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Hi @rameden,

in hope you are already familiar with Genesis framework. If not, i don’t recommend it, because starting with a framework (even if very good) is not easy, and adding another point where you also begin is not the best way… to learn. 😉

The answer to your question is : child/css/buddypress.css/, but you can also use child/style.css

Add BuddyPress Styles to a Theme

If you want to modify BP templates, then you copy the needed file from legacy/buddypress/ to child/buddypress/…./

/bp-templates/bp-legacy/ belongs to BP.

This is a theme-related problem. You should a) use a BuddyPress compatible theme or b) contact the theme author asking them to release a fix.

Have you tried it default 2014 theme, bp running, and all other plugins turned off?

Does your server send emails from wp other ways successfully?
(like you go into wp backend add a user and tell wp to send an email with login credentials to yourself to test)

Have you tried contact form 7 or si-contact form plugins to see if your server allows wp to send emails?

Have you tested to see if it’s just users that use a gmail addy to try to sign up?
or is it all email services like yahoo, comcast, gmail, everything?

Could be a lot of things – but those are the things I would try to figure out first in order to fish out what could be done to make it better.

hi @electrolove,

mostly it’s the theme who doesn’t work with BuddyPress. Actually, BP is working with almost any avaible theme, under condition this thme is respecting WP’s coding standart.

Unfortunatly, your theme is a mix for joomla and wordpress… May work with a WP blog, but i doubt for BP as it doesn’t exactly use the basic page system. And if your theme wasn’t recently updated, it could be a mess to adapt.

They are so many theme that you can choose another one in case of trouble. Why loosing your time with one who doesn’t work, when you can find hundred’s of others in the same time ?

Anyway, ask on theme support, you paid for that. Here we can’t help you, as we have no access to the code.

@expertscafe,

please use the code button when you post code.

Why do you think there is an error in BuddyPress ?
The warning only tells you that foreach doesn’t work correctly on YOUR install. No need to copy BP code, we have it all here. Mentionning the error – without server path- is enought.
(removed from your topic for security)

If there would be a BP error, you would find many topics here about that problem. It’s not the case so far i can see.

First thing to do is to debug.
Deactivate all plugins but BP, and activate one of WP default’s theme.
Review BP settings and save your permalinks.
After that, you reactivate plugins one by one and test… If all is OK, reactivate the actual theme.

If you see a probleme again, you can get sure it’s your theme. In that case you have to contact the forest support.

Try this in your theme/functions.php

function laurie_excerpt_length( $length ) {

  $length = 125; // adjust the length to desired number of characters 

  return $length;
}
add_filter( 'bp_excerpt_length', 'laurie_excerpt_length', 11, 1 );

Well in a desktop browser narrowed right down it’s a responsive or rather a fluid layout so should be displaying fairly well, however I’m afraid this is more an issue that the theme has to handle we can only do so much with BP elements when they are rendered in unknown themes.

First port of call should be to the theme authors to check there isn’t something they can do to allow BP to run better in their theme.

Ya it works very well.

Thank you so much.

But now 1 question arise is that right now i had changed my code manually in bp-core-functions.php file but when i will update my buddypress plugin ,i think that my changes will be erased.

so is that any hook or actions are available so that i can use that hook in my theme functions.php file.

Many Thanks so far.

Hi @aventurine_geode,

It seems like overkill to create a whole child theme to make a few small changes to things like colors and fonts

It seems because you are beginner. But it is the reicipe of this cooking.
Making a child theme is shorter, faster and much more handy as a plugin.

What is a an overkill ?
Taking a hammer to kill a fly….

What is a child-theme ?
– create a folder in theme directory (5 seconds)
– adding an empty files to this folder: style.css (5 seconds)

Once done, you open style.css with a text editor and you add a header as explained here (copy/pasting: 5 seconds) and modifying that text (15 seconds).

Once done, you activate the child as your site theme. And the “big” overkill is now a simple water drop whipe.

Now you can add, remove, modify any CSS rule from within your child theme. Without thinking about plugin updates or struggling with issues reliable to that plugin.

Doing this depends of your CSS knowledge and your handling of that style.css file

Hopefully, you will understand that in this case, installing a plugin or doing it yourself, has no difference in matter of time, but a big one in matter of usability (direct vs. indirect handling) and last but not least, in both case, it’s you who have to enter CSS rules.

If you know how, it’s ok. If you don’t, it’s only your fault. 😉

Try deactivating all plugins (aside from BuddyPress) and activate the TwentyFifteen theme. Do you still see the problem?

To prevent new entries, try adding this to your theme functions.php
remove_action( 'bp_register_activity_actions', 'friends_register_activity_actions' );

Responsiveness depends more of the theme you use….
There is also a plugin you could try:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddymobile/

Nobody can walk you thru the issue based on your description.
Maybe:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/activity-ajax-problem-with-bp-default-theme/

The theme author is over loading the BP templates.

Sounds like the theme hasn’t been updated to work with the latest BP.

Instead of deleting the whole [your-theme]\buddypress
Try just deleting this file:
[your-theme]\buddypress\members\single\profile\change-avatar.php

If that doesn’t work, try deleting some more profile related files in [your-theme]\buddypress.

And tell the author about your issues.

It sounds like ajax is not working on your site.
It can be difficult to diagnose without full access to your installation.

Try switching to a standard theme like WP 2013, turn off all other plugins, make sure to refresh your browser cache.

Did you read this ?

Search for #buddypress form#whats-new-form textarea in buddypress.css (bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/css/buddypress.css)

To operate such a modification, you need to create first a child theme.

See documentation.

Also, use a developper tool like Firebug to easely access such layout information.