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This is the same issue as the one being discussed in another thread. To get the best support, the discussion should be kept to that single thread. Otherwise, new people joining in will not see what has previously been discussed and tried.
So as not to spread this identical support issue over multiple threads, I’m closing this thread. Please visit the original thread here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2511
I’ve tried switching to the skeleton theme and back, as mention in another post but still haven’t had any success.
Before I installed a custom theme I tried the default theme and had the same problems. I did solve the group wire problem following Andy\’s advice in another thread. https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2339
If I can solve this widget problem I am good to go.
I think I’ve narrowed down the problem. The installation isn’t recognizing the fact that bp-themes is in the wp-content directory.
Even though the two options for Member and Skeleton themes are available through the buddypress settings panel, whenever I try to load the BP theme itself after activating it the large screenshot that comes up just says “You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.
Please move “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/” to “/wp-content/bp-themes” and refresh this page. “
However I’ve verified, and re-verified, and re-verified again that bp-themes is, in fact, in the wp-content folder along with themes plugins mu-plugins etc.
Anyone know what could be causing this?
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Mine is doing something similar, I think.
WPMU was installed first… worked fine, tested some blogs and users.
Installed BP via the Plugins installer… activated it sitewide, no errors.
Moved (not copied) the bp-themes folder …
Put BP Home theme into themes directory & activated it for the home blog.
Results: none of the links in the My Account dropdown work — all point to
http://blogsite.ca/members/blogname/…
… when our WPMU is set up to have the blog name at the beginning, like:
http://blogname.blogsite.ca
Modifying the My Account addresses (manually, for testing) to this doesn’t work, either:
http://blogname.blogsite.ca/members/blogname/… OR
http://blogname.blogsite.ca/members/…
That, and the homepage for our site no longer shows a blog page, but a login page — and it doesn’t accept my login & password combo (which worked just fine to get into the Dashboard for my blog).
I got it, first I applied your fix, then reverted back to my original settings, now it works. This may have happened if all themes were disabled except bp-home, just guessing though, i’m not going to try to reproduce.
What’s weird to me is that your home page (nacdb.com/members) has the profile index. It’s almost as though you’ve got bpmember in the wp-content/themes directory.
Yep – I’m at a loss. Hopefully JJJ or one of the other brilliant minds here can sort it out for you.
To answer both questions the setup/directory listing for buddypress is
nacdb.com/members/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/
nacdb.com/members/wp-content/themes/bphome/
nacdb.com/members/wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/
members/ contains all of WMU – its not in the root directory.
wp-content >> themes >> bphome
wp-content >> bp-themes >> bpmember
Thats how I’ve got my files set up – so if thats correct then things should be working appropriately. I can’t figure out why the things like “edit profile” etc don’t seem to work.
The page that gives you the popup activation is for the home theme. The home theme should be in
wp-content >> themes >> bphome
Kind’ve funny that it’s telling you to put it into the wrong place. Unless I’m totally misunderstanding what you’re saying.
And the members theme should be
wp-content >> bp-themes >> bpmember
No Luck.
I tried removing the duplicate files, then reactivating the theme.
When I went to reactivate the theme the screen that pops up that should you the screenshot of the theme and has the “Activate This Theme” at the top right had this message:
You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.
Please move “/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/” to “/wp-content/bp-themes” and refresh this page.
However, I’m staring at my ftp screen and its already there!
Make sure that you moved the themes, not copied them over. Having them in 2 places can make things go silly.
Also, you say that you activated the plugins and then moved your themes around. Go to the bp settings, use the profile theme selector, select the bp member’s theme and then save it. Don’t just save it if it’s already there. Use the pull down menu and choose it again & save it.
This probably won’t fix the issue but it’s worth a shot. I know sometimes my installations get a little wonky with profiles if I do it out of order.
I had similar problems, if you are running your won theme, you have to copy the functions.php from the new version in your theme directory.
Do I need to translate WPMU first ?
Look in the link that DJPaul provided. There is a WordPress translation of Arabic already. I’m not sure what additional work you’d have to do for WPMU. Most likely translation of some of the admin pages. But, I’m not a localization expert.
What will be different because Arabic is RTL language ?
As long as the themes that Arabic users are using properly reference some type of right to left CSS file, then this should not be an issue. Look at rtl.css to see how that works.
Also, look at this relevant BuddyPress thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=245
I came into this WordPress stuff late but I can honestly say I am utterly astounded by the flexibility and capabilities of the software….and BuddyPress….one of the best apps I have seen in long time.
More specifically, I am not using any custom home theme, its the one I got from buddypress .org itself.
Socialpreneur > I thought adding another menu link would require that i make another directory inside the bptheme ‘directory’ folder?
How come Members, Groups and Blogs has a directory then?
Socialpreneur >
I guess its the header.php file in the bpmember theme that has to be edited and not the header.php in the home theme? Or should the change be added to both header.php files?
They almost look the same so whats the difference between the two?
Also how would the code look, there’s a section where it says:
Bpmember theme’s header.php:
<div id="header">
<h1 id="logo"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php bp_site_name() ?></a></h1>
<ul id="nav">
<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( 'home' ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>
<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_HOME_BLOG_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php bp_home_blog_url() ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Blog', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Blog', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>
<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Members', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Members', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>
<?php if ( function_exists( 'groups_install' ) ) { ?>
<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_GROUPS_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Groups', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Groups', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>
<?php } ?>
<?php if ( function_exists( 'bp_blogs_install' ) ) { ?>
<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_BLOGS_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_BLOGS_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Blogs', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Blogs', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>
<?php } ?>
<?php do_action( 'bp_nav_items' ); ?>
</ul>
</div>
Its probably here the extra code would have to be added? I cant seem to get it to work.
@JohnJamesJacoby: I’ve tested this with the bphome theme, visible on beta.artistplug.me ; I’ve also tested with a standard install, copying over the database data … since then things got wicked… — also tested copying over the functions.
I’m very sure you are on to something ; how can we verify everything gets passed well through these functions ?
I also wonder for how far and reliable the WordPress XML export/import functions work towards a succesfull migration for 10 RC1 blogs towards BP v1.0 ..
Are you using a custom home theme – if you are, then it’s because you haven’t updated it to support v1 properly. I think you are missing the functions.php file.
Sgrunt, one thing to look at would be your padding attributes. IE hates those (almost as much as I hate IE) If you can find a way to avoid using padding, you’ll be better off in the end. 
@Glenham, it sounds like you’re not using the bphome theme, and your current theme is missing the functions.php functions necessary to route those URLs to the members theme.
thanx Danstinebaugh.
The BuddyDress themes are all free, but let me the time to upgrade them to the 1.0 bp version.
The problem with IE (i presume you are speaking about the resizing window) is common to every bp theme, even the default one. I think that the issue is hidden in one of the “minor” css, and it’s hard to find where is the bug. I’ve modified the main css’s, and i don’t think that they are the cause of the problem. Solving that will be great!
Nwalters, looking at that link now, it appears you have a whole other assortment of issues.
Bad slugs, missing theme files, etc…
Hey! Thanks for all the work your putting in with the user feedback from all of these threads! Great to see a developer that stays in touch! Now I’ll admit so far I haven’t tried this theme out yet, other then clicking a few links from your buddydress page and checking out the few links that are actually working, and I’ve noticed most of them are not rendering properly under IE. Not that I recommend IE to anyone, however it’s still used and I wasn’t sure if it was just people trying to play with the theme’s (I see ad’s added to most of them) so I’m not sure if it’s due to other’s bad code of if is truely not rendering properly.
Either way thanks again! This is good stuff your doing and I look forward to the first free theme on buddydress!!!
