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@paulhastings0 Only problem with doing what you describe instead of using a child theme is that the next time BP gets updated, the change you made will get overwritten. Thus the advent of child themes.

Open the theme file in website.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/style.css

On the very last line add

body {background:url(/images/shuswapsocialnetworkbackground.jpg) no-repeat !important;}


FTP that back to your site and see if it makes the change. Double check that your URL path for your jpg is valid too.

im just having problem with wp-fb-autoconnect for username and nicename.
fb generate username automatically with fb010101010 << example . can i customize this ??
i read the topics
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/third-party-components-plugins/forum/topic/new-fb-autoconnect-plugin-for-wpwill-it-work-with-mubp/
but i didn’t understand to fix this.
users who connect with FB will generate her / his nicename, and nicename is use space that can’t read in address bar and always redirect to frontpage.
manually i open phpmyadmin and delete space in nicename and its works.
but if in a day come 10 new users,. i can’t do manually update phpmyadmin. thats hardwork,.

im newbie and i need the detail step if anyone can fix my problem.
thanks

I think that a savvy plugin-author would integrate BP with another opensource platform like phpBB. That way the energies of the phpBB team would be harnessed to BP use.

It’s kind of like horses and a wagon. phpBB is the horse and BP is the wagon. There’s no need to breed, grow, and train a horse from birth for your wagon. Just buy one that someone else has raised and hitch it to your wagon.

But all of that is much easier said than done. @dennis_h, are you a coder?

We used to be able to Favorite forum threads here. It was one of many important pieces of functionality we’ve lost. Your favorites from the old site still exist, though, at https://buddypress.org/forums/profile/%5Byourusername%5D/favorites . I haven’t a shred of a clue why @apeatling decided to omit that functionality in the new design.

I’ve ported BP-Like to work with forum posts (don’t know if it coexists happily with the original BP-Like, though, but it should), and have it working fine on my testbed install. I’ve tried to contact Hempsworth, the original BP-Like author, with no response. He’s disappeared from the BP world at least temporarily, it would seem. I’m hesitant to release it to the wild because I am a completely crap coder, and it’s a hacky cut and paste job, but like I said, it works almost perfectly for my limited purposes, and if someone with better PHP/BP skills would like to take it over and release it as a plugin, please PM me and we can talk.

Useability on buddypress.org and in BP in general, particularly in forums, continues to be a major, major concern.

bbPress as a component of BP is weaksauce, I would agree. But it is a non-trivial project to write a fully-featured forums app/component. I would support native forums functionality in BP, definitely, especially if it let us do more with it, but I suspect given the lack of focus on that functionality here and in BP itself, that we’re not very likely to see it anytime soon, if at all.

I’d love to be proved wrong. BP with a robust forums component, native to the app, with an admin interface and plugin support — I shiver with pleasure at the very thought.

im getting these type errors continuosly
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 8192 bytes) in /home/mydomian/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3601. it hap[pens in many settings pages also …at front end there is nt such errors ,,,bt i cant manage admin section due to this error ..
i tried to change the settings in wp-config with the memory size to 32mb .then it shows some admin function error … my adminsitrator says the php is allocated with 40mb in my server ..isnt that enogh to work the budyypress ?? help me please …sorry for my bad english

@brajesh is cooking something up…

I would love to see jason port his themes for buddypress, I asked him for video elements he said he has absouletely no plans to do so. I would at least like to find a video theme for buddypress.

http://wpmu.org/how-to-add-the-global-facebook-like-button-to-buddypress-profiles-and-activity-stream-items/

In the database (preferably with something like PHPMyAdmin) you can look at the table wp_signups under the column “active.” That’s WPMU. In WP you can look at the wp_users table. If I remember right, it just changes user_status.

I don’t know of a plugin that’s pulled this information. @boonebgorges has talked about a plugin that would do close to this including resending the activation email and clearing out ones that didn’t activate, but otherwise I don’t know a plugin that will do this.

I too have been wanting this desparately. Even here on Buddypress.org, since the wonderful make-over I can no longer follow forum topics. Which means I post and then have no way to follow up!

I don’t know the future vision of forums, but this might be one more reason to switch to a more integrated forum solution. I bet the buddypress dev team could knock out an awesome BP forum in a matter of weeks. but obviously there are bigger priorities out there.

does the dev team know if there will be any progress on this, or should we write a plugin?

“how would i fix it my template has a extra tag and i don’t know whether to change it to sidebar, or just add it,”

Take those extra tags from your theme template files, add them in the right spots in your buddypress templates files that have just been added to your theme.

@Johnjamesjacoby – I realize you’re busy guy – but any update on this. I’m looking for a simple plugin that will simply let a user change the BP interface language. google translation would be great but not essential.

Did you get to step 3 of the plugin?

It gives explicit instructions on how to modify the template to match your WordPress theme.

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If BuddyPress pages are not aligned correctly then you will need to modify some of the templates to match your theme’s HTML structure.

Then open up the page.php file (if this does not exist use index.php). Make note of the HTML template structure of the file, specifically the [div] tags that surround the content and sidebar.

You will need to change the HTML structure in the BuddyPress templates that you copied into your theme to match the structure in your page.php or index.php file. The files that you need to edit are as follows (leave out any folders you have not copied over in step two):

* /activity/index.php
* /blogs/index.php
* /forums/index.php
* /groups/index.php
* /groups/create.php
* /groups/single/home.php
* /groups/single/plugins.php
* /members/index.php
* /members/single/home.php
* /members/single/plugins.php
* /registration/register.php

Once you are done matching up the HTML structure of your theme in these template files, please take another look through your site. You should find that BuddyPress pages now fit inside the content structure of your theme.

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If you can’t get this to work, just use a pre-made BuddyPress theme.

@famous, I’ve edited your post and move your code snippet to that external link because currently these forums are really not good for sharing code at the moment — sorry

That link only gives you the latest bleeding build of BuddyPress.
It has absolutely nothing to do with building a theme.

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I hate to repeat myself, but…

If you want to customize or make changes to the default BP theme, read the following article to create a child theme:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

If you’re using an existing WordPress theme, then only use the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin with your WordPress theme:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

It helps if you know the basics of developing webpages and/or creating a WordPress theme. If you have no idea how to do either, you might find theme customization challenging.

Seems like this should work:
-Create a Child Theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
-Copy the file in the default BP theme folder/registration/register.php and save it in your new child theme folder as a page template (or you could just overwrite the index.php)
-Create a New Page that uses that page template
-Go to Settings–>Reading and set the new page you created as a “Static Page”

I saw a plugin to do a sidebar registration for WordPress a while back, but I’m not sure if it works for BP or not.