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Thank you for your reply!
Could you provide me a little example? I am completely new to Buddypress and things like this.

@tranny,

Are you saying I need to install a sidebar plugin to see changes to the theme?

Yes ! Have you try the solution I gave you ?

As explain by @hnla, Buddypress companion style works only when the buddypress pages have enough width, that’s mean no sidebar or an empty sidebar (no widget in it).
For twenty sixteen theme, when the regular sidebar is empty (no widget) the buddypress content still not use 100% width, it’s why companion style isn’t working even with the empty regular sidebar.

So an easy solution is to create a new empty sidebar that will replace the regular theme sidebar.
To do that I used the Content Aware Sidebars plugin as discribe in my previous post.
Try to follow those steps
2) Install Content Aware Sidebars plugin
3) Create a sidebar then select Buddypress Members type and add all proposed subcategories. Set it as substitution to the regular sidebar and then save it. Do not add any widget in this sidebar.
4) Don’t forget to clear your browser cache.

Hi thx for your fast reply.

Ok I would like to try it the other way round.

I use the plugin Members to set capabilities and create new roles e.g. “trainer”. I tried to to add “bp_moderate” as a custom capability – buddypress capabilities are not listed there – but it didn’t work. Is the name wrong? Or is there no option to add this capability? As I read after some search here that buddypress have no connections to normal wp roles or capabilities.

Or what did you mean?

@shanebp: ok,
i changed “bp_moderate” to “create_users” at line 29 in compose.php
as I set this for the trainer role too:

<?php if ( bp_current_user_can( 'create_users' ) ) : ?>
		<p><label for="send-notice"><input type="checkbox" id="send-notice" name="send-notice" value="1" /> <?php _e( "This is a notice to all users.", "buddypress" ); ?></label></p>
	<?php endif; ?>

The changes works and the option field “send a notice to all users” displays also for trainers with capability “create_users”.

BUT they can’t send notices at all/ still miss the capability and also don’t have the “notices” menu in the buddypress profil.
An Error Message appears when they try to send message as site wide notice: “Notice was not created. Please try again.”

What else do I have to change? I looked at other php files around there but didn’t find a solution. Can you help me out? Thx!

What I did was go in and make the subdomain the only site to have BuddyPress via config.php. Works fine. The subdomain is only one with all the BuddyPress plugins activated.

BUT, when I change anything in a group and save, it will go right back to the main site. Also, my Event Calendar isn’t linking up and showing the events. The calendar is showing fine in the groups but none of the events.

It still acts like the main site is running BuddyPress.

@djpaul @r-a-y Brilliant! I added theme support for BuddyPress and it worked 🙂 Thank you both so much for your help.

The only thing is, now that the template is loading properly, for some reason, the BuddyPress nav and subnav bar (which was looking as it should before) has now lost its styling. Is there something that needs to be done to get the theme’s custom styling back? I tried adding this wp_dequeue_style( 'buddypress' ); to the same function but it didn’t work.

@r-a-y “may I ask what URL you are attempting to load …” this is the URL i see in the browser – http://www.domain.dev/users/username/dashboard/

“If this is a non-BuddyPress page …” as far as i can tell, it appears to be a BuddyPress page.

Thanks for your quick answer shanebp!

But as I read different statements, the thing that really interests me is, if the legacy-files do present the same features as the core buddypress. Or will I lose any feature or functionality if I overwrite the core with those them files?

Thanks again!

Hi Paul @djpaul.

#1 Yes, you’re right. If it’s a custom template that loads ok with BP 1.7.2 all the way up to 2.0.3, and only has an issue when updating to BP 2.1, is it safe to assume that it’s not anything in the custom template’s code that’s causing the problem? If not, i can dig into it and share anything that’ll help to solve this.

#2 “it doesn’t mean the templates were built with *that* version” – do you think it’s a strong possibility the code in the custom template may be culprit? I just took a quick look and it seems to be quite standard.

add_theme_support( ‘buddypress’ ) is only in these files:

> wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-core\bp-core-theme-compatibility.php:
> wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-themes\bp-default\functions.php:

#3 “compare where its looking for a template vs. where the template actually is.” – The strange thing is that it works with BP 2.0.3 and only ‘breaks’ upon update to 2.1, and the template is sitting in the same place (child theme’s root) all the time. Appreciate any suggestions if you have them, as i’m out of ideas as a novice tinkerer.

@tranny

I came across this discussion here which may help to get answers to this question: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/editing-buddypress-core-files-within-the-childtheme/

Hi @shanebp, @bowe, @modemlooper, could you help me?

I found the cover filter (bp_attachments_cover_image_upload_dir)
but I have no idea how to start:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/6591/6591.04.patch

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,

Hello,

@Tranny
1) Use Twentysixteen Theme
2) Install Content Aware Sidebars plugin
3) Create a sidebar then select Buddypress Members type and add all proposed subcategories. Then save the sidebar. Do not add any widget in this sidebar.

You should be good 😉

After rolling back to 1.7 and gradually updating each version, it appears it’s the update to 2.1 that’s the issue, as the templates are still loading fine with BP 2.0.3

Digging deeper, it seems that it’s the /plugins/buddypress/bp-core folder which causes the problem

Couldn’t track down the cause looking for clues in the changelog https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-2-1/

This line is a potential but i couldn’t understand the info from r8820 – “In bp_core_load_template(), only use locate_template for older bp-default themes (r8820)”

Here are screenshots with the Twenty Fifteen theme. Deactivating all plugins (besides BuddyPress) does not affect how it appears.

I had to go to each URL directly in order to bring up the pages. The “Load More” button disappears after four clicks.

Screenshots2

Please, don’t be as silly as me.

If you find yourself having problems with BuddyPress, even with all plugins deactivated, remember to check if there is a bp-custom.php file in your plugins folder.