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Considering this is a fresh install, the problem is likely coming from a) the theme you’re using or b) a rogue plugin you have installed.

@djsteveb

i wrote: To make it work with BP, you add a copy of the original page.php of 2014 and rename it buddypress.php. And you add the condition into that copy.

I’m not a 2014 specialist and never liked that theme with BuddyPress. The’re so many other out to discover, easy to use and configure, that i wouldn’t loose my (at least) time with it.
2015 is already avaible and 2016 too, though 2014 is a dynosaur now. Beat’em ! 😉

you could (although this theme is quite tricky with the various sizing things, and I am NOT an expert with this theme or css – so make backups, use child themes – all that jazz)

you could try changing (or overwriting with child theme / enque an overlap style sheet)

@media screen and (min-width: 1218px) {
.site-content, .site-main .widecolumn {
    margin-left: 222px;
}
}

to:

@media screen and (min-width: 1218px) {
.site-content, .site-main .widecolumn {
    margin-left: 90px;
}
}

and..

.buddypress .site-content article .entry-content, .buddypress .site-content article .entry-header {
    max-width: 100%;
    padding: 0px 10% 5%;
}

change to

.buddypress .site-content article .entry-content, .buddypress .site-content article .entry-header {
    padding: 0px 1% 5%;
}

– now of course how these settings affect the groups page is one thing this could cause ill effects on other pages – (ones with double sidebars) – and at different screen sizes.. this 2014 thing gets pretty picky..

especially with 2014 doing one thing, and the bp-addon style thing doing some other things.. one percentage change here looks good – but a different page at a difference screen size – grrr.. you have to test a lot with this mix (come to find out the hard way here the past couple weeks!)

This will add a lot more space, which is what I guess you are going for in general – but not remove all sidebars..
and
That does not get rid of the left sidebar, which is I guess what you were meaning to ask in the first place with this thread (and I think everyone else was assuming you wanted to get rid of the right sidebar, as our understanding of the term “full width page” – err template in my mind is just that.. looks like you really want a “no sidebars at all page template” for groups page?

@danbp –

am I to understand – that you would make a buddypress.php and have just like:

<?php
if( !bp_is_groups_component() ) { 
   get_sidebar( 'content' );
}
?>

or maybe copy the page.php code and put it all into a new file buddypress.php – and add the code

if( !bp_is_groups_component() ) { 
   get_sidebar( 'content' );
}

to buddypress.php maybe in the head of it?

BP’s content comes full-width on 2014

Actually with my 2014 themed bp site I get a left and right sidebar on large monitor, it does not get into bp stuff taking full side space width until the screen shrinks to.. I dunno 1008 pix or so (one of those media queries)

So I think this code you are suggesting would indeed be useful with 2014 as well.

I have been looking a couple of plugins like ‘dynamic sidebars’ (maybe it was dynamic widgets) – and ‘content aware sidebars’ – one of these I saw recently says is plays well with BP – and I was thinking one of these may be able to solve some common problems that bp peeps run into in regards to wanting to change content on the various psueodo pages.. however I am not sure that any of those plugins would remove all widgets from the sidebar on some pages, and if they DID.. would that make theme X go full width for that area anyhow? not likely, but it’s a nice dream.

Anyhow thanks for the info I might test this out a bit not that I am digging deeper into 2014 and bp..

A child theme contain usually
style.css
functions.php

To make it work with BP, you add a copy of the original page.php of 2014 and rename it buddypress.php

2014 comes also with a full-width template which is in page-templates folder.
If you compare both files, you will see that the only difference is at line 40 of page.php
get_sidebar( 'content' );

To get what you want, you simply add a conditionnal to this part.

if( !bp_is_groups_component() ) { 
   get_sidebar( 'content' );
}

That said, i think it’s not necessary, as with or without this hack, BP’s content comes full-width on 2014. At least and by default, in the whole white zone, right of the left black sidebar. Also remind that 2014 is a left aligned theme, which can let think that you have a lot of space on the right, specially on a large desktop screen.

With 2012, it’s a bit different, as this theme use a class called full-width, directly in the html. To use the same technique, we have to echo the div to get the condition to work properly.
And 2013 doesn’t use a full-width template.

<?php if( !bp_is_groups_component() ) { 
       echo '<div id="content" role="main">';
 } else { 
echo '<div id="content" class="full-width" role="main">';
 } ?>

@venutius – yeah wordpress is weird in that it uses a “theme” to handle how the backend admin dashboard does things, and I have no idea where those things are decided in the backend – but indeed it’s kind of weird how that is basically hidden from the backend – no notice of “your current theme is enhancing how the admin dashboard looks / behaves”

@froster2,

add a conditionnal to existing on template for that element.
$user_id != bp_loggedin_user_id()

In /child-theme/buddypress/members/single/activity.php
Replace line 48 or so with this:

if ( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_my_profile() && ( $user_id != bp_loggedin_user_id() ) && ( !bp_current_action() || bp_is_current_action( 'just-me' ) ) )

WordPress is the software behind buddyPress.
If you need custom roles&capabilities on your site, you can add roles programatically as explained on your mentionned tutorial. If it works, site admin can attribute one of the additionnal role to members, within admin.

BuddyPress, at this time, handles only member types. A member type is not a role or a capability à la WordPress, but only a way to sort better your members. In other words, a kind of a member category.

To handle such behave from front-end while registering, you can associate a xprofile field value with an existing WP role. See here for a solution (untested) provided a few month ago.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-assign-a-wp-user-role-based-on-a-registration/#post-232887

Add snippet to your child theme functions.php or into bp-custom.php and give it a try.

@deklein – it certainly would not hurt, and would be pretty fast and easy to make a backup of your entire wordpress install (all files on server, maybe a zipped folder) – then delete your buddypress plugin and all your default themes.. reinstall a fresh 2014 theme and buddypress – activate and test. Very strange that those do not show up with all other plugins disabled while switched to 2014 theme – and you even checked screen options..

I would say before trying that I would try to mess with that menu using a different browser.. sometimes things work in firefox that do not work in chrome.. sometimes a browser plugin blocks something from loading somewhere that you may not find is an issue when using Internet Explorer..

Sounds like this is a theme issue and likely not an issue in regards to the 2014 / 2015 themes.. so you are probably going to have to contact your theme author about this.

You also did not provide any info about your setup – ( https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/ ) so there is no way anyone could guess about this.. have things changed with bp? quite a bit with some updates, and not so much with others –

you should disable all plugins aside from bp and see if the issue continues first imho.

if so – your theme author will likely have to dig into the issue.

@rocketslime – not sure if “The 7.2” theme is a premium theme you paid for or a free theme from somewhere?

From what I have seen in the bp forums, if it’s a premium theme – chances of you getting support here is less than 1%.. if it’s a free theme and it’s in the wp-repo – there is a slightly higher chance.. but most bp support is limited to the default 2014 / 2105 themes.

You should check this with your theme author to see if they can fix the problem.

Using 3 register pages is going to create issues, and probably difficult to debug issues.

Try just just the one created by ThemeMyLogin – afaik it works well with BP.

You’re talking about an extended profile field on a member’s page > Profile > Edit ?
And changes are appearing properly in wo-admin > Users > User > Extended Profile?
But not on the front end for that member?
Then it sounds like a theme issue.
To confirm, try switching to a standard WP theme like 2015.

I’ve got the same problem. My installed theme is KLEO. I don’t know how but when I installed the same KLEO and related plugins on my PC’s localhost. The register/activate pages of BuddyPress v2.3.3 DID APPEAR! I opened both online and localhost pages on the same browser Google Chrome. How weird!
BTW, I guess we have to create the pages manually.Thanks @danbp for your reply

@deklein – switch your theme to 2014 theme – does it come up then?

disable all your other plugins aside from bp… does it come up then?

if so – re-activate one by one and test if it’s still there.. you may find it’s a theme or other plugin causing a conflict (?)

hi @bigkahunaburger,

Give this a try (goes to bp-custom.php or child-theme functions.php)

function bpfr_get_user_comments_on_profile() {

// number of comments to show per page
define( 'DEFAULT_COMMENTS_PER_PAGE', 3 );

$page = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;

$limit = DEFAULT_COMMENTS_PER_PAGE;

$offset = ($page * $limit) - $limit;

$param = array(
	'user_id' 	=> bp_displayed_user_id(),
	'status'	=> 'approve',
	'offset'	=> $offset,
	'number'	=> $limit
);

$total_comments = get_comments(array(
	'orderby' => 'comment_date',
	'order'   => 'ASC',
	'status'  => 'approve',
	'parent'  => 0
));

$pages = ceil(count($total_comments)/DEFAULT_COMMENTS_PER_PAGE);
$comments = get_comments( $param );

$args = array(
	'base'         => @add_query_arg('page','%#%'),
	'format'       => '?page=%#%',
	'total'        => $pages,
	'current'      => $page,
	'show_all'     => false,
	'mid_size'     => 4,
	'prev_next'    => true,
	'prev_text'    => __('« backward'),
	'next_text'    => __('onward »'),
	'type'         => 'plain'
);

// Output pagination
 echo paginate_links( $args );
?>

<ul>
<?php

	foreach($comments as $comment) {

	// short version
	//echo '<li>'. ($comment->comment_content .'&nbsp;<a href="'. esc_url( get_permalink( $comment->comment_post_ID ) ) ).'">View post</a></li>';
	
	// long version
		echo '<li>'. ($comment->comment_content .'&nbsp;<a href="'. esc_url( get_permalink( $comment->comment_post_ID ) ) ).'">'. get_the_title( $comment->comment_post_ID ) .'</a> Comment: '. get_comment_date( '', $comment ) .'</li>';
	}
?>
</ul>
<?php

}
add_action ( 'my_profile_comment', 'bpfr_get_user_comments_on_profile' );

function bpfr_comment_profile_setup_nav() {
global $bp;

	$parent_slug = 'comments';
	$child_slug = 'comments_sub';	
	
	// Add nav item
	bp_core_new_nav_item( array(
	'name' => __( 'My comments' ),
	'slug' => $parent_slug,
	'screen_function' => 'bpfr_profile_comment_screen',
	'position' => 40,
	'default_subnav_slug' => $child_slug 
	) );
	
	//Add subnav item 	 
	bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( 
	'name' => __( 'My latest comments' ), // as content title
	'slug' => $child_slug, 
	'parent_url' => $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $parent_slug.'/', 
	'parent_slug' => $parent_slug, 
	'screen_function' => 'bpfr_profile_comment_screen'
	) );
}

		function bpfr_profile_comment_screen() {	
			add_action( 'bp_template_content', 'bpfr_profile_comment_screen_content' );
			bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( 'bp_core_template_plugin', 'members/single/plugins' ) );
		}

		function bpfr_profile_comment_screen_content() {
			do_action( my_profile_comment );
		}

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpfr_comment_profile_setup_nav' );

Reference: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_comments

To do the same for user’s post, see here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/creating-a-custom-tab-that-takes-in-the-info-from-wp-recent-posts/

– it’s the (or one of the) “default” wp themes ( https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyfourteen/ )
about the only way you will get any kind of support with bp or / and rtmedia..

it’s not the easiest thing to mod – but at least it works, and bp has some stylesheets included that massage it into something better than the average theme for some bp pages..

I finally got deep into it to style some changes at the various media queries / screen sizes..

btw – did you try changing your premium themes style.css to those changes to see if they work?

if you search the bp forums for other premium themes you will see that even ones selling as “the best or the most popular buddypress theme” – seem to have issues and lack good support.. search the forums for “kleo” for example – lol

I am sticking with twenty fourteen ’till things mature a bit (recent changes in wp and bp have made things complex in some ways) –

@liharris – welcome to the suck (that is theme issues with bp (and other things bp related like rtmedia) (welcome to the suck a movie quote, kind of joking)-

you will likely not get any help in the bp forums when it comes to premium themes, you should contact the theme author.

I did a quick look, and I must say I have zero knowledge of that theme and all the css things that could affect everything – I am also not a css expert.

My first thought is that you can create something very similar with a free theme from the wp-repo and a one of the “cards” plugins from the from wp-repo..

my second thought is wondering why the theme author did not include a couple of css rules like:

.header {
margin-left: -200px !important;
}

body {
margin-left: 200px;
}

but again I have no idea what he/she is trying to do with whatever elements, and how one may affect another in different situations..

you could try to make a child theme (good luck with that friggin process!)

and adapt those rules..

but I suggest that you don’t get married to that theme and buddypress – even if you find a theme that actually says “works with buddypress” – I think you will find little issues to contend with – and from what I have seen (lately even) is that these premium theme authors (And free theme authors) have trouble keeping up with bp and other things that are (IMHO) needed addons with bp (rtmedia, or/and media press, or that other one – umm. photo something)

anyhow – I gave up on all premium and free themes and have been stuck with working with 2014 theme as it’s the only thing that gets any kind of “working well with bp / rtmedia and other things” – I’m sure other smarter coders mileage is different.

There’s something causing the registration form not to submit and that’s likely to be either a rogue plugin, theme or custom code you’ve introduced. The usual troubleshooting steps are to deactivate everything and work forward step-by-step, testing as you go. That’s the only way to determine where the problem has been introduced.

Try this in your theme/functions.php or bp-custom.php

function is_user_online() {

   $last_activity = bp_get_user_last_activity( bp_displayed_user_id() );

   $curr_time = time(); 

   $diff = $curr_time - strtotime( $last_activity );

   $time = 5 * 60;  // must be in seconds

   if( $diff < $time )
      echo '<br/>online';
   else 
      echo '<br/>not online';
}
add_action('bp_before_member_header_meta', 'is_user_online');