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From what I can gather this thread is about a configuration problem. This is how to install the two themes.

1) From the distribution zip or trunk move the folder /buddypress-theme/buddypress-home to the folder /wp-content/themes. You wind up with the structure /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home

2) Move the folder /buddypress-theme/member-themes to the folder /wp-content. Ending up with the structure /wp-content/member-themes.

If you want to use the bp home theme then you need to activate that in wpmu backend. You will never see the member theme as a possible candidate to activate.

Do a clean install, no custom plugins, use the default themes. Report back if you still get an error.

http://www.sportsblognet.com. Tell anyone that likes sports to check it out. Finally up and running after about a month. We may be looking for someone that can code the member theme to match our overall site theme so please respond to this if you are interested.

Go into the Dashboard logged in as the “WPMU admin” into -> Site-Admin => Themes and then disable the theme from there. You can always go to Site-Admin -> Blogs and edit your main blog to enable the them only for the main blog.

Trent

You could try and create a hidden blog and change the theme for just that to see if you can manage the widgets. Alternatively post a link to the theme you’re using and I’ll give it a spin on my setup.

As for the avatars… Do you have the “blog.dir” folder in your “wp-content” folder?

Looking at the path you’re posting above (/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/index.php) it seems as if you’ve selected the BuddyPress home theme as the default theme for your member pages and not the actual member theme.

I’m not sure how you’d be able to do that though.

What are the contents in your “member-themes” folder?

Buddypress is not unusable software. I suggest being a bit more polite if you come looking for help, especially to the official Buddypress forums.

It’s because you’re trying to shoehorn a PHP script into your theme. Either one of the PHP variables you use in the snippet in bold is used elsewhere by Buddypress – thus getting weird conflicts – or it’s to do with one of your mysql_ function calls, possibly mysql_select_db().

i think you should modify both the buddypress home and the member theme: the base.css file or the custom.css file for both themes. Change the body, the left, right, center column width, and the narrow and wide column.

(You don’t need to insert code, just copy and paste the text straight into the post.)

It seems as if I’m not skilled enough to help you further as I have no idea what this could be.

I see that you have a custom theme though. Can you try and revert to the default BuddyPress theme and see if that works?

On my sites, I simply have a 404 file in my themes which is actually a redirect to where ever I’d like it to go:

<?php

// Permanent redirection

header(“HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently”);

header(“Location: http://yourdomain.com&#8221;);

exit();

?>

Simply copy and paste the above into your 404.php file for your theme, and you’re set!

Hi again.

I didn’t realize that it was the “sub-blogs” that you we’re talking about when I posted but now I know what you mean.

That kind of functionality is usually handled by widgets but perhaps it’s hard coded into the theme. Are they there no matter what theme you use?

As for the avatars, I’m not sure I’m on the right track to be honest now that I’ve done some digging. The path for your avatars (http://mobiusmanitou.com//avatars/4/alien20-avatar1.jpg) is not even close to the one on my setup (http://komiformguiden.se/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/3/elder_sign_small-avatar1.jpg).

Why those differ I have no real clue to though. Perhaps Trent, Burt or Andy can chime in on that.

What is the exact problem you get? In what way doesn’t the logout URL work?

As Andy mentions in the sticky post about the new beta you need to update your themes with the latest code as well (functions.php IIRC).

Now http://wikiroma.it has got the social BP community: http://wikiroma.it/index.php . I will work more to customize more my theme in these days.

Hi.

As for nr 1 I don’t follow. The WPMU user name field is for logging in to the site. The bp full name field is used everywhere else in bp whenever a user is referenced. So they shouldn’t ever “overwrite” eachother.

At least this is how it works for me.

2) Are you using the latest beta build (or trunk)? If you mix and match releases these redirect errors can and will occur. I had them myslef until I installed the latest version of the bp theme.

@kazama: What Andy said above, update your “buddypress-home” theme to the latest version and it will solve your problems (it did for me).

maxaud, the function that does the work in bp is groups_send_invites() and it lives in bp-groups.php, line 1642.

function groups_send_invites( $group_obj ) {

global $bp;

This function serves both the group creation ‘send invites’ and the member theme ‘send invites’ in the group screen.

I’d put a return; statement right under that global $bp; statement. Users can flip all the switches they want but nothing will actually happen. The users will still see the capability but nothing will work.

Lemme test this to make sure…

No notification emails are actually sent. The screen says it did but it didn’t. The notification message “Group invites sent” isn’t part of that function you will be bypassing.

I had this exact same error. I realised that I had put the member-themes folder in wp-content/themes instead of directly into wp-content. Works fine now.

Ok, I’ll throw my hat into the ring…

As for now I’m running a standard bp theme site on WPMU 2.7 and bp 1.0b2 that I’m gradually translating to Swedish (55% there). For the non-swedes here it’s a community for people working out.

I’ve semi-launched it a couple of weeks ago so there’s just a few users but the site will stay intact so if you’re A) Swedish and working out feel free to join.

Go look-see: http://komiformguiden.se

Thanks Burt – I liked that insight into your thought process.

And, FWIW, the last tip is the correct one; remove the “default” WP MU theme folder, rename the folder with your choosen default theme to “default” and all new blogs will get this theme.

@burtadsit and kapil.bp,

I was searching for an answer of adding (or subtracting) main nav buttons, and came across this post. Very helpful and led me right to an interim answer. So, thank you.

However, if a hard code nav changes into bp-core-templatetags.php, then I would be sorry when upgrading if I wasn’t paying attention. So, this prompts my next question, is there no dynamic way to add (or hide) nav buttons? Of course there’s always a way, but one that exists?

Maybe this could be accomplished by adding a nav options section to the BuddyPress home theme? Or a BuddyPress-specific nav plugin?

Any takers?