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Hey Frank, I guess the best question to ask you after all this is how comfortable are you with digging into or working with html, css and basic php?

If a pre made theme is what your looking for, how comfortable are you with taking hours and days looking thru theme demos to find your golden pony or at least making child themes or customizing code?

And then to answer you more specifically to your “How long would it take to develop a theme like the one I described?” , I guess that just depends really. Over the years I have accumulated many libraries of code and theme snippets and I know where everything is in WP/BP core and template files. So for me, A fully custom and dressed out theme might take anywhere from 3 days to 3 weeks if I know exactly what I am working towards at the beginning and have a clear, though out, planned out idea. If I hen peck it or free hand it” like I do from time to time” It may take a day or it might take 8 months, lol.

As a bit of comfort to your quandary, everything you asked for in your opening inquiry is all ready done for you in BuddyPress “for the most part”. A theme like the one you describe sounds like a 3 day to 1 week job to me. Keep in mind however that with me saying that, things always have a way changing and evolving into monsters, lol.

So lets break down your theme and see how it look on paper…. He He, my favorite part…

1. I want users to come to my site, register, and log in…… (Its all ready there) just have to set it up to your liking. It can all be customized quite a bit as well.

2. I would love to be able to customize the way these pages look!(background image, logo, and content inside them)……… (The logo, background and most of the design items are easy breezy as long as your ok with basic html and css and not looking for flying dragons and wizards shooting lightning bolts across the screen. Alas, even those can be done with css, flash and JS, lol. )

3. I’m not looking for a full-blown social media site (yet)…….No need to have what you dont want to use. BP has a full host of controls to limit what can be done onsite by users or what is implemented frontend in its settings. WP Dash/settings/buddypress. Select what you want to use. You also have the ability to write functions, and use hooks and actions and filters to limit or build on anything you like.

4. I want to build a site that where users can log in, create a “blog” excerpt with media …… There are several ways to do this in buddypress, just have to plan it out and test the methods and see what works for you. Mu, Activity and Groups/Forums.

5. They should also be able to put a location tag on it. ….. it sounds like this is what x-profile fields are good for. Just create your custom location field and add it with a template tag in the loop you want to use it in. They fill out the filed on their profile page and it will display in that loop.

6. When they post it, the only people I want to see that are the people they added as friends or if they have their profile set to public……BuddyPress frontend “user profile area” has a settings tab, under it are quite a few privacy features, not fully comprehensive in my opinion but there are a few plugins that add on to this and you can code it in as well. either way. Easy task.

7. And when it shows up on their friend’s news feed it should just show a featured image, title, and the beginning of their text with a like counter….. Easy enough, just write the loop that way, lol. Easy to do.

8. When their friends click on that post it brings them to the full blog post, not just the featured image. Their friends can favorite the content or comment on it. …..The natural behavior of WP and BP posts so we are good there.

9. On a users profile, I would like to show their recent posts, and posts they’ve favorited…. Thats what the friends tab shows but you can add custom queries, and stuff and otherwise tear it apart and pick it of the pieces you want and use them in other places to make custom loops and queries and all kinds of goodness, lol. As long as you make sure things are firing in the right places and make sure certain things are in the loops where they belong, No worries.

10. Site homepage is basically just a file called front-page.php. Copy the page.php from the theme root and then customize the heck out it. Work it up however you like.

As far as the themes go, I never use premade themes. I do however make full use of the libraries of code I have accumulated, (_s) and bootstrap for a lot of my work. Cheesy I know but hey, it saves me time and money and gives me freedom. I rarely find the need to actually make a complete custom theme or write much in the way of custom code from scratch anymore. And I certainly never purchase any themes. So I am not the best person to ask about themes really. I know that there are tons of themes that do all kinds of stuff available around the web. Just have to give them the litmus test and see if they fit your project.

Let me know if you have any other questions or what have you. I will be around.

Take a look here and see if this gets you going in the right direction

Reorder Tabs and Links In Buddypress

Ofcourse you could also go to…

dashboard > settings > menus

And select “profile” from the “buddypress” menu options on the left, if you do not see any buddypress links you should click the “screen options” on right top of page and select buddypress.

Well, dont know if this is what you need but from what I gather, I would say you need to add some template files to your theme to do that. Its not hard. But Since I dont know that theme, The first question would be… does that theme have a “/buddypress” directory in it? If not you would probably want to make one first.

This is where you would do the work. BuddyPress will look for template files there first. You would want to create template files for the parts of the theme that you want to change or re-arrange. Both of those features are all ready built into BuddyPress. If you look at the template files in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/ you can find all of your ideas and code parts or starter code there from those files.

You can copy over those files to your themes buddypress directory and break them down, tear them up or what ever you want to do with them there. I sometimes do it just to take code snippets and work with them.

Anyways, if you find the files that have the functionality you want on them, just take them and use them to create a new template or widget or whatever you need. Its not hard.

Hmmm, Generally I say if you want to hack a theme, just make your own. Of course you could always make a quick little child theme for theme x and that would be perfectly fine, but hacking into the themes files wouldn’t be recommended. If they were to update the theme all your changes would probably be wiped out.

As far as tutorials and theme development stuff goes for BuddyPress, simply google it. There are a lot of sites and pages on the subject. You do have to be aware that a lot of the tutorials out there are older and are using depreciated code snips and tags. You just have to study the codex and find relevant items, understand how to break files down and get a good handle on template parts and css. BuddyPress does have some hard coded functions that make certain filters, hooks and actions fire before or after certain template items. Not sure why they do that but it just means you might want to look into hooks, filters and actions, lol. Also be aware of the switch cases. They can be fun to play with. It can be over whelming at first but everyone I have ever taught to build themes picked it up quick and most on their own.

Everything your hoping for is well within the capabilities of Buddypress. It can be as simple or as complex as you make it. If your going to use a theme, remember that you would be locked into what that theme is setup to do for the most part.
With that said, depending upon your ability with code and all, its all pretty easy to do yourself. Buddypress itself is really easy to get around and work with in the template files and the php is really quite easy for most things. If you have no html, css or php skills though, it could be kind of tuff.

For what your asking for I would simply code out my own theme for it. Or simply hire someone to do it for you.

Almost, but you went one to far. Your target to put the file is in the plugins directory directly. not the buddypress plugin directory so the end would be

wp-content/plugins/ then add file here “bp-custom.php”

Basically in the root of the plugins directory

Lol, 🙂 well now your asking for the whole boxed lunch, lol.

Um well ok, lets see here.
first I created a bp-templates directory in my themes buddypress directory. I then created a file called login widget. On that file I went to bootstraps modal and added that in there and then simply broke down the buddypress login form into it.
I called this into my main nav area using get_template_part in a <a href link. Its kind of time consuming but its really easy to do. To try to break it down piece by piece would take a while.

if your making a membership based wedsite there are several plugins that do this for you. I use two or 3 based upon what type of memberships are offered. If its a paid feature site you might try S2 Member. If its not a paid feature site then there are ones like Simple Buddypress profile Privacy and others like it that kill that function.
Or you could simply code it into your functions file. I generally do a inc file and include it using require in my functions file..

Ok, so basically this toolbar that you are seeing on the top of your site when you login with your new user account is not really a full admin dashboard bar. It only links to the part of the back end dashboard that allows the user to edit his profile in the back end. Nothing else can be messed with by anyone but the admin. Try it out and experiment with it. you’ll see.

Also, if you want to turn that feature off, simply login to the back end as admin, go to “settings” / “buddypress” and on the 3rd tab “Options”, simply deselect “Show the Toolbar for logged out users”

Make sure you have a buddypress directory in yo9ur theme root. In that directory add a directory called single. In that directory make a file called cover-image-header.php. On that file go to somewhere around line 86 or wherever this part is where the closing divs are.
` </div><!– #item-header-content –>

</div><!– #item-header-cover-image –>

Right Here ——<<<<

</div><!– #cover-image-container –>`

See where I added “Right Here —-<<<” in the code. Put your container there and place any ad you want in it. If you want rotating ads or switch case adds then simply add the code for them inside your new container.

add margin-bottom:10px to the class of each posts container

Basically like this…. If this is your post or activity container for example

	<div id="activity-stream" class="activity-list item-list">

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php while ( bp_activities() ) : bp_the_activity(); ?>

		<?php bp_get_template_part( 'activity/entry' ); ?>

	<?php endwhile; ?>

	<?php if ( bp_activity_has_more_items() ) : ?>

		<div class="load-more">
			<a href="<?php bp_activity_load_more_link() ?>"><?php _e( 'Load More', 'buddypress' ); ?></a>
		</div>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php if ( empty( $_POST['page'] ) ) : ?>

		</div>

Look at the first div

” Note: I changed it from Ul’s and Li’s for my purposes but would probably work better ads divs for your case as well”

<div id="activity-stream" class="activity-list item-list">

in stylesheet add something like this

margin-bottom:10px;

to the class activity-list item-list

Hi @edvard1 it’s not your theme. The plugin is broken since BP 2.9.1.

I was having problems with multiple checkboxes and made it work like this:

File: /conditional-profile-fields-for-buddypress/assets/bp-conditional-field.js

line 114: jQuery.each( $selected, function (index, $el ) {
to:       jQuery.each( [$selected], function (index, $el ) {

And…

lines 350 to 369:

var parent_div = jq( jq( element ).parents( '.editfield' ).get(0) );
      
        //;find its parent having class edit field
        if ( !match ) {
            //if the condition did not match, reverse visibility condition
            
            if ( visibility == 'show' ) {
            	visibility = 'hide';
                
            } else {
            	visibility = 'show';
            }    
        }
        
        if ( !visible ) {
            parent_div.show();
        } else {         
            parent_div.hide();
        } 

To:

var parent_div = jq( jq( element ).parents( '.editfield' ).get(0) );
        visible = jq(parent_div).is(':visible');

        //;find its parent having class edit field
        if ( match ) {
            //if the condition did not match, reverse visibility condition
            if ( !visible ) {
	            parent_div.show();
	        } else {         
	            parent_div.hide();
	        }  
        }  

Hope it helps!

I have the exact same issue, using learndash and buddypress on buddyboss social learner theme. Site: http://www.fly8ma.com

Changing the theme on the local version of the site seams to fix the problem with the warning:illeagle offset

Did anyone ever find a solution to this problem?

One other thing I notice is the forum associated with the Group is not displayed with all the other forums from buddypress…..

Hey @ma3ry
I’ll let those two keep on trying to help, I simply needed to state I truly need to explore including shortcodes for all BuddyPress things in some future discharge and have as of late pondered it. Doesn’t help you now, yet may help somebody later on.

So here Every plugin perform their role, right? but i recommendation ARMember I have personally Experience with that plugin and it is also integrated with BuddyPress

I’ve done a reinstall several times, and no dice. Ninja Forms contact form works fine. Test emails from WP Mail SMTP also work fine.

Also, unlike @terabyten, resending emails from the list of pending users doesn’t work for me. I’m getting nothing from Buddypress at all.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. I’ve been working on this for hours and I’m really at a loss as to what else to do.