@mercime Blame it on the backticks, bad workman blames… 
Off to posts a forum alert “mercime is logged in , would all users kindly take caution when posting and if they can’t find their post later please search at random through the last 100 threads”
== it’s just mercime having a little ‘re-arranging of the furniture’ session ==
@hnla not fair, LOL. The sticky should be about what a backtick is. It’s not an apostrophe and neither should they place “backticks“ as is before and after code 
@mercime 😆 not having a good day all in all
Think we’d better post a sticky just warning people that if their posts appear to start jumping around random threads not to panic it’s just mercime having a little ‘re-arranging of the furniture’ session
@johnjamesjacoby is currently upgrading BuddyPress.org and other BP assets. Thank you for your patience.
I can’t change my avatar. I get this when I try to upload an image:
Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory /home/buddypress/public_html/wpmu/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/7007810. Is its parent directory writable by the server?
@alexbdd Following the instruction in this BP codex article https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
Go to server and download the template folders/files transferred by BP Template Pack plugin process to your active WP theme folder down to your computer.
Open up activity/index.php
change this at the top, replace:
`
`
with
`<?php
get_header ();
?>
<div class="column span-“>`
At the bottom of same file, replace
`
`
with
`
<?php
get_sidebar();
get_footer();
?>`
Save file and upload to server following the directory structure. You need to do the same thing in the next 12 files.
Sorry the full code is here:
EDIT – Corrected your backticks in above post. Use backtick (`) before and after the code so code will be displayed in post. — Mercime
Hi anyone,
I am using a special theme with index.php coded like this:
`<?php
get_header ();
?>
<div class="column span-“>
<?php
bm_homepageIntro ();
bm_homepageTabs ();
?>
<?php
get_sidebar();
get_footer();
?>`
How can I make changes to fix the theme layout? It’s strange that there is no div id on my index.
Thank you,
Alex
@number_6 you might need to update template tags in Saffron theme’s header.php which you can double check by comparing with header.php of bp-default theme https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php
There’s no cache (only WordPress’) but the activity stream content is written once into the database. You’ll have to go into the database, bp_activities table, and make changes manually.
@Bowromir the last time I used Secure Invites on test install a year ago, my test users had to reset their passwords when I disabled it to test another invite plugin. Do you know if that behavior has changed in recent versions?
If you want to completely disable public registrations, and only want to set up a invite only BuddyPress community, check out this plugin as well: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/
Should work in combination with the plugin Mercime mentioned
1) You could import/export all posts and comments from LJ to WordPress site. https://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#LiveJournal. Didn’t check what WP version the script was compatible with, but you can download WP versions from this page
and upgrade to later version later.
https://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/
Currently, there are no scripts to convert these into a BuddyPress group setting. You might have to hire someone to consult with or to implement that as well as import users automagically as BP/WP users along the way.
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
#2 and #3. Haven’t seen any indication that this can be done except probably with RSS imports/exports. I suggest you clear up #1 first before moving along these questions.
@r-a-y
Ooh! Very cool… I was going to start playing around with the idea for my theme too. But I’ll wait for your plugin which will likely be infinitely more robust than my n00b brain could churn out
I just went though every post and do not see anybody with a problem mentioning whether you are working with sweet potatoes or white potatoes. Just to mention that they are not the same thing, not even close, and the same refers to Apachi vs. MS IIS.
I’m running Win 2008r2 Server with IIS7.5 (key information), any BuddyPress links are missing index.php in the url. Does anyone have a solution for this case (plese do not tell me that I need to enable mod_rewrite or any other silly thing)
Thank you,
Waldis
Hi,
I looked at your site, and it looks like you’ve figured it out. Would you share your solution?
I see hundreds of posts with this problem for buddypress running under IIS not adding index.php in the link, but most of the people just throw at you suggestions without reading posts – mainly they fail to understand that IIS is not the same as Apachi.
Thanks,
Waldis
= I found some article and plugin for custimizing WP theme for BP ==
That’s one way, using your WordPress theme and installing the BP Template Pack plugin to transfer BP template files (for BP component pages) plus ajax and js goodness to make your WP theme BP-compatible.
Another way is to create a child theme of the bp-default theme
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
then adjust via CSS only to change layout and colors or do more than that.
@nahummadrid – This is a known bug. Using bp_core_remove_nav_item() will remove access to those pages as well. Right now, I’d suggest hiding the nav item via CSS or by hacking the $bp global to remove the item.
@shanebp, @nahummadrid – The problem is BP Follow uses an older method to add items to the nav. The plugin needs to be updated to use the newer BP conventions; I’m thinking of asking Andy for contributor access.
In the meantime, you need to make sure your code runs after BP Follow.
Change:
`add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘sc_remove_nav_tabs’, 15 );`
to
`add_action( ‘init’, ‘sc_remove_nav_tabs’, 15 );`
And it should work.
No it was my bad @hnla, in the process of editing the code that mdanista posted above because it was not showing up then wreaking havoc to the layout, I placed the wrong edit topic code and @gregfielding‘s got edited. To compound the problem, I tried to move greg’s topic and it looks like it was deleted instead. Sorry Greg!
@gregfielding did you post in the wrong thread ?
