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For private messages, auto-complete only shows your friends.

To access everyone, put this in your theme/functions.php or in plugins/bp-custom.php

define( 'BP_MESSAGES_AUTOCOMPLETE_ALL', true );

Check out the Template Hierarchy article. It will show you how to set up templates for BuddyPress. You can then remove the comment section and comment form from the page(s) you want.

The Template Hierarchy article is what you’re looking for.

@tranny I’m not sure I’m inderstanding the question or problem here, but if you want the styling for vert menu that would appear with no sidebars but do have sidebar in use you’re alternative option to the above solution provided by @airsid would be to ensure you have a copy of a primary temple i.e page.php moved to a bp folder in your child theme, in that you would use conditional checks around the get_sidebar() to remove it from loading on profile pages then copy the companion styles over and find the section for the navigation and where/how I select to show only if the class .no-sidebar is printed on the body element by adding in:
body.no-sidebar, body.bp-user {} to all the rulesets that cover the navigation properties.
( I realise this is a not that straightforward though, and am puzzling whether we can write something better, but it’s a problematical area things like theme sidebars for BP and user account screens.)

@hnla

Help me out – how do I implement BuddyPress styling into my Twenty Sixteen child theme?

Take a look at Theme My Login. That plugin has a redirection module which will help you do that.

Hi, you can add this

<script>document.getElementById("signup_with_blog").checked = true;</script>

in the footer or header of your theme

You mean the ‘Member Type’ fields?

It may be an issue with your theme.
Try switching momentarily to a WP like 2013 to confirm.

Basically, the core uses these files for display:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\

If you want to change the display, you can overload those files and thereby avoid changing anything in the BP plugin folder.

The current files re themes are here:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\

You should always use those when overloading to a theme or child theme.

The use of ‘legacy’ in the dir name is unfortunate and confusing, imo.

I had the same problem. I could upload an cover image but got the warning “For better results, make sure to upload an image that is larger than 0px wide, and 225px tall. ”

After entering the following code in /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php i could i could upload the image. but it is still not showing.

function your_theme_xprofile_cover_image( $settings = array() ) {
        $settings['width']  = 640;
        $settings['height'] = 300;
	$settings['default_cover'] = '/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/blog_header_640x300.jpg';
 
    return $settings;
}
add_filter( 'bp_before_xprofile_cover_image_settings_parse_args', 'your_theme_xprofile_cover_image', 10, 1 ); // for the members Cover Images
add_filter( 'bp_before_groups_cover_image_settings_parse_args', 'your_theme_xprofile_cover_image', 10, 1 ); // for the groups Cover Images

To test if i can show an cover image i did enter the following CSS code with Firebug and the cover image will show. Unfortunnaly not the one i uploaded 🙁

#buddypress #header-cover-image
height: 300px;
width: 640px;
background-image: url('/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/blog_header_640x300.jpg');

I think i experience this problems because i’m using a child theme, but not sure for that.
See my post: Cover image in child theme

@paddy33 – Try adding this line to your theme’s functions.php in your 'after_setup_theme' hook.

add_theme_support( 'buddypress' );

This should bring back support to use bp_core_load_template() in your theme. However, may I ask what URL you are attempting to load bp_core_load_template( 'template-user-account' ) on?

If this is a non-BuddyPress page (eg. example.com/dashboard), just use get_template_part() instead of bp_core_load_template().

@airsid

Are you saying I need to install a sidebar plugin to see changes to the theme?

@dave8528

I’m also interested in learning how to do child theme edits to BP pages that will survive BP updates.

@hnla

I found that BP comes with changes which are suggested on that page already in the code. But the profile page does not look like on that page.

I am left in complete darkness. How can I modify profile pages to have that type of look? Can it be done with mods to the child theme, in order to preserve BP source files so I don’t lose the changes with the next BP update?