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Hi Roger,

Yes, you should try and follow how the BP components do it.

View the BP_Activity_Theme_Compat class:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.8/bp-activity/bp-activity-screens.php#L317

And try and emulate that in your plugin. This is only for theme compat. That does not handle bp-default.

If you want to support bp-default themes as well, let’s use the activity component again as an example.

Check out bp_activity_screen_index():
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.8/bp-activity/bp-activity-screens.php#L13

That adds support for bp-default. In that example, bp_core_load_template() tells BuddyPress to look for a template called ‘activity/index.php’ in your theme’s directory. If such a template exists, it will load it up the bp-default way.

If it doesn’t, then BuddyPress will try and fallback to theme compat, which is where the BP_Activity_Theme_Compat class comes in for the activity component.

Hope that clarifies things.

@joerob101 have you tried Genesis Connect for BuddyPress? https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-connect-for-buddypress/

It helped me get BP running on a Genesis subtheme.

Any update on what Facebook plugins work best? We never did install one because none seemed to cover Facebook/Twitter/Google at the same time, so we decided to just use Facebook.

Is it possible to have the plugin be compatible with a BuddyPress registration page where we have additional required questions, like zip code, etc for instance? Here’s what we have right now: destinationli.com/register.

Great! its my pleasure sir!. 🙂

No your permalinks structure is not updated , please choose POST NAME as your permalinks structure and than update.

Please go to settings –> permalinks & update permalinks structure again and than give a try will work 100% , thanks.

Please send me your site URL in message, thanks.

It’s important to understand that this is a theme issue, not BP’s issue, as of 1.7 BP re-factored how it worked to a huge degree and added theme compatibility, designed to allow BP content to work seamlessly in any WP theme providing the theme followed basic WP template practises -it’s a real shame so many don’t!

They replied and said the buddypress pages should be using the buddypress page templates and asked if I have installed the buddypress page templates correctly.

This is somewhat outdated advice and sounds as though they are suggesting the old template pack process or copying over bp-default theme templates, neither of these are what you need to be doing and require a little knowledge to achieve.

As said earlier all you need is a correctly functioning page.php, clearly this theme prevents page.php working as is normally expected so the answer is copy page.php & rename it buddypress.php in order that you may make custom mods in that file without page.php and your themes templating breaking. Now in buddypress.php you need to have a working and ‘Normal’ WP loop plus any other html markup structure your theme uses, however this is the sort of thing the theme author can best handle or at least they will understand what needs doing.

Again earlier I pointed out where you can find an example loop in the WP default theme twentytwelve but you need something like this in your content area of your custom buddypress.php file:

<div id=”content” role=”main”>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<h1 class=”entry-title”><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php the_content(); ?>

<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

</div><!– #content –>

However whereas this may kick the custom template into life it doesn’t account for the theme markup structure so likely would look broken, but we have no understanding of what this theme does with it’s templates so can’t really advice – again the theme author could and needs to understand how BP now works as a simple one file include with their theme could allow them to state their theme is BP compatible.

Lastly and for anyone else reading the thread understand that the best place to source themes which are BP compatible is the official WP theme repo as the theme checks run on submitted themes will ensure standard WP practises are adhered to, buy premium themes and you take your chances, unless they are from a well known source and /or clearly state BP compatible or if not that they DO follow the WP templating API not invent their own I would avoid also I would avoid unless there was a strong support area for the theme.

hi ,

I am trying to install buddypress on Blog http://logicsforyou.com. but its not showing any link for register and active pages …even its breaking other pages as well. please help

you need to fix it with no conflict jquery condition, if you don’t know it, than give me access to your site, i will do that. thanks.

That is basically the members page. Go to dashboard/settings/buddypress/pages beside “Members” click the dropdown and select the workstations page and click save. That will associate your members page with the workstations page you had previously created.

@bao_plansystem
Please be more specific. Is this a BuddyPress page or just a standard WordPress page that is missing content? Also give as much detail as you can about your install.

@whitewolf1988
Looks like your using a test server anyhow so go ahead and try BP 1.7 and if it resolves the issue then you can upgrade to BP 1.8 when the theme author has updated this theme to work with BP 1.8. Sorry if this is not a complete solution but that is the risk you take when purchasing themes that are overly complex and are not promptly update for current versions of WP and BP! Good luck!

@faramarz thanks for posting the error, see https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fatal-error-unable-to-create-forum-from-buddypress-group/#post-135487

EDIT – Trac Ticket at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2374