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Completely agree! Content is the most important thing.

For the site i’m building, my SEO efforts are more for the end user’s benefit and less for search engine rank improvements. When a user looks at Google’s search results I’d like them to see a meaningful page title and description. I class the page title and description as “off-page content” which is just as important to the end user as the “on-page” information they are reading.

Yoast is fantastic for WP, sadly not so much for BP.

Nevermind, it appears that I have been putting the child theme files in the wrong folders and eventually it messed up the compatibility mode.
Should have been childtheme/buddypress/members/ instead of /childtheme/members
Hoping that it will all work out better now.

more info : fresh install WP, buddypress and bbpress as well.. done this morning

Yoast isn’t compatible with parts of BuddyPress @ubernaut – try seeing if page titles for member profiles work for you. I’d be interested to know.

@megainfo SeoPress is fantastic actually, seems to be the only plugin that tries to be compatible with BP. As for the 70%, that sounds spot on. A few bits could be improved

1. 404 page support
2. Friends component support
3. BP registration page support

UPDATE (SOLVED)

If anybody is getting this issue, unfortunately and fortunately I could find the error. It was a plugin conflict (I don’t know why I couldn’t find it before) with RS Buddypress Activity Refresh and its option “Date format” it was overriding the date format and for some reason language too.

For the moment I just deactivate it and now everything is ok but is so sad because this is/was an excellent functionality than BP should have in core and the plugin seems not to be developed anymore.

Thanks to everybody for your support but specially to @chouf1

It’s like after certain components are copied over to child theme the child theme starts using a different functions.php all of a sudden or something, and I can’t understand the reason of that behaviour.
I could always hack it by enqueueing buddypress.css from functions.php in my theme and manually adjusting everything, but I want to understand why this happens instead of just work around it.
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/ from this I understand that buddypress functions.php should be loaded at all times regardless if a child theme is present or not.

@chouf1 Yes I have assigned the pages properly for both Members and Ideas (via function for ideas).
I may have not explained the problem properly because I don’t understand it myself.
The ‘breaking’ occurs if I copy certain files from bp-default to child theme directory. For example the members page gets broken if I copy index.php from bp-default/members/ to childtheme/members/ . If I delete it, the buddypress.css and template load properly again.

i can say im using buddypress account and not the bbpress like buddypress use.

May i ask how then? On their buddypress account, can it find an upload avatar?

So I just installed the Plug in for BP. Should I re-install the theme or do you think it will still work?

Also– it gives me this message on the theme when I try to activate it:

Create empty page called Home (Pages → Add New) with selected Frontpage 1, Frontpage 2 or Frontpage 3 page template and setup Home page as your frontpage.

More information you will find in the documentation.

Kristin Romaine

That’s what I thought was the issue. So I need to load the Plug in to the Word Press before installing the theme. Correct?

Kristin Romaine

@bphelp thanks for sharing the link.

I’ve come across that thread before. Unfortunately the solution no longer works. Perhaps it did work at some point in the past but not with today’s version of the plugin and BP 1.7.