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Try to forget the bp child css folder and simply add your custom rules to child/style.css
Just in case of, can you provide the /child/style.css header you use and the theme name ?

1) & 2) /activity controls the site activities, while /members/single/activity/ controls the members activity tab on profile.

3) plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/ and plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-themes/

/bp-legacy/ contains /buddypress/ the current version templates.
/bp-theme contains /bp-default/, the historical BP theme (since 2007). This theme is relatively frozen and remains just for backcompatibility, in case some vintage coders continue to use it.

Since BP 1.9, you can use almost any existing WP theme, so far it is respecting wp theming standarts.

4) each component has a header. The respective files are in bp-legacy/buddypress/
/members/single/
/groups/single/
Here can find a list of functions/filters/hooks related to cover (bp 2.4.3)

5) impossible to say, as it depends of the instructions ! Can you give a link ?

Hi,

you add only custom css rules to /child/buddypress/css/buddypress.css
You don’t neeed to copy the whole original content to child. This avoid also to duplicate code.
Files contained in child have priority over theme.
In other terms what is not found in child (php, htlm, js, css) will be taken from the original source.
In some cases, when you create a custom css rule, you need to add !important, like this:
color: #000!important; By the way, you give high priority to the rule and you’re sure it is always interpreted.

And of course, you need to triple check what you code. CSS rules with missing semicolon, or who aren’t closed can generate issues, from not be applied to blank pages…

Hi,

check the code you used for “16 minutes ago”. You will find it in the buddypress-de_DE.po file. Normally, you should have %s ago -> vor %s. If you omit % or s, the string won’t be translated.

If it’s not a typo error of yours:
– where is this untranslated “ago” string showing ? Site activity, profile, widget, other ?

– do you use a specific “buddypress” theme ?

– does the issue remain when using the “official” translation file ? If not, download it here (po & mo). Don’t forget to remove your version before adding the original one into wp-content/languages/plugins/

How about setting the theme to 2015? IF that fails then there must be something up with your basic WordPress install.

Hi,

give details if you expect help !
Which widget are you talking about ?
“course” is not part of BuddyPress. Plugin name ? Theme ?

@r083r7,
glad you got it to work ! 😉
Not sure if it is a theory or simply how it works, but deactivating/reactivating (plugins, themes) will in most case recalculate the permalinks.

Not via the UI. 🙁 But you can write some code! Add this to your functions.php file in your theme, it should work even if you add it on a newline at the very end of a file:

remove_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'bp_members_admin_bar_notifications_menu', 90 );

@r083r7 Hi. You’re right that BuddyPress loads page.php as its default page wrapper template. The list near the top of https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/ shows the entire template hierarchy. Adding a buddypress.php file to your theme should have it load that template.

This file should be in the root of your theme, or inside a subfolder called “buddypress”.

I forget how setting the page template in the wp-admin page editor works with BuddyPress (I think @hnla and I fixed it at a WordCamp a few years ago). But the stuff already mentioned will probably take precedence over it.

If this doesn’t work, I’m not sure.

Try logging out and then viewing them from the frontend, they don’t display if you are already logged in, though I thought they just took you to the homepage.

Failing that I would try deactivating all plugins apart from BuddyPress to see if there is a conflict.

IF that does not help try changing the theme to 2015.

Here is related Codex page.
You will need to change in your template something like this:

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) ) ) : ?>

to this:

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&per_page=10' ) ) : ?>

Check your theme /buddypress/activity/activity-loop.php file. If you don’t have it, just copy this file (preserving directories structure) from
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/activity-loop.php

You’ll probably need to be a little more specific as to what you have done and are looking to control. BP provides many paths to custom styling you can create a child theme and then copy various BP templates or the stylesheets to it to modify, or you can create a new buddypress.php template from the themes page.php and redefine the get_template calls for header or footer so new unique ones are called when BP screens are being shown.

The BP codex has all these details, have a hunt through the theme section and a read of the template hierarchy to learn how you can introduce new template parts.

But re-state what you’re trying to do in a little more detail as we may be able to give better suggestions on how to achieve.

Hi,

by reading the first topic, it sounds like you try to use more than one child theme !

I already have activated my other child theme

If it is the case, it’s not the way to proceed. 😉

1) You should have only one child-theme activated.
2) in this child, you add a folder called buddypress.
3) if you need to modify some BP templates, you copy the original from wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/ into the child BP folder.

Example of what you should have:
wp-content/themes/XYZ theme
wp-content/themes/XYZ-child/

Let’s say you want to modify BP’s register page.
wp-content/themes/XYZ-child/buddypress/members/register.php
or you want to modify the profile header template
wp-content/themes/XYZ-child/buddypress/members/single/member-header.php

And that’s it ! The only thing you have to do is to pick the right file and add it to the child by respecting the original path who starts at: /buddypress/path/to/file.php

Inside the template file, yo can manipulate html tags and find different action hooks ( do_action( 'something' ); ). Take care to not rename or remove the existing class/ID names whithout knowing what you do.

In bp-custom.php, you can manipulate BP’s behave by adding custom functions.

In the child-theme style.css, you manipulate whatever related to your theme layout – for the entire site, including BP or other plugins.

And as all this is done via the child, anything will remain after any update of BuddyPress, your original theme, WordPress or plugins.

Reading actively the forum will bring you other answers, tips and tricks.

The only option is to use CSS (in style.css) in your child theme to modify that. Or some plugins, that give ability to apply styles without modifying files (Siteorigin CSS).

#buddypress #register-page label { 
    font-size:120%;
}

I am having the same issue. Could you tell me how you resolved it please.

May I also note that we are both using the The7 theme.

Thanks
James

It is possible because it doesn’t exist and you never noticed his mention in many topics of this forum, and perhaps never read the codex. 🙂

Read here please:

bp-custom.php