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I think I might have a solution.

There is some serious confusion internally between what to do with Bpthemes. if you load Bpthemes into /wp-content/bbthemes, then there is no red dialogue Box in the themes section of buddypress. However, using other themes will break. Conversely, if you load the themes into the wp-content/themes folder, they appear in appearences->themes, and everything works! So, the issue here is theme support. There are conflicting instructions in the v1.1 release.

Hi there,

I have been going through this thing off and on throughout the day. My conclusion, and don’t call me obvious, is this release is definately not stable.

In regards to this specific error…

…I was experiencing this earlier today when I had a clean install. I got so annoyed, I decided to wipe everything. After doing a complete wipe, I reinstalled everything manually. To my surprise… … the error continued.

So… I did what any annoyed and flustered script monkey would do… grabbed a coke and began to dig in.

I have managed to defeat this error by doing a clean install of WPMU 2.8.4 manually. I completely wiped the DB as well. I also did a fresh install of BP 1.1.

The issue, and it may not be this easy for all, appears to be “cleaning house”. Ensure when you are manipulating, transfering, and removing files, that you are replacing them with the 1.1 release rather than the 1.0.3.

I would provide more information; however, I am encountering more issues after defeating this. So rather than robbing Peter to pay Paul, I will wait till either I have a proven resolution for you or someone else beats me to it.

I will say this, once you review your theme files, you may find somewhere in all the code the path specified for the new theme structure appears to not have been completely updated or addressed. This is the issue I am currently working to defeat.

I hope this finds some of you well.

If you have deleted /wp-content/bp-themes and have activated bp-default in “Appearance > Themes” then this should not happen. If it does then there is a bug.

You are not the only one with this issue. I have reinstalled this release about 6 times. By the numbers the first three to ensure I hadn’t missed a step.

I am trouble-shooting this bloody issue and pulling my hair out. Somewhere in the directives of one of these files, it is still searching for the themes at /wp-content/bp-themes, despite the instructions stating to delete that directory and point to the new structure in this release of 1.1.

If anyone figures this out, please post it up asap. I have been trouble-shooting all day and it seems this release was not stable. Kas3, no worries. You are not alone. I am debating digging into the code tonight, but am so annoyed with this right now, I may get back to it later.

I’ll keep you posted if I resolve it.

I was wondering if you’ve seen a problem with 1.1 duplicating the jcrop-holder div. Basically it shows two crop panels and one preview panel when uploading any avatar. Running a clean install of mu 2.8.4 and BP 1.1.

Click here for a Screenshot

This also happens with the new default theme.

Any pointers would be appreciated!! Thank you.

I’m having the same error. I can attest to the fact that none of these are because of 3rd party. I have a brand new Buddypress, fully update WordPress Mu, and Bbpress installed at the /forum directory. It will not let me switch from a different BPtheme other than the Network Parent Theme, which is one of the two themes bundled with Buddypress. The error comes regardless of which WP theme I am using – I am getting the exact same result. By commenting out lines 428-456 in the bx-profile-deprecated.php file, I can get a working sign in form, but users have to put in their own profile information later. Has there been any to get a permanent fix here?

You shouldn’t need to activate a BuddyPress specific theme anymore…

This is not a BuddyPress related question and should be posted on wpmu forums.

Site Admin > Blogs > enable bp theme only to admin … DONE.

Does this also work for child themes? I get at example.com/about

This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.

ah, brilliant. Can’t believe I missed that one. Thanks John!

<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>

Check wp-includes/theme.php for lots of little gems like this too.

Thanks Andy, that works great for my extra template files. Maybe I am missing something, but if I want to print the child template directory url for, say an image:

<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/upgrade-cta.png" /> Uses the parent theme directory.

What should I use to replace <?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?> with?

@danbucher: Patch for incorrect error message:

https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/1141/wrong-theme-location-error.patch

we put this code in /wp-content/themes/bp-sn-parent/functions.php and created a page in the same directory called dashboard.php

is there a reason why we cant navigate to the dashboard.php?

// creates custom page

define('BP_DASHBOARD_SLUG', 'dashboard');



function bp_show_dashboard_page() {

global $bp, $current_blog;



if ( $bp->current_component == BP_DASHBOARD_SLUG && $bp->current_action == '' ){



// The first variable here must match the name of your template file below

bp_core_load_template( 'dashboard', true );

} }

add_action( 'wp', 'bp_show_dashboard_page', 2 );

//

end custom page

any help is appreciated!

Solved the blank site problem–the appearance admin page was still set to BuddyPress Default Home Theme. Once I changed the theme to BuddyPress Default 1.1, the site appears.

Mike,

Thanks for the update. I had no issues with the 1.0 version but I am having a problem with the new theme at http://ttacconnect.org. Any feedback you (and anyone else) can give is appreciated:

I’m not getting a 2-column home page. I have 3 columns and the Widgets admin page lists ‘first-section’, ‘second-section’, ‘third-section’, ‘blog-sidebar’.

When widgets are placed in sections they end up incorrect on the home page:

-widgets in first section don’t appear on the homepage

-widgets in second section appear in the 3rd column

-widgets in third section appear in the 2nd column

For all of the main ‘pages’ in the menu bar (home, blog, members, etc.), the main body section is not as wide as the top menu and bottom black bar.

An individual members’ page or a group page you’ll see that the background color (light yellow) do not run the length of the body but end after the menu.

Lastly! and still on the individual members and group pages, the ‘See All’ link in the green section bars is appearing below the green bar. All you can see is just the top of the text link.

Mike’s and nighowl99’s site don’t have these formatting issues. I figure my issues are all related although I can’t figure out what would be causing the conflict. Again, anyone’s thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!

One more bit of confusion here:

The readme states

VERY IMPORTANT: If you are no longer using the old two-theme system from BuddyPress 1.0, please make sure to delete your /wp-content/bp-themes/ folder to activate the new one-theme setup.

This conflicts with the error message, which says to move the new theme files to the folder that the readme tells me to delete.

I had to first upgrade wpmu to 2.8.4a (from 2.8.4), and then I no longer got the fatal error when I auto-upgraded the BuddyPress plugin. However, my site was blank. In reading the instructions about the themes, I saw that I needed to move files from /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes. When I went to my server, there was no bp-themes folder there. Don’t know if something happened in the auto-upgrade or if auto-upgrade installs an incomplete version of the plugin.

I reinstalled buddypress, moved the themes from /buddypress/bp-themes to wp-content/themes (per the readme file), and I get this error message:

You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.

Please move the default BuddyPress themes to their correct location (move /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ to /wp-content/bp-themes/) and reload this page. You can download more themes here.

Note that the readme says:

move the themes in “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/” to “wp-content/themes”

while the error message says

move /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ to /wp-content/bp-themes/

following the instructions from the error message does allow wpmu to recognize the themes–but I still have a blank site. One problem down, more to go.

I meant that it’s a plugin insofar as I dropped it into “/domain.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums”.

As I said everything’s the latest version so:

WPMU – 2.8.4

BP – 1.1

bb – latest build from SVN

As for the theme, even if I wasn’t supposed to be using it, I was trying to change it. Problem is, it won’t change now.

@onethousandseas

1.1 shouldn’t require extra plugin to integrate bbpress. You should write about your software versions when you ask for help on this forum. And for theme, it sounds like you are using bp-sn-parent which shouldn’t be used directly. Please read sticky posts about new theme architecture and 1.1 help.

I’m having the same problems as David mekersa and colly72. No custom themes, no custom code, the only BP-dependent plugin I’m trying to integrate now is bbPress (and I still haven’t gotten it working yet so hopefully that’s not the problem), latest version of everything.

I moved themes to “/wp-content/themes/” and activated them. I’m on Parent, tried to pick Default for BP, it keeps reverting. However, I don’t want it to be the theme for the root blog.

Network Parent Theme sounds like a custom, 3rd-party theme to me. The default parent/child BP themes are bp-sn-parent and bp-default.

Make sure that you have enabled the BuddyPress default theme in the “Site Admin > Themes” menu and then activated the BuddyPress default theme in “Appearance > Themes”.

If you’re still having issues, read the second linked to thread in my post above.