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Try by adding this to child-theme style.css

#public-personal-li { display: none; visibility: hidden; }

It’s a problem with any theme using the TrueThemes framework:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6335#comment:6

They are trying to force comments open on WP pages. When their code hits a BuddyPress page, their code will generate a new page due to the way they are forcing comments open and because the BuddyPress page ID is 0.

Themes using the TrueThemes framework can use this code snippet to disable their force comments code:

remove_action('template_redirect', 'tt_get_comments_status');

[MOD EDIT] links removed.
Please use a fake URL when you want to mention a path.

Have you assigned a page to the activity component ? Sometimes it’s not setup automatically.
Also which is your theme ?

Configure BuddyPress

on line 1467 of style.css change this

.content-headline {
    float: left;
    margin: 0 0 20px;
    width: 100%;
}

to this, or just copy the below code directly to your childthemes css

.content-headline {
    float: none !important;
    margin: 0 0 20px;
    width: 100%;
}

that should make your avatar appear in that area along with your last status update please disregard my first answer i only took a very quick look first time.

@rapforthemoment Normally where you have that big white space would be your avatar picture and last status update info etc, have you removed them? or is this a problem with your theme? also a quick inspection of your code says you have a line height of 150% in your body that could be causing this, go to your stylesheet and adjust this to say 28px on line 487,

So go to your child themes style.css and search for line 487 and change the 150% to 28px as a starting point, then save and check your website, this will effect the line height of everything so if your not happy try a different value or reset it back.

@wellgolly,

have you asked for this on your theme support ? It’s a premium one and we cannot help you for this, as we have no free access to the code.

@mrgiblets haha you did the exact same as me with picking twenty twelve when i first started using buddypress, i still think its one of the best blank canvas themes to work from apart from the lack of responsiveness it has, although you can make it fully responsive but its a pain to do, i even went to the extent of making it into a 3 column layout etc.

In regards to what you want to implement no-one can really help you until the ideas of what you want to integrate emerge 🙂

@mrgiblets HI, I was the same as you when i first came to these forums nearly 2 years back, although i had website developing experience i found buddypress just as confusing, the best way to learn is to get stuck into it in my opinion, there are quite alot of good reads regarding things you may need to achieve in these forums, you should also read through these pages here https://codex.buddypress.org/

When typing a message using “@” the dropdown list that pops up as soon as your start typing should only show names of the current users friends. What happens if you have 10,000+ users on your site? That’s going to get annoying for the users really fast. At very least there should be an option in the backend to activate this functionality.

I tend to agree with this 100 percent, i have mentioned (ironic lol) this before in these forums, you should really have an option to either have @mentions for either sitewide or friends only.

LIKE button. I wasn’t that surprised that something like this wasn’t installed as standard, but as this is an integral part of social interaction these days I was shocked after spending days trying to find a plug-in that works with the current version and have only managed to find one that works but is shaky at best. There are lots of “no longer available” plug-ins and bits of code and hacks out there but again – removed or deleted when you try to view them. From what I gather this seems to be something that developers have had real problems implementing. I can’t even find a single premium LIKE button plug-in out there! Surely it’s time to have this feature as standard?

I believe from what ive read from the dev’s talking about this but i cannot remember the link to give you, that they are working on this via the already built in favorites button, they are trying to adapt it to a kind of liking system but their main concern seemed to be scalability and are working on a way to reduce the queries and database hits this could potentially have an effect with.

A clean current install of BP doesn’t include a BP theme. I have read that you have removed this and tried to implement it with any standard WP theme but that doesn’t help new users when trying to figure out what BP is capable of. Despite formatting issues many of the things it can do simply aren’t that obvious with a default WP theme. Surely it should at least give you the option to install a standard BP theme from theme manager?

They decided to stop support for the default theme and i would advise you to really search for a newer theme anyhows seeing as buddypress integrates with most themes flawlessly now.

You could just provide your own template for the registration page (hence have your own custom registration form).

BuddyPress will use the following template hierarchy /buddypress/members/index-register.php

Check out the Template Hierarchy article for more info on how templates work in BP.

Ok, I know it’s not the correct php way, but in lieu of any other option I’ve found how to remove showing it with css – posted in BuddyBoss here: http://www.buddyboss.com/support-forums/topic/1st-month-feedback-mobileresponsive-theme/ and I put this code…
#buddypress #admins-list div.action a, #buddypress #mods-list div.action a, #buddypress #members-list div.action a, #buddypress #groups-list div.action a, #buddypress #friend-list div.action a{display:none;}
in my child theme style.css file.
Hope it helps other who are stuck too 🙂

@gnasralla tbh i havent come across this issue myself and it shouldn’t really be happening so as dan stated id first troubleshoot if its a plugin or theme issue by first turning off all other plugins apart from buddypress and then if the issue is still there swap to any one of the default themes as a starting point.

bp-custom.php and a child theme are 2 different things.

Most code that goes in bp-custom.php could instead go into your child-theme/functions.php

I have update the thread title to something a little more descriptive of the issue, than ‘problem after updating’

I do not see confirmation of the results when switching to a WP theme like twentyfifteen or disabling of plugins, we do need requests like those followed please so we can begin to narrow down where the issue lies.

I’m very patient. I learned that you like poems.

I now would glad to know if you speak BuddyPress ? I’m still waiting some information related to your site…

Which BP version do you use ? What is your theme name ?

Sorry to tell, but I ignore what is the yellow notification top bar !

Sorry for this late answer, i missed your topic.

You can follow a similar topic here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/problem-after-updating/#post-236965

Did you solved the issue ?
Can you give more details about your install (theme, plugins, php version) ?
Are your on a local or live site ?

If you want to answer, do it on the other topic, where the discussion is more advanced.

Closing this topic to avoid duplicate. Thank you for your comprehention.

Hey, that’s a digit geeking speech ! Twenty Twelve and Twenty Fifteen are respectively WordPress default theme. 2015 and 2012 are even faster to write, specially for me.

Does it make sense ?

While (i wrote period – but i’m french – it’s not the punctuation, sorry. During the time is more US english) building your project (discussing with your client, your team, dog and what ever…) and WordPress, you need a theme. Default theme has the avantage to “work” with WP and… BuddyPress.
While struggling with a third party theme is another story which can be handled quietly AFTER your project is near to be completed. Growing step by step.

Once the foundation is solid enough, in other terms !

Does it make more sense ?

A blue bird is singing in the green forest… Nice isn’t it, but now what ?

You can’t close it because it is yellow.

Going from bar to bar let’s think you are drunk. 😀

If you’re tired to read my nonsense, you can prepare some elements which might help somebody here to help you !

But only if your colorfull explanation will let you retrieve your site URL, theme name or even some crazy awesome plugins you’re using ?

I am green today
I chirp with joy like a cricket song.
I am gray today
Gloomy and down like a morning fog.
I am orange today
Loud and messy like finger paint on the wall.
I am red today
Hopping mad like a playground ball.
I am black today
Strong and tall a great big bear.
I am purple today
Bright and happy like a butterfly in the air. (Kira Willey)

Peace.

Problem is see is the green toolbar, containing wrong links, ie: profile button goes to your-site/members/admin/profile/ and your premium theme, for which we can’t help you, because we have no free access to it’s code.

Revert to 2015 theme and deactivate all plugins except BP.

Make it to work correctly. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-components/
Set pretty permalinks to what you want, except “by default”.

Ensure you have the Buddy menu showing on 2015. You should see at least: activity, members, groups. Test them and ensure you go to the right page.

On the top right Howdy menu, you should have all BP elements concerning your profile (friends, messages, notifications…), of course only if you activated these components.

Once it is working with 2015, you can activate your theme.

At this stage you will probably see some layout issues and will have to do some CSS adjustment.
Contact theme’s support to get help for that.

Sorry, but we are unable to help you with premium theme issues, as we have no free access to it.
Ask your theme support.

If you’re comfortable with HTML and CSS you can check page.php from one of WP’s default theme and compare to your theme page.php to get some of the custom div’s class or ID’s it use, so you can adjust them from inside of a child-theme.

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