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Can anyone tell me how to apply any of the codes above to specific user roles?

i believe these are all supposed to be on by default but the default active components has changed recently i can’t seem to dig up which ones they are. anyway go to the buddypress section under settings and tab over to components to ensure the activity tracking is enabled.

I was under the impression the theme would be open source and as a result I would make a derivative work and provide credit where due – of course I will investigate this fully. Although it appears to be a direct derivative of the BP theme itself.

Not sure what theme you are referring to but not getting into debate over GPL while essentially it preserves the right to copy and forces derivative works to carry the same licence on those parts that are derivatives, nothing is ever that clear cut. Personally I am in two minds over the veracity of the GPL

No don’t mix files/templates from bp-default into your child /buddypress/, theme conpat templates and older bp-default templates have different structures. The point about theme compatibility is that the templates are template parts not full templates in their own right and inject their content into the WP function the_content() if you examine one you will note it has no header or footer calls.

Not sure what your asking re that theme but it’s suggestive of copying work?? and as such I’ll make no comment, however why not simply use that theme as it’s already built on boostrap and create a child theme as you need.

@jtm21
Yes essentially that would be fine, bearing in mind you might lose or have to account for any styles that were in place to deal with js frills.

Generally now you can or should be using BP in theme compat mode as it offers more options now as well as ability to keep templates and assets neatly under /buddypress/ or /community/ adding directories directly to you theme root will invoke the older approach, and although still valid, less of a attraction now the theme compat templates can be customized for components, actions, user_ids etc.

Check the functions.php in the bp-legacy template folders as that will show you the class used for setting up a theme and it’s assets.

i agree with mercime, we can’t help you if you can’t have your site online.

do you think updating may fix this

@junithorn It may. Still don’t know why the correct JS is not enqueueing in your site. May I recommend that you set up a development site which mirrors the BuddyPress environment of your site so you may be able to test themes, plugins and all kinds of upgrades. That way you (and users) won’t be stressed out when you implement the changes in your production/live site.

We ran through an exercise in unbinding many of the jQuery selectors from elements so that scripting was tied to classes rather than specific markup structure to allow for re-factoring of markup, so you ought to be able to structure markup as you wish but just pay close attention to IDs & Classes which must be preserved.

even w/ the twenty twelve theme my register page is blank. I’m running wordpress 3.5.2 and buddypress 1.8. any suggestions? my site is mpowerlive.com

@whitewolf1988 unfortunately, we do not have access to the premium theme nor your site to check if BP JS is enqueued or not, among other things. There are just too many variables to keep guessing what’s wrong with your theme’s compatibility with BP. The best place to to ask is at theme author’s site. If the theme author cannot help you at this time, think what would happen if theme development stops and you’re stuck with the theme and WordPress version it’s compatible with. Know that some premium themes lock you in so much so that if you try to change themes in the future, some content won’t show up anymore.

There is an extensive article on setting up BuddyPress and WooCommerce on xd3v. Might be helpful.

@rimoreno I suggest testing in development site before implementing in live/production site.

@jtm21 check out how unsal did it this WP theme compatible with BP and built on Bootstrap https://wordpress.org/themes/firmasite

to allow users to comment on other user’s pages?

something like this http://buddydev.com/buddypress/buddypress-activity-as-wire-updated-for-buddypress-1-6-buddypress-1-7/

I would follow #2 – Only override the template files that you need.

Keep in mind that the markup in the template files are quite specific to the JS. So that’s something that you’ll have to consider when changing the markup.