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If it was nginx, why do the links work in theme 2015 ?

Trouble is other then the lack of buddypress support I really like my theme, I guess that’s always going to be an issue unless I can find an alternative that has the right look and feel. None of those that were listed for example seem to support a header image, which I find is desirable. Also, they tend to be a bit too buddypress centric as far as I can see.

Pretty sure next set of templates will have members as a grid, yes. All of the popular third-party BuddyPress themes have done it like this, so we’d be foolish to not do the same.

1. Other people do have this issue. It’s due to the use of some hook in their theme or a plugin.

2. Something in your theme is rewriting or redirecting urls.

1st issue: a plugin is calling bp_setup_current_user too soon – using a hook that fires before BP is ready. This can be tricky to track down.

2nd issue: All the links look correct. It’s probably an issue in your custom theme. To confirm, try switching to a WP theme like 2015.

Are there any Themes that show these lists as grids?

I repeat:

This is most likely related to something in your theme.
To confirm, try switching to a WP theme, maybe 2015.

So it is better for this plugin to do the styling.

BuddyPress is intentionally built to be flexible. Even though it works well “out-of-the-box” it isn’t designed to be finished. If we added everything to core, then it would bloat the project. The idea is for you to extend your own personal copy of BuddyPress with plugins and themes to make it unique. There’s 2m+ BuddyPress sites out there (according to the number of downloads) and we wouldn’t want them all looking and acting the exact same.

Best request so far on this forum and surprised you reopened this thread. Buddypress, bbPress, and WordPress are so easily close the threads before anything is even discussed and easily just assumes its better to go to a theme author to implement it when it not the theme author that works on this plugin at all. Theme Authors are 3rd party. So it is better for this plugin to do the styling.

It’s easy to add a member’s display name.
Create a template overload of this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\member-header.php

Then replace this:

	<?php if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) && bp_activity_do_mentions() ) : ?>
		<h2 class="user-nicename">@<?php bp_displayed_user_mentionname(); ?></h2>
	<?php endif; ?>

With this:

        <?php if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) && bp_activity_do_mentions() ) : ?>
            <h2 class="user-fullname">
                <?php bp_displayed_user_fullname(); ?>
                <small>@<?php bp_displayed_user_mentionname(); ?></small>
            </h2>
        <?php endif; ?>

@stockton – do you mean BuddyBoss theme?
You should ask the theme authors about your issue.
If you’re using multi-site, be sure to tell them that.

Mine is Boss theme.

My profile menu is kinda missing as well.

Is there any way to bring them back?

This is most likely related to something in your theme.
To confirm, try switching to a WP theme, maybe 2015.

I know in the theme I am using I can create a secondary menu bar, and using a plugin I can hide the contents of this from my logged out users. Does your theme allow this?

Otherwise I’m not sure how you would create this second menu without coding, I can’t see any plugins that would do that.

Think that option may depend on the theme that you are using having the option for a second menu bar.

Another way of doing that would be to add all of the items to the one menu bar, then set half the items to be viewed only by non-logged in users and half the items viewable by logged in users only

Your theme not being suitable for standard pages isn’t reason enough to use multisite. It might solve your problem but it is kind of like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Have a read of this article, it will give you some things to think about before you go down the multisite path.

If I understand your requirements right, I wouldn’t use multisite for this. I also wouldn’t use separate installs.

Considering you just need a main site area and a BuddyPress area, I would aim to keep things as simple as possible and address this problem with a custom theme. You can add a /your-theme/buddypress/ folder which contains all of your BuddyPress templates. Then it’s just a case of styling both the main area and your BuddyPress pages to look consistent.

Hi @zabelator

Try adding this to “style.css” in your active theme

#buddypress .acomment-meta a, #buddypress .activity-header a, #buddypress .comment-meta a {
    text-decoration: none;
    pointer-events: none;
    cursor: default;
}

Hi @canadianmusicnetwork

Try adding this to “style.css” in your active theme

#buddypress #activity-stream p {
    color: #FFFFFF;
}

No. that php tag will need to be at the bottom of the content templates eg: index.php page.php if it’s not there. Depending on the theme you might have a few different templates. There is a hierarchy of which gets loaded first: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/

So are you saying that with all the plugins except BP deactivated, running the a default (twentyxx) theme, you are still seeing the issue?

Have you attempted to deactivate all of your plugins as well to see if there is a culprit there? Usually Adminbar issues crop up if the <?php wp_footer(); ?> tag is missing. Usually this is a theme thing, but on occasion a poorly coded plugin can create a similar error. Given that the issue seems to be role-based, that might indicate it’s a plugin trying to do some funky things based on user-role.