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Why does is_page(‘activity’) not work? You could try testing for bp_is_current_component(‘activity’) though?

@bphelp just a slight aside but maybe good to mention, you don’t need to do what you said – 1.7 has theme compatibility like @hnla says you should simply have the files in the same location.

Did you try posting on bbpress.org? That’s the best place for this query.

but once I add the buddypress.css file from /bp-legacy/css/ to /mytheme/css/ it breaks buddypress styles completely.

You may need to explain what your process in more detail. Adding /css/buddypress.css to both 2012 and a child theme based on 2012 works as expected.

@bphelp,

If you are using css tutorial from wpmu and your theme is default buddypress template/child theme, Remove “#buddypress” from all the css. I think it should do the trick.

or better still a link to your site so that i can try and solve it for you.

Thanks

Sorry the above had a typo:
use this instead:
`
/*
Theme Name: Whatever you wanna name the child theme
Theme URI: http://example.com/
Description: Child theme name for whatever theme you chose
Author: your name here
Author URI: http://example.com/
Version: 1.0 or whatever you want to number it
Tags: whatever tags is appropriate if it is a a theme specific to buddypress then you will want to add “buddypress” to the tags sense 1.7 adding buddypress tag is not a necessity.
*/
/*————————————————————-
Custom CSS
————————————————————–*/

@import url(“../whatever theme name you made a child theme of
“case sensitive”/style.css”);
`

If your using a theme other than buddypress default within a child theme then things are gonna break when if you copied the bp-default themes style.css into your active theme. If your using a child theme based on something else then you need to add adjust and add this to your active themes style.css

/*
Theme Name: Whatever you wanna name the child theme
Theme URI: http://example.com/
Description: Child theme for whatever theme you choose
Author: your name here
Author URI: the theme name you made a child them of "case sensitive"
Version: 1.0 or whatever you want to number it
Tags: whatever tags is appropriate if it is a a theme specific to buddypress then you will want to add "buddypress" to the tags sense 1.7 adding buddypress tag is not a necessity.
*/
/*-------------------------------------------------------------
Custom CSS
--------------------------------------------------------------*/
@import url("../whatever theme name you made a child theme of
"case sensitive"/style.css");

This does not fix the issue with “Duplicate Activity”. I already have add_theme_support( ‘buddypress’ ); in my functions.php file. However, in BP 1.7-beta1, not in BP 1.6.4, there is a bug that posts messages, replies, and lists members twice.

@dasped @dasped @companyjuice To avoid duplication of posts for themes which are already compatible with BuddyPress i.e, BuddyPress-ready themes, add the following line in your theme’s functions.php file

add_theme_support( ‘buddypress’ );

see https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/bp-theme-authors-make-sure-your-theme-registers-buddypress-support/

I am having the same issue — duplicate posts. When posting an update or replying to posts, the Razor or Salutation theme is causing BuddyPress to post the message twice. I’ve tested this by switching between the Razor/Salutation theme and the BuddyPress Default theme. The BP Default theme does not have this problem — it is only in Razor/Salutation. I am using the latest beta version 1.7 of BuddyPress. No other plugins are installed.

Anybody else experiencing this problem?

How should BuddyPress act when the non-Default theme is handling the BP posts so it does not post a duplicate message?

@ubernaut I completely agree with you in that you must research the host to find out all you can about them. Believe it or not, there are amazing hosts out there at very reasonable prices. I found this out personally because a friend pointed me to webhostingtalk where they all congregate (and compete). I don’t want to mention my host because it will sound like I’m advertising but they are a reseller of liquidweb and I am a fanatical fan because they are out of this world for technical support above and beyond what a normal host would provide as well as the quality of their servers and the price is incredibly reasonable.

So I think on the whole we agree, do your research. Don’t go in with a preset bias or prejudice and you’ll find that most people’s preconceptions (as shown here in this thread) are wrong. Again, I’m speaking from experience here.

@bowromir hi Ben, if you’ll note I wrote that my assumption was that you used an affiliate link because you truly believed in wpengine. I hoped that was the case and I’m glad to be proven correct.

As for the rest, we’ll have to agree to disagree. I’ve helped friends set up their wordpress blogs on shared hosting and they are getting better performance than some others on vps! go figure. and for a huge saving to boot!

My two cents here are for people to not be scared about doing things the right way, instead of paying for overpriced and overhyped service. If you are absolutely not technical, know that you can combine a great host with a couple of plugins (installed and tweaked by a freelancer) and then set it and forget it for a couple of years for great performance. Again, this is simply a fact from experience. Of course, if you want to pay out the wazoo for the same or inferior service, be my guest!

googling around you’ll find a lot of glowing recommendations for wpengine, with the not surprising affiliate link. but you’ll also find experiences like this one:

My experience with WPEngine (tl;dr, they sucked)

Awesome. I’ll have to give this a try. I’m exploring responsive themes atm. My site’s not very responsive at all and that spooks me out. hehe.

That’s a style applied from BuddyPress’s JavaScript as it’s meant to ‘grow’ as it’s in focus.

`jq(“form#whats-new-form textarea”).animate({
height:’50px’
});`
– global.js

It’s probably good to either keep that or have some indicator in your theme when someone clicks into that area.

You can do responsive but it’s not so easy with content such as profiles and forums. Because of social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc. users are expecting something dedicated and streamlined.

Theme compatibility means you get a good experience out of the box and that’s great but if you want a true community theme you want one designed to do that. I’d say if it did ever link it should with the ‘buddypress’ tag as we should still be creating and celebrating themes that are designed for communities ‘made for BuddyPress’ if you like.

well there are still things that can be done with themes designed specifically for buddypress granted the selection might be different but personally i’d say theres still value in highlighting themes which are particularly novel in terms of their buddypress related design.

just my 2 cents 🙂

@bphelp @ubernaut Thanks for your reply!