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Since BuddyPress 1.7 you don’t only have to use a BuddyPress theme so you can use any theme from https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/search.php?q=buddypress and also https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/. I’d always say ideally you use a theme that’s designed for a community but either option gets you up and running.

Also worth looks are:
http://infinity.presscrew.com
http://3oneseven.com/buddypress-themes/

As far as buying in theory again every theme that works for WordPress works but BuddyPress specific themes you can get a number of places such as (not exhaustive list):

• BuddyBoss: http://www.buddyboss.com
• Luca’s theme: http://luca.untame.net
• Mojo Themes: http://www.mojo-themes.com
• Press Crew: http://shop.presscrew.com
• Theme loom: http://themeloom.com/themes/pure-theme/
• Theme Forest: http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress/buddypress
• Themekraft: http://themekraft.com
• WPMU DEV: http://premium.wpmudev.org

Please give more details before asking for help !
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

BP use the standart WP process to upload pictures. The default user avatar is set in the WP settings > discussion where you can choose between different avatar services. The default avatar shipped by BP is Mystery Man.

When a custom user avatar is uploaded by a member, the picture goes to wp-content/uploads/avatars/ into a folder named by the user ID. The original image is handled by the process to result in 2 different size, and BP rename each file to something unique with a MD5 name, and a human comprehensive name, such as c3f55cb7f3beaa22f7463132f5e0878d-bpfull.jpg and c3f55cb7f3beaa22f7463132f5e0878d-bpthumb.jpg

Internally BP use 3 default sizes for the user avatar: 50×50(small), 150×150(full) and 450×450 (max original file size).
These sizes can be changed. Read here how: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/avatar-sizes-in-1-7/

Each user can modify his profile and change his avatar so many times he want. The avatar upload process contains also an avatar cropper. The default cropping size is related to the avatar define “full”. By default it’s 150×150 and the original image is fixed to 450, even if it’s bigger on the user side.

Depending the placeholder of a profile avatar, those size are adapted to fit the template part fixed in the theme you use. On activity stream under bp-default theme, the avatar is 20×20, on members directory it’s 150×150, etc

The signup process is conditionned by registering. As long as a new user has not activated his account, he cannot upload or modify something, or even loggin to the site. That’s why there is no option for pics at this stage.

And yes, you can embed a profile pic into a sidebar or any other place. But this is only possible if you’re familiarized with BP and if you have some basic PHP knowledge.

@sorensen84

read this first please:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

Your problem seems to sit into your custom theme. Read on codex about templates.

BuddyPress Codex

@praisehim,

read here first: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

@flixya4gabby
Unfortunately your going to have to use the process of elimination by activating each plugin individually and testing against it until you narrow it down to find the plugin that is the culprit. Once you find the plugin that is causing the issue the go to the plugin authors support forum and report your findings.

@praisehim
For the sake of convenience I made a super light weight plugin wrapped in a class that may enable you to use the Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields Type plugin along with the plugin I made to get rid of the profile links. Give it a try and give some feedback if this resolves the conflict! Get the plugin here:
https://github.com/bphelp/bp-remove-profile-links

@bphelp

It’s funny, but the plugin used to creat the custom fields Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields Type 1.5.5.5 is what is causing the links to appear. I’m very confused as to what to do. I disabled all plugins and the current theme, and the links didn’t appear, however, as soon as I re-enabled the Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields Type 1.5.5.5, then the links appear.

What should I do now please 🙁

Closing duplicate of https://buddypress.org/support/topic/profile-page-does-not-exist/

Hi @Ikenna,

Try to disable All plugins you used, and let buddypress only, and try if login work

Hi,

login by email work but not by username,

with BP 1.7+ BP template Pack is obsolete, please read this page of the codex to get all the details

That theme is twentytweleve and is rendering quite normally so not sure what the issue is.

hi,

Since BP 1.7,B BuddyPress can display its content within the context of any WordPress theme !! so you can use any wordpress theme. Else, you can youse child theme for bp.

free:
https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
payed:
http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress/buddypress

It’s much more powerful than the BuddyPress profile system.

I seriously doubt that – the user account / profile is one of BP’s big strengths

Don’t really see any virtue in ‘?viewuser=2’

Regardless you request is going to be next to impossible BP has very specific and complex methods for constructing and managing url structures, even if this were possible you would need to have quite advanced skills and knowledge of WP & BP api.

Cannot login or takes a while before the login is resolved, you appear to be contradicting yourself, saying ‘Cant login’ then later that you did after a wait.

You need to detail the process as clearly as possible, any errors that you might see etc, what type of usernames have they spaces in them which buddypress has converted into a hyphen?

Please wait a while for responses before you bump posts 1 hour is far too quick, 24 hours is generally the rule here and it’s the weekend so things are going to be slower.

Why won’t the theme work with BP’s theme compatibility, most themes do not support BP by default which was why theme compatibility was introduced. How does your theme look when you don’t run template pack i.e not bp folders in theme directory so BP knows to fall back to theme compatibility?

Glad it worked.
One thing to bear in mind, if these changes are in the parent theme you may lose the changes if the theme gets updated so it might be wise to try creating a simple child theme with basic required files plus the two new BP ones to ensure your changes are preserved.

Marking as resolved.