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Is there some default CSS i can get anywhere just to style up my community in a default way as i’ve no styles currently set in my theme for BuddyPress?

Strange. BP Theme Compatibility enqueues buddypress.css and buddypress.js – can you check in source code if you can see reference to both? What theme are you using?

The codex is your friend, please check for guides there first.
This page ought to explain your templating options, you should be able to work out how to manage a modified layout from this:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/template-hierarchy/

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You can use a file named buddypress.php this will be used ahead of page.php if found, you can edit that as much as you’d like.

In BP 1.8 we have extended this to be far more flexible to use component names or actions, etc.

You perhaps needed to read this page or perhaps you did and just haven’t upgraded?
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/template-hierarchy/

Please read the codex documentation, there are guides there on the theme compatibility and template hierarchy – first port of call should always be the docs.

This is buddypress support, question is probably better served on bbPress support really.

@xxxwing

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/developers/ ?

@gggamers

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

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Hi,

I’ve trying to mimic the functionality of the BP admin bar in the latest release of BuddyPress – thats 1.9 – can someone point out how i can do this? I want to place it somewhere else on my site and t urn off the top one?

In the latest BuddyPress – 1.9 – i want to hide the admin bar but keep it for WP site users (editors, admins) that aren’t BP users? Is that possible?

Hi, You can check what we’ve done for the French Buddypress community with @imath here :
Check my profile for example :
http://bp-fr.net/membres/mecanographik/

regards,

do I have to configure a wildcard for my websites

You only need to configure wildcard if you created a network (multisite) with subdomain structure/mode e.g. http://community.example.com . Looking at your example above with subsite example.com/community in subdirectory mode, so no.

You don’t want both http://www.example.com and http://example.com to both be accessible. Why? Because Google will penalize you for duplicate content ironically from your own site. You need to decide whether you want www or no-wwww. Check what’s in the Site Address of your Settings > General, it should be the same as your WordPress Address, either both have www or both have no www.

Deactivate BuddyPress. You have to resolve the URL issue before you activate BuddyPress again. If you need assistance with this matter, please go to https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

@brandonecarr in previous BP versions, all components were activated by default. Starting BP 1.7 onwards, the only active components by default when you activate BuddyPress are Members (with Extended Profiles) and Activity Streams.

Go to Settings > BuddyPress > Components and activate the other components you want in your installation.

@pssawhney ideally one should be able to change themes without any major issues. That’s why themes in the WordPress Theme Repository must not include shortcodes nor custom post types, etc. And it looks like Envato’s Themeforest is going to require that for incoming premium themes http://support.envato.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/472

If your Huddle theme has shortcodes and built in custom post types like portfolios for example, then yes you would lose the styles for those shortcodes and the portfolio will not be showing up in your new theme. Other than that, BuddyPress data are stored in database so assuming you have an updated WordPress theme which does not have a proprietary templating system, you should be good to go.

Recommend that you set up your own development site which mirrors your live/production site so you can test themes/plugins in development site before installing/activating in production site.

@hugodisasters Not familiar with the theme you’re using but based on the image alone, looks like buddypress.css and buddypress.js which are enqueued by the plugin are missing. I suggest checking in your premium theme’s forums for similar issues or try reuploading BuddyPress plugin folder manually (FTP,etc).

@brunodavid some premium WP themes have proprietary templating systems which prevent BP automagically inserting BP component parts into the_title and the_content of the theme’s page.php.

We don’t have access to the premium theme, but what has worked with others copying your theme’s page.php file and save it as buddypress.php then open up buddypress.php and change theme’s original template tags and HTML structure into the_title and the_content in the appropriate places. for more info https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

@romandaily
Your welcome, I do think it is strange that a theme would contain images of a bullet instead of using standard markup but I am glad you got it worked out.
Cheers!

@romandaily
That is one reason I asked if you had tried the other themes as to isolate the issue. Now that we know it is your theme you can use chromes developer tools and firebug for firefox to inspect the elements. The css code I gave you may need to be modified because I have no idea which selectors are using in this particular theme. If you are unsure how to do this you could contact the theme author for support and they may be able to provide a solution. It would also help if you supplied a link to your site in case others may assist.