Not sure you haven’t chosen a rather complicated theme to cut your teeth on, the two files you showed above do not really look like they match to the live site or at least that the theme might be pulling some include tricks to fetch the rightside element, what’s in your head.php?
I’d write it from scratch, but then I’m not into themes 
You only need to copy the element I showed you need make no decsions as to what to call things, the idea is that your chosen theme already has a particular html structure and associated styles, the BP files, however will be using something different, the BP files must fit the structure your theme dictates.
This isn’t about changing your theme layout it’s about ensuring that BP files / pages do not break the layout due to a different html markup structure which would create issues simply in structure terms but that also will not be able to pick up the styles from your theme due to different class / ID tokens.
If you are actually wanting to change the layout look of your theme that is something different altogether and a step too far at this stage.
Thanks mercime and hnla, I really appreciate your guys help. I still haven’t solved it.. I can’t figure out what to name the
I’m using buddypress 1.2.8 with wordpress 3.1 and I have no problems…
@gunju2221 yep, did that, but all it does is add “To view this activity – please log in first. You can also create an account.” after showing the activty, it does not hide it for unlogged users. Using 1.2.7 with 3.0.5
I’m sorry I still don’t understand! I take it I must change “content” to “livepost”? Would you be able to look at my themes files and advise me further? I’m really lost and I’d be so appreciative..
sorry got busy in the weekend, ok I resolved one issue.
i.e. Now it started updating again, The problem was on the new mysql server, Strict mode was on.
Now the problem is there is a delay of 6hrs before it gets updated. Definitely a time issue, But not sure where, because the time all looks to be correct.
Hi
I know these posts are really old, but does this still work? I’m not quite sure how I really have to do it?
So can maybe someone help me with it please?
I want to hide the username field, and would like to auto-generate the username based on the normal “Name” field in BuddyPress.
So that WP and BP automatically take the first and last name out of the “Name” field. e.g. Name field input: George Smith username: georgesmith
I already have the plugin activated that user can login with their email address.
Thanks for help!
If you look at the two files you’ll notice the main similarity of those files is this:
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Compare that to a BP index page in one of the directories such as activity you will see something like:
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The idea is that these elements should essentially represent the main html elements that form the site layout, the BP files much match the structure of your chosen theme so it looks as though your chosen theme does noy use #content or .padder so they need to be replaced (along with the matching closing tags) with the one you see in your chosen theme file (this needs to be done for all BP files as listed in the guide).
Once the layout functions you will probably need to bring BP links in to the chosen themes primary link structure which will live in the header file (think that’s explained in the guide – if not check out the simplified guide provided by mercime in the codex as it may explain things further)
Sure thing! I have in fact started the template pack.
I am currently on Step Three. It tells me to “Make note of the HTML template structure of the file, specifically the
tags that surround the content and sidebar.
You will need to change the HTML structure in the BuddyPress templates that you copied into your theme to match the structure in your page.php or index.php file.”
This is what confuses me!
My page.php file is the following:
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Also, here is the index.php file in case it is needed:
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1); global $first_exclude; $first_exclude = array(); ?>
have_posts() ) : ?>
have_posts() ) : $first_one->the_post(); ?>
ID); ?>
<a href="”>
<a href="”>
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3,’post__not_in’ => $first_exclude); ?>
have_posts() ) : ?>
have_posts() ) : $three_recent->the_post(); ?>
`
I really have no idea which one I should use, or how to match it up with the buddypress template files.. I’ve also activated buddypress and the template pack so you guys can visit it at http://cubancomplex.kodingen.com/matrixinsider/wordpress and take a look
@Morgue89: yeah i would really like to see your solution posted
Can you confirm how far you have progressed with this process:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
You need to explain just what you are stuck with really otherwise it will be hard for anyone to help, be specific when creating threads on forums as it will get a better response if we know what to help with.
You need to get the template pack process underway – if you haven’t already – and then post back, also might help to keep the progress live on your test site.
@gunju2221 Thank you for feedback. After I had started porting the theme to buddypress, I found a child theme based on arras in the arras forums – it’s called BrownBuddy and seems to be a little unfinished, but a good starting point, as there are many things you have to change and adapt. Read about it here http://www.arrastheme.com/forums/topic4211-buddypress-arras-theme-child-brownbuddy.html
Core team are working on this.
@hsiaolungchang Read through the example of the BP Template Pack process https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
Note that there is usually a pattern to the HTML structures you will be imposing from your design onto the template pack files. The code you posted above for page.php is incomplete closing divs and get_footer code.
I agree that this is major issue in BuddyPress – people tend to reply to e-mail notifications instead of going back to the BuddyPress platform and posting a reply there.
As far as I understand the Mail From plugin simply defines one overall sender address. You can enter the admin’s email address here, and he will get all the reply mails. But that’s not what you want – you want the reply beeing posted to the discussion thread in BuddyPress. 37signal’s Basecamp does this nicely. Is there a plugin capable of doing this?
Hi, I would like to ask how was your progress with this? I am also interested in a QA Feature that is tigghtly integrated with Buddypress to have e.g. a QA area for a group only.
@DJPaul – I hear what you’re saying… really. But WP isn’t into taking criticism even if it’s dished out very delicately. They delete any criticism.
But good news … After WP caused plug-in developers to pull out their hair for 48 hours, BP Albums + is back in action and it works now. So if anyone was holding out updating just because of this, it’s working. Here’s the thread. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/forum/topic/unable-to-upload/
Sorry to trouble everyone again with this… but if anyone could spare a minute to point out what I’m doing wrong, it would be greatly appreciated. Free Herbs for everyone!
This is from the page.php from my template.
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When I change */index.php to this
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The BuddyPress info is still right on top of the background image and the sidebar is at bottom left when it should be at right…
Anyone? Please?
You could create your own home page by a) creating `home.php` (a special WP template recognized by BP) or by b) creating custom `Page Template` set as front page
which contain:
1. widgetized areas – see this bp-default child theme for example https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme
and/or
2. special BP and WP loops and/or template tagsto call in data
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/buddypress-template-tags/
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/
@johnjamesjacoby @r-a-y @djpaul @boonbgorges
Just re-looking at this thread 5 months later… Having the ability to cache avatars would be a huge load savings for all of us using CDNs… Any more progress or thoughts on this?
Yes, I am using BuddyPress Private Community
@jillian, found the little snippet in the plugin from bbpress and attempted to implement it for you, experimenting myself: @r-a-y, help me on any corrections:
`// update meta
$value = get_site_option($bp->current_component”_topic_views_”.$topic);
add_site_option($bp->current_component”_topic_views_”.$topic, $value+1);`
Than the function added:
`function bp_the_topic_view_count($topic_id = false, $echo = true) {
global $action_variables;
global $bp;
global $forum_template;
if($topic_id == false)
$views = get_site_option($bp->current_component”_topic_views_”.$forum_template->topic->topic_id);
else
$views = get_site_option($bp->current_component”_topic_views_”.$topic_id);
if(!$views)
return false;
if($echo)
{
if($views == 1)
echo apply_filters( ‘bp_the_topic_post_count’, $views.” view” );
else
echo apply_filters( ‘bp_the_topic_post_count’, $views.” views” );
}else
{
if($views == 1)
return apply_filters( ‘bp_the_topic_post_count’, $views.” view” );
else
return apply_filters( ‘bp_the_topic_post_count’, $views.” views” );
}
`
Not tested.
