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Ok, So hello again NiceCap. So what I see is that your activity link in the “Community” drop down menu link in the header there is actually being sent to the current /logged-inMmembers (Current User’s)/profile /activity page. Not the “Community Sites” activity page.

What your getting is this

https://www.cb-riding.com/members/leog371/

what you want is this

https://www.cb-riding.com/activity

This is probably due to either having your menu setup wrong or your pages in settings/buddypress set up with the wrong pages. I would start by going into your menus. Its under appearance in your wp dashboard and make sure that link gores to https://www.cb-riding.com/activity.

Then go to Settings/buddypress and make sure that the pages are set up correctly. Meaning “Activity Page” should be set to “Activity Page”.

It appears that the activity stream is not taking on your header and your theme stuff. Not sure whats going on there, you should check that out. Anyways, your activities page is here

Post Formats is a WordPress theme feature. See https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats. Try asking your question at https://wordpress.org/support/

As alternative @saz25, you can also take a look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login/ It will work with almost all theme and easy to customize.

I completely Disagree! BuddyPress has served me well in over 250 projects. I only use 3 plugins on average and never use any pre-made themes. I have developed over 250 perfectly working and extremely customized communities and learning websites as well as intranet sites using BuddyPress and have never had any issues with it. I have never had any issues making it do just exactly what I want to to do “Well, there maybe one or 2 items I would change”.

Anyways, my point is, if you know how to work with WP’s flavor of messed up PHP, if you know how to use the codex, the extensive list of attributes and hooks, actions and filters that are listed all over the web, BuddyPress is a pretty puppy that can pretty much act, do or become anything you want without all the plugins.

As far as the help goes around here, Well, yes, It has a lot to be desired. When you post a question, you must realize that not everyone here can help. A lot of the members here are looking for help themselves. The guys who can help are often times bogged down trying to help others and along with having work of their own to complete for their jobs at the same time. So yes, the help here is sparse but no one ever said that this was the help desk or the help line. Its just a forum for people to ask questions and get replies from other members and sometime staff that will help out someone when we can.

And Finally……
Wordpress and BuddyPress are basically developers platforms. It just so happens that its simple enough that basically anyone who has a desire to learn or are at least brave enough to look into some files can make changes and even figure out how to make a theme if they want. No one ever said it was easy for everyone which is why a lot of people pay other people to do the work for them. If you fall into this category, please just pay someone to do the work and stop whining about not getting help because you dont know what your doing.

1. go into your WP dashboard
2. go to “Plugins” tab just below “Apperance” and Just above “Users”
3. Hover Over “Plugins” and click “Add New”
4. You Should see the “Buddypress Plugin” card right there. Click Install
5. If not, simply use the search feature there to search for BuddyPress
6. Once you find the “BuddyPress Plugin” click install
7. After Install, Activate it
8. After you activate it, go to the “Settings” tab at the bottom of your WP Dashboard
9. Under “Settings” you will see a “BuddyPress” Tab
10. Got thru the 3 tabs of settings to set it up. Its easy and quick
11. Check the new pages that you and BuddyPress Just added and see what kind of adjustments need to be made for your visual theme.
12. Viola! you have BuddyPress.
Should take less than 10 minutes for everything except any minor or major adjustments or tweaks in your theme if you even need any.

100% Agree. The only 2 WP plugins (BBforums and BP) that could harness Web2.0 user communities and compete with large social platforms continues to collect dust. I pitch this plugin as a solution for online communities to companies, and 9 our of 10 times I uninstall it the same day regretting I ever brought it up.

Premium themes like BuddyBoss don’t help, it’s still a patchwork of 3rd party plugins to even get close to a working community forum, yet falls soo short, even coding it out yourself is a nightmare, just like the functionality of this text entry box, always loose ends. This technology could be instrumental in pulling down the large social conglomerates that control the web. Yet Automattic could care less. I feel for the contributors to BP, waste of time for everyone without leadership buy-in.

Last time I try to install this plugin. Easier to lead users to a Slack Channel. Peace.

@maltelol123 including template files inside theme files is not mandatory; it might be possible your theme developer has defined path somewhere inside theme codes, you can enable the debug mode to find the issue for white death screen.
By default, if a theme does not have template override it will fallback to plugin template files.

@hypuk BuddyPress only adds Name fields as primary field, it might be possible your theme or any plugin is adding those fields via custom codes.

@dolf-h You can use following codes for group directory and members directory

add_filter( 'bp_after_has_groups_parse_args', 'wbcom_theme_alter_groups_parse_args' );
function wbcom_theme_alter_groups_parse_args( $loop ) {
	if ( bp_is_groups_directory() ) {
	    {
			$loop['per_page'] = 21;
		}
	}
	return $loop;
}

For members directory replace 21 with your desired number

add_filter( 'bp_after_has_members_parse_args', 'wbcom_theme_alter_members_parse_args' );
function wbcom_theme_alter_members_parse_args( $loop ) {
	if ( bp_is_members_directory() ) {
		{
		$loop['per_page'] = 21;
		}
	}
	return $loop;
}

The 7 is not compatible with buddypress. I buy this theme before 2 week and just wonder how to do it the buddypress.

wow, with that code I would say you are taking things too far. Just use page inspector tool to trace the CSS and remove it.

Right-click on the add-friend button and select ‘inspect element’. Then go to the CSS, on the right tab of the inspection tool. I would suggest you make the edit in a child theme so that it won’t go out on an update.

did u understand?

Having exactly the same issue with Social Learner. The theme seems to have a lot of smaller bugs…

Haven’t found a proper solution for this bug.

Hey Frank, I guess the best question to ask you after all this is how comfortable are you with digging into or working with html, css and basic php?

If a pre made theme is what your looking for, how comfortable are you with taking hours and days looking thru theme demos to find your golden pony or at least making child themes or customizing code?

And then to answer you more specifically to your “How long would it take to develop a theme like the one I described?” , I guess that just depends really. Over the years I have accumulated many libraries of code and theme snippets and I know where everything is in WP/BP core and template files. So for me, A fully custom and dressed out theme might take anywhere from 3 days to 3 weeks if I know exactly what I am working towards at the beginning and have a clear, though out, planned out idea. If I hen peck it or free hand it” like I do from time to time” It may take a day or it might take 8 months, lol.

As a bit of comfort to your quandary, everything you asked for in your opening inquiry is all ready done for you in BuddyPress “for the most part”. A theme like the one you describe sounds like a 3 day to 1 week job to me. Keep in mind however that with me saying that, things always have a way changing and evolving into monsters, lol.

So lets break down your theme and see how it look on paper…. He He, my favorite part…

1. I want users to come to my site, register, and log in…… (Its all ready there) just have to set it up to your liking. It can all be customized quite a bit as well.

2. I would love to be able to customize the way these pages look!(background image, logo, and content inside them)……… (The logo, background and most of the design items are easy breezy as long as your ok with basic html and css and not looking for flying dragons and wizards shooting lightning bolts across the screen. Alas, even those can be done with css, flash and JS, lol. )

3. I’m not looking for a full-blown social media site (yet)…….No need to have what you dont want to use. BP has a full host of controls to limit what can be done onsite by users or what is implemented frontend in its settings. WP Dash/settings/buddypress. Select what you want to use. You also have the ability to write functions, and use hooks and actions and filters to limit or build on anything you like.

4. I want to build a site that where users can log in, create a “blog” excerpt with media …… There are several ways to do this in buddypress, just have to plan it out and test the methods and see what works for you. Mu, Activity and Groups/Forums.

5. They should also be able to put a location tag on it. ….. it sounds like this is what x-profile fields are good for. Just create your custom location field and add it with a template tag in the loop you want to use it in. They fill out the filed on their profile page and it will display in that loop.

6. When they post it, the only people I want to see that are the people they added as friends or if they have their profile set to public……BuddyPress frontend “user profile area” has a settings tab, under it are quite a few privacy features, not fully comprehensive in my opinion but there are a few plugins that add on to this and you can code it in as well. either way. Easy task.

7. And when it shows up on their friend’s news feed it should just show a featured image, title, and the beginning of their text with a like counter….. Easy enough, just write the loop that way, lol. Easy to do.

8. When their friends click on that post it brings them to the full blog post, not just the featured image. Their friends can favorite the content or comment on it. …..The natural behavior of WP and BP posts so we are good there.

9. On a users profile, I would like to show their recent posts, and posts they’ve favorited…. Thats what the friends tab shows but you can add custom queries, and stuff and otherwise tear it apart and pick it of the pieces you want and use them in other places to make custom loops and queries and all kinds of goodness, lol. As long as you make sure things are firing in the right places and make sure certain things are in the loops where they belong, No worries.

10. Site homepage is basically just a file called front-page.php. Copy the page.php from the theme root and then customize the heck out it. Work it up however you like.

As far as the themes go, I never use premade themes. I do however make full use of the libraries of code I have accumulated, (_s) and bootstrap for a lot of my work. Cheesy I know but hey, it saves me time and money and gives me freedom. I rarely find the need to actually make a complete custom theme or write much in the way of custom code from scratch anymore. And I certainly never purchase any themes. So I am not the best person to ask about themes really. I know that there are tons of themes that do all kinds of stuff available around the web. Just have to give them the litmus test and see if they fit your project.

Let me know if you have any other questions or what have you. I will be around.

#05a9c5 is your theme’s link colour. For some reason, your theme is setting widget links to the colour #777. As @leog371 mentioned above, you can override that behaviour by adding this to your child theme’s style.css document:

.widget ul li a {
    color: #05a9c5;
}

Try this, just change the hex value to the color you want. Place it at the bottom of your style sheet. Css that loads last gets viewed onscreen You have this class “widget ul li a” messing with it. Its being called on lines 1751, 109, 109, and the a tag on line 347 of your main stylesheet. So if you put that at the bottom of that stylesheet, it should run. simply change the hex color to what you want. .

.item-title.fn > a {
    color: #05a9c5 !important;
}

If that still wont work you can use this, but it will target all the links in the widgets sidebars

.widget ul li a {
    color: #777;
}

Fyi, be aware that if you are using or creating a separate or custom stylesheet, It must load after all the other stylesheets that have this class on them. So if your enqueuing it, make sure that it is the last style enqueue in your enqueue list. or if your just calling it by script tag then make it last in line so your css overloads the themed css.

So you want a link to logged in users profiles, clarify where this link should be…in the header?
You should make a child-theme and add some code to a new header.php.

<li><a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain(); ?>" class="profilelink" title="My Profile">Profile</a></li>

You must place this code just before the </nav> code, or at any spot in the header you wish.

Thisprobably means you need to learn how to make a child-theme in wordpress first, very important.

Well, dont know if this is what you need but from what I gather, I would say you need to add some template files to your theme to do that. Its not hard. But Since I dont know that theme, The first question would be… does that theme have a “/buddypress” directory in it? If not you would probably want to make one first.

This is where you would do the work. BuddyPress will look for template files there first. You would want to create template files for the parts of the theme that you want to change or re-arrange. Both of those features are all ready built into BuddyPress. If you look at the template files in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/ you can find all of your ideas and code parts or starter code there from those files.

You can copy over those files to your themes buddypress directory and break them down, tear them up or what ever you want to do with them there. I sometimes do it just to take code snippets and work with them.

Anyways, if you find the files that have the functionality you want on them, just take them and use them to create a new template or widget or whatever you need. Its not hard.