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to make registration page multilingual you need to copy the register.php from buddypress/bp-default/registration folder to your themes folder and make your changes by replacing the loop :

http://buddypress.pastebin.com/wC4fCkbT

hope this works for anyone interested..

Edit: this makes only the registration page multilingual, but unfortunately it doesn’t translate the member’s profile view and edit fields.. instead they show what you saved in the profile setup fields in the backend.

I’m using the WP 3.0 (multisite) and the latest BuddyPress upgrade. I’m using the default BP theme, but one of the “colours” child versions.

I want to have a static front page – the About page – but this (as mentioned above) effectively “kills” the ability to display the main domain blog; it’s still listed on the blogs page as the first in the list, but click on it, and you’re back at the static front page. You can get to individual posts via the Activity stream, but that’s not the way I want it to work.

Could someone walk me gently through what I need to change where to make this work? Thanks!

@alanchrishughes; It’s not difficult to create a child theme. I’ll try to put it in newbie terms as I’ve become increasingly aware that a) lots of WP and BP newbies seek help here, and b) we’re all newbies until we know something, at which point it becomes “easy and why didn’t I think of that before”..!

As @hnla says, a child theme overrides the core default theme. All this means it that if you create a clone copy of the default theme into your /content/themes/ folder, then make some minor changes so that BP knows it’s a different theme and will let you install it. Once done, all files and functions in it are used rather than the default theme’s, and these are what you edit.

Clone the entire default theme folder from /buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/ into /content/themes/my-theme (or whatever name). Ie., copy and rename the bp-default folder. Then edit its style.css file and change the settings in the head to something different. Our new theme’s style.css looks like this;

/*
Theme Name: Facelook
Theme URI: http://lincme.co.uk
Description: A modified version of Avenue B2’s Fishbook.
Version: 1.0
Author: Avenue B2 & LincMe Admin Team
Template: bp-default
Tags: buddypress, blue, white, fixed-width, two-columns
*/

@import url(“../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/reset.css”);

As you can see, it still uses bp-default as its template, but everything else is different, so BP will allow it to be installed as a new theme. (There’s no default CSS or admin-bar CSS import because I dumped the bar, and just put all of the CSS in the one file). Note: It’s important to keep the ‘buddypress’ tag in there, or BP throws the teddy.

Any files you change in the new my-theme folder and sub-folders will cause changes, and anything you remove will fall back to the bp-default theme’s style and methods as @hnla said. Obviously, if you only need to change a couple of files then you can remove the rest, and the default theme will take care of those parts for you.

Some of us, me included, have variously whined or shouted about the way BP themes work, and yes, finding stuff in files can be difficult to begin with. Once you find the bits you want it’s easy though, and if you make a pig’s ear of something you can always copy the default file back over your cloned one and start afresh.

You may know most or all of this, but it’s for newbies who may shake their heads at the thought of creating a new child theme. Some folks have done gorgeous new BP themes, and added fancy extras in there too. We’ve gone for plain and Facebook-ish for various reasons, and if it’s of any help to you, you’re welcome to a copy. Just email me at any name at our domain. And stick at it – it gets better as you go along!

For version 0.1.9 nightly builds, the option is located in BP Album -> Plugin Settings -> Page Slugs -> Base Slug

Change it. Click save. Done.

Thanks!

^F^

@jpsbhullar Cool

@jpsbhullar if you want the site content to be seen by registered members only, then you could use either of these plugins https://buddypress.org/community/groups/s2member/ or https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registered-users-only-2/
– there are also other methods, just input “members only” in Search form above.

Heads up! my themes numbers correspond with the BP version. So that theme needs to be updated to 1.2.5.

It’s should still function though. You have to create a page and choose a page template to add widgets to columns.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/367781

If you can wait for BP 1.3, this version will render your BuddyPress components in regular WP Pages – which means it will use the page.php file you already have in your Urban Elements theme or a Page Template you could create using your theme’s structure. You would only need to copy some CSS from the bp-default theme and customize a little for presentation of the BP elements.

Btw,

When I started out this process not even two months ago I decided very quickly to stick to the default theme as it seems there are so many issues with making other themes work correctly with BP, even if they are listed here as BP themes…. BP seems to be on the tarmack, just about ready to take off. It has gotten much better and more stable in the last month even…

1. There is number of discussion on this forum about issues signing up… most likely they didn’t get the activation e-mail …check spam/junk folder…. I tried to register for your site and did not recieve the e-mail so it may be you are having trouble sending mail from your server? Can you get it to send you an e-mail?

2. This has be solved here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/fatal-error-when-trying-to-delete-user/
3. If they have created member accounts and have not “verified”… it may not show as they are listed as “spammer users” until they register…so I’ve read here.
Here is another link:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/test-7/
…and another:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/members-list-not-showing-bp12/

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/
New install? BP version, WP 3.0?

@burtadsit I have been able to achieve a positive result using @jeffsayre ‘s code, however I want to set the value of my $var outside the template. Do you know if this is possible? I fear not based on what you said above:

“I’ve run into this before. That code snippet above only works if the $foo’s are created in the template. The code underneath that contains $foo’s is a different scope.”

I’ve tried setting my $var in my functions.php file and in my custom page template by hooking in to bp_before_members_loop:

<?php
function my_function() {
$var = ‘xxx’;
}
add_action(‘bp_before_members_loop’,’my_function’);
?>

Many thanks!

Is not the latest version of BP 1.2.5 ? Or is there BP 1.3 ?
Me having similar problem: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-show-bp-avatars-in-wordpress-blogs/

Thanks @r-a-y — always to the rescue! I’ll let you know if it works.

@arxpoetica – That’s possible via the “wp_list_pages_excludes” filter.

You’ll need to return an array of page IDs you want to exclude.

Example code:
http://pastebin.com/HUyVsWSN

Change 1,2,3 to page ids you want to omit.

Adding to this thread (maybe I should start a new?)…suppose I didn’t want to edit header.php in any way shape or form. Is there any way to suppress certain pages from a functions.php page…

…further what I might actually want to do is suppress *all* wp_list_pages() and just keep the native BuddyPress ones. Hmm…any thoughts?

Thanks a lot, I’ll be checking more often this thread from now on. Looking forward for your feedback @brianglanz

Ha ha, free hugs. Nice.

Thank you @johnjamesjacoby for taking this initiative. Some of those other threads (I know the ones of which you speak; I read, just didn’t participate) made me feel uncomfortable, and it’s always difficult navigating the more abusive types, etc. So I just wanted to speak from the other side and say there are some of us who appreciate it. So thanks!