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Thanks everyone for this hard-to-find-info!

Where is the user experiance and human point of view dear Buddypress team? Totally confusing using “legacy”, and I consider myself old in the game…

Im not so good at this template part but I think Accociation with “buddypress pages” (or like Woocommerce and other) is to claim the slug for the screen function, that don care about the content() of the page itselfs.

I might be wrong, so someone please confirm or correct this.

I figured this out, in my case.

If you disable a component and still have the new buddypress menu link for that component in your navigation menu, you’ll get this error. You have to remember to remove it from your menus.

I was working just fine, Multisite, 3.8, and 1.9…and I went to activate Groups component. And I started getting this error message.

Only thing I can think of is that I had Buddypress activated on single mode as opposed to Network activated at the time I enabled Groups.

I activated bp in network mode, but it didnt fix it.

> I’m conflicted on how much we can realistically support themes that deviate so far from the norm.

I see no real conflict to be resolved, it’s impossible for BP to take into account unknown divergences from the core template api WP provides, if theme authors want to create something non-standard then sadly that’s their problem and unfair to expect BP to have to try and deal with this. The best BP can do and is doing pretty well is to tie in as much as possible to the set WP template approach and if all themes did the same – and frankly they probably could regardless of proprietary approach to frameworking – then this would be a non issue.

>that now uncover pretty fatal flaws in several themes

Flaws that existed and have existed in many themes that do their own thing.

Where that leaves things is sadly fairly and squarely in the theme authors court to try and help provide a solution for template issues.

On a sidenote on another thread I noted a response relayed from a theme author to the user on enquiry of how to resolve their theme issue that the theme author couldn’t possibly support every third party plugin issue that happened along! It’s worth perhaps pointing out to any theme authors that might happen past this thread that there are plugins and there are plugins that really are best described as modules that extend WP they transcend the notion of a simple plugin and leverage the WP API to it’s fullest, these plugins, and I’m thinking of BuddyPress and bbPress here are in wide spread use, and really the smart theme author might be advised to actually test their themes with both these ‘plugins’ to gauge the level of support the theme offers and where possible improve it!

Obviously the above isn’t a great deal of help to those of you having these issues, but this forum is going to struggle to help on these sorts of issues being it’s primary purpose has to be directly related to BP issues and third party themes especially premium ones are something we can’t deal with due to lack of knowledge on how they are constructed.

@laurentdesserrey
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I am running a child theme of the bp-default…

Should I add this code directly to my theme’s “functions.php”
Or
Should I create a file named “function.php” , add the email code there and then add it to my child theme’s folder?

Also, at the bottom of the page here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

It states
“(4) functions.php
There is one exception to the template override rule — functions.php.
If you create a blank functions.php file in your child theme, the parent theme (or in our case, the BuddyPress Default theme) functions.php will still be loaded.
This will allow you to inherit existing functions from BuddyPress Default, but you can also add your own customized code in here as well!
You must make sure you give your child theme functions a unique name, otherwise they will clash with the parent.”

So, if I were to add the email code to my child theme – I should name it such as functions1.php?

Thanks

Hi @glyndavidson,

Please read this ticket hoping this can help you to understand more about bp_moderate capability.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4991

I use a WordPress theme I made to accomplish this. I’ve been asking on the forums if anyone wants me to release it for free but I’ve had no response/ interest from anyone yet. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/flat-portal-client-area-child-theme-of-twenty-thirteen/

It has all the functionality you want.

I made it so that only admin can see all the users and only friends can see each others profiles if not admin.

I have created the buddypress sidebar in the themes settings.

@queertownabbey per layout of all your BuddyPress pages, the default page.php layout is full-width. Since we don’t have access to the premium theme, will refer you to examples of we’ve added sidebars to pages which are full-width by default at https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/bp-theme-compatibility-and-the-wordpress-default-themes/ specifically with the Twenty Eleven theme

bp_core_avatar_handle_upload()

but it’s part of a larger sequence of functions and may not work properly on it’s own.

look through plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php

I previously had the “BP Compatibility Pack” without knowing that I didn’t actually need it for the new BP version. Could that plugin have cause the issue at hand?

If you mean the BP Template Pack, then yes, you don’t need it. I would delete that from the plugins page. If you already ran the BP Template Pack with your theme activated, then remove the BuddyPress folders which might have been moved to your current theme in server namely: /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration

I have the same issue. i’m using Response 2.0 Theme by Cyberchimps and have the following plugins the same as brinkin:

BuddyPress Follow
bbPress – Report Content

i deactivated them both but it didnt fix the problem

@abses91 the platform theme has a proprietary templating system which could have caused that issue. You’d need a simple buddypress.php file in your site’s theme folder which includes the HTML structure you want for all your BuddyPress pages along with WP loop with wp_title and wp_content. On another note, wasn’t there a plugin to bridge the platform theme with BP? Have you tried checking out or posting at the platform theme’s forums to see if others have experienced the same issue and if they have resolved it?

P.S. RE plugin bridge – that was for another theme.

BuddyPress has been deactivated in your site. Could just be a theme conflict. Next time, check BP with on of WP default themes.

@learningeveryday from what I gather from your original post, you want a way for members to publish a blog post from their profile pages, right? Check out http://buddydev.com/buddypress/introducing-buddyblog-allow-users-to-blog-from-their-buddypress-profile/

@wkolcz You created a child theme of what parent theme? Have you checked out https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/ ?

@ofloveandbeauty Don’t you need Genesis Connect for BuddyPress plugin anymore for your StudioPress theme? Have you checked out StudioPress forums if others have resolved the same issue?

Hey @jetlej.

On WordPress multisite, Super Administrators can edit/see/delete anything they want to. It’s their site, after all, so they are free to police it.

On WordPress single site, all Administrators have the same privileges as above.

We have been slowly rolling in the concept of moderator capabilities into BuddyPress for the past few years, though it’s not quite in a place yet where it’s been fully audited and integrated to be able to add/remove explicit permissions.

It’s not ideal for everyone, but it works well for most. Can you explain more about your setup and how this is an issue?