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This is the intended behaviour.

Hi!

I also have the same problem as him. I just upgraded my installation to wpmu 2.8 and buddypress 1.03 and when I go to myurl.com/members I dont see the lsit of members. When I click on it when not logged in, I get a blank profile page, that says “not recently active”. By the way I installed the default buddypress member theme and this still happens.

So what have we done wrong??

I really hope someone here could help us.

Thanks

Where do you have your home and members themes installed? Are you using the default themes or a custom theme? Have you selected the themes to use in WPMU’s backend?

Were did you place your custom 404.php file?

Both the bphome and bpmember themes have their own 404.php file. Depending on where you are when you try entering a non-existent url, either the home or member 404.php file will fire–if it exists.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/the-theme-for-this-site#post-13460

I had a similar issue after upgrading to the latest stable version. Comment link worked in additional blogs not using bp-home theme, but didn’t work on main blog, simply clicked on comment link and got nothing.

Searched forums and this was the second post that was similar to my problem, but none of the solutions fixed it. After a bit of playing I noticed..

In the dashboard there is a check box on the right hand side of the main edit blog admin page in a box called Blog Themes next to: WordPress mu Homepage. After checking this [active] check box, comments worked and were visible after clicking in the main blog..

This may make sense to those suffering the same problem, sorry if its not that clear.

If you can dig up a post from Andy Peatling about this, we could add it to the FAQ thread and/or make a sticky.

There should be a sticky with the topic title – “This forum theme and the BuddyPress theme used on this site will not be made available!”.

But I bet even if such a sticky was made, there still would be the occasional person that will ask anyway!

Shortly after pigs start to fly. It’s not going to look like the member theme on this site, as Andy Peatling has developed this one specifically to brand buddypress.org and doesn’t want every default BP installation to look like it.

This question seems to be asked at least once a week.

Nope, you don’t NEED to HAVE any of them, you can make your own if you so choose to, and right now it looks like it’s trying to load some derivative of the FaceBuddy theme.

My guess is that you didn’t copy the code over from your bphome/functions.php file into your new theme.

That’s where the BP specific URLs are hi-jacked from.

After looking at the first site further, it looks to me like you just have the wrong member theme activated. Activate the right theme and you’re probably set?

The cropping tool will be getting a makeover/update in upcoming versions. This isn’t only with Firefox but other browsers as well. It usually works really well with the normal BP member theme, but anytime a theme has a fixed width, the JS doesn’t play nicely and it doesn’t get the dimensions of the bounding box properly.

Long story short, we’re on it.

You will need to activate the BPHome theme as your main theme for your site.

Site Admin->Themes, activate BP Home, then make BP Home your current active theme for your root blog.

Yep that’s exactly the problem with subdirectory installations, and why MU is best left as the center of your entire website. The /blogs/ url is hijacked by BuddyPress, so nothing else can live inside of it; same with /members, /groups, and probably eventually /forums too, once there’s a directory for them also.

kengary, if you plan on having another site at the root of your installation, have you considered using another MU blog as your root blog, and using BP on something other than the root? Or, having your root site not center itself around the BP installation or theme, and just page-out the specific BP pages that you want/need?

No honestly speaking, there is no simple theme like you are asking.

Looks good Rohan. It’s kind of a pain that we have to create three themes for a consistent look… a BP home theme… BP member theme… and bbPress theme… but I guess there’s really no way around that.

How did you get the BuddyPress bar to show up on the forums page? Copy/Paste? I haven’t played with that yet. I found that I had to hard code my main nav bar in the forums header template as well. Which kinda bugs me… but that nav will rarely (if ever) change.

Thanks for the answer about the account. I was pretty confused about that.