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Which theme are you using?

To change the background colour, you’d use the background-color CSS property:

#element {
    background-color: #000;
}

Where #element refers to the form element used in your HTML (the way to target this particular element is theme-dependent). Check out the Getting started with CSS MDN guide for more info on how to write CSS.

You should use your theme’s style.css document to add your own custom styles.

You can set the page users are taken to when they log in quite easily with a plugin such as Theme My Login.

BuddyPress uses a Template Hierarchy, just as WordPress does. If you have a copy of activate.php in your theme, BuddyPress will look for it and load that in place of the core template file. See the article for more info.

Yes you sure can use multisite + buddypress( network activated ) to achieve this.
But merging two existing sites under one multisite will need shuffling things here and there. And as you are saying both websites use multiple themes, things might get tricky 🙂

The problem might be related to the theme you’re using. Try activating the TwentyFifteen theme to see if you can upload.

Hi Rhonda

Which theme are you using?

I ran into the same or similar issue. From my debug logs it appears to be an issue when login with ajax is also an active plugin…these are the two errors that repeat endlessly until there’s a server timeout:

[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP Warning:  current() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php on line 223
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP Stack trace:
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   1. {main}() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-admin/plugins.php:0
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   2. require_once() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-admin/plugins.php:10
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   3. require_once() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-admin/admin.php:31
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   4. require_once() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-load.php:37
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   5. require_once() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-config.php:106
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   6. do_action() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-settings.php:353
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   7. call_user_func_array() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-includes/plugin.php:503
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   8. LoginWithAjax::init() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-includes/plugin.php:503
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   9. LoginWithAjax::getRegisterLink() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/login-with-ajax/login-with-ajax.php:91
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP  10. bp_get_signup_page() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/login-with-ajax/login-with-ajax.php:270
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP  11. bp_has_custom_signup_page() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-template.php:1902
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP  12. bp_locate_template() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-template.php:1885
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP  13. bp_get_template_stack() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php:90
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP  14. current() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php:223
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP Warning:  next() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php on line 229
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP Stack trace:
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   1. {main}() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-admin/plugins.php:0
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   2. require_once() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-admin/plugins.php:10
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   3. require_once() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-admin/admin.php:31
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   4. require_once() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-load.php:37
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   5. require_once() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-config.php:106
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   6. do_action() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-settings.php:353
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   7. call_user_func_array() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-includes/plugin.php:503
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   8. LoginWithAjax::init() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-includes/plugin.php:503
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP   9. LoginWithAjax::getRegisterLink() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/login-with-ajax/login-with-ajax.php:91
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP  10. bp_get_signup_page() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/login-with-ajax/login-with-ajax.php:270
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP  11. bp_has_custom_signup_page() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-template.php:1902
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP  12. bp_locate_template() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-template.php:1885
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP  13. bp_get_template_stack() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php:90
[03-Oct-2015 22:00:33 UTC] PHP  14. next() /var/www/html/_wp/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php:229

Simple fix is to deactivate login with ajax, then deactivate buddypress, then activate login with ajax.

This error might also present itself with other plugins/themes that have custom signup pages.

@wecreatehype Have you done any basic troubleshooting like deactivating other plugins except BuddyPress and changing to the WP default theme? Also, do provide more information about your installation so we won’t be chasing ghosts. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

This sounds doable theoretically. But i am sure there will be implications 🙂

abc.com – table prefix wpabc_
xyz.com – table prefix wpxyz_

Now in xyz.com, if you want to use buddypress tables of abc.com, go to active theme of xyz.com > functions.php and add the following code: ( untested )

add_filter( 'bp_core_get_table_prefix', 'bporg_244943_change_table_prefix', 99 );
function bporg_244943_change_table_prefix( $prefix ) {
    return 'wpabc_';
}

I’d vote for boss theme too. It looks awesome and is specifically built for buddypress network sites.
http://www.buddyboss.com/product/boss-theme/. You might want to check its live demo.

This could quite easily be theme functionality rather than something that is added to core.

Hey Julia, I use the Boss theme by Buddy Boss for my community. Just launched recently and it seems to be great.

500 is a very general error. Try the following:

• Clear your browser cache
• Delete cookies
• Remove all custom code from functions.php or bp-custom.php
• Activate the TwentyFifteen theme
• Disable all plugins
• Check your .htaccess file for errors

The problem may also result from a file or folder permissions error.

In truth, 500 errors are very hard to diagnose because they could result from almost anything.

I would like to display only one tab… simply remove the code used for comments.
Have you more than 3 posts (my per_page setting is 3 by “page”), so pagination can show up ? And have you tested with a Twenty theme. I tested succesfully the code on 2012 via bp-custom, not as plugin (if it makes a difference)…

Read this on overriding BP templates in your theme. https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

Basically you’d copy single.php to your theme/buddypress/members/single/messages/single.php keeping the same folder structure

are there any guidelines for issue posting?

Anything that you think may help the core team really. Usually a list of steps describing how to reproduce the problem is super useful. Also, as much info about your setup as you can such as plugins activated, theme, whether you use multisite, which browser you use and so on.