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Thanks: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5934

@r-a-y Yes I did!
This 2.1.1 Update was supose to fix this issue, but it has not. Im still stuck with a broken slider.

When I disable the BuddyPress Template Pack, it works again, This seems like its no longer supported, So how do you get the themeing for buddypress if the wordpress theme does not support it?

got the answer in another thread.

we have a theme and buddypress is an add-on to that theme so there wasn’t a need to have buddypress as our theme or to create a buddypress child theme.

what we needed to do was to make changes to the css elements that controlled the elements of buddypress that were active in our theme.

it was pointed out to me to simply copy the css lines from buddypress.min.css (as displayed in View Element, a firefox feature) into the Style.CSS file in our existing child theme style.css file.

after a few tries to get the syntax correct I’m now making changes to the buddypress elements that we have active with our existing wordpress theme.

thanks for the help Hugo.

don’t know, i refresh after every css file update so not sure why it wouldn’t take but it’s good now and we’re making progress again!
our buddypress pages are finally starting to look like the rest of the site.
thank you very much
bart

Thank you so much! Creating and uploading my own language files seemed to to the trick. However — it’s unclear as to whether or not the “Sources Keywords” stuff is even relevant in my situation. Wouldn’t the WordPress functions already exist in the BuddyPress language file that I’ve copied and modified? If I’ve done something wrong (by ignoring these Sources Keywords stuff) — how can I test/verify that?

Thanks,
– Yvan

I added the code to the bottom of the classipress child theme, saved it, refreshed my screen and nothing happened. maybe because i used cut-paste instead of typing it in.
i’ll try again.
when i inspect the elements buddypress is using the buddypress.min.css file and i’m tempted to edit that file for the heck of it just to see if it changes anything but so far i can’t get changes to show on the screen.
thanks for all of the help, i really appreciate it.
one more try
bart

this goes back to my original question, we already have a theme and are running a child-theme of that. buddypress isn’t our theme, it’s an add-on to our theme.
so when you say I have to activate our child theme in the Admin panel, I’ve seen this and have tried the preview and it takes over our real theme which is ClassiPress.
Does that make sense? we don’t want BuddyPress to be our theme, it’s running as an Add-on and I’m trying to only make some minor color/layout changes.
Thanks!
Bart

There is nothing wrong with my child-theme configuration. I’ve tested it on 2014 theme, without bp-custom.php, the code in functions.php and BP template files are not applying because it is in my child theme and I’m testing on 2014 theme. Also turned off all plugins and installed fresh version of buddypress without any core hacks.

The issue still persists. Everything was fine before upgrading to 2.1.1.

I was thinking about opening a bug report ticket but if you say that everything is working for you then the issue must be on my end. I just can’t figure it out (yet).

I would have thought this was something that would be really popular for a Buddypress site because finding people in certain areas is what a lot of social networks need. Im going to have a look at some BP sites and see what they are doing. There must be something for this surely – although seems not as am sure you ahve searched for yourself. Maybe need to get someone to code it for me. Thanks again, you put a lot of effort into trying to help me.

I’ve ironed out most of the kinks on my website now and most of the members have made the transition from the old Facebook group without too many problems – although, I won’t lie, there have been complaints from a fair few!

The main thing a lot of them miss is ease of access/use on mobile phones. The biggest factor seems to be that they could access the Facebook group via the app rather than needing to use a browser and the instant notifications of mentions to their phones helped keep them feeling involved. I’m not a developer, so there’s only so much I can do, but is it possible to have buddypress site (with busy bbpress forums) running as a mobile app at the same time?

Or is there some other solution I can offer? I’ve explained about email notifications, but members don’t feel like that’s the same.

The other issue is that members are saying it’s difficult to follow threads because on Facebook the original post will appear at the top with replies below and it gets bumped up the page each time anyone replies. I know Buddypress activity posts work a bit like that, but most of the activity appearing on my homepage activity feed is from the forums. Any suggestions?

Thanks guys. 🙂

Hi @1a-spielwiese,

Thanks for this. I had a look on your registration page where you have a few countries for members to select, but when I choose one, the same dropdown menu appears. Im not using any plugin at the moment – just the extended profiles in the components of Buddypress at the top of the list which includes checkboxes for activity streams, friend connections etc. I don’t want to use a plugin that hasn’t been updated in two years either.

If I go to Users>Profile fields, this is where I was hoping to do this but the only way I can see to do it is to add, UK, then a list of counties. USA and then a list of states, and so on which would mean I would have a list a mile high of all the different countries and local areas.

Am I missing something?

Thanks a bunch,

Kris

I’m not sure what people here are referring to when talking about the 2014 theme.

I’m using hueman theme. I tried to test it with the themes that come with wordpress by default and the issue remained. Also tested it with the theme that comes with buddypress (this is 2013 theme right?).

I wonder if anyone else has that issue.

i’ve made a few changes but still nothing
/*
Theme Name: BuddyPress_GSN
Theme URI: http://www.giantscalenews.com/wp-content/themes/BuddyPress_Child_GSN/
Description: GSN BuddyPress Child Theme
Version: 2.1.1
Author: Bart
Author URI: http://www.giantscalenews.com
Template: buddypress
Tags: buddypress
*/
#buddypress div.item-list-tabs ul li.selected a,
#buddypress div.item-list-tabs ul li.current a {
background-color: #eee;
color: #555;
font-weight: bold;
border-radius: 0px, 0px, 4px, 4px;
}

is the child theme folder in the wp-content/themes/ folder as it’s described in the codex entry?
is there anything else to do as far as pointing things in the right direction other than building the new style.css file in the child directory?

i’m trying to modify the various boxes and windows for the buddypress features so to start I did this but when I save it and then reload the page nothing is happening. Thank you.

/*
Theme Name: BuddyPress_GSN
Theme URI: http://www.giantscalenews.com/wp-content/themes/Buddypress_Child_GSN/
Description: GSN BuddyPress Child Theme
Version: 2.1.1
Author: Bart
Author URI: http://www.giantscalenews.com
Template: buddypress
Tags: buddypress
*/

div.item-list-tabs ul li.current a,
div.item-list-tabs ul li.selected a {
background-color: #FFF;
color: #000;
font-weight: 700;
border-radius: 0px 0px 3px 3px;
}