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@trobertson82,

use this function bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' );

Add this to bp-custom.php or child theme’s functions.php

function whats_new_my_friend() {
	if ( bp_is_user_friends_activity() ) :
		bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' );	
	endif;
}
add_action( 'bp_before_member_body', 'whats_new_my_friend' );

@kjgbriggs – just took a look at your oblivion thing you like – it appears to be the forums layout you are concerned with here – which may end up being more of a “bbpress” theme-ing issue – not so much buddypress… last I checked you can add “bbpress” as an auto-addon for buddypress – but if it’s not profiles and activity stream stuff – you may need to look up some “bbpress” specific theme things if you run into issues – not sure if they go over all that at bbpress dot org these days or not.. I have not checked those forums / docs in years.

@rochellebarlow
You need to direct this question to the “OptimizeMember” plugin writer.

I will suggest if you do not find it easy to work with that one, perhaps look into others like “s2member” or the membership plugins from wpmudev – and others.

Some places provide better tutorials and support than others – some are easier to work with than others.

This is not really a buddypress issue however I do not believe.

(I am not a bp dev, just another random internet user of bp – and I have not looked into your particular optimize things)

Hi @maelga,

Querying by member type is explained here:

Member Types

Then, you’ll have to create a custom function to get a navbar specific to each member type.

Members Navigation Menus

@kjgbriggs – setting up a child theme is just a way to essentially make a new theme – using another “parent” as your template. When you activate, it’s just ONE theme that it handling everything for your wp/bp site.

You do no provide enough details about your theme names, and what you like about the main one and the one that ‘looks better with buddyprees’ – however, if you just like the layout of the bp components with he second theme more, then yes I believe you could make a child theme from your primary theme, and then go into your secondary theme and start to pull some of the layout code for the bp specific components and add those to your main theme.

If it’s overall colors and such you are trying to mix, like have a red header for your main site and a blue header for your bp pages – that is not going to be so easy..

it’s easy to learn about child themes here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

and a little more digging to learn about bp specif pages and components here:

BuddyPress Theme Development

for minor changes you can keep things simple by activating your second theme that you like with the bp looking better, go to the bp pages where you like the layout, right click on the element that looks good and click inspect elements – this will give you the css rules that are working the way you like.. things like alignment properties, bold, colors perhaps – copy those – put them into your new child theme styles and such..

of course some things can be more tricky if your second theme has fancy functions.php, java and all that included.

@chetbutikofer – I have not run into that exact thing – but you can go into your site via ftp or file mananger, under wp-content / plugins and simply delete the buddypress folder. That will usually deactivate just about any wp plugin.

Suggestions in this post MAY be of some help.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/multi-communities-in-one-website/

note sure if these work or not – never used them:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-invites/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-community/

Let me know if you try them and they fail or work!

@mattfl850 – this info will help with that journey:
bottom of the page: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installation-in-wordpress-multisite/

I am sure this is possible, it’s not the way I would do it… might also want to consider some of the info here: http://halfelf.org/2011/dont-use-wordpress-multisite/ (updated may 2015 😉

Others may agree or disagree, and you may be keeping your server tuned like a well oiled machine – hidden from the SE spiders and brute force attackers and all that.

Of course I am not an expert, or a bp dev or anything – just another user who has tried a few different setups and spent many hours trying to do what it “possible” and should be “simple” – and pulled my hair out trying to make things like that work well :))

Not sure if anything is changed in recent updates, but I will mention that when I did this kind of conversion; I had to install the role scoper plugin (now called press permit) – in order to hide people’s private pics they uploaded – as they were visible in the media gallery for other bp users on my sites who had signed up for a “blog” (not called “site” in multi-site) – that was a painful thing to find out the hard way – maybe things have changed with that and other issues – not sure.

Have fun with that and let me know how it works out for ya!

@ajay25 – maybe the wp plugin “good question” ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/good-question/ ) will do what you are asking (?)
Maybe “buddypress humanity”

I imagine there are other similar ones in the wp repo these days

Take a look at the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy article. If your theme uses BuddyPress templates then you’ll be able to override them.