work or am I missing the point .

`define ( ‘BP_AVATAR_FULL_WIDTH’, 350 );
define ( ‘BP_AVATAR_FULL_HEIGHT’, 350 );`

same for thumbs, also of course one can pass size params back on avatar calls.

There are a whole series of constants in bp-core-avatar.php that may be overridden, not sure what the constant you mention ‘CORE_MAX_FILE_SIZE’ is

look in the file bp-example-activity.php in the buddypress-skeleton-component plugin it’s pretty well commented with all the info and params you need to pass

Before mercime kindly shows you how can we just check that you have made a start in attempting to enable your theme for BP? Have you moved any BP template pages across to your theme? Have you read through any of the excellent guides/ walk throughs mercime provided in the BP codex, starting with this initial guide:

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/