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@ozgurpolat Thank you for your feedback. I understand where you’re coming from. But comparing Perlmonks and BuddyPress forums is like comparing Apples and Oranges.

Perlmonks, which supports a Programming Language, has been there for around 20 years while BuddyPress Forums, which supports one WordPress plugin, is going on 4+ years. Not that that’s any excuse, but you can see that the awesome folks at Perlmonks have a 15-year headstart and more people power than BuddyPress forum volunteers 🙂

As for some questions not being answered in our forums, I will use the link posted by Perlmonk’s sages http://perl.plover.com/Questions.html

@Chouf1 for someone who is upset I’m complaining – all you really did is complain that I was complaining. I didn’t give any details, because mine were the same as the OP’s. In addition, I was talking about a base install – and the groups/forums issue is the same no matter what the theme.

I have since found a few tidbits of information that were helpful.

1. BP ver 1.7 does away with group forums
2. BP ver 1.7 is in beta 2 and almost ready for release
3. moving forward forums should be integrated using bbpress (which you have to install separately)
4. you only get the “create” a group button from the master root /user-groups BP URL
5. profile BP links like /members/username/groups are different than the master root pages
6. to manage a group after creation before BP 1.7 you have to actually visit the groups page in question (/user-groups/groupname) and the click “admin” to make changes – there is no master groups editing page
7. in BP 1.7 there is actually a new “groups” section in the wp-admin sidebar where you can (for the first time) have group management capabilities on the backend (edit / delete)

I stick by the fact that there is very little documentation on how to use BuddyPress after first install. I have been using WordPress since 2004 and have created and hacked hundreds of plugins and themes. I have written thousands of blog posts and articles / tutorials on WordPress. From that background, having installed BuddyPress I can quite easily say that it’s not intuitive to use, it’s difficult to figure out the integration points, and many things that should be easy are just plain hard.

WordPress is the #1 CMS in the world because of the low technical point of entry. It’s intuitive, easy to use, easy to install, well documented, and quite easy to hack. It’s usage has eclipsed both Joomla and Drupal because they are not. I think many people think BuddyPress will be as easy to install and use as WordPress itself, and it’s just not (yet).

I’m definitely figuring out where everything is, and how to get going after first install. I didn’t find much here in these forums or the Codex in that overall regard. Even external blog tutorials are a little sparse on the subject – most information you find is just severely dated.

Am I willing to contribute to the documentation? Certainly. I’m in the process of writing up my findings now – but I was looking for answers first…and all I was finding were others with similar unanswered questions.

No, changing the theme will only change the design, not the content.

Just so I know if I should do this now or wait until no one is coming to the site…

This depends off your own philosophy i guess.
Some solve problems when they occur
Other wait to have many problems, so they can say “i have soooo much problems, pls HEEEEELP !”.
And other close their eyes and say: ” Who is the problem ?” 🙂

You can also read this forum. There are many questions like yours with many answers.

i know BP, no need to give me a test user access: that have no effect on your code.

You removed many things in the toolbar i guess. So i would recommand you reload a fress bp-default folder, with untouched css at least.

Apply the code and don’t touch the css! and come back with questions.

Sorry but flashing back to @mercim comment , are you running BP? If not then asking the questions you are on this support site is inappropriate,  and as suggested they should be addressed to the theme author or to the general WP forums.

Have either of you actually directed these questions/issues to the appropriate places?

https://github.com/Courseware/buddypress-courseware/issues

or the WP forum for the plugin.

I would also be seeking to get an understanding of whether this plugin is to be supported going forward as there seems to be some differings views I’ve seen and knowing one of the authors they are extremely busy with other projects.

Be very careful about building sites based on third party plugins, you have to have a fair idea they will be supported or learn the necessary skills to keep them running.

By ‘article types’ you mean custom post type ?

Google this: ‘buddypress add custom post type to activity stream’

Check this:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/58486/how-to-show-customized-activity-for-custom-post-types-in-buddypress-activity-loo

hi @p2ab,

on BP 1.6.x,  a child theme contains at first only one file: style.css

The only thing to add in are comment tags.

/**
* Theme Name:  what you want
* Description: what you want
* Version: what you want
* Author: what you want
* Template: bp-default (this is very important: it’s the name of the parenttheme)
* Tags: blue, buddypress, two-columns, white….  (what you want)
**/

default.css is the buddypress main css file and you don’t have to copy it to your child theme.

Also, you have nothing to import ! This is optionnal and not necessary.

Just use the same ID and class names of the parts you want to customize and do your css modifications.

Remeber also that in a few weeks, BP 1.7 will be avaible and will let you use any existing WP theme with the opportunity to spare some long tweaking to recreate the wheel. Perhaps.

https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/building-a-buddypress-child-theme-for-bp-1-2/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

IF you added
@import url(“../yourchildtheme/style.css”);
in your child themes CSS then you may need to add !important to overide the import css.
Example:
#some-style {
text-align: center !important;
}

@p2ab There was no BP 1.3.4 version, do you mean BP 1.6.4? Use firefox extension firebug or chromes developers tools to target the elements you wanna change because there is many links, font shouldn’t be hard to target, and the header on here is a gradient so you will need a tool like colorpic http://www.iconico.com/download.aspx?app=ColorPic&type=free to inspect the color range and add it to your CSS http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9428893/how-do-you-make-a-gradient-background-in-css.