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That’s very theme dependant and eventually if you customized your site it needs adjustment too. Essentially CSS and JS. Unable to tell more as you didn’t mention wich theme you use.

Perhaps you can also try to use this plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddymobile/

My idea is that you use a wrong declaration.

Normally, the group cover image comes is a background image of a link to the group.
This means, if you respect BP’s original html & css in your custom work, that you have:
<a id="header-cover-image" href="..../groups/GROUP_NAME/"></a>

By default, if the cover image doesn’t exist or is removed, you see a grey background.
This CSS will remove that and the second rule will reduce the empty height of the whole header, and ONLY on the group home page (if Home is the landing tab you use for groups).

.group-home a#header-cover-image {
   background-image:none!important;
/* remove the default grey background */
   background-color: transparent!important;
}

/* this should probably be adjusted to your theme */
.group-home #item-header {
   margin-top: -150px!important;
}

What version of WordPress, BuddyPress, are you using?

What theme, and what other plugins do you have active?

Shared hosting would not IMO you would need a VPS or managed host depending on your configuration ex your theme and number of plugin.

@mugwumpman,
first and last_name fields don’t belong to BuddyPress, but to WP profiles.

BP use only a field called Name at first install. User can enter their first AND last name in that field. Is this what you’re talking about ?

After reading your topic on wp.org, it seems that you use those fields to enter datas which are not first and last names, but more for company and company activity or such.

As you use BP, i would suggest you use the power of xprofile and offer to your user a much better experience by adding a field for a company and another for company activity (or something like that). So you can forget WP’s profile fields and use BP’s xprofile fields.

WP’s profile field used when BP is activated are: username, email and password.
And BP adds his mandatory Name field, which can be first, lastname, username or whatever other unique name belonging to a subscriber (which can be a human, a pet, a company….).

And yo can as many fields you want to the registery or for later on profiles.

The other problem related to font case is a mistery so far. Can be related to many things such as plugins or theme or custom function. This can be determined by debuging and using one of WP’s default theme and all plugins deactivated.

No matter to know if you fill a wp or a bp field for this. Both use a textarea, so it’s probably more a css thing somewhere.

See in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single

and read here for some general guidance. Note: even if only Twenty theme are described as example, you can use (more or less) the same technique for any other theme.

What ever, all starts by creating a child-theme as very first step.

Related to your question, do drop down list of the sub nav and hide them in the object nav fields, i think you don’t need to alter a template, but to write a custom function.

As i can be wrong about you goal, perhaps take also a look to core file bp-core/bp-core-buddybar.php to understand how nav and subnav are instanciated.

Read also https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/navigation-api/

@fearthemoose, a solution is partially given in this topic. Check just the correct way to write the function from here:

BuddyPress Cover Images

It’s important also to try first with a Twenty theme, as the issue could came from your theme or another plugin as BP.

check the whole functions.php if it mentions group/groups….would suggest u shift to a theme which actually supports bp

Welcome Pack! Small world.

Can you try disabling Welcome Pack? That certainly interferes with user registration.
Please also try disabling iThemes Security.

Then, test registration again, and see what happens.

If it still doesn’t work as expected, if you can switch your theme to one of the default WordPress themes (leaving those two plugins disabled), test again. If you have a test environment (say you might be using Pantheon hosting, for example), this should be easy to do, though if it’s only one server, I appreciate you might not want to modify your production site too much.

Well any theme that i have bought for buddypress usage would be at least a year old (probably more) at this point and i not would generally recommend buying a theme that’s old since responsive design trends are still moving so fast. Sorry i cannot personally recommend anything but there are good ways to vet the newer themes as well.

🙂

As of right now, you would have to make a copy of the JS to make your required change:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.6.2/src/bp-templates/bp-legacy/js/buddypress.js?marks=530#L513

This file should reside in your theme’s buddypress/js folder.

Keep in mind that this is the source JS. When used in production environments, this JS is minified to buddypress.min.js.

It sounds like Specular has some built-in BuddyPress support, which is either incomplete or wrongly added.

See if there is a buddypress folder in the Specular theme folder. If this folder exists, rename it to buddypress-backup temporarily and see if the group creation page works again.

If there isn’t a buddypress folder, there is probably a code snippet in Specular’s functions.php that is interfering with the group creation screen.

this place has decent premium themes:
https://themeforest.net/search?utf8=✓&term=buddypress+bootstrap

you can also do a similar search query on the wp.org repository.

BP’s target the page, not the register process. In brief, BP shows the wp-login page. For internal purpose only, BP needs a registration page to fit with WP.

But it’s not an ordinary wp page, just a placeholder, or “internal address” if this is clearer to you.

Normally, by default, once his registration is fullfiled, the user is redirected to your-site/register/ where he see Check Your Email To Activate Your Account! .

Check your theme settings or theme’s functions.php if it contains some redirect to homepage.

It should work like that by default. What plugins do you have running, what theme are you using, and what other code customisations might you have made?

Hi,

sorry, but we can’t assist you for premium theme, as we have no access to his code.

For the BP part, ensure that a group page exist in BP settings > pages. This page must be unique and without any template model or other settings.
Ensure also you activated permalinks (whatever but default).
And test with a Twenty theme as first.
Once ok, go to front-end Groups Directory and try to add a group from there.

its a Specular theme issue…tell them its working with default wp theme and not their theme

@apock i merged your older topic to this one.

– ensure you have only one activity page (and none in trash).
– resave your permalinks. Sometimes pages are lost after updates.
Also:
– have you tested with another theme ?
– which plugins do you use ?
– do you use some custom code related to activities ?

Which theme are you using?

Never modify original files.
Custom code for BP can be added to bp-custom.php