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If you setup new blog users to be Authors, they only have limited access to the dashboard and can’t see the themes. They can still add posts, media, and a few other things. Just enough for what most of them will need.

An added bonus is that the “switch theme” option is removed from the cascading menu viewable in the user’s profile.

Hope this helps!

As to your first question:

Look in the loop in your theme’s index.php file for this:

<p class="date"><?php the_time('F j, Y') ?> <em><?php _e( 'in', 'buddypress' ) ?> <?php the_category(', ') ?> <?php printf( __( 'by %s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink($post->post_author) ) ?></em></p>

Make the necessary changes.

As to your second question, look for this also in the same file:

<div class="widget" id="latest-news">

<h2 class="widgettitle"><?php _e( 'Blog', 'buddypress' ) ?></h2>

Change the word “Blog” To whatever you like.

Please note: if you plan on sticking with BuddyPress’ standard themes, you will lose these changes the next time you upgrade BP. So, either you live with that and make the changes again with each upgrade, you create your own custom themes (possibly by simply copying the current themes and renaming them), or you never write over the theme files when upgrading.

The second option is the best in my opinion. But, with each upgrade, you should still evaluate any changes that may have been made in the new standard theme as they could be important.

No I don’t see the problem. If there is a problem, only logged in users can see it. Can you give me a demo/test login username and password?

It might be useful to start a new topic for any theme specific issues. The title of this one doesn’t lead anyone to know that it’s a theme issue.

I don’t know the nature of your theme customization. I’d install the entire member theme and take a look at the differences between the current theme and your mods.

I don’t have much experience with the themes. When you find that you need help with that area I know that others have been modifying and creating new member themes. I’m sure they can help out with specific issues.

You mean top left of theme? That’s an image – you’ll find it in /wp-content/bp-themes/buddypress-member/images/logo.gif.

That fn ‘bp_activity_user_install’ doesn’t exist in the latest core trunk. bp no longer uses individual activity tables for each user so the call fails. I’m guessing you are mixing recent core and an older version of the member theme code.

It wasn’t scarasm per se, it was a complaint. It takes time to hunt down issues. Especially on previous versions of bp. It helps for you to be specific and informative.

Anyway, I think you are going to continue to have problems like this with an older version of the member theme as your code base. The member theme reflects changes in the core and there have been plenty.

Ninh-

I’ve looked at your site and of course cannot duplicate the problem without logging in. But, that’s okay.

You mention that you’re using a custom theme. Read the first post in this thread, paying close attention to the parts that talk about custom themes. Also, there are more posts within this thread that discuss theme issues that could apply.

It appears that you are still using BuddyPress 1.0_RC1. I cannot remember if any of these issues apply to RC1. Perhaps someone with longer BP experience can chime in.

There’s nothing confusing about this at all.

We’ve got wpmu installed on a linux type subdomain using the subdirectory blogs option with bp’s home theme running on a blog id other than the default root blog id of ‘1’ using beta versions of both wpmu and bp including a new restriction from bp that it be installed in /plugins/buddypress and activated sitewide with a new mechanism that replaces the old /mu-plugins scenario.

lol. Time for a nap.

Okay, putting aside the subdomain versus subdirectory issue for a second, you state that:

…the bp link in the menu works but where is says “disbale components using below form” nothing shows

It sounds like BuddyPress is not activated. With the 1.0_RC2 changes, BuddyPress is now considered a single WPMU plugin. You must first login to the WPMU backend as site admin and then go to Plugins > Installed and make sure that BuddyPress is activated.

Once it’s activated, a new menu group is created at the bottom of the menu tree called “BuddyPress”. You click on BuddyPress > Component Setup and you should see that all the BP components are enabled by default. It is in this admin screen where you can enable and disable individual components.

If you’ve already activated BuddyPress, then something is clearly wrong. Have you double checked to make sure that you copied all the BP component files and folders (minus the theme folders) into the /wp-content/plugins/ folder? Did you install the BP suite into the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder instead?

If the BP install locations and files are in their proper place, then I would recommend deactivating BuddyPress then deleting the entire BP directory and try reinstalling the BP plugin suite again and see what happens.

Thanks for your themes..Can you adapt this theme as a member theme?

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2

Danielfelice-

Okay, a few more questions:

1. Are there any errors being reported in the error logs? If so, what are they?
2. Are you using the default BuddyPress themes with no changes at all?
3. Did you use the new WPMU config file, or a config file from an older version?
4. Is buddyPress-home theme installed in /wp-content/themes/ ?
5. Is buddyPress-member theme installed in /wp-content/bp-themes/ instead of /wp-content/member-themes/ ?
6. Did WPMU work fine before BuddyPress was installed and activated?
7. Do you have any WPMU plugins other than BuddyPress installed? If so, have you tried deactivating them to see if that makes a difference?

r1746 wpmu 2.7 branch and r1347 bp trunk work fine for me using stock bp themes. Just updated both.

Nicola-

You are correct! That is an important point.

I should have mentioned that I use this technique only with my custom themes, not with the standard BP themes.

have you updated your themes ?

jeff you know, i don’t like touch the code

(given that an update to the member theme or to the home, will break your install

Now that you mentioned what theme you are having problems with it might be easier to help. Now I get to guess what file that code lives in and what version bp you are using.

The bullet images that show up in the activity stream are background images that live in the home theme’s /images directory. They are defined in the /css/base.css file. If your theme doesn’t define them in css or they aren’t located in /themes/<your theme>/images then they won’t appear.

Talk to your theme author.