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I am a bit confused about 1 thing. Do I create a child theme with the theme buddypress installs with or create a parent theme to make child themes from in the future. I am looking to change colors, layout (collumns) bg image and things like that. Something I read made it sound like any wordpress theme can be the parent, is this correct? I am assuming that using a standard wordpress theme would require adding code from the default theme. Is this correct? I just want to make sure I am understanding this before I try to jump in and work because in the begining I don’t think I was. Thank you,

Greg

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/improving-performance/

Have a look at this Codex article.

As a general piece of advice, this is not specifically for the xprofile component, make sure that you check the codebase in the version of trunk that you’re using as there have been a number of changes to functions–some have been renamed, others deprecated, and new ones created. So it is possible that some of the Codex articles on BP loops may be slightly out of date.

Read this thread:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/site-wide-activity-widget-not-working#post-22136

There are two sets of files you need to work with… One for the home page and main blog and another for the member/group/admin pages.

The home theme is found here: /wordpress-mu/wp-content/themes/bphome

The member theme is here: /wordpress-mu/wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember

If you don’t have a member theme in the above location, upload it there. The bpmember base.css is similar and you will have to make most of your CSS tweaks to both. v1.1 uses only one theme for both. More info:https://buddypress.org/blog/news/the-new-buddypress-theme-architecture/

First of all, since you are installing a premium, 3rd-party DB sharding tool, you need to contact the people at WPMU DEV Premium and ask them for support. It seems like all was fine with your standard WPMU + BP install until you switched to using their multi-db plugin.

Secondly, in case you are not aware, there is a free sharding tool–HyperDB. In fact, this site (BP.org) is using it. Also, there is a great two-part article on how to use HyperDB written by Trent Adams, one of the moderators on this and other WP product forums.

The best option is to set “Template: bp-sn-parent” in the WP theme’s style.css header. That will allow it to inherit all of the BuddyPress templates.

If that isn’t an option (perhaps the theme is already a child theme) then you will need to copy over the template files from bp-sn-parent into the wp theme. Just make sure you don’t replace any existing theme files.

You’ll will probably want to add the user navigation into the theme also, you can add the following lines to the bottom of header.php:

<?php if ( !bp_is_blog_page() && !bp_is_directory() && !bp_is_register_page() && !bp_is_activation_page() ) : ?>

<?php locate_template( array( 'userbar.php' ), true ) /* Load the user navigation */ ?>

<?php locate_template( array( 'optionsbar.php' ), true ) /* Load the currently displayed object navigation */ ?>

<?php endif; ?>

Once you’ve done that, BuddyPress pages will inherit all of the theme’s styles and its header and footer. You will of course need to add extra styles since WP themes only handle blog pages.

You can also try importing the bp-sn-parent screen styles into the WP theme’s style.css file. Depending on the theme, this may help to add layout to BuddyPress pages, but also stay within the WP theme’s look and feel.

Click on FORUMS on the top. Scroll down to Latest Discussion, look under “FAQ: How To, Code Snippets and Solutions” the solution is there.

Everything good execpt for avatar croping

Nobody have problem with firefox 3.5.2 to crop avatar ?

Same here, the crop tool doesn’t appear for the first thumb.

Wp Mu 2.8.4

BuddyPress Version 1.0.3

Firefox3.5.2

Default budypress community theme

Worked fine with Bp 1.02

My response from the other topic:

That’s the way it is working currently. Stickies are basically excluded from the directory loop at the moment while Andy figures a way to handle them properly. There’s nothing wrong with your installation.

Same as with 1.0.x.

There are endless topics discussing how to do it, and a sticky to help you with integration.

Sounds like you didn’t move the files over correctly if it’s still saying 1.0.3. The version number is taken directly from the buddypress/bp-loader.php file itself, so if the file is correct, then so is the plugin.

With the integrated version you won’t have access to the bbPress admin panel to turn them on or off, so external only.

bbPress being included with BuddyPress is like TinyMCE being included with WordPress. Yes they are applications all their own, but they also live together in a very symbiotic way (without being alive of course.)

If you can verify on http://testbp.org and it’s still bugged out you can open a new ticket referencing this one: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/198

If the sent messages are still bugged by all means re-open it.

He’s saying that it could be a PHP error causing the issue and to check your error logs. Usually at this point it could be anything.

I think your next task is do a search on here and mu.wordpress to find out how to enable error logs, logging in general for your particular setup.

So, will there be some blog post on how to create a dashboard in our themes? Are there any further plans to include this in buddypress 1.1 or 1.2? I think it’s a great improvement compared to the actual situation where profile page shows up when a user is logged in.

PS: By the way, why is the profile page at position 2 in the userbar and activity on position 1? Shouldn’t it be vice versa because the profile page is the first page that shows up?

Matt: make sure you log out, and then log in with this form. See if you can then post.

https://buddypress.org/forums/bb-login.php