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Which kind of answer do you expect if don’t give any details about your running install ?
Site url, theme and plugin list please !

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

I’ve tried changing themes and they disappear

What is the problem now ? Your theme is certainly using an arrow picture for li elements. Go to /your-theme/style.css and remove it.

Giving your theme name would be helpfull.

Hi.

I am also using wordpress 4.1.1 and buddypress 2.2.1 and for all pages, which I need to map via the settings page I am getting a blank page: Groups, Members, Register and Activate. I am using the default theme. It is a multi-site setup, however buddypress is only used on the main site (first blog) and also only there activated.
I did only minor styling via the themes css and the header.php.

WP_Debug does not show any errors as well as the Apache log is empty.

It was working fine until i updated recently the connected bbpress for forum.

Besides that I am using following plugins:
bbP private groups
bbPress
bbPress Advanced Capabilities
BP Registration Options (DEACTIVATED CURRENTLY)
BuddyPress
BuddyPress Group Email Subscription
BuddyPress Like (DEACTIVATED CURRENTLY)
BuddyPress Multilingual
HookPress (DEACTIVATED CURRENTLY)
Nginx Helper (only on staging)
Page Builder by SiteOrigin (DEACTIVATED CURRENTLY)
Paid Memberships Pro
Paid Memberships Pro – bbPress Add On
Paid Memberships Pro – Register Helper Add On
Social Login

Network activated:
WordPress SEO
WPML Multilingual CMS
WPML String Translation
Events Manager

My dev environment is XAMPP on Mac and on the staging is a linode cloud server with Ubuntu on Nginx (I think). Both have the same issues.
It’s not a live site yet, just demo, therefore some of the plugins might get activated if I am back on track.

Tried it now to get it run for about 15 hours:
– I also deactivated all plugins except buddypress and still did not get any of those sites working.
– Actiavated / Deactivated the plugins
– Used the repair tools
– looked into all my codes and fixed file endings such as empty space after ?> in php files
– Reassigned all sites
– Researched a lot in million of forums

Any hint, idea, glimps or full stack solution is highly appreciated.

Thanks, Chris

Could it be you use a multilingual plugin ? Deactivate it and contact the author and also your theme support.
Same issue & same theme author mentionned here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/php-error-log/

See theme’s documentation or ask on their support how to arrange this. As you us a premium theme, we can’t help you here as we have no free access to it. Thank you for your comprehension.

hi @scribbleben,

thought there is no theme who fit a project to 100%. It’s only a tool to show a project. And BuddyPress is only a plugin, which let you handle a user community in a certain way.

You don’t need a page builder. BP is fully dynamic and WP publishes posts like a champ, so you probably won’t need more than 2 or 3 pages over those effectivly required by BP.

You don’t need a framework theme if the project is for one client or if you use BP 2 times a year for other clients.

You don’t need a theme full of bells and whistles, but an utility tool which let your client earn money or live with his community, without spending tons of hours to learn how his bells plant is working or returning to university to doctorate for a whistle diploma.

I would suggest use 2012 or 2015 during the period you build the project. Find an acceptable compromise between client desire, needed plugins and eventually some custom functions to add. Once that structure is built, you will incorporate it to a theme.

Your 4 points.

1) WordPress
2) BuddyPress
3) BuddyPress
4) WordPress and BuddyPress

So i’ve probably resumed your needs or even what you already did.

Which theme is the closest ? Almost any, but with 30 000 themes under the hand, it’s not an answer.

The important thing to know would be your client’s opinion about internet, web sites, ergonomy, personnal surf interrests. Equally, the specifics about hosting, bandwith, maintenance budget, supported device, target usage, and a few other little details which you haven’t listed yet.

Is this your first BuddyPress experience ?
If so, perhaps visiting some BP sites online will help you to come nearer about what can be done – independantly of any layout consideration in a first step.

See Your BuddyPress forum
or my own showcases here and here (french, european and word site examples).

Hum, i tested the theme. Member and group headers are not displayed. Strangely the code is in the page, but is not read ! I applied some CSS and get no result. Seems theme use class instead of ID’s in some places. And i’m not willing to debug this.

You have to get in touch with the author. Tell him about this issue or use another theme if you don’t want to wait for a solution or struggling with code for an undetermined time.

Tip: Iconic-One is similar, fast, light weight, pretty well coded in html5 and works flawlessly with BP.

BuddyPress Components and Features

FYI, how is looking a profile page:
http://culturadigital.br/membros/carbonno14/profile/

you can also check this by using 2014 or 15 theme, so you’re sure to have all default fonctionnalities of WP/BP

I can’t help you for a premium theme as i have no access to it without paying.
See theme’s support for that.

But before, let’s try something other.

Set your site language to italian and save. WP will upload the italian translation. If not, do it manually from glotpress and see that you have wp-content/languages/it_IT.mo

Your site is now in italian. Verify the menu translation. If it’s still in english, deactivate your theme and activate 2014 or 2015. The menu should be now in italian.

If it is the case, set site language to spanish and check the menu. Should be in spanish. If ok, reactivate your theme.

If the menu remains in english, contact the theme support.

Deactivate BP, and see if this part is then translated.
Which theme do you use ? Could come from there too.

That’s why i told you about quick edit, where you can set comments appering individually, page by page independantly of the global view comments setting introduced by your theme.
This is also avaible in WP’s settings. (dashboard > settings > discussions) Both should match i presume (theme+wp = allow comments on page) and on a BP page, disallow comments).

Did you tried that ?

See first WP and your theme settings.
Ensure also that all BP dedicated pages are empty, without any parent template, attached CPT and that comments are disabled for these pages.
Use quick edit to do this when you’re on the admin page directory.

SWA shows by default all members activities, listed by activities type

– all members activities [ default tab – aka home ]
– my friends activities [ my friends tab ]
– my groups activities [ my groups tab ]
– my favorites activities [ my favorites tabs ]
– my mentions activities [ my mentions tab ]

When you’re on a profile, tabs are not using “my something”. When you click on “friends” you get a list of your friends, not their activities. The only activities showed on a profile are those of the profile, by default the profile home tab which is Activity.

Since BP 1.9, you can use any existing WP theme.

Don’t loose your time to work on it and use a child-theme with a (recent)theme of your choice.
The files you can copy to your child are all in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

@alice-kaye

I’m wondering if you set up BP pages correctly. (also because your previous questions on this forum)
your-site/activity/
your-site/groups/
your-site/members/
your-site/forums/

are not existing and /page/ in above urls are always removed, without 404 error.

Do you use specific rewrite rules ? Maybe control All in one SEO settings and theme settings

I think this is just what I need too – but will it work for public groups, though in a members only site?

I’ve set BP so that only admins can create new groups, I only have 3 groups, and have added the code to automatically join all new members to all groups (which seems to be working well) – found here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-new-members-to-groups-automatically/

By the way @danbp or @whoaloic can you confirm that I would copy the file bp-groups-template.php and put it in my child theme\buddypress\bp-groups\bp-groups-template.php and then edit line 2747?

Many thanks.

@willmaginn
If you don’t like plugins then you will have to write code and place in bp-custom.php preferably which really isn’t much different than having a plugin installed because you will still have to use hooks just like a plugin does, or in your themes functions.php which really isn’t much different or you could edit templates which would be even more tedious. I suggest you reconsider your position on the plugins because it is the simplest method for a closed community. I developed two plugins myself that tackles this issue though they are premium plugins one is Private BP Pages and the other is Private Community For BP. I think there are other plugins on the repo that also provide a closed community but I haven’t tested any of them because my own plugins performs the way I need it too. Good luck!