@naijaping you misunderstood hnla. You do not need multiple dynamic areas or widget areas to effect the look that you wanted for your sidebar. This can easily be done by changing styles in style.css file, something like this before you made the changes.
`div#sidebar {
background: transparent none;
border: none;
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 224px;
}
div#sidebar .padder {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
div#sidebar div.widget {
-webkit-border-radius:5px;
background:#fff;
border:1px solid #AEE100;
border-radius:5px;
padding: 15px;
}`
@hnla, @mercime, I just created multiple sidebar on my test site, i followed tutorial from the following link : http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2007/11/how-to-create-multiple-dynamic-sidebars-for-wordpress-widgets/ and i have the extra sidebar widget, however, they still show as one with no space in between the content so please how can i achieve this.i want the sidebars to have space inbetween one another.
my test site is : http://naijaping.co.cc/
thanks
I can’t see why any plugins for the new bbPress plugin would not work when running on a site with BuddyPress. It’s plugins, all the way down 
@mercime Thank You Thank You Thank You.
Worked perfectly – my site is almost how I want it ( couple more things to play with) but I thank you so much.
Your help is what makes BP so appealing to me. I have used many OS software over the years – and I dont mind admitting I am a cut and paste merchant when it comes to code – your help has been exceptional.
If you ever come to London – I owe you a cold beer.
Thanks @mercime
I added your suggested changes – not sure what they did – but I applied them. I respect your knowledge way ahead of my own.
One thing – you put ul.activity-list li twice in the list above – or I have misunderstood?
@hnla apologies if my question was not clear. thats exactly what i want, i want each widget to appear in its own sidebar so that they will not join together. any pointer to right direction in achieving that will be highly appreciated.
thanks
@mercime thanks for your reply, have tried it and it was cool but not really what am looking for. as i want each sidebar widget item to have a space bottom and top so that each of them can stand alone. anymore suggestion will be highly appreciated.
regards
By dating you mean something like match.com or eharmony.com? Have not seen a BP plugin that does that.
Simplest way could be to use Friend feature and Private Messages with additional layers of privacy so “Friends/Dates” cannot see how many “Dates/Friends” you already have .
Thanks Man @mercime
I did some digging myself – and I did change the CSS for another issue I had where large images were pushing the activity list all over the place. I fixed this by adding the below to the CSS line for ul.activity-list li
‘ul.activity-list li {
padding: 20px 0 0 0;
display:inline-block;
}’
I played with this once more and change the last line to diplay:block; and that seems to have worked well.
Unless you see a reason where this is not the solution – maybe you can see issues in the future?? – I am happy to go with – but I am open to suggestions.
@Scotty501 I just checked out fishbook theme in test install. The activity lists are not going bonkers like what’s happening in your site. I would backup your current fishbook theme (with your mods) to computer hard drive, then rename/delete fishbook theme folder, and re-upload fresh fishbook theme https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/fishbook-buddypress-buddypack
@gregfielding Doing `!bp_get_blog_signup_allowed()` isn’t probably the best approach though as it twists logic and if you did decide to close blog registration from the dashboard you would then be showing the form for blog signup the reverse of what you want.
Why not simply wrap the blog section in a test for a variable e.g:
‘$show_blog_signup = false;
if( $show_blog_signup) :
blog form stuff
endif;
`
Then you change the variable at top of page if needed.
You need to increase available memory. See this page for 4 ways to do so – https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/blank-pages/
as always thanks @mercime
I am beginning to regret using this theme – seems to have quite a few style issues with it – 
Any ideas on fixing it?
@Scotty501 looks like it’s missing some styles for the activity lists.
OK @djpaul, the answer is “NO”. The actual bbPress plugin has not this functionnality, but it exist a bbPress plugin who can do this: “support forums”.
The new question is now: is bbPress plugable when integrated into a BP multisite install ?
And if you really don;t have wildcards.. move to a new host that does. Seriously. There’s less work & pain in moving to a new host than there would be to have any kind of workaround.
Emails are unrelated to the theme.
Likely, as we;ve covered many times previously – the emails are not being *recieved* which is a different issue. Please search, and if you still can;t find an answer post a new thread.
It is
remove_action( ‘init’, ‘bp_core_wpsignup_redirect’ );
I agree with the OP – I tried your fix above – but I am still able to see and post activity in the groups.
just to re-trace my steps – I created in my theme (fishbook) groups/single/activity.php – and pasted the activity.php from /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/
I then copied wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/post-form.php to /wp-content/themes/fishbook-buddypress-buddypack/activity/ and renamed it post-form-groups and cleared the contents of that file. However, I still see the activity box etc.
Thanks that helps a lot Looks like that belongs to something called Page Security by Contexture, which won’t be any good to me in this instance.
So then my question is, what is the best way to filter the member directory based on an extended buddypress field? They have a profile field that is a multi-selct box and it contains an option that would identify those that are not to be displayed in their member directory.
I was presuming that BP would have some $user.extended-field.value that I could use to filter the list in the member-loop page but as I said before I am concerned this it would be a cheesy little hax that would probably mess up the pagination and god knows what else.
If I wanted to modify the SQL statement just for the member-loop what is the best practice way to do that?
Thanks
I would use TDO mini forms , best for your purposes , works nice.
Ok, just to clarify. You mentioned above “The main reason I want two separate installs is because I can’t get wildcard subdomains working on the web server level. I have to add each subdomain in cPanel.“. Yet in your first post you said “I currently have one WP3 install, multi-site, subdomain, that just hosts sites with content on them.” which means regularly that wildcard subdomains are enabled. So which one is it? Or are you talking about installations in different servers?
I thought that too, but I didn’t have any success with it. So I did some more digging and found what I was looking for:
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/feeds/bp-activity-group-feed.php
