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OK, looks like I’m just struggling with some path stuff.

I hard coded the link to the forums in my member theme.

my bbpress install is at mydomain.com/bbpress/

bp-forums-bbpress.php says:

define( 'BB_PATH', BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-forums/bbpress/' );

define( 'BACKPRESS_PATH', BP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/' );

define( 'BB_URL', BP_PLUGIN_URL . '/bp-forums/bbpress/' );

…and I tried ../../../bbpress which gave me an error

so I also tried ../../bbpress and ../bbpress

where the code has /bp-forums/bbpress/

The error was

No such file or directory in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress.php on line 20

I tried placing your code into bp-forums.php

and

forums-loop.php

and index.php of bp-default/forums.

Again, it seems like we’re super close and a paid Skype call would set me right up. If you want to help without payment, that’s fine too…

If folks can contribute to this solution, that would be greatly appreciated.

Best,

Dainis

Firstly thanks for replying.

The page is already coded in HTML and looks quite simple. It has its own header and navigation. Would I be able to code this into an HTML page?

I did the external install. I set all the keys to the WPMU install’s keys. I pointed bb-config.php to the external install…and BuddyPress displayed no posts and no groups…so that’s good.

Now, however, I need to figure out how to display posts and groups and stuff…

well, almost.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_forums() in /home/dainis/community.urine-therapy.org/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/index.php on line 52

must have been the early morning – but i forgot to place in a failsafe catch for removing activity stream records if the type was a match for new_blog_comment and new_blog_post. (as this must exists in order to pull in activity comments)

i’ll add this to the next update.

got the forums back by going to forums setup and installing new forums…hope everything got overwritten…now to display and configure them main themes.

would it be an option for me to disable the whole bb-config.php HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden thing and get into the back end of that bbpress install?

Best,

Dainis

geeze, i accidentally moved bb-config.php, then tried to put it back where it was…and forums aren’t showing up at all anymore. Where do I put that thang?

…my goal is similar to what you have here:

http://screencast.com/t/ODBiNzliY

and exactly what buddypress.org has here:

http://screencast.com/t/ZDkyOTNiYT

with “groups” under the main themes.

Hi Xevo.

If I do remove the plugin, the site look empty.

oh man! wonderful! ….. CODE !!! ….. since my directory structure is different, I am going to upgrade everything to the latest version and see what happens.

I may be able to launch my community with this assistance. I started exactly one year ago…whew…what a relief this would be…

Etiviti, if I can’t get this to work, can we talk via Skype and I can pay you for your time? If you want, I can make an instructional video for others following in our footsteps.

OK, I’ll see if I can do this and post when I’ve made some progress…

Best,

Dainis

@r-a-y Thanks for the good explaination.

@el_terko good to know you like The Cure, and thanks you for the positive feedback.

See, guys, the problem I am having here is that I would like to test the child theme option, but I am experiencing all kind of weird things.

For a start, with the intention of testing the new theme, I did the following:

1) Duplicated the original theme, called “cureuphoria” (the one with the BP Template Pack stuff)

2) Called the theme “childtheme”.

3) In “style.css” I put: Template: bp-default, to make it a child theme of the BP default

4) Because now “childtheme” got all the folder and files as the bp-default theme (from the BP template pack) I intentionally deleted the “activity-loop.php” file from the activity folder, in order to test that the child theme inherit properly from the default theme (and if it does I would delete the rest of the files that can be inherit).

5) Installed the User Theme plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-theme/) so that I can test the child theme while keeping the “cureuphoria” theme active (it allows you to switch theme for a particular user only, me).

Strange thing is, if I see the site with the user I set in the User Theme plugin, the activity page doesn’t have the loop (it doesn’t inherit it), and the layout is styled by the “bp.css” stylesheet, which I use to syle the BP components.

BUT: whenever I try to ACTIVATE the “childtheme” for real, on the live site, the loop is there (so id does inherit from the default theme), but “bp.css” doesn’t seem to be active. All the styles are gone.

In Firebug I see that there are several stylesheets that I don’t know where they come from called activity (I think 1, 2, 3, or something) and some part of the header background comes from the default theme style.

In CSS Edit I see there is a “bp.css” and when I export it, there is HTML in it. Not CSS.

It just get crazy!

Oh, and I deactivated the BP Template Pack to avoid conflicts.

I’m a little lost. Of from the child theme styelcheet I don’t link any of the deault theme styles, they shouldn’t get in the way, right? And why my “bp.css” file got no effect at all? I call it from the header.php as an external file.

Oh, AND: all the INCLUDES are broken and I got many for calling several widgets:

Example:

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/inc/curemates-bar.php"); ?>

I changed it to something like this, thinking that in buddypress it needs to be that way:

<?php locate_template( array( 'inc/curemates-bar.php' ), true ) ?>

But if I am not wrong I got the same function errors.

Well, what do you think it’s the best way to test a child theme, get things to work properly work as they should?

Sorry for the long post, I tried to keep it as breif as I could, without leaving anything out that may help get the picture.

Thanks for your advises.

http://warutblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/buddypress-gifts.html

OH!!! I forgot! I’m using BuddyPress so I just posted on the BuddyPress forums without thinking! SORRY!!!!

Hi mcrustk2

Did you put the CSS in a file called custom.css or inside the default.css file?

I copied David’s code into default.css below the Navigation section, copied David’s PHP, and bingo! It worked!

If you want it in a seperate CSS file, I think you have to import it in default.css

@import url( ../css/custom.css );

or link to it in header.php:

<link href="../css/custom.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

The url depends on where your custom.css file is stored.

Rayner

P.S. Your website is nice. Maybe you should try the Avenue K9 theme; it fits your site well. If you use it, just let me know, I’ve got the customised CSS for the subnav items for the theme.