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The sidebar automatically is pushed to the bottom of the profile and group templates, I’d like to be able to move it to the right where the default position is. I think it could be pushed to the bottom due to the Divi theme, but i’m not sure.

I’d like to know if there were a way to add widgets such as side bars or menus to the template pages in order to facilitate easier navigation through the buddypress pages.

Thanks for your help!

Thank you, I’ve created a child theme based off of the Divi theme. Is the only way to edit the buddy press template files though adding the code to the php files, or is there another way to edit these pages (plug-in, buddypress specific theme, etc.)?

Hi. Thank you for getting back to me.
Here are the responses to your queries.

1- If you switch to a WP theme like 2013, does the problem persist?
Ans: I haven’t tried that. I’ll check them and will let you know asap.

2- What are your media settings re images? Are they square? Here: …/wp-admin/options-media.php
Ans:

3- Have you have set any avatar size constants in code?
Ans: No, I haven’t defined any constants in the code. Should I?

Hi Shanebp,

Thank you very much for your prompt reply.

The programer that helped me to setup the theme with buddypress/bbpress and userpro, from the Theme Dutch, told me that they use userpro’s register, hence, the ‘register’ and the ‘activate’ pages are not associated with the buddypress.

When I land http://www.enihongo.net/register/, it would jump to http://www.enihongo.net/profile/register (for userpro) now.
There is no ‘activate’ page now.

In case anyone has this problem, here’s how I fixed it (I’m still not sure why it wouldn’t work as intended automatically):

– I registered the sidebar in fucntions.php

– Added a copy of page.php to the child theme directory: /wp-content/themes/wellness/buddypress/members/single using the name: index.php

– Where the code in that page calls the Sidebar, I changed it to: <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'new_members_area' ); ?> which of course includes the registered name of the sidebar

– For some reason it wasn’t picking up the Sidebar CSS so I enclosed it in a div:

<div id="sidebar">
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'new_members_area' ); ?>
</div>

-VOILA!

Hi @minglonaire,

The forum part is easy because that is built into bbPress in the first place. If you read the “Getting Started with bbPress” page https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/ you will note that there are three settings for forum visibility:

Public – Anyone can see these forums
Private – Only logged in registered users can see these forums
Hidden: Only Moderators/Admins can see these forums

I made my base forum (which is actually a category) Private, and the majority of sub-forums Public – but tied into the BuddyPress groups so you required membership to each particular group to access each of the forums. This only works if BuddyPress is hidden from logged out users.

If you don’t want to use BuddyPress groups… just make all your forums Private.

Note that BuddyPress defines Public, Private and Hidden slightly differently than bbPress

I had issues with my theme not displaying Hidden Groups to the people it should… If this is an issue for you, check out another thread… https://buddypress.org/support/topic/hidden-groups-and-forums-not-showing-for-members-of-them/

All the best! 🙂

Hi and thank you for such a quick answer. I know I should have checked with a stock theme first, but I noticed the problem when the traffic was quite high on my website and didn’t want to ruin the users experience by changing to another theme. It seems that 2015 theme is fine, so this is theme related, you were right.

However, the link you gave me has nothing to do with my problem, that is a matter of CSS, not a matter of permissions.

Thank you once again.

I tested it on my site and on a clean installation and both do not work on members/member_name/settings/ . Users do see a password strength meter, but can still change their password into something simple as 1 or A. How did you get it to work on members/member_name/settings/?

With WordPress there are many plugins (none that work with buddypress frond-end settings page) that set a minimum strength for passwords. Such as Login Security Solution and iThemes Security. You can force users to change their password or set an amount of days when users must change their password.

It seems like a major security problems (that has existed for a few years) that Buddypress allows simple passwords such as 1 and A on members/member_name/settings/

These are the errors I receive when trying to activate buddypress

Strict Standards: Declaration of BBP_Forums_Group_Extension::display() should be compatible with BP_Group_Extension::display($group_id = NULL) in /home1/cmpgorg/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/groups.php on line 28

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare kleo_bp_replace_placeholders() (previously declared in /home1/cmpgorg/public_html/wp-content/themes/kleo/lib/theme-functions.php:1894) in /home1/cmpgorg/public_html/wp-content/themes/kleo/lib/plugin-buddypress/config.php on line 105

So back to buddypress forum 😉

First of, it is working again but I created a new page without a parent (first level) and allocated the group component to that new page.

The old page was at a second level and as I told you, had the same issue to open the single groups with another theme.

Now it is also working with new Boss Theme!

Thanks for your quick support!

I tried in a number of different places, and while not perfect, I settled for placement just above the activity-header. I also caught the div was there and was able to target it to make styling mods in the theme.

One of these days I’ll figure out how all this works, but for now trial and error (and error and error and error) 🙂 will have to do.

Thanks for the help guys. Have a great day.

Good news everyone. My theme developers and I have solved this issue on the theme I am using!

The first tricky hurdle was discovering a !important directive in the main.css of the theme for handling .hidden so I removed it to become .hidden{display:none;visibility:hidden} so styling in my child theme would work.

In my child theme, I did an ‘inspect element’ to discover that the hidden groups were listed as:

<li> class='odd hidden is-admin is-member">_</li>
<li> class='even hidden is-admin is-member">_</li>

So, I added the following code to my style.css in the child theme

.odd.hidden.is-admin.is-member {
display: block;
visibility: visible;
}

.even.hidden.is-admin.is-member {
display: block;
visibility: visible;
}

This worked for admin, but not members of the groups who weren’t admins so… Logged in as one of those and using ‘inspect element’ I found that private groups were listed as:

<li> class='odd hidden is-admin is-member">_</li>
<li> class='even hidden is-admin is-member">_</li>

Applying the same logic as above, I added the following code to my style.css

.odd.hidden.is-member {
display: block;
visibility: visible;
}

.even.hidden.is-member {
display: block;
visibility: visible;
}

And now everything works 🙂

I don’t know if anyone at BuddyPress support can help tidy up my code, but it does the trick and I hope it helps you @bewitchingfiction @donalconlon @olay And thanks for your help @danbp