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I am also experiencing this problem with a very simple child theme. It is my theory that with BuddyPress 1.7 – and with now the plugin doing all of the heavy lifting of applying BuddyPress styles on top of any theme – that it doesn’t work well with Child themes, whereas, when it loads an activated child theme, it chooses to load the parent / template theme only.

I hope I’m making sense. I don’t know where to begin looking in the BuddyPress code to see where the problem is coming from – but if it could be fixed, I’d sure appreciate it. Using child themes makes the world a better place and allows us to painlessly update our parent / template themes.

Otherwise, 1.7 is leaps ahead of where BP used to be and I’m looking forward to getting it working on my site. Soon.

@applegateian
See:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/
You need to supply more info than just what version of BP and WP your using like theme, plugins, etc.
I had this issue once and it was a theme that conflicted with js so if your using anything other than twenty twelve or bp-default then activate one of those instead to test if the crop works and if so then you narrowed it down to a theme.

@aliceembroid
Can’t be certain about what would cause this but for starters your using a bunch of outdated plugins and an outdated theme that I believe @modemlooper removed from the repo. You are probably going to have get a theme that is isn’t outdated and uses standard wordpress template structures. With the new compatibility you really wont need the buddypress template pack. I would advise you to read the readme.txt that came with all those plugins as well and the ones that are outdated you need to deactivate each one using the process of elimination and test until you find the culprit, then ask the author for support. If that doesn’t get you any help then you may want to consider hiring a well skilled developer to sort it out for you.

@rypo73,

a possible bug ? Huh! Could also be a PBCK 😉
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

Yep you can’t really copy bp-default theme index.php to a theme compat file. Your buddypress.php needs to be page.php complete with the WP loop (perhaps copying 2012 not a good choice as it calls a separate file for the WP loop) With a buddypress.php file complete with WP loop you’ll then need to replicate in it your themes essential parts that grab the site header and footer as seen in your themes page.php and any html markup that your theme uses.

This may be something you need to approach the theme author about, explain you’re trying to use BuddyPress but that you need a page.php with a structure that both supports the theme and uses a standard WP loop, or use pastebin to copy the contents of your themes page.php to and someone may be able to suggest how to modify.

But support for third party themes is going to be somewhat limited as it’s not the primary purpose of the forum.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4834

hi @kukac7 !

with BP 1.6.5 some settings have changed while using forums and bbpres 2.2
Read here for specifics about this version and bbpress migration:
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

@fernon,
be more specific please !
i’ve seen in other topics that this is a bug in Buddypress. URL ?

Problem can be theme related. Which theme do you use ?

There’re only few tickets about timestamp bugs.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/search?changeset=on&milestone=on&ticket=on&wiki=on&q=activity+timestamp&page=1&noquickjump=1
One of the latest was solved 6 month ago…
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6489

Well your theme is running in BP theme compatibility mode as your loading the legacy stylesheet. Blank pages might mean your themes page.php which BP uses isn’t written in a way that BP can use, try copying page.php from twentytwelve to your theme and renaming it buddypress.php and see if that works to display BP screens, it won’t be the solution but might point to the issue and from there you might be able to further customize that copy with parts your theme may need.

@ham-radio What theme are you using? Are/Were you using the BP Template Pack plugin before? If so, see https://codex.buddypress.org/bp-17-upgrading-template-packed-themes/

@kkradel add to your theme’s style.css file. Example in link assumes div surrounding the sidebar widgets is #sidebar https://buddypress.org/support/topic/css-matching-for-recent-active-member-widget/#post-162541

@rdurham starting off with https://codex.buddypress.org/user/before-installing/
then check out links in the right sidebar on that same page

@charlietech check out how it’s done http://buddydev.com/buddypress/introducing-buddyblog-allow-users-to-blog-from-their-buddypress-profile/

Thank you guys for the hard work!

@henrywright-1 I’ve seen this issue in old old BP version. Do provide information about your WP/BP versions, theme used, plugins installed, etc. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

@kkradel https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.7.1/bp-themes/bp-default/sidebar.php

@jskehill the issue with some premium WP themes are that the theme authors create proprietary templating systems. The page.php of the theme should have the_title() and the_content() within the WordPress Loop for automatic BuddyPress Theme Compat to work. If those are not there, a Theme Compat solution would be to copy your theme’s page.php file and SAVE AS > buddypress.php then ask Theme Dev for assistance in replacing proprietary title/content tags intp WP’s the_title() and the_content() tags in that buddypress.php file. Then upload the revised buddypress.php file in your theme’s folder in server.

hi every body i have also updated my buddypress.when i check, my members list does not show up.what should i do please.also i want to let you know guys that BP is great

When you’re creating your profile fields you can drag each field up or down which will help control the order of them.

The email address, username, password and repeat password fields are part of register.php. If you want to change the order of how these are displayed then you will need to open that file and reorder them manually.

In theory, the two column set-up could be achieved via CSS (again the markup used can be found in register.php), so you wouldn’t need to know how to write PHP.

After disabling all plugins and still getting the nothing I reverted to the default bp theme and upgraded. This worked and it looks great. Now I need to figure out what is wrong with my custom theme.