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I’m having a similar issue. All the links in the Buddypress bar that link URL/wp-admin/~~ work such as most under My blogs admin but under My account all the links that include URL/members/~~ don’t work. The only one that works here is Log Out. There is no members directory so it just defaults to the homepage. I’m sure there is something simple I missed but can’t for the life of me find it. I uninstalled and reinstalled Buddypress and it’s the only plugin installed. I’m running buddypress 1.1.1 using the default theme installed through the c-panel.

@knight_

is it possible to replace the crappy cropping tool of 1.0.3 without upgrading to 1.1

Anything is possible if you have the coding skills. But, your best option is to upgrade to BP 1.1.1.

What is the issue you are having with upgrading? Just theme issues? Or, as you stated above, are you concerned about losing the core file modifications that you’ve made?

You should never–did I say never yet–modify any core files. Instead, make your custom mods in your own plugin file or in bp-custom.php file.

@wordpressfan

Have you seen this Codex article?

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/

Dumb question… but have you updated your permalinks?

The default child is nothing more than a stylesheet… essentially. And a bunch of icons. It may be just as much work either way. I’m not sure. I haven’t tried to adapt any existing WP themes. I just made a new theme based on the child. I didn’t change a whole lot though.

The problem with using the default child theme as a base for a new theme is that it is much more work. Rather than fit the thousands of WordPress themes into the default child theme, it seems easier to fit the needed BuddyPress features into the style of the many, many WordPress themes being produced for free or commercially.

Why not start by copying the child theme that comes with BuddyPress and go from there?

The more I read these posts, the more I’m thinking that BP themes are trying to serve two purposes and some people want one.

If you want a BP site, then the BP theme framework could be “childed” and you’re good. If you want a heavly modified solution like TastyKitchen.com, it seems that you are stripping the functionality of the BP theme and integrating it into a Child or your WP theme. In fact, for a CMS implementation, you might not even want the functions in the same templates as they exist in the BP theme.

To accomplish this, it seems Detective and others are saying you need to create a parent whose skin/functionality is based on a WP theme and whose additionally functionality is based on BP. When childed, this parent can supply the framework for the child which will inherit functionality from the parent and look/feel from it’s own CSS and functions. WIth Theme Hybrid, functions.php would be used to determine what info actually showed up in child and the CSS would determine how it looked.

The downside to all of this seems to be that we now have a combined BP/WP parent which could be awkward to upgrade particularly if there is substantial template overlap. Unless I’m mistaken this will need to be a future release issue.

Then again, I’m a noob and don’t know the complexities of BP or Hybrid.

Bottom line, You must delete /wp-content/bp-themes. make sure you have moved the /bp-themes to /wp-content/themes/

You just activate BuddyPress and you have all the functions at your disposal. Just like any other plugin. Then you look for the function you want to use and paste it into your template where you want its content to appear. There’re a few functions in the codex, but I prefer to just look through the theme/plugin files…

You’re welcome porceon.

Let me know how it goes, and don’t heistate to post your experiencies here.

As I told you I didn’t get to finish integrating, and I’ve to put in on hold, while I am working on someting else. So your experiments with this way of integration may turn helpful.

Cheers.

I am having the same problem…

I changed the admin display name and lost the admin functions… as well as being able to see any plugins that are installed or being able to install new themes.

(a lot of functionality gone across the board)

I changed my nickname back to admin and tried to log back in and i am getting the same error.

Probably need to merge them, not knowing the specifics.

Obviously there are a few big issues with your install causing all of these problems.

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?

Yes several of them.

Deactivate all plugins other than BuddyPress. Use the default theme that comes with BuddyPress 1.1.1. Do you still get these white screen problems?

Do you get anything in your webserver error log? A white screen error can be caused by lots of things. Finally, which company provides your hosting?

Hi

This has been asked on several threads; please either try to search the forum or make a new thread. This one has been marked as ‘resolved’ by the original poster and is about 3 months old.

I did it with P2 and an Artisteer-theme. It’s pretty much finished.

Just integrated as per codex instructions (copied all the folders and some files from BP-theme).

1. I called for another CSS in the header instead of in the actuall css file. Had problems with the latter.

2. Didn’t register userbar/optionsbar. Integrated them into navbar or individual pages (all user settings was placed on “profile”). This wasn’t intended at first but was a great way of handling the horizontal space problem. P2 and my theme are intended for a width of about 900px. Without the vertical userbar/optionsbar you can make it fit into that small space.

3. I made all the content fit by handling the CSS item “content” with a good width and overflow.

4. This however made me have problems with the sidebar widgets that are hardcoded (please make them into widgets instead). I had to rip them out because they disturbed the layout.

5. Had to do some additional skinning and handle a fixed amount of categories for the forums.

I just love how components.css did a lot of the work. Thanks a lot Andy!

hey, i was wondering what the code was you used to add the forum button? I want to add a “my profile” button to the nav but am having some trouble getting it to work. thanks

i agree with Burt, modifying the searchform.php and search.php template files inside the default theme of BP with the custom search code shall do the trick like it did in WP and WPMU.

i’ll try it..infact i’ll try it now..will repot if it workss