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!!!
Hello Andrea_r
I just went farther with your solution to the members theme issue. Activated the newly created members theme even though it was blank in the preview window. It worked! The link buttons at the top of the page, Blog, Groups, Members,Blogs,and Home, broke as the username was inserted into the links. Hard coded the links in the header.php and that fixed that.
Thanks
Mark
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OMG OMG OMG OMG! I fixed it!! I went back and looked at my error logs and I was getting
SoftException in Application.cpp:544: Directory “/home/beerandb/public_html/wp-content” is writeable by group, referer: http://lasvegas.beerandblog.com/
I was also getting that for the bp-themes folder. So I changed them from 777 to 755. I also found that I had an old “members-themes” directory in wp-content, which I deleted. And viola! It’s all better 
I looked into this stuff further because of these two threads. Thanks everyone for your help with this! First time I used this forum for help and it totally paid off!!
Thanks Andy, that makes good sense!
If I want to create another member section called “activity” in the navigation bar (not the admin-bar) what changes would I have to make to my theme?
My thoughts would be to add a new folder under “directories” in my theme folder called activity. (same place where the 3 other sections are located)
And id probably need to add something to the header.php as well where the navigation sections are located?
Everything worked fine for me:
– news users are automatically added to the forum
– creating groups also creates a forum topic (not sure if I want that)
but the problem is, it doesn’t integrates the bbpress in the buddypress-theme. The forum is in its own theme (Kakumei).
Shouldn’t it integrate with buddypress?
Thanks,
Eddie
Hello Andrea_r
I just installed BuddyPress v 1.0 2 days ago to a new WordPress MU install. Got it running fine except for the member blog theme thing where members have the default WordPress MU theme. I followed your instructions above and copied the bphome theme, changed the theme name, changed the style.css file header name from home to blogs and deleated the home.php file. I moved this new theme to /wp-content/themes folder and activated the theme. But when I go to a members dashboard and click on the theme to activate it, it comes up blank in the preview window.
Any ideas what went wrong?
Thanks Mark
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Good idea, Andy. The theme on this site is smoking!
Think I’ll try my hand at “skeletar”
That happened to me up to RC-2; I had to rename the buddypress-member directory as buddypress-home (and kept it in bp-themes) and it worked perfectly.
It appears that this has been fixed in 1.0, which I am testing right now.
