@marianbuchanan
Only just found your reply .. thanks. I’m not quite geek enough to follow your instructions unguided 
Can you please say it slowly in noob-speak .. what file is the stylesheet? and what wp folder would I find it in? and where exactly within the text of the document would I paste that line?
I want to do it this way because this is a very small community with a finite purpose, for whom the WP site is a practical communication tool. It’s not intended to attract passers-by or forum junkies.
This topic answered in this bp.org thread and wp.org forums
@warut Any progress on this? Thanks.
@ri-kun – answering you in wp.org forums – WP 3.0 multisite must be enabled
@alanchrishughes yes create a blank bp-custom.php (not bp-functions.php) and paste on the code. Save and upload the bp-custom.php file to wp-content/plugins/ folder
Might be codes in custom theme have not been updated to latest BP version. Change theme to bp-default theme and see if same thing happens.
@r-a-y actually I guess I mean without having to select between “Personal” “Friends” “Groups” “Favorites” “@mentions” I don’t know why I threw blog comments in there.
From @johnjamesjacoby
“There’s a do_shortcode conflict somewhere …”
@DJPaul Is the merge keeping many patches away? When do you feel merge happen? Thank you for keeping us updated.
@DJPaul Thanks for confirming. Looking forward see improvement and fix.
Wow, a kiss? That’s a new form of payment. I’ll be reading @justbishop‘s threads more carefully now;-)
@hnla: eek! And no, I’m sorry, I hadn’t tried that yet. Off to do so now. Thanks for replying again!!
@jeremyltn Just for your info I did send the message from admin which is user ID 1 and yet the message to people still states that it’s between *blank* and the receiver.
Can you recreate this or is it something I might have done wrong?
Really appreciate your time on this, it’s an essential plugin! Thanks! 
Could this plugin be used for instance as a ‘directory’? Not necessary a business directory.
‘country / cities’ or ‘city / suburbs’ etc. as such for a directory?
I solved it. I forgot that the css for the buddypress default theme is not in the themes folder. It’s in the plugins folder like @r-a-y said.
@JediSthlm are you saing you have to create a bp-functions.php file and put it in your plugins folder? Cause I don’t see one already created anywhere.
Looking good so far. Thanks!
@hnla: thanks for the reply
I only have a few minutes before I need to leave for the afternoon, but if there’s any possible way you could have a look at these, I’d really appreciate it! I’m at my mind-scrambled point with looking at the code myself.
Here’s my member-header.php, including the newly widgetized area, and the functions.php in question. Getting rid of the div that contains the new sidebar area next to the member avatar solves the issue, so I’m thinking that the problem lies in my functions.php where the widget is actually created.
member-header.php: http://pastebin.com/pPHjwdxF
functions.php: http://pastebin.com/FW7yTbXT
Howdy,
I find the same issue – almost a full screen of deprecated function notices and the like, my site is entirely unusable. Of course, as you point out, one can disable the debug function – but since I am developing sites and plugins, I find the debug to be extremely valuable…
Any roadmap on when those errors might be cleaned out? Any way a guy can help?
Thanks
@DJPaul I have my name still set as admin and after reading stories regarding hacks etc would quite like to change it. What is the safest way to change it and will the old admin name still show on other parts of the site, e.g. the older activity etc?
SParticipant
@Jalien already described everything. With BuddyPress Courseware you can create a virtual class out of BuddyPress group with courses, assignments, schedules, bibliography and gradebook (solutions/assignment responses will be ready soon). Adding Francesco’s bp-album you will also add media content to it.
Both plugins are worth to be checked during August, since that’s the time when GSoC period ends.
Yeah, I know exactly what your error message is saying. However, I don’t know why it is saying that on your site. I’ve seen this before and it is sometimes down to a plugin conflict.
If you disable all plugins other than Welcome Pack and BuddyPress, does the problem go away?
Thanks for sharing your solution, @jaynavs
In your child theme’s stylesheet, add this:
a {color:red !important;}
If you made a copy of the bp-default stylesheets in your child theme, that rule would be located in /_inc/css/default.css.
What’s all this talk about child themes? Read up here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
