oh, and it for some reason shows up in the dashboard but just not any other pages.
Create a child theme of bp-default theme.
Re: background color = You need to override default style by changing the background color and image from
`body {
background: #eaeaea url( ../images/background.gif ) top left repeat-x;
…
}`
to something like the following which you should add in child theme’s style.css
`body {
background: #fffff none;
}`
which you adjust to taste.
Re: header size change height set in default theme by adding this to your child theme’s style.css
#header{
height: 200px;
}
adjust to taste.
We (me and someone else BP experienced) are working on something that will do this, and a lot more.. We’re doing our best to get it finished early next year or so 
I’m not sure the current BP-Default theme is suited to front-end blog posting; it doesn’t make sense for all themes. We’re quite close already, as we could re-use the post box on the activity stream page as a starting point. Maybe we could template it out a bit.
Hi @bengali
As the original post is a month old, can you confirm the exact error message? Is it on the same line? Also, what versions of WordPress and BuddyPress are you using? Thank you,
Another option in your theme is changing the relevant template(s) to specify a number of items in the activity stream to show; see https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/ for API documentation.
I agree that if an user tries to log in, who hasn’t activated their account yet, there should be more help in the default theme; there’s nothing stopping you from building this into a custom theme right now.
Please would you submit this as an enhancement request and we’ll build it into a future version of BuddyPress? Thanks
I think that’s unlikely to happen, but I’d be interested to know what you want from the WordPress dashboard that you want in the BuddyPress front end?
@r-a-y
You are the man! Thank you for that. That works — and is WAY simpler than any other solution.
@r-a-y
Thanks for the link, but I’m confused a bit. My current code already has that patch in it, changing the “public” to “private” looks to be the only switch. I’m guessing this was changed in a more recent BP release?
And, you said:
“With the patch, you’d still need to apply a filter to “bp_get_send_private_message_link” and override it so it doesn’t use bp_core_get_username().
The same problem occurs with the bp_get_send_public_message_link() function – aka the “Mention this user” link.”
It sounds like this is the step I need to take. How exactly do I apply this filter?
Thanks!
@stoi2m1 – Did you view the link I posted above? The info on the page tells you to use the “Mail From” plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/
Try that and see if emails are sent out.
Check out:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1332
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2636
You can temporarily fix private messaging by overriding the username filter. See #2583 for hints.
Seems simple enough. You can disable a lot of the functionality you don’t want in the admin.
The custom parts will be the profile itself, but you should be able to do this pretty nicely using the xProfile fields without too much custom work on your end. You might also have to build a custom search to search through those profile fields, but there are a number of plugins you can look at to build out that functionality.
I’d consider using s2member as the payment method for people signing up. That should work for what you want I think.
As a side note, I’ve created a sports website that teams can use to fundraise called Giving Sports: http://givingsports.com Athlete profiles is not the core of the site, but each athlete just gets a profile as a means to fundraise for their team. It will be interesting to see how that evolves over time since athlete profiles are valuable and interesting.
Probably more the other way; that BuddyPress needs to communicate when caches need to be refreshed better.
Hmm, I was under the impression batcache would only cache public pages (non-logged in users). The above seems to indicate otherwise. Is batcache really buddypress aware (I noticed the last update of the plugin via the repo was back in April ’09).
This link should help you get your child theme ready to go – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
It sounds like the child theme you created might not be activated yet. Once you activate the theme you should see the changes straight away when you modify the child theme.
On a related note, I’d highly recommend using the stylesheet of your custom child theme wherever possible to manipulate the presentation of your content. If you wanted to change the style of the members directory, start your selector with body.directory.members like this:
`
body.directory.members a { color: #000; }
`
In the example above, I’ve just chained together the two body classes (directory and members) that are used in the default BP theme when viewing the members directory.
Source: Class selectors
@r-a-y thanks for the response. Can you point in the right direction to resolving a problem Im having with Messaging not working? I go to my member page and try to send a message to anyone. It says it has sent, but it is never received.
bbpress 1.2.6 install folder /root or /plugins/bbpress ??
@karmatosed Great idea, you have any suggestions on how to do this?
@nahummadrid Any tips on where I could find someone to do that for me?
Yes, I found a ticket filled so I think It will be corrected on next version:
https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/3141
For the moment, Is there any way to replace by_core_avatar_url() function without hacking de core directly?
Maybe replacing an action or applying a filter?
Buddypress group email subscription plugin
No courseware. The site was launched March 2009 on WordPress MU/BuddyPress. Slight modifications based on snippets/plugins posted by Burt Adsit, Paul G., Boone G., JJJ and Andy.
The content is mostly pre-recorded video and audio – not a formal educational program with assignments etc. So the setup is pretty straightforward and most of the customization is just theming. Main site has different content for logged out and logged in users. “Classrooms” are private sub-domain blogs (soon-to-be sub-domain sites) with a classroom theme. The main site and classroom sites are both using custom child themes powered by the BuddyPress default theme.
I’m in the process of upgrading the site so I’ll be around here more often if you have questions.
