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Never heard about individual WP media library, specific to my buddypress account. By default, all authors can see others pictures when stored in the media library.

BuddyForms is a premium plugin, you probably will have more chance for answers by asking on ThemeKraft support.

Is there a possibility that my buddypress.pot file isn’t working properly? I’m using the Kleo theme. Thank you!

It’s built in automatic search feature.

To deactivate the whole profile links, add this snippet to bp-custom.php or your child-theme functions.php

function bpfr_remove_xprofile_links() {
    remove_filter( 'bp_get_the_profile_field_value', 'xprofile_filter_link_profile_data', 9, 2 );
}
add_action('bp_setup_globals', 'bpfr_remove_xprofile_links'); 

To remove selectively such profile links, see here.

When your custom language file doesn’t contain a correct header version, it will be overwriten at each BP update.

To avoid this, you have 2 solutions.
– completely deactivate automatic translation upload, which will affect the whole site: theme and plugins.
– keep a safe copy and upload it to the site AFTER the update. Tehn if something is missing or no more translated, you can update your version from the pot file shipped with BP.

If you use a cache, you have to clear it before installing a custom version. You must be sure that your wersion is running, in any case.

I would recommend that you read at first how BuddyPress should be installed, before trying an experimental adventure.

Configure BuddyPress

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

Read your theme documentation.

Also here about premium theme and what you can expect as help from here in such a case.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

Find this in your theme style.css file and replace color:white to something else.

a.button, a.comment-reply-link, #commentform #submit, .submit, input[type="submit"], input.button, button.button, #wrapper .woo-sc-button
 -moz-appearance: none;
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #428bca;
    border-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);
    border-radius: 3px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 1px;
    box-shadow: 0 0 0 0 #888;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    color: white !important; /* <-- change here */
    cursor: pointer;
    display: inline-block;
    font-family: inherit;
    font-size: 1em;
    font-weight: 200;
    line-height: 1.618em;
    overflow: visible;
    padding: 0.327em 1em;
    text-align: center;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-shadow: none;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    white-space: normal;
    width: auto;
} 

or see Canvas documentation on how to modify button colors.

You misunderstood me:
[…] if it uses the same template why would it work on the Members page but not the Profile.
I said the same page, not the same template. Members directory has his own template and a profile has some other template. Directory and profiles are using the same page: members. And not at least, this is only a page name. Technicaly, BP use page.php

See template hierarchy on Codex to understand how it works.

Now, why is the sidebar not showing widgets despite the sidebar code is in the page source ? No idea… Seems to me you use a lot of parts which are not from WordPress and some unusual settings to show your site…

If you use custom sidebars from your theme, you have to try those bars.
Activate 2015 and see how to get widgets to appear on that theme first. Then reactivate Wellness and see what you get.
Or ask your theme support.

Sorry, but i can’t help you much more because you’re using a premium theme.
And as you don’t give details about your install, you can’t expect more for now.

Members and profile use he same page, members, with contextual templates.

Ensure first that the member page is empty, without any setting, parent page or aattached template. BP component pages must be blank.

After this it depends of the theme. Does he use some extra settings for widgets ? A custom sidebar ?…

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

Please use the codex first for basic questions around WordPress or BuddyPress.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Toolbar
BuddyPress comes with a login widget you can use on every existing theme who accept widgets.

BuddyPress Widgets

To style a button, you use CSS. This is common to any modern CMS software.

Hey there!

Welcome to the BP community, I hope you decide to take the dive. I was where you are about three months ago. Though I’m not an expert, I can offer a fellow newbie perspective after a couple of months in.

1. Yes, if you mean can you have your activity feed as your homepage. Though if you want it to look like facebook or twitter color and layout wise you’ll have to look into a fb/twitter type of theme. (google wordpress themes or wordpress premium themes if you don’t mind paying)

2. You can send a friend request. If you want to add a follow button, you’ll have to look into plugins. (google wordpress plugins)

3. Nope, but that’s again where a plugin can help you out. I use Hashbuddy. Works perfectly.

4. Again a plugin. Usually a sharing one you’ll have embedded in your pages, post or activity feed. BP doesn’t come equipped with photo/video support, so plugin. I use Activity Stream Plus and Mediapress is pretty comprehensive although it’s still in/just coming out of beta.

5. And yes, you can set this option in your BP settings so every user can create groups.

Hope this helps! I know it can be a daunting and overwhelming start with so many options out there. BP is pretty easy to learn and pretty solid right out of the box. Add some plugins to give it polish and its a real nice product. Make sure you google themes and plugins to get a good idea of what’s out there. Best of luck to you!

Hey @mcpeanut!

The pandemonium is rarely related to WordPress core or BuddyPress core (the core devs usually issue a fix before we even know there’s a problem). So it’s a great idea to keep up to date as you’ve already mentioned.

The tricky part arrives when we look at plugins. Whilst WordPress does everything it can to make plugin developers aware of security issues, fixes are ultimately down to the plugin author. It’s always a good idea to use plugins that are activity maintained and supported. The same could be said for themes actually.

@mcuk,

default menu items (nav or sub-nav) are all written somewhere, by you or the language file. Custom menus are rarely automatically updated. Most are also theme dependant.

Some Codex pages needs heavy revision. Feel free to do so. Volunteers are welcome, as it’s a never ending task.

Participate and Contribute

No such an error on my side.
Activate a Twenty something theme and see if it remains.

Since your issue is specific to your theme, you probably won’t find an answer here unless somebody else has that theme.

Your best bet is to ask the One Community theme author.

Search your theme documentation about CSS modification and how to use a child-theme.

From within the child, you can then modify CSS without loosing your changes after a theme or a BP update.

Read also BuddyPress documentation:

BuddyPress Theme Development

@caniwigirl,

what happens probably is an ajax issue, due to some missing or old class and/or ID names.
Compare at first your (custom or third party) theme page.php with the one coming with Twenty theme. Compare also js versions of your custom theme to Twenty’s one…
Difficult to say from here. 😉

@bewitchingfiction,

do you have a page called groups in your page admin and is this page showing on BP settings page tab ? Have you pretty permalinks activated ?

If page exist, which is the slug you see ?
If you have several trashed pages, specially if some related to groups, clear the trash definetly.

Handling with themes is much more easy today as a few years back. Many things have been modified and as you probably know, BP is now theme independant, under condition you use a theme respecting WP standarts.

All theme files related to BP are now in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress.

See Codex for more details about how to use it.

I have tried with multiple themes, including the 2015, 14 and 13. I am currently using Firmasite (which works but isn’t the most user-friendly in other ways). I have BBpress, Buddypress, Mailchimp for WordPress, Akismet (activated), Buddypress Group Chat, Buddypress Security Check, Jetpack. I try and keep the plugins to a minimum as my WordPress site is only used for the forums – I use efiction in a subfolder for the main part of my site.

What is your theme and which plugins do you use ?
Have you already tried with 2015 theme ?