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Hi,

You have to install BP correctly on WordPress as very first.
This means particulary that you use WordPress with one of default’s Twenty theme.
– install BuddyPress
– activate the component you want to use
– ensure that each component has his own page
– pretty permalinks must be activated too.

To get a proper register page, allow user registration in WP settings and add manually, if not created automatically, a “register” page to BP.

NOTE: BP pages are not usual WP pages. They are only placeholder (a unique ID in the wp ecosystem) where BP will show dynamic content. These page must be unique and shouldn’t be asigned to any template or model. Give them a title and you’re done.

once WP+BP work correctly together and you can access to the register page without trouble, you can be sure that this couple is definetly OK.

No it’s time to activate a custom theme if you use one. An if something gooes wrong at this stage you’re sure it’s the new theme who is the culprit.

And if the new theme is working correctly with WP+BP, you can install plugins.

And again, WP+BP+Theme = OK, but what about the plugin ?

Easy to understand, easy to build, very annoying to write this for the 589 000 time, but still the only way to install BP.

On your side, you need to follow these steps, but also to read the documentation from codex and of course, from any additionnal plugin you want to use !

That said, be warned that we can’t assist you on this forum with third party premium theme or plugins as we have no free access to their code.

The theme maybe ? Have you tested with a twenty theme ? What goes on when WP Social is deactivate, with twenty and your actual theme ?

Hi,

…may be, but BuddyPress is not specifically developped for a theme. When was the latest theme update and compare with latest BP update. Your question could be inversed: why does Extra not fit with most recent BP ?

Also, sorry for you, but we don’t support premium theme here, as we have no access to their code.

Hi @mthant,

sorry for your menu trouble, but it seems to me, after visiting your site, that you omitted some important settings steps. So let’s try to set up properly your site menu before adding BP related conditionnals.

1) Each active BP component should have his unique page.
2) Site should have pretty permalinks activated (whatever option but default)

For example step 1 indicate that your register page is at /site/register-2. This could be correct, but tells that you created a page called register first, than removed it, and finally recreated a second “register” page. This explains why you have “-2” in the URL and probably a page in the trash. You have to clear it definetly. And you have to ensure that the slug is /register/. Go to dashboard > Pages > Quick edit and correct it.

As BP is active, you should also have a page called by default “members”. His default url should be http://7fc.d70.myftpupload.com/members/.
I assume you renamed it to “directory”. Problemen is that “directory” doesn’t show the member directory, or no message telling visitors they have to log in to see this page…

And as you use a lot of different directories, it is confusing, even for you when you try to build a menu.

But you’re using Salutation, which is a premium theme and i can’t help you further to set it up correctly.
But you could activate a Twenty theme for the time you need to create and test how WP menus are created and displayed. And perhaps read through Salutation documentation too. 😉

Here’s BP guide about the BP menu you can add aside the site main menu.

And here, the access to any menu related codex articles.

By default it is clickable, so there must be something messing with the email creation. I’d unload all other plugins and switch to 2016 theme and then test.

If you are a newbie you might like to check out my website – http//:buddyuser.com, it’s aimed at getting newbies up to speed.

Regarding your issue with menus, is this not a more general WordPress/Theme issue? What happens when you replace those BuddyPress Options with other options, do you still get the same behaviour?

no setting in BuddyPress you have to add custom code https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/buddypress-cover-images/

It’s related to your theme. Test it is the case by activating a Twenty theme. Once you have found that it is indeed this, go to your theme documentation or support and see how to remove the comment template in your-theme/page.php or how to deactivate that if you use a framework or a very customizable theme.

This should normally be done via a child theme.

If I can go BuddyPress pages, I can make those changes.

No, not exactly ! BP pages are not ordinary wp pages.

Do you use a child theme ? If so, read Salutation doc first, then check the child theme and sse if it is updated for BP 2.7 new template

As Salutation is a premium theme, we can’t help you much more with this (small) issue. Afaik you have to ask on the theme support.

Sounds like a theme thing, I’m not an expert in theme things yet but my first port of call would be my theme developer to see if there were settings you could change to change that page. There’s probably at worst case a bit of custom CSS that you can add to your theme. Whilst BuddyPress may be calling that content it’s the theme that is delivering it and obviously a page still configured with the old settings.

You might want to take a look at my website. It’s for people just starting out with BuddyPress, it might give you some ideas.

http://buddyuser.com

There’s a plugin to force the user to select an Avatar before they user your site – http://buddyuser.com/plugin-review-buddypress-force-profile-photo

Some of your questions you need to ask your theme creator, though if it’s not a BuddyPress theme they may not be much help.

Hi @excel1,

such URL is odd and shouldn’t appear on a correctly install setup:
example.com/index.php/beispielbeitrag/

In brief, your install WP at the site root which is: exemple.com
BP is a wp plugin and by the way, will also be at the root.

And as wp is also a blog, that blog is also at example.com (on a page defined in wp’s Read settings).

This means that you can create a page for the blog and name it “besipielbeitrag” and asign this page to posts in WP settings. And make it private or whatever.

BP members or groups will be at exemple.com/members/ or example.com/groups/ and the users at example.com/members/USERNAME/

index.php is one of the files in a theme, but has nothing to do with BP pages or a dedicated blog page.

Also, if emxampel.com and example.com are 2 URL for the same site, or if you installed wp in emxampel.com and BP in example.com, BP won’t work.

I would recomend you to read attentively the install guide from the begin.

Looking ter layout it seems everything is shifted to the right. It’s the theme that is doing this I’d say, you should ask the theme developer for advice on how to correct this. Another method would be to get a CSS editor, maybe SiteOrigin CSS, and use it to see if you can modify the left padding/margin settings for the fields on the left of the page?

Also, it looks like your theme has it’s own theming for the registration page, you might like to ask it’s developers about affecting the layout of the registration page.

On a default configuration there is no change to the group search when you set it to be on the front page like this so it should work.

Have you tried deactivating all the plugins and checking if it works then? Also try the 2016 theme.

Please take a minute to read this post: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/bp-custom-php/
Short answer: /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php

Place it in bp-custom.php
Then it won’t matter which theme you use.

I’m using a child theme so how exactly do I add this in?

You need to look into setting up a template overload of the files that create those pages:

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

I’ve not used visual composer, only siteorigin so far, with site origin you create a grid of columns and rows and you can insert any widget into any Page Builder block