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@justbishop That’s a very interesting post, and raises a valuable point in the creation of community sites, it would be nice to see further discussion flowing from your initial post.

Your re-working looks as though it makes a lot of sense, I’m thinking you’re going to have much better results

Good info to consider in the development of BuddyPress UI/UX.

Your plugin works a treat rich – thanks for sharing!

I think ajax refresh is THE thing that’s missing from BuddyPress at the moment. How does the P2 theme do it? Maybe we could “borrow” that functionality.

I wish I was a coder…

With regards to any ‘full width’ theme you have some fundamental issues / things to consider:

1. Line length and readability of text – humans naturally read better in limited widths.
2. Smallest and biggest need to both get good experience of your design – with regards to resolutions

There are ways around all of these and full width themes can work but they are as far as I’m concerned not the solution for all site types. Just because you are running out of room on a site it won’t be solved by using a full width if a user has a smaller browser and you have to design to the lowest resolution (1024 is generally considered that gauge now but most sites design to 980px to avoid scroll bars and have a background).

@rickkumar

bump…i would like to know the answer to this as well

You need to compare the theme you want to use and one of it’s files i.e page.php or index.php to one of the newly created BP ones like /member/index.php the BP files need to mirror the html markup and class/ID’s structure that your chosen theme files have e.g if your theme file has an element named ‘content-main’ and the BP file has ‘content’ then the BP one needs to change to match.

I’m afraid that if it’s still ‘all gibberish’ then things will be difficult, adjusting a theme to work with BP does require a degree of coding knowledge albeit at a basic level you must be comfortable modifying files and working with HTML markup.

@opensourcelover: If that doesn’t work what is suggested by @pcwriter my suggestion would be to look at what is causing your JavaScript error on your page. Using firebug I can see you have one. The first port of call I’d suggest would to turn off all plugins and widgets. This could explain the difference in browsers or at least be a good next thing to try if no CSS is different.

I totally second and agree with @pcwriter about using a child theme. Only way forward if you are going to make changes like this.

You can find it easily by clicking featured, however, I strongly agree with your suggestion to put it on top of other buddypress results.

@ wpmubp.org – Thanks! I already have multi-blog enabled. The situation I’ve described above has multi-blog enabled?

@opensourcelover

My first thought is that it’s a text-shadow causing the blur effect. As the adminbar is called via the footer, try adding the following to your CSS:
`div#footer {text-shadow:none;}`

BTW, you really should create a child-theme rather than using bp-default, otherwise any changes you make to the default theme will be lost when you upgrade Buddypress. See here to learn how:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

This has been an issue forever I think. Try a gravatar. It works!

Maybe @apeatling can help with this. The WP plugin search isn’t very good. I’ve had this happen with lots of different plugins actually.

Will this help?

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

Or

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

Or

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-edit-group-slug/

The code for the activity loop may be placed in the index.php page. Make sure you add the loop with the commenting enabled.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

Ha, that is kinda annoying… I did a fresh install the other day and it helps to sort by ‘Most Popular’ Then it shows up within the top of the first page.

the site s looking GREAT Bowe and I can vouch that it certainly is one to watch! I know you have BIG plans Bowe so I will wait with baited breath for more developments! Good Luck!

@travel-junkie Hot damn! It’s looking brilliant thus far, keep up the good work!

@electroman we can’t give you a step by step guide this is not a paid support forum however we can help but you will need to have first ensured you have followed all the steps outlined by the template pack and read the help guide linked to earlier, bear in mind that the template pack doesn’t do all the work for you and there is a degree of coding skill and understanding of WP theme files required.

You will need to provide a link to your site that works – if that is your site that you linked to it’s throwing PHP errors and exposing your server path structure which isn’t a great idea – then someone will hopefully be able to spot what elements you may not have replicated in your BP files.

The 404 error is possibly that you haven’t set a permalink structure, and you will need to visit the permalink page in the backend and select a structure and save – the assumption is made that you are running mod_rewrite and able to write to the .htaccess file i.e permalinks work under plain WP?

This site has the potential of being a really nice BP resource! Good work Bowe.

Hi guys! Awesome thread, but can someone help me get rid of the little downward triangle from the “visit” item? I removed the item according to the code @nickbwatson posted above, but the little arrow thing is still there, showing behind the text of my new admin bar search’s submit button. It goes away when hovered over, if that explains anything. I’m kind of at a loss.

Here’s my site. The search bar in question is at the far right of my admin bar, and the submit button says “find it!”

TIA!

ETA: I guess a link would help, lol

http://www.riotcart.com