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TO answer your questions @mercime….before going back to scratch, what exactly was done re menu? Was a plugin created or was it addressed via theme’s functions.php? Have you tried reverting to BP Default theme to check if issue is resolved?

1. it was not a plugin he created it was addressed via the themes functions.php
2. yes I have tried reverting back to the default theme but the pages are still missing.
3. He has taken out the code now too.

Oh and related questions, can I send email notifications to my subscribers to let them know:
1) When I change them to ‘editor’ level
2) tell them about the backlog of notifications they have missed because of my fumbling

Thanks @shanebp. A couple of questions before I mark this thread resolved one way or other.

It seems a whole lot labour to write a plugin (which I’ll have to learn first 🙂 ) for a solitary redirect, but can I not do it in bp-custom.php, which seems to be for the same type of purposes, and conveniently resides in plugins directory?

Secondly, $location refers to the url of the page from which action originated as opposed to the location where the page will be redirected afterwards, right? I checked the referred wp codex page before I asked the earlier question, but couldn’t figure out what it meant.

@mercime I did not blamed anyone, i blamed the attitude. Any premium or free theme or plugin that will be used with Buddypress and has support for Buddypress must be treated in a better way as they promote through their use the Buddypress product. From what i can see Buddypress tries to offer maximum compatibility with any theme.

So, the team can learn from premium plugins and themes the users offer when they have questions. That should be the attitude, according to the Buddypress statement.

Again, this is a SUPPORT forum not at I Do not SUPPORT people asking and ways to improve our services.

Pagelines offers their support, i expected a combined support where all 3 parties can learn not to act like there is a war out there. The option it is simple. You can choose to help or ignore the post. If a person asks for support offer it because they need it not because they want to disturb ones day.

Are you permitted to give us authorization to use that plugin and if so are you authorizing us and others to use that plugin? It isn’t in the repo and since it doesn’t say it is gpl, I am required to ask those questions.

@mercime

Sorry for delayed response. I thought the thread was dead. Nevertheless, thanks for your directions.

It seems I chose the wrong words to describe my problem. The problem was “after the compatibility process is over, the site doesn’t look 2012-ish, with bp-default styles in BP parts.” After the compatibility process is done successfully (which I did), the theme “works fine”, but doesn’t look fine. So in other words, how to make the BP part look like 2012.

Both the BP-compatibility-pack approach and your approach worked fine, except, the theme CSS is (understandably) the same (bp-default). I ended up modifying the bp.css to make it look like it belongs to 2012 theme. I also “hard-coded” (so to speak) the BP specific changes in my child theme itself (added the bp-template-pack.php part with some modifications to functions.php), and a few minore changes to BP templates, so that my child theme is BP-compatible out of the box (no need of plugin or external CSS). Will upload the child theme somewhere and post a link here as I get to it.

Thank you @mercime for your help.

Thank you @mercime.

A small follow-up question on user sign-on/registration. As you clarified, there is a unified login for all wp and bp/bb components. Does it mean that the user profiles (wp profiles and bp extended profiles) are also unified/sync’d?

With regards to the twenty twelve – Buddypress compatibility, let me elaborate my set-up a little.

Twenty twelve is not compatible with buddypress out of the box (like bp-default theme is), so one needs to use bp-compatibility-pack plugin (or can be done manually) to copy-paste buddypress specific .php templates and other files to the theme directory. This also includes buddypress style sheet (bp.css) which seems to be a copy-pasted part from bp-default style.css.

Thus, when you make twenty twelve compatible with buddypress (I am doing this on child theme of twenty twelve), the styles of buddypress components resembles to bp-default (rather than twenty twelve). If one deletes all the css from bp.css, one gets plain styles (these are twenty twelve styles but as there is nothing in twenty twelve styles for bp, they are as good as plain). Fixing these plain styles would be like making a completely new theme from scratch (like styling _s theme) for bp component pages/sections. There doesn’t seem to be a simple workaround about this.

Hey Paul, thanks for responding, I appreciate your help brother.

I’m using a modded version of Elegant Themes’ Lucid that I’m in the process of styling for buddypress at this very moment. Though, even when using the default bp theme that comes with buddypress, I have the exact same issues.

If you have any other questions for me, I’ll be happy to answer. I appreciate your help in advance.

Also silently asking for an update on the achievements plugin, I had the same errors that others were mentioning to you on the WP 3.5 upgrade the other week.