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The whole freakin Plugin needs a UI & layout makeover. It’s 2017, looks like crap vs today’s UI/UX standards. This is why people are willing to pay for premium plugins like Ultimate Member plugin $200/year, or BuddyBoss theme – for design & looks alone. I’d even pay for a UI/UX upgrade that looks similar to Ultimate Member because BuddyPress has more add-ons and better performance. Start a kickstarter page lol and hire an excellent UI/UX designer! BuddyPress is too popular of a plugin to have bad design.

I am not attacking the BuddyPress Dev team to be clear.
I’m just saying that there should be a customization option for the registration page.
Because right now the styles are dependent on the theme. Why not add an option that allows people to place a certain field at a place and fully customize that field to their likings. Of course I understand that is hard and takes a long time and will probably not happen.
But please the team would make a lot of people happy by adding an option so people can customize the registration page apart from the full theme like its own style sheet.

@all Could we maybe a little less rude about BuddyPress styling we put a heck of a lot of our work time into providing BP as theme compatible app, it sounds like you’re all experiencing problems with premium WP themes affecting BP. Our registration screens are as best they can be made when we have to try and cater for unknown styling layouts.

Above all else before making remarks please do try to bother to read the Codex documentation which explains just how to avail yourselves of the huge flexibility BP template hierarchy affords users and the ease in which you can overload all template files to child themes including the BP stylesheet. In other words RTFM 😉

> BuddyPress needs to do something about this.

No we don’t! We don’t have to support premium themes we support themes coded to WP theme standards to do more is more work than a volunteer set of devs can handle. There is always the option of hiring a dev to get things settled in to your theme.

Same issue here. I just want to be able to edit the css of the registration fields.
My theme (Avada) doesn’t have a straight forward style.css it does not simply work like that.
BuddyPress needs to do something about this.

Hi,
I’ve just installed BuddyPress on my WordPress and I’ve also noticed that BuddyPress messes around with my Flexslider by slowing down the loading of the first slide.
I don’t get your explanation to solve this problem. Could you be more precise about it?
Thank you very much your answer.

hi,

Been trying to set this up for a few days now, but no success. I’ve setup a multi-site network with sub-directories and buddypress network activated.
I’ve added define( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true ); to config.php as recommanded for BP multisite install.

Main site: mydomain.com
subsite: mydomain.com/subsite

When users upload their profile picture on main site, unfortunately it doesn’t sync with their profile when they go on the subsite.

The following codes have worked for some people but not for me. Still trying to find a solution.

function bpdev_fix_avatar_dir_path( $path ){
if ( is_multisite() && BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG )
$path = ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/uploads/’;
return $path;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_core_avatar_upload_path’, ‘bpdev_fix_avatar_dir_path’, 1 );
//fix the upload dir url
function bpdev_fix_avatar_dir_url( $url ){
if ( is_multisite() )
$url = network_home_url(‘/wp-content/uploads’) ;
return $url;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_core_avatar_url’, ‘bpdev_fix_avatar_dir_url’, 1 );

You need to translate BuddyPress into French as well.

View this codex page for more info on how to manually download and apply the French translation:

Languages and Translations

BuddyPress doesn’t use shortcodes.

Instead, it relies on connecting specific WordPress pages to BuddyPress components.

Read this section for more info:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-components/#settings-buddypress-pages

You can use builder plugins with WP, but not with BuddyPress which uses its own templates.

You should copy the buddypress template files to your child theme and edit the individual profile pages there.

I managed to make a custom profile page like this

Try using this hook:
do_action_ref_array( 'groups_member_before_save', array( &$this ) );

Found in: buddypress\bp-groups\classes\class-bp-groups-member.php

You mention forums specifically.

If that is the case, you should use bbPress conditional functions.

See this page for more details:

bbPress Conditional Tags

If you have more questions, post on the bbPress forums as BuddyPress is not bbPress:

– BuddyPress = community
– bbPress = forums

add_theme_support( 'buddypress' ) is for custom BuddyPress themes not relying on theme compatiblity.

I would remove that line from your theme’s functions.php and then load a BuddyPress page to see if the default BP styles show up as expected.

Your developer would need to write an import script to parse your old database tables to match the BuddyPress DB schema.

No way around it, unless you manually create each user and fill in each user’s data one-at-a-time. This would be painful if your existing site is quite large.

You shouldn’t rely on PHP conditionals for CSS targeting.

Use your browser’s developer console and check the various body CSS classes and then target the ones you want to use in your CSS stylesheet.

Why not use something like?

body.forums .YOUR-SELECTOR {color:red !important;}

If you must use PHP conditionals, use the ones that BuddyPress provides:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.1/src/bp-core/bp-core-template.php#L2034

View the list of functions in that file for all the ones you can use.

How are you trying to delete the buddypress folder?