1. Build a bp-default child theme – https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
2. Open up style.css file of child theme and override fonts, colors and widths of parent theme elements by adding new styles for said elements
Thanks @Chouf1 it looks like a good lead – but unless I pay for help its beyond my minimal skill levels to implement it..
I guess I could start be looking at functions.php and wp-includes/kses.php ?
However Im beginning to think that this is not just a question of getting html in
but also of displaying pictures or other media in an extended profile field on the profile page.
I used a plugin which seemed to keep the html intact – but nothing showed up in the profile.
I still cant figure why this isnt a straight forward thing to do on the profile page as it is easy enough to use Tinymce to add media in a post?
Ishimwe thank you for your help. I for one certainly appreciate the huge effort that goes into Buddypress.
@hnla: Thanks for your reply. I am a newbie in WordPress & Buddypress, so some things are very difficult for me. I only made the upgrade to 1.2.6 by the automatic upgrade not by FTP. The Server is a Virtual Server Managed, so I can control nothing by myself but it works like a normal server not like a shared hoster. I made no changes to the file permissions and to the server, I only made the upgrade and installed a new plugin called “Invite Anyone” and sendt 5 Invitations with that. On my next visit on the site, all Avatars where gone, but they are still on the server in their folders.
@djpaul @hnla So far so good. You mentioned that this is now in branch, but does that mean it’ll make it into 1.2.7 or do we need to do something more in the Trac?
@dymund
It seems like your header.php is referencing post_title in the title tag.
Make a backup copy of that file, then open it and paste the following between the opening and closing `
` tags:</p>
<p>“</p>
<p>Should work… <img decoding="async" src="smileys/wink.gif" width="" height="" alt=";-)" title=";-)" class="bbcode_smiley" />
Okay, I’ll try that. I had tried the plugin, but got an error. The primary theme is buddypress enabled, so I thought maybe there was conflict there.
@JustinCA: here’s the solution. I have had the same issue for a long time until I came accross this small plugin. However, I hope you are descent enough to understand that nobody here ” owes you help”. The same goes for anyone who thinks along those lines. If I had been here 3 months ago, possibly it would have helped, but I was possibly roaming the web elsewhere because we DO NOT live here, NOR do we work here!
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/
@ketan khope: If you left buddypress already, coming to vent about it to buddypress users is pretty cheap man. Grow up and learn to appreciate others’ efforts. How many CMS or plugins have you put together? I bet 100% certainly that it can’t be much. Even if it is, it can’t be the size of buddypress/wordpress because you wouldn’t be on this forum thread. Would you?
@pickykim while there are interested devs, methinks some might wait till after BP 1.3 rolls out
in the meantime, you might want to post in the job board group – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/forum/ good luck.
@dymund
Open themes/simple-wp-community-theme/style.css, and go to line 2357.
In the ruleset for #access, change
display:block;
to
display:none;
Navbar’s gone 
I concur with @gregfielding
@commentluv – if you want the blogs to be subdomain structure as in newblog.domain.com, doesn’t matter where you install BP, what’s important is that you must install WP in main domain and set up WP to create a network using subdomain structure.
@dymund
If you could give a link to your site, it would be easier to help you out…
This site is not meant for production support; what ‘service’ are you referring to anyway (obviously everyone here is volunters, though mainly enthusiasts).
Your posts aren’t including any technical details around your setup yet you’re expecting a resolution? What version of wordpress? What version of buddypress? What version of php/apache? Multisite enabled? What do you see in your error log? What has recently changed in the environment, plugins, themes, etc?
Making some progress on this…
Default template: http://expeditionrated.com/members/teebes/tracking/
Streamlined template: http://expeditionrated.com/members/teebes/tracking/?ext=t
I’m hoping to setup rewrite rules to have use a subdomain approach long term, ie, ext.expeditionrated.com -> url$1?ext=t to avoid the blackbox that is buddypress URLs.
One general question I need some advice on… What’s the best way to have a second set of headers/footers and bundle them with my ‘theme’? Create some functions and call them like any other content?
This service Sucks! I support wordpress but I’m starting to believe Buddypress is a FAIL! so is this support forum.. its totally the opposite.. smh
Hi, after installing “Custom Community”, my dashboard has been broken. If I click on “theme” , it shows blank!! If I delete the file of “Custom Community” then its back. Please identify this problem!
Themes more obviously break things, they are for more obvious if they perform badly, and reflect that much more on WP as a whole would be my guess. I’ve always been of the opinion that they really ought to be vetting plugins as a badly written plugin could have far more serious consequences it would be nice to see a two tier repository where there were approved /recommended /tested plugins and a second general pool but it’s probably a lot of work.
It had crossed my mind to mention the lack of comment tag in pages but sort of thought that it might have been for a reason and that I’d be pointing out the obvious.
I posted about it awhile back 
This happened on another theme and I added the page.php file but it should be in the default. I forgot about the issue until I just updated a child theme and they rejected again. The last time it happened it took 6 weeks to get the theme finally approved. I guess they were backed up reviewing themes. I may stop using the repo. It takes too long to fix minor things. Why do they have to review themes but not plugins? Never understood this.
Hi guys,
Rather than start another mail on this topic I thought I should add my question to this thread.
I have experienced the same problem with both hotmail and gmail- nothing delivered to test profiles set up under both services.
Just wondered if anyone has cracked this problem yet as it may well effect many potential users of my site.I would appreciate a heads up if it’s been sorted.
