The purpose of that is to allow WP themes to run the bp directories such as member, groups and blogs. It has nothing to do with the member theme at all.
What the themes are for:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/using-the-buddypress-themes/
Let’s recap this modemlooper. You have running:
– bp 1.0 RC-1
– wpmu 2.7 release version not beta
– You’ve tried using just the distributed home theme and member theme without plugins or other js using enhancements.
– You say the permissions are 755 on that directory and file (bp-core-ajax-handler.php)
What version PHP is on your server. You need PHP 5.x.
Don’t really think so. People will want different levels of ‘integration’ for those two products. This is really a theme related issue. If the theme developer decides to do that then it gets done. I’m doing that on a theme I’m working on for bbpress. I want to have as much bp functionality as possible in bbpress.
You can see the current state of chaos here: http://ourcommoninterest.org/bbpress
login credentials for test user:
username – hellome
password – hellome
The way I have it setup now is that when viewing a thread the user info block for each post has the bp avatar, user full name and underneath the bbpress title. The user full name takes you to the bp profile and the title takes you to the bbpress profile. Just fooling around with some ideas.
From this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1223
– If you upgrade from a previous version and are using your own custom theme, you will need to copy over the functions.php from the latest buddypress-home theme.
Try that Keith. It may be the problem. That is an issue for *all* wp themes that take the place of bp’s home theme.
bp doesn’t really have a blog id in the member theme. So the problem is relative to what? bp references locations relative to the root blog, blog id 1 when it has to. This is to locate bp resources.
From bp-core.php
/* The domain for the root of the site where the main blog resides */
$bp->root_domain = bp_core_get_root_domain();
Whenever I refer to anything in bp I use absolute references. Relative references are just asking for trouble. IMHO.
I can’t give you any help with javascript yet. I’m just moving into that area as I begin learning ajax.
One more thing to try guy. Activate the standard out of the box home theme on your site and see if that makes a difference. Activate that and disable all plugins and bp enhancements. Just run the default home theme with nothing extra added.
I don’t know why I didn’t suggest that earlier. Guess it’s because I’m a programmer and all solutions have to do with code. Hardware, operating systems and web servers are necessary evils that just have to be endured. 
Try that.
Do your directories work? Members, Groups, Blogs? Or is this just the widgets?
Is this a WP theme or a BP theme?
Is this the standard out of the box home theme or a modified theme?
Anything in your apache/php logs?
You on a shared host?
What version of BP and what version of WPMU?
Activate the home theme distributed with bp. Disable all other wp plugins and bp enhancements. Try again.
Can you point me to your site?
Let me explain a bit more clear about this…
* Home
* Blog
* Members
* Groups
* Blogs
As you can see those links under BP Home theme. If I create a community.domain.com to run BP Home theme and anyone of us click on individual profile then it takes us to domain.com without community as subdomain. Even it happened to left side menus that took the whole thing back to main domain.com instead any links to be strictly within community.domain.com itself.
Thats why I need to find where to edit the static links to point out on community.domain.com instead fall back to main domain.
Jed
you can do status thing using the main blog as status manager 
like prologue and integrate prologue in the member theme
The folder structure I have is exactly like that.
Should a copy of the member-themes foler still be left in BP folder by any chance?
nicola has tinyMCE running on his site. I don’t remember if he has that as just a part of the theme or if it’s a plugin. Works great. Check it out at:
http://buddypressdev.org/
Can I please ask someone to point me in the right direction with this.
I have implemeted a theme and can get the bbpress profile avatar next to each users post using this code :
<?php if ( $avatar = bb_get_avatar( $user->ID ) ) : ?>
<div id="useravatar"><?php echo $avatar; ?></div>
<?php unset($avatar); endif; ?>
But I can’t get the oci_user_avatar() tag in there without errors. probably I should be putting somewhere else so it qwrites directly in to the “bb_avatar”, but I got no idea.
Anyone want to help an idiot?
Chris, looking at your site again. Why is it coming up 404? I have to work through the sequence from the member theme to bp trying to load that file. Working on it..
Andy, I’m running the latest default themes from SVN but still having the _wpnonce error.
Josswin: you need to upgrade the themes, or read the second post on this thread – the bit about _wpnonce.
Hi Fishbowl81,
I want to make the bbpress forum to load in my buddypress site from a tab ‘forum’ which is like other tabs like home, blog, members. As you have on your site gorgeousgamers.com.
So that it incorporates the sites design theme and can still navigate through other tabs.
What is the best way around this?
Many thanks,
At this stage in development, there is no Forum widget unfortunately, and there may not be one based on the complexity of how it is put together.
There is a pseudo-widget, that will allow for some recent topic and forum display layouts, but past that everything in terms of posting, replying, etc. must be done within bbPress itself, via some integration and theme duplication.
I’m running the latest version of SVN trunk, using the default home and members themes. Whenever I click on a link to accept a friendship request, I get the “Are you sure you want to do this?” message. Any suggestions? Thank you.
I might add this is also happening on my test installation, too, running the same setup, only in a sub dir.
You’re quite welcome. Oh, and welcome to BuddyPress!
Cool – of course – thank you
I am using the latest trunk as of r1132 and don’t have this issue. Have you made sure you copied all the new functions over to your custom member theme?
Trent
Activate the theme per normal for the main website, or main blog of your website. Then, in Site Admin under themes, disable it. At that point it will stay enabled for your 1 blog, and no one else can choose it.
If you edit a blog specifically from the Blog menu in Site Admin, you can still optionally enable the BuddyPress Home theme if you’d like.
I made a snarky post because it was the only thing that generated any sort of assistance. I expect to have problems with RC-1 versions. I also expect the support forum to work. This is the first comment I’ve been able to successfully post in days. I spend months telling my members bloggers that BuddyPress was going to do wonders for their blog.
As I recall, the post that most recently preceded the break was one that included an image, followed by one line of text.
I’m not trying to be snarky here, but I would expect a plugin to not break when this happens. I have bloggers who post almost nothing but pictures and YouTube videos.
It’s not a theme issue, since this has happened using at least three different themes on my front page and on a member blog.
I have updated all my theme files, anyone care to sign up and let me add you as a friend?
http://mybodypart.org
Thanks Andy..got it working..was doing a test site in sub folder and it would not work so went ahead and re did site on root.
Works like a charm. now onto getting ajax to work.
