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I keep trying to select the Buddypress default theme and it says settings saved but the page then reverts back to showing the Network Parent Theme 1.1 as the default one. Is this correct?

@colly72-

Are you are using a custom theme? If so, please read this.

If not, then read this.

im having major issues with this unfortunatly, when i upload an image it does show up, but the quality is much lower then the original file quality, plus the image is too small to crop properly.

i suggest my users using Gravatar right now, but i want to give them the oppertunity to just upload an avatar.

here’s a screengrab: http://twitpic.com/ju16r

this is when a user uploaded a picture.

i think for some reason the crop function is not working properly.

is there a solution for this?

cheers,

aron

ps: i changed my theme, if it’s a CSS error which tags in what file should i change to get this to work? i’ve changed the standard BP theme

@casualbox

You are either using an outdated 3rd-party plugin, a outdated custom theme, or need to update your own custom code to v1.1. The function get_edit_html() has been deprecated.

If you are using a 3rd-party plugin or theme, you should contact the developer and ask when they plan on updating it. If it happens to be the old, xprofile privacy plugin (which depended on that function and a core hack to work), then please read this thread.

This plugin is not (yet) adapted to 1.1, anyway he can work a bit…

Move the “album” folder from bp-themes/album to /themes/bp-sn-parent/album

This will show your picture. i didn’t trying something for the picture wire, but i presume there is a path to modify somewhere.

3) Backup, backup, and backup. Try it, if not working, then return it back.

4) I don’t think there’re posts on the forums. BuddyPress doesn’t have theme options as in other themes. You have to edit it. Use Firefox/Firebug to find what to edit.

Ultimately this is a theme design decision and you can customise it yourself in a child-theme.

Thanks, Andy. I will try fiddling with this when I have more time. The permissions looked OK, I did think of that–but maybe I’m not looking carefully. The blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/ should be writeable by the webserver, right? (there are over 1000 subdirectories in there–one for each user, I assume?)

But the really troubling thing was the browser crashes. Those were hard to accept.

This is really a big upgrade, I can see–change in the way themes work, avatars, forums. My own fault for trying to push it right away on a live install.

For now I’ve dropped back to 1.0–I have 200 students coming in on Sunday to start playing with the system. Best to play it safe until that’s over with.

use locate_template() —

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/locate_template

The first is correct, once you activate the bp-default theme you will no longer see this warning message, it is simply for backwards compatibility. Make sure you do not have a /wp-content/bp-themes/ directory.

You will need to upgrade your themes also… Are you using the bp-sn-parent and bp-default themes?

1) What is “Activate avatar” e-mail? I’ve never heard it nor seen it on any of my bp installs so far.

2) maybe you need to reinstall buddypress. Or use 1.1 rc for better usability.

3) Global configuration option to enable/disable self user account deletion is introduced from 1.1. Are you sure you are running 1.0.3, as it doesn’t even offer you such option. Users can just click to delete.

4) You can simply delete those functions from theme files, or maybe better hack available. Check for sticky posts.

Hi Mike, I guess that was pesky me, wanting a 3-col layout

I’ve been making some minor mods and it’s looking good so far. I did notice that IE doesn’t display the left column of the front page properly, any ideas what I could do to fix that? (the site is http://squidlog.net).

Thanks much.

If you can help it, and you are comfortable porting your theme over (eventually maybe?) then I would suggest it, yes. Estimated release for 1.1 is September 30, so it’s only a few days away.

Using an existing WordPress theme will require work on your part. WordPress themes are designed for blogs, not for all the extra features that BuddyPress offers. You will be able to integrate the header and footer and overall look and feel, but specific features will still need CSS styles.

It’s fairly simple. If you don’t like an aspect of the default theme, edit it. The new theme architecture in BP 1.1 makes this easier than ever. I suspect over the remainder of the year we’ll see more BP themes being released.

If aren’t familar with how WordPress themes work, there are lots of documentation online and there are always people you can hire to create one for you.

All of this has been discussed on this site many times before.

I kinda think this looks weird/bad too, I love the standard way of communities too just focus on what you just clicked. I’ve been trying to find a solution to get rid of those 3 columns. But nothing so far.

I did saw a site a few weeks ago that looked like facebook while being build on buddypress. Would be nice if buddypress changes to this or at least provides an option to do this.

Edit: I found something great, http://3oneseven.com/08/bruce/. These buddypress themes are exactly what I’m looking for. I can’t test them right now, but if they work with the newest buddypress then this would be a solution for me.