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@thesurfinstitute Following is the simplest way to make your theme compatible:

If you’ve changed any of the BP template files in your theme folder, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility. (make sure Sliding Door Child theme is activated before you run this)

A. Copy your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php

Open up header-buddypress.php and at the bottom of the file, below all other code, add this:
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Save file.

C. Upload header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to wp-content/themes/sliding-door-child/

D. Style modifications for BP templates – you might want to use some or all of styles listed in this page https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/

Go to the dashboard, under BuddyPress in the left pane select components. Uncheck the checkbox to the left beside Activity Stream. You may also want to create a custom menu while in the dashboard under appearance/menus and name it, make sure under theme locations/primary navigation you select the name you created and save it. Down below check all the post and pages you want to add to the navigation and click the Add to Menu button. To the left you can drag the boxes in the order you want the post/pages to display in the navigation menu. Make sure you save the menu. This way only the items you want you up on the front end navigation and in the buddybar at the top.

@tjbrewers, try the below methood, thats what am using

/*Change the number of activity items to show per page */

function my_custom_query_filter( $query_string ) {
$query_string .= ‘&per_page=11’;
return $query_string;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring’, ‘my_custom_query_filter’ );

Couldn’t you use something like travel-junkie’s walled garden technique:
`
function sh_walled_garden()
{
global $bp;
if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || bp_is_page( BP_FORUMS_SLUG ) || bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG ) )
return;

if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in() )
bp_core_redirect( bp_get_signup_page() );
}

add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘sh_walled_garden’ );
`
This goes in bp-custom.php and hides members and activity from those not logged in but enables forums and groups for everyone. It can also be customised…..

Chris Clayton discussed a similar method here

Having different menus for logged in users is discussed here – also see here

bp_member_last_active() is only used in the members directory / member’s friend pages. It’s not in the default theme’s activity stream. I assume therefore you’re running a custom theme, which we’ll need to adjust. Did you create it yourself, or download it from somewhere? If the latter, hopefully the vendor offers support.

Couldn’t you use something like travel-junkie’s walled garden technique:
`
function sh_walled_garden()
{
global $bp;
if( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || bp_is_page( BP_FORUMS_SLUG ) || bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG ) )
return;

if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in() )
bp_core_redirect( bp_get_signup_page() );
}
add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘sh_walled_garden’ );
`
This goes in bp-custom.php and hides members and activity from those not logged in but enables forums and groups for everyone. It can also be customised…..

Your BP pages like activity, members, groups, etc. look unstyled as well. Unfortunately, artisteer-generated themes are the d-v-l to customize. No shortcodes at this time. Probably in the future.

I am having a similar issue. Upgraded to latest BP and WP, and now although ALL of the other associated pages, Activity, Members, Forum, etc., are working, the page I’ve mapped for the groups to show up on does NOT. Flushing permalinks didn’t help. Trying to associate to a new page didn’t help.

I have redefined the groups slug in bp-custom.php, but removing that line didn’t change anything. Please advise. Urgent!

“Or have a link that explains how?”

Ask, and you shall recieve! https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

Change to bp-default theme and you’ll see all the Pages generated so far. Use custom menu feature and choose which links you want to be there in main navigation. https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/how-to-set-up-your-main-site-navigation-using-the-built-in-wordpress-menus/

== another theme(travel blogger 1.3.5) i dont see the post button for activities to be updated. also with this theme , bp reports only 4 registered members instead of 10 ==

@onyekat I will assume you’re using this Travel Blogger theme https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/travel-blogger

Just activated the theme in my test install and I see the “Post” button in activity stream (plus all other buttons) and the correct number of members are showing up. But there is a problem I saw so far: although one can post status update in activity stream but comments/replies on an activity stream posts lead to 404 error page.There’s JS conflict between Travel Blogger and BP.

WP/BP versions? Change to bp-default theme to check if it’s an issue with your custom theme. If that’s not the case, then deactivate plugins except BuddyPress to check if it’s a plugin conflict.

Thanks for confirming the ímportance of this topic. I really cannot understand why BP does not even seem to want to look into it.

I would be happy even with a core / bp-custom hack, not necessary a plugin.
SOMETHING to help solve it!

And no matter how much I looked and tried to get this done, nothing worked so far!

BP Team , PLEASE HELP US solve this!

Thanks!

if you put it in bp-custom crashes the site, if you try it in functions does not produce any changes.
so no merge whatsoever unfortunately

Would be great if this would be doable somehow