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Hi @megainfo.

Could you please be a bit more specific?

I would like to track how many people click on the “Submit” button after they fill out the form in the /register/ page.

Then I would like to track how many go to the /activate/ page.

This will help me see the funnel: Ad -> Register page -> Submit Form succes -> Activate

Thank you!

The 1.6 branch of BuddyPress should have this fixed now.

You can either temporarily patch bp-default’s JS:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/6704

Or wait until 1.6.3 officially drops.

The point of 1.7 is to provide BP in a fashion to work with any theme, period!

But understand that although WP has created the impression that absolute  non coders are catered for absolutely this is only partly the case, it’s the case if you simply accept the defaults, or accept the freely available theme – whatever that may be, or that freely provided plugin to perform some task, start to step outside that and you do need some development skills even if only at a basic level, creating a child theme is actually relatively simple and the WP codex quite clear on how to do this.

Hi,

make a child theme, copy all bp-default template folder/files you’re interested to set as reserved to members into it

Before each content area, add a simple if statement.

if (is_user_logged_in) or if (!is_user_logged_in)

the content to show/hide

endif

@ngoegan You must have a little patience, you are new to BP and WP by the sounds of things and working with these two apps requires a little understanding of how things work, bear in mind you are coming from a paid for service which  simply gives a series of options to an OS app that has far greater flexibility when you start to look under the hood and begin wanting to customize.

by the way writing in caps is considered ‘shouting’  🙂

i much like yourself don’t have much if any programming skills but reading your post gives me two thoughts.

#1 not sure i agree with you about the child theme thing unless you are saying the people shouldn’t need to know html/css in order to customize html/css. if you are not saying that then i think the regular wp child theme doc should be fine. https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

#2 we (i use that term loosely) are actually working on a new default theme it’s called turtleshell which if I’m not mistaken is being designed as a completely fresh UI/X perspective and responsive from the ground up. i think you are more then welcome to be a part of that process, if you want more info start here: http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/

bonus the plan for 1.7 is (i believe) to make it work with any wp theme by default so maybe that this something to consider as well.

That’s why BP 1.7 will be adaptable to “every” theme. 😉
For now, 1.6.2 has is own default theme and a few third party themes around. But understand that most of the BP users built their community tool around an existing WP site, and also an existing layout. This work is not intended to be shared easely or at all, i guess. And explains why you haven’t a big choice for BP templates.

And probably also, because many BP user are advanced user in comparison to common WP bloggers.  This means particulary a certain level of quality exigency, because BP works really bad on bad developped themes. WP was more tolerant untill a little while back….and older and more popular.

Each community is different, and it’s a bit more delicate to distinguish communities only by theme  as single blogs by theme. And as you know blogs are more used as BP sites.

A child theme is intented to modify a original theme, not to replace it completely. The interest of a child is that it lets you modify what you want without loosing your changes at each update of BP and/or the original theme.

We have a 1.6.3 out very, very soon to address a few minor issues, but BP is compatible with WP 3.5, yes.

You do not install BuddyPress through the WordPress theme upload. Upload or install the plugin via the plugin upload or add new. Then you choose the BuddyPress theme via Appearance > themes

https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/

creating a gallery sounds like a wordpress thing not a buddypress thing per se. also might be helpful to send a link to your site or at least tell us what theme you are using.

@wpte:

I’ll try the 4510 and let u know how it worked out.

Thx again!

Are you trying to move the bp-default theme into the themes folder?

Thank you for your reply but I made the changes but still nothing. Also, I disable ALL the plugins and there is only buddypress 1.6.2 installed with it’s default theme and nothing else at all. I CAN upload media files within wordpress normally but I cannot upload photos as avatars in buddypress profiles, groups, etc.

I also tried buddypress 1.6.1 but still the same..

🙁

You should set up a test environment if you plan on running a BuddyPress site. Test versions/plugins. current bp has a few minor issues with 3.5.