I am also trying this with no luck, but I think I am closer… Maybe this is a harder question than I thought since there is no quick reply.
<a href="http://engage.dearbornschools.org/members/<?php echo ' . $bp->loggedin_user->id' ; ?>/blogs/create-a-blog"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/createblog.png" alt="Create a Blog" hspace="4" align="right" /></a>
Here is a link to a photo of my theme and you will notice the 3 buttons in the upper right. That’s where I need to add these links.
http://blog.dearbornschools.org/webmaster/files/2009/03/engagehome1.jpg
Any help would be much appreciated. I am about 3 links away from introducing this to students and letting teachers know they can now make it a requirement that the student maintain a website/blog.
Here is what I have for the links, but it is not working:
<a href="<?php echo ' . $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->blogs->slug . '/create-a-blog' '; ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/createblog.png" alt="Create a Blog" hspace="4" align="right" /></a>
I am no coding guru, can someone please help me with creating 3 links for images:
One that takes you to the create a blog page
One for the create a group page
One for the users profile
Thanks Richs0914…
I did go in there, but it had echo … something or other.
I was hoping to fins something like
><img> My Icon Image</img>
The “something I don’t know here” is where I am having trouble. The adminbar.php has the links as part of a function I believe with echo before them.
Any ideas, I cant get the links to work.
if you don’t know what you’re doing…you could always go into bp-core-adminbar.php and take the code from there and just apply it where you want it.
bp-core-adminbar.php (in bp-core) has all three of those links already.
I’ve found that customized themes tend to be where the issues with avatar cropping start, and am guilty of this myself.
It usually comes from one of two things.
1. A JavaScript error in something you’ve tried to add is causing the JavaScript for the crop tool not to function.
2. Applying a CSS style to your theme that also ends up encompasing the crop tools position, so that it is out of the visible area of the photo container.
@jjj
Good points although I still think that if a user actually uses their blog, they will be aware of the difference between that and their wire. I mean, you have to consciously dip down into your blog, you are clearly no longer in the profile space.
“Anyone familiar with Twitter doesn’t need help becoming comfortable with what’s going on.”
Perhaps the comparison with Twitter is a little misleading, insofar as the visitor does not see the Twitter-style box, it is more a “QuickPress on steroids” for the blog owner.
It is not so much a question of making the blog owner comfortable, rather it is about that box sitting there as a call to action, an inducement to “Just Do It”. We all need a little encouragement sometimes – not having to dive into the dashboard to post will inevitably result in more posts.
“I think new users would relate more to a photo gallery type of layout than a twitter layout.”
Photo gallery layouts have the disadvantage of looking like a deflated balloon until the user actually uploads some photos. I suspect that, six months down the road, we are all going to be struggling with the problem of encouraging users to even make their first post, nevermind getting them to upload photos.
If getting people to use their blogs is going to be the problem, P2 could be the answer.
hi!
@ezd
here are some referenzes:
http://bp-dev.org/phpxref/nav.html?index.html
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/creating-a-custom-buddypress-component/
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/create-a-buddypress-member-theme/
if i understand you corectly your aim is make a simplified buddypress-home theme or a replacement for the standard home theme. right!? you may be want to take a look here: http://kommune.ngcorp.de – it is my own simplified home theme. i took the orginal home theme and striped it down. only for an example what is possible 
Okay thanks, that clears it up a bit. Im not that strong in php but I still managed to build a custom theme in WordPress using the inbuilt template tags.
burtadsit > Do you know if there’s a similar page with template tags and a description for each tag for BuddyPress / The skeleton theme.
Like an “Overview” page that maybe looks like this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags
That page helped me so much delveloping my own theme and understanding the function of each tag. 
I’ve deleted evrything, during the lack of good theme’s for both …
Suc6!
And Seeya
hmm… i’m not sure how to explain this. I only want to but post’s into left colum area in buddypress themes. Not user’s post only mine. You know, like those are in default template in wordpress.
Now i can but widgets into left colum ( post’s and blog’s ) but if i do that theres no “comment” link.So i suppose that i have to modify widgets code?
Now even im confused 
I think this using this as the default theme might confuse the purpose of the wire.
It’s a good idea to have something similar to this, but I think new users would relate more to a photo gallery type of layout than a twitter layout. Anyone familiar with Twitter doesn’t need help becoming comfortable with what’s going on.
Again, just my opinion.
I had this problem too when i attempted to adjust the buddypress-member theme. http://sportsblognet.com/members/rich
It’s caused by the base.css in the the buddypress-member theme calling
input, select, textarea {
width: 100%
}
you can either adjust that in the base.css (not recommended)
or you can place
#wp-admin-bar input {
width: auto;
}
below the previous call in the base.css, that way it will call the 100% width for other inputs, except for the wp-admin-bar.
Fix for bb-config.php when using “deep integration”
How to currently, correctly include WordPress within bbPress and NOT throw a 404 in IE.
Add to beginning of bb-config.php:
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') & !defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST')) {
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
include_once( '/absolute/path/to/yourdomain.com/wp-blog-header.php' );
header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
header("Status: 200 All rosy");
}
@Matt, I think that if it’s partially working, than chances are something is amiss somewhere. Are you using deep integration or no?
I think that your homepage display, whatever that is, is the abnormal one Adam. The admin bar is supposed to fit across the entire width of the display. That’s the normal behavior. You can modify this by creating a file in your home theme folder called site-wide.css
That needs to live in a directory called /themes/<your theme directory>/css
Within that file you can put any css you’d like to control the appearance of all bp components.
I can’t find the fbconnect or skeleton member theme files. 
maybe I’m just coffee’d out and need a break today.
I have this installed and working great, but the facebook connect button seems to screw up the css in internet explorer…it pushes the members/blogs/groups search and the default login together, so there is literally no space between the two, and the facebook connect button is all the way to the right of the screen. Is there any way around that?
Also, I have my BuddyPress theme in a subdomain: (community.mydomain.com), and when you click a member’s name who used Facebook Connect to sign up, their avatar does not work in the member theme…instead it just shows the default avatar monster things.
Should my member theme be showing up as community.mydomain.com/members/user1 or just mydomain.com/members/user1? Because currently it’s the latter, and everything works fine except the Facebook Connect Avatars.
Thanks!
I actually modified the theme so that it doesn’t show an empty box if the stripped version is empty. I can’t find where I do that check though, and I’ve looked through bp-activity-widgets.php, bp-activity.php, and bp-activity-classes.php. I’m fairly certain I just check the length of activity and if it’s 0 or null, I don’t create the paragraph element.
NyQuil has my brain foggy today
Anything is possible if you can program in php. See the new skeleton theme download at: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/create-a-buddypress-member-theme/
That’s if you are talking about the member theme. The home theme is just a normal wp theme and there are tons of docs and sites dedicated to helping you with that. Google is your friend.
No the full name is displayed by default throughout bp Lucifix. You’ll have to create your own theme to override that behavior.
you can…
do this.. mark fields as private, change your profile fields to dispaly public only, and then use the values to generate a customer profile box.
You can easily get profile values directly, and can perform any calculations you want based on these values. But I’m sure it might be a little confusing to show these, so you need to have them marked as private. These private fields will not be shown once you modify the profile member theme.
Hope that gives you some ideas,
Brad
would be nice if this topic dived deeper into apeatlings comment “Attach it to the action ‘signup_extra_fields’ and it will show up” how does one do this? or is it better to leave this to the uber php geeks?
good idea on changing the wp-signup.php
lets mark this resolved..
bottom line is if you want to use wp-recapatcha you need to install it in mu-plugins
thank you all for your help.. I’m going to start working on my theme now..
Hmmmmm…now that I look at things a little bit closer, this may be a Facebook Connect issue.
Take a look at my most recent facebook user. If you look at http://community.beardownarizona.com, you’ll see the facebook avatar is working fine. Now click that user to go to the member page ( http://beardownarizona.com/members/beardownmember/ ). The image no longer pulls over.
Now, go to http://community.beardownarizona.com/members/beardownmember/ … Now the image works fine.
This only seems to happen with Facebook Connect users, since all the other members’ avatars (ie. http://beardownarizona.com/members/admin/ ) seem to pull over to the member theme just fine.
Very weird.
Thanks for the help! Under “Path” for my root blog, it’s just “/” (without the quotes of course). Uner Blog Options, “Siteurl” shows “http://beardownarizona.com/”, and “home” has the same thing.
When you say my Member’s header.php doesn’t match my home theme, are you referring to my BuddyPress home theme (ie. the community subdomain)? How would I match them?
The BuddyPress install is in the MU plugins, with the Member theme in /wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member, and the BP Home theme in my theme’s directory. Are you saying I can’t have the BuddyPress home theme in the subdomain at all? Everything is working fine, including friend requests, wire posts, etc. It’s just that there’s no “community” before the member pages.
I’d even consider hard-coding it if that’s an option.
Thanks again.
For example, what is the easiest way to call ‘recent blog posts’?
