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@kjgbriggs – child theme is the same for wp / bp – so you can follow the directions of the link I posted up above to the wp codex – it may look like a lot, but it’s just a few things to do to create manually – once you have your divi child made, start looking at the selectors from your other one and pop the code into the new child – hopefully will be straightforward, mainly css stuff – if your second theme has some fancy javascript called in it’s functions.php (or other unique pages, libraries, templates, etc) in it that divi does not have, that might make for some extra work.

Hi @maelga,

Querying by member type is explained here:

Member Types

Then, you’ll have to create a custom function to get a navbar specific to each member type.

Members Navigation Menus

@kjgbriggs – setting up a child theme is just a way to essentially make a new theme – using another “parent” as your template. When you activate, it’s just ONE theme that it handling everything for your wp/bp site.

You do no provide enough details about your theme names, and what you like about the main one and the one that ‘looks better with buddyprees’ – however, if you just like the layout of the bp components with he second theme more, then yes I believe you could make a child theme from your primary theme, and then go into your secondary theme and start to pull some of the layout code for the bp specific components and add those to your main theme.

If it’s overall colors and such you are trying to mix, like have a red header for your main site and a blue header for your bp pages – that is not going to be so easy..

it’s easy to learn about child themes here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

and a little more digging to learn about bp specif pages and components here:

BuddyPress Theme Development

for minor changes you can keep things simple by activating your second theme that you like with the bp looking better, go to the bp pages where you like the layout, right click on the element that looks good and click inspect elements – this will give you the css rules that are working the way you like.. things like alignment properties, bold, colors perhaps – copy those – put them into your new child theme styles and such..

of course some things can be more tricky if your second theme has fancy functions.php, java and all that included.

I think it’s tools -> Export to export your posts and pages.

make a full backup is fairly easy – and you could easily recreate what you currently have with a zip file and an export of your database.

just get to your phpmyadmin, export (click add drop table under advanced) –
via file manager compress / zip your whole site.
(you might want to make a separate zip file of your wp-content folder to easily re-add your pics and plugins and themes and such with new install) – and download that – to upload later

real instructions here https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

then you could delete all the files in your your folder – reinstall wp (if you use a new db, then your old one will still be there if you decide to revert)

I would do a folder for your /sys and a separate install in /rust or whatever, and put a custom html index.ht page in your root that says welcome click here for my rust group, click here for my game group.. or something like that.. but that’s me and my limited knowledge of what you are going for.

pretty easy to import your posts and pages into a new wp.. if you plan to re-use pics and stuff, upload your wp-content folder and unzip – sometimes this is best done before you import posts and pages with the wp tool – sometimes you click “download and import attachments” – sometimes not. sometimes you have delete all the pages and posts and them re-import them and select the other option (don’t download import pics) or whatever.. I can’t remember which works and which fails – but it’s all fairly quick and painless regardless – and good practice for fixing a major problem in the futre.

Take a look at the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy article. If your theme uses BuddyPress templates then you’ll be able to override them.

@colinl255 – I am not sure what your issue is, and I am not a wp / bp expert.. but first thing I would do is make a backup of your htaccess file or rename it.. then make a new – change permalinks to something else, save, then change them back to pretty.. and see if it’s an issue caused by your htaccess file..

then I would make a zip backup of all files in your directory, export a copy of your database through phpmyadmin (check the advanced box to add / drop /whatever is suggested in wp codex for backup / export / migrate instructions)

delete all files in your wp-admin/ folder and wp-includes/ folder – re-upload fresh files from the latest WP download..

try again..

then start deleting plugins and themes (instead of just deactivating)

if it gets to a point where you need to wipe out everything and do a fresh install it would not be that much work.. but hopefully you will find an issue before getting that far.

I suppose it would be wise to check your server’s error log and ask your server support peeps to take a look – there could be some hidden mod sec module out of whack or something.. and they should check to see if your php and sql are up to date.

@jgob – The simple answer would be sure, there is a way, edit the css.

there is no real way to answer your question I don’t think – there are no details. What is messed up? What is cleaner? Who decides these things?

What you are asking is highly dependent on which theme you are using.

As is suggested here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

Best to have the info so people may take a look.

Without that info – right click on your pictures, inspect elemment, go to your css and change things is all I can tell ya.

@whiskyharry – you are going to have to direct these questions to the premium theme author – people at bp dot org will not help you with this issue – (99.99 % sure on this)

@colinl255 – if you switch to a default theme like 2015, 2015 – does the same thing happen?

Have you also tried the issue with all plugins disabled except BP?

Have you checked that you set “pretty permalinks”?

OK, after some help from the theme team we’ve worked out what’s happening:
1. message sends OK if only use the username but NO @ sign!
2. the send to box doesn’t auto=popu;late because i have ‘allow friends’ disabled
3. error still occurs if you just use the name (not username)

So it looks my problem is related to not allowing friends rather than anything else. I’ll start a new thread to see if there’s a workaround for this so it still allows to send by member’s name and if it can still auto-populate.

Hope this helps a bit @rebekahmeuir?

Debugging PHP code is part of any project, but WordPress comes with specific debug systems designed to simplify the process as well as standardize code across the core, plugins and themes. This page describes the various debugging tools in WordPress and how to be more productive in your coding as well as increasing the overall quality and interoperativity of your code.

The following code, inserted in your wp-config.php file, will log all errors, notices, and warnings to a file called debug.log in the wp-content directory. It will also hide the errors so they do not interrupt page generation.

// Enable WP_DEBUG mode
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);

// Enable Debug logging to the /wp-content/debug.log file
define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true);

// Disable display of errors and warnings
define(‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false);
@ini_set(‘display_errors’,0);

// Use dev versions of core JS and CSS files (only needed if you are modifying these core files)
define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true);

Thank !!
SherieySron@Ufindthem

Update; have just tested it with default 2015 theme and all plugins deactivated except for BP and still the same error. I have no idea why this should suddenly happen as i didn’t update BP, only theme and some plugins.

The other thing I noticed was that when you enetr the @username or the members name it doesn’t auto-populate, or throw up the correct one to add – so this functionality seems to have stopped, which maybe why it doesn’t send???

Any ideas would be appreciated.

@ronz – have you poked around https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/ ?

I am would not bet things are as up to date as they could be, but I think there is some useful info there.

what do you mean “page is visible” to user logged in?

@whiskyharry – what theme are you using?

with all of my buddypress sites I have the same sidebar on all pages.

@ravan – I would think multi-site is the best way to go for this. Use like a new-blog-defaults plugin to auto make their new sites a certain theme and have pre-populated content to make it easy.

Of course you would setup a single site blog, give each new user editor privelages and manually create a page for each person.. I did that once.. I think the way multi-site seperates things is a little less messy – and a “full blown multi-site” is not that big a deal these days – back in the early wpmu days it was a lot – these days adding the couple lines of code and telling wp to put the new blogs -err “sites” into a subfolder is not much to deal with.

I have found as long as you use a blog defaults plugin to set a bunch of settings for each one automatically (users must be logged in to comment) – stuff like that – you can save server resources and not have to worry too much about users who are not paying attention to comments spam and the like.

@rebekahmeuir – this has just started happening to me too. All plugins, BP and themes up to date (with theme that’s specifically designed to work with BP).

On tesing the messaging works if you send it to a member by clicking on the ‘send private message’ in the All members section, but NOT when you compose a message in your own p[rofile section – with subjest line completed, and tested using the memebers’ Name and username. It shows an error message that the message can’t be sent.

Anyone else experiencing this?

I’ll check with other plugins and the theme and will update here if I find anything, but any info would be really useful!

Cheers.

@whiskyharry – what theme are you using? Have you tried disabling your other plugins and then see if it is one of them that is the cause?

I would manually delete everything in the wp-includes folder and re-upload a clean wp-includes folder from a fresh d/l of wp. (of course you may want to wipe and re-upload your wp-admin folder as well.

make a backup of your whole site files just in case – but you should be able to wipe and reinstall those files without any issue.

Try this…

Make a template overload of this file:
bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\profile\profile-loop.php

In that new file, change this:
<?php while ( bp_profile_groups() ) : bp_the_profile_group(); ?>

to this, assuming the id of your base group is 1

<?php while ( bp_profile_groups() ) : bp_the_profile_group(); ?>
    <?php if( bp_get_the_profile_group_id() != 1 ) : ?>

And add an <?php endif; ?> before the <?php endwhile; ?> near the bottom of the page.

Do the same for:
bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\profile\edit.php

@meeekz – Is the “jcrop tracker” something that is standard part of buddypress or something that your theme / or other plugins is handling?

re “believe this is an aspect ratio issue” – I was under the impression that bp wanted the image to be cropped in a perfect square, and that there were modifications to make what was displayed circular like you are doing – but the standard bp expected a square image as the base (?)

with one of your members I see that your theme is doing this kind of class on the avatar:
class=”modified avatar” height=”80″ width=”80″>

yet the image itself is somehow 80×53

not sure how you got the image to be those dimensions – using the standard bp avatar uploader / cropper thing?