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We’re happy for people to contribute those new UX/UI improvements then!

Like I said before please stop slatting BP and the people that provide this very complex app for FREE for your use.

I’m not being impolite @unrealpixel but attempting to get people to realise that the tone of the thread is not pleasant 🙂

@zo1234
> Start a kickstarter page lol and hire an excellent UI/UX designer! BuddyPress is too popular of a plugin to have bad design.

Do it then! What we provide is something that takes a lot of work to achieve and maintain and is the most unsatisfactory means of working with frontend code where we can’t go and add any custom styling as we’re bound to having to try and produce something that works with any theme layout and styling that might arise, again we do this on our own WORK time unpaid so you can understand why all we ask is that people are a little bit appreciative of those efforts 🙂

The whole freakin Plugin needs a UI & layout makeover. It’s 2017, looks like crap vs today’s UI/UX standards. This is why people are willing to pay for premium plugins like Ultimate Member plugin $200/year, or BuddyBoss theme – for design & looks alone. I’d even pay for a UI/UX upgrade that looks similar to Ultimate Member because BuddyPress has more add-ons and better performance. Start a kickstarter page lol and hire an excellent UI/UX designer! BuddyPress is too popular of a plugin to have bad design.

I am not attacking the BuddyPress Dev team to be clear.
I’m just saying that there should be a customization option for the registration page.
Because right now the styles are dependent on the theme. Why not add an option that allows people to place a certain field at a place and fully customize that field to their likings. Of course I understand that is hard and takes a long time and will probably not happen.
But please the team would make a lot of people happy by adding an option so people can customize the registration page apart from the full theme like its own style sheet.

Hi unrealpixel,

I understand your frustration and would suggest you contact your premium theme support. A good support will be able to offer you some CSS modifications even if the issue is brought about by a third party plugin, or if the issue goes beyond the level of support that they normally provide, they will at least be able to guide you in the most civilized way like all paid themes do.

Or if you are code savvy enough, you can consider Henry Wright’s reply to my post. For a free theme support, his reply is useful and polite.

@all Could we maybe a little less rude about BuddyPress styling we put a heck of a lot of our work time into providing BP as theme compatible app, it sounds like you’re all experiencing problems with premium WP themes affecting BP. Our registration screens are as best they can be made when we have to try and cater for unknown styling layouts.

Above all else before making remarks please do try to bother to read the Codex documentation which explains just how to avail yourselves of the huge flexibility BP template hierarchy affords users and the ease in which you can overload all template files to child themes including the BP stylesheet. In other words RTFM 😉

> BuddyPress needs to do something about this.

No we don’t! We don’t have to support premium themes we support themes coded to WP theme standards to do more is more work than a volunteer set of devs can handle. There is always the option of hiring a dev to get things settled in to your theme.

Same issue here. I just want to be able to edit the css of the registration fields.
My theme (Avada) doesn’t have a straight forward style.css it does not simply work like that.
BuddyPress needs to do something about this.

You should copy the buddypress template files to your child theme and edit the individual profile pages there.

I managed to make a custom profile page like this

Add the following code to your child-theme´s function.php

function login_redirect( $redirect_to, $request, $user ){
    return home_url('profile');
}
add_filter( 'login_redirect', 'login_redirect', 10, 3 );
define( 'BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT', 'profile' );

That should do it.

add_theme_support( 'buddypress' ) is for custom BuddyPress themes not relying on theme compatiblity.

I would remove that line from your theme’s functions.php and then load a BuddyPress page to see if the default BP styles show up as expected.

You can find all of the templates in a buddypress folder here: bp-templates/bp-legacy.

Step 1. Copy the buddypress folder to your theme. You should then have something that looks like this: wp-content/themes/your-theme/buddypress
Step 2. Edit the files inside the buddypress folder.

Do you see any debug error messages when you enable WP_DEBUG?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress

In wp-config.php, set WP_DEBUG to true, WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY to false to prevent error messages showing on your site, and WP_DEBUG_LOG to true so error messages are logged to wp-content/debug.log.

Next, when the activities disappear, check the log and see what it says.

Also, always strip down your install to see if there is a problem with plugins or your theme. For instance, your caching and DB plugins could affect this. Try disabling some plugins to see if the problem persists.

Which template are you referring to in 1.?

Check out the Template Hierarchy article. The file you’d need to copy and then modify is buddypress/members/members-loop.php.

can both code snippets be placed either in functions.php or bp-custom.php?

2 can but 1 isn’t a code snippet (you’re copying and then modifying a file).

Hi @ulferlingsson

This is very likely to be theme-related. I notice you’re using the Niche theme. Try contacting the theme author to let them know there’s an issue.

You can edit the layout of the registration page. buddypress/members/index-register.php is the template you’ll need to edit. See the Template Hierarchy article for more information.

Template Hierarchy

I have the same problem with the registration page. It’s unusable … an absolutely embarrassment if you look at screen capture of the desktop layout:

https://image.prntscr.com/image/10859QPiSTaGvw7pDQg9hw.png

and the tablet layout:

https://image.prntscr.com/image/wGzGFTgOTDeq01OxaAbGbQ.png

I am running on Divi theme, and there is no way that I can use Divi theme to edit the layout of the registration page because it’s done at the backend of the BuddyPress plugin.

Is there a plugin out there that can resolve this ?

Regards.

The following code won’t cause the parse error:

<p><?php printf(
    __( 'Your account was activated successfully! You can now log in on the sidebar with the username and password you provided when you signed up.', 'your-theme-domain' ),
    wp_login_url( bp_get_root_domain() )
); ?></p>

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘else’ (T_ELSE) in /home/admin/public_html/wp-content/themes/Divi-Child/buddypress/members/activate.php on line 47

This is referring to an else statement on line 47 of activate.php. What do you have on line 47?

I think you are referring to the message that appears after the registration page is submitted. If so, it’s not a different page or something you can turn-off anywhere (as far as I know). The message appears on register.php.

To modify it, you’ll want to make a copy of it, edit it then add it to your child theme: mytheme/buddypress/members/register.php