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== Can someone please give me a dullards guide on installing child themes. How I am doing it now because that’s what I’ve read, is to activate the child theme and not the parent theme. But it still ain’t happening.==

The question is whether you created a child theme of bp-default theme or of a WordPress theme.

– If you created a child theme of bp-default theme (https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/), upload the folder you created to server wp-content/themes/, then activate the child theme and you’re good to go and customize further.

– If you created a child theme of a regular WordPress theme, then you also need to install and activate the BP Template Pack plugin to make your child theme compatible with BuddyPress
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

@timothyjunior
Thanks for your work and your fast reply!

Have you considered uploading your work to http://code.google.com ? Here you can receive feedback directly and people can report bugs? I have seen a lot of developers use it. It is a great way to get help for it also.
You can start from here: http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/GettingStarted

Is there a place where I can see/get your code at the moment? (saw that you had problems pasting it in here)

Really appreciate your work

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-activity-plus/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/oembed-for-buddypress/

The code still works but, she just commented out the script for now @digte . alice reported a bug and I’m in the works of fixing it.

*edit : wordpress is reviewing the plugin now, not sure how long it will take but when it’s available i’ll let you know

timothy or virtuali, will you help me with this
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-show-if-user-is-online/#post-new

@gunju2221 Ok, let me know if you want any mods or if it’s not working correctly. ( if its working at all, let me know, thanks)

Sorry @vegasparty607 but in order for this to look right I will need a link to “your site” . either way i meant for 117px to be 130px i edited my last update , review it.
The span’s css is ` `

@naijaping make sure you made the folders `wp-content/themes/(yourTheme)/members/single/member-header.php`
and not `wp-content/themes/(yourTheme)/member-header.php`

@mikey3d thanks for pointing that out, if that isn’t his site then he must be using the same theme, I have had alot of people wanting help but most don’t like to link to their sites. Kinda odd, since a link with help promote their site.

Think of it this way-

If it’s taking a really long time to develop, it must be blooming with very cool features.

Would you rather have an update with little to no additions/fixes, but takes a short amount of time, or an update with tons of additions/fixes, and have it take a little while longer.

Also, buddypress is *free*, so what are you complaining about?

Check this out, for customizing labels and URLs: https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

You can get the current logged in user id from here: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/the-bp-global/

check out the `$bp->loggedin_user object` section

@timothyjunior You have been mislead by @vegasparty607 that is not his site. It’s @gunju2221

@johnjamesjacoby : Wouldn’t moving the sidebar cause a nightmare for backwards compatibility?

@Timothy Tarmon Jr, thanks for you effort, just tried this as instructed but seems to have no effect, what am i doing wrong, i just copied member-header.php to my child theme and replaced

@vegasparty607 change #item-header-avatar css `width:160px;height:180px`
change span’s css `padding: 4px 30px; top:180`
in the jquery change `130px` to `160px` and `150px` to `180px`

that should do it, let me know

@r-a-y
You need a tester?

It is possible to use qtranslate to get a multilanguage buddypress website, however, there are issues. When using the non-default language, the ajax-loaded content will display a “No content found” (ie: “There were no groups found”) warning in the default language. Also some items in the ‘activity’ listing do not get translated properly ‘sometimes’, for example, I am using Spanish and English and in the default list produced on the activity page it shows the same message sometimes in English and sometimes in Spanish, it seems pretty random, I haven’t done any investigating why, yet. So while it looks like a possible solution (qtranslate & buddypress), it definitely needs some work.

@naijaping . Ok this is what i came up with based on your sites css.

go to your theme’s /member-header.php

find `

Is this going to be required for bp-1.3 and further??? I don’t ever plan to upgrade the template pack because I have made so many changes to the files that It would be impossible to do it again.

We have no idea what site you might be referring to when you say “some buddypress site.” I think I know what you mean, which the answer is http://jetpack.me/, but that’s a total guess.

There really is a huge imbalance between Users of this app and those actively trying to develop it, move it forward. As Boone says ‘get involved’ if more people got involved things may run a little more smoothly and faster, give up a little bit of time reporting bugs to trac, testing patches if you can and feeding back.

What gallery plugin do you have installed @Aliceembroid?
I’m going to set up a test bp site, to test the new plugin, i’ll install them both and try to figure out the issue.

@opatachibueze , I don’t see a problem with the posts content in the activity stream. Maybe you could give more detail on the topic.

BuddyPress development moves as quickly as it can with an all-volunteer crew of developers and support specialists. If you’re concerned that things aren’t moving quickly enough, you should get involved.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Buddypress is dying..

I have many problems using it for my community and seriously consider changing. BuddyPress development is super slow and the community seems very thin.

What are your experiences?