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I’ve tried changing it to Twenty Twelve and I can see the BP pages. So, it’s definitely an issue with my theme.

Ok, after reading and rereading the codex, these are the questions in my head:
1. Am I supposed to create a child theme?
If yes, is the child theme directory supposed to read /parenttheme-child/ or /buddypress/ ?

2. you mentioned about these list of templates:
– plugin-buddypress.php
– buddypress.php
– community.php
– generic.php
– page.php
– single.php
– index.php

I gather from the article that BP will use JUST 1 of this. Did I understand this correctly?
If yes, am I supposed to copy one of these files into the child theme directory?
If I’m not supposed to create a child theme, which sub-directory should this file be found in my theme directory?

For my case, I have none of the above files in my theme’s directory. The closest I have is mytheme/includes/news-single.php. Is this supposed to be the directory that this file should be found? Am I supposed to rename this file? Or am I supposed to rename and copy this file into the child theme directory? Or am I supposed to create a new php file altogether for my case? And, if so, how do I go about doing it?

3. You mentioned in your article that Template compatibility also runs a check to see if two directories or folders exist in a theme:
‘buddypress’
‘community’

I’ve checked and they don’t exist in my theme directory. Can I safely conclude that BP will use the files in the plugin and that I won’t need to create these folders in my theme? Or do I need to create them in my theme or child theme?

While still on this, you mentioned in your article:

“Therefore, you can modify any bp theme compatibility template by copying it over from:
/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/
To:
/my-theme/community/ or /my-theme/buddypress/”

Am I supposed to create either community or buddy press and copy the files I found in the BP plugin /bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/ into them? And if I’m supposed to create a child theme, am I supposed to create these in the child theme instead and copy these into them? Or should I do nothing at all?

Please advise and assist me in this; I’m really very confused. Or if it’s in any way possible, could you list down the steps that I’m supposed to take?

Thanks.

Thanks for ur reply! 😀

just a question: if I use BuddyPress will it function like this forum? I mean like the forum we are talking in it now and creating topics and asking questions. is this how BuddyPrss will look like?

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Just posting back with the solution in case it helps anyone else. This function will do it:
xprofile_get_field_data('Profile',$u_id);

In my case it’ll be:

<?php if ( xprofile_get_field_data( 'Profile', $user_ID ) ) : ?>
     <?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( 'Profile', $user_ID ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Thanks to chifliiiii on WordPress Answers and to @shanebp.

Thanks @mercime

For your questions,

1. Chinese
2. UTF-8

Could you send me a Chinese site URL based on Buddypress, and the @ mention works well?

@mercime

Thank you so much. Best $15 I’ve spent in a long time. No faffing around for hours and hours and hours, it just works!

@hnla @henrywright-1

I will install the new 1.8 version on a test server when its out (fyi: I am THE developer. There are no other developers to talk to.) It sounds a big step in the right direction though. In answer to all the ‘why have you done it like that’ questions (on this and another thread) that you and Henry raise is because BuddyPress is a steep learning curve and this project involved bringing together both site functionality (i.e. BuddyPress) and the design that the graphic designer supplied. The design was closer to the TwentyTwelve theme, which is why that was chosen. Then its learn and make mistakes on the way. Some things you get right, others you get wrong. Some things work, some things don’t… So to answer all your ‘whys’, ‘that’s why’.

I tried to put your code and changed user login but its not working.

echo 'Username: ' . $current_user->user_login . "\n";

echo 'User ID: ' . $current_user->ID . "\n";

This situation could be done with custom post type, but another problem is that posts are not showing in category that you mark.

I found on this forum someone had similar problem like mine:

Posts are added to the activity stream when the post is saved.

It’s done in the bp_blogs_record_post() function, which is hooked on to the save_post action.

There isn’t any easy way to filter bp_blogs_record_post() to stop certain categories appearing, so, your best options may be:

1. To unhook the whole bp_blogs_record_post() function and replace with your own
or:
2. Use a custom post type for your teaser posts – the built in function will only post to activity stream if the post type is ‘post’

That questions and solution is from this link:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-filter-posts-with-specific-categorytag-from-activity-stream/

If I go with solution 1. that was offered “unhook the whole bp_blogs_record_post() function and replace with your own”, where to find bp_blogs_record_post(), and just to delete it or?

I am using the old buddypress forum. Is there a way to bring all my current topics to bbpress? I’d rather keep my current set up with buddypress. I just want my users to be abl to get email notices when somebody responds. I guess I have two questions.
1. Does buddypress offer email responses built in?
2. Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Thank you very much, that’s restored the front end profiles again.
I’ve added your original code and removed the link to the dashboard too.

Will i be ok leaving that commmented out or will have an effect on something else?
Sorry for all the questions and thanks again for your help.

If you’re available for hire i’ll be looking for someone to check over the site for us very soon to make sure it’s all as it should be.

Please try to supply answers to the following questions.

1. Which version of WordPress are you running?
Lastest (stable)
2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install?
Directory
3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
Root
4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version?
No
5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.
Yes
6. Which version of BP are you running?
Lastest (stable)
7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?
No
8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?
Yes, many plugins and all of them BP related, since I don’t have any error/problem with my current installation, I won’t insert here this big list. Need to mantion BP Like/Dislike though
9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?
Standart
10. Have you modified the core files in any way?
Yes, In many way 😀
11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?
No
12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?
Lastest, I downloaded it from WP Plugins
13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
Strange but no errors (with Debug turned off)
14. Which company provides your hosting?
Local installation
15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else?
Linux Ubuntu, apache 2.2 php5