BuddyPress.org

Hi,

first off, check your permalinks and choose one of the option EXCEPT default. Then deactivate the current theme and make a test with one of the Twenty’s.

If it’s ok with standart setup, revert to your theme and see if it works now.

If not, try the patch mentionned on this topic
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/my-conditional-tags-are-not-being-respected-in-genesis/#post-235182

hi @daethian,

if you’re using BP 2.2, don’t use the “old” bp-default theme.

If you have FTP access, your wordpress should be at the site root if you want to use BuddyPress. If it’s you who created the /wp/ folder and if you haven’t any other site on the same account you don’t need it. Install wordpress directly at the root ! Mostly in a folder named www or htdocs (ie. htdocs/wp-admin, htdocs/wp-content/, htdocs/wp-include/)

But let’s say it’s correct for now.

Connect to your site and go to admin
On WP dashboard> General ensure you entered WP URL and site URL correctly (hxxp://your-site.xxx) without trailing slash (normally the same URL)
Then dashboard > Appearence>Theme and activate Twenty Fifteen
Then dashboard > Settings > Permalinks > anything but default
Then dashboard > plugins and deactivate/reactivate BuddyPress
Then dashboard > Appearence > Menu > screen option (top right), check buddypress and add the BP menu to Twenty 15

See if it works.

If not, you’ll have to setup WP correctly at first.
Return to FTP, move WP to the root, erase htaccess and wp-config and restart the installation

your-site.xxx/install
Re enter your DB name, psw and all other information needed for installing WP.
Your DB and actual content won’t be erased (but you can make a dump before, in case of).

5mn install later, you are invited to login. And you have to do what i’ve explained previously.

Wow stunning ! Are you on a local server ? MS or single install ?

Could be that something went wrong during upload.
Erase the BP folder and add a new copy.

And remove your theme from the theme directory while testing with Twenty.

hi @tjtaylor,

which is your theme and do you use bp-custom.php or some custom function ?
Have you the same msg when you change the theme to Twenty 13 or 14 ?
If you use a cache, clear it and retry.

Hi @gatelli,

it’s not a bug, it’s not avaible i guess. 😉

Add this to your child-theme functions.php or into bp-custom.php (BP 2.1 & >)

function custom_bbpress_maybe_load_mentions_scripts( $retval = false ) {
	if ( function_exists( 'bbpress' ) && is_bbpress() ) {
		$retval = true;
	}
 
	return $retval;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_maybe_load_mentions_scripts', 'custom_bbpress_maybe_load_mentions_scripts' );

@rosyteddy,

snippets published on the forum are generally related to a specific topic/question. And of course, dependant of theme and/or bp version, if not php or mysql or server settings. Over the time, they stop working or can’t be used anymore because the Core changed or because of other evolutions….

Despite having a kind of snippet store accessible by forum menu seems to be a usefull idea, it is not. Each usage case is different and can not be extended to all case. FYI information, i had the same idea a few years back, and was quickly discouraged to do so by our Core dev. I was first disapointed, but i finally had to admit they where right. And today, i’m absolutely persuaded and on the same line.

That’s why you have Codexes. For WP, BP or bbP with general explanation of default usage and more rarely, with usage examples. If you find a snippet example in Codex, in 95% of cases, you have to adapt it to your personnal usage.

To answer your question, as you know, BuddyPress is (only) a WordPress plugin. When installed, the site continue to work with WordPress and WP dashboard. Nothing is modified in WP Core, only that BP was added to the site. As a plugin.

How to handle WordPress is explained and widly documented in his Codex.
Menu management, CPT management or how to modify menu items on Toolbar or Admin bar is also documented. And the’re so many sites giving WP tips (from excellent to awfull), you can read.

Hi @danbp This is pretty cool, fun and useful.

If bp org can add to
About Plugins Themes Documentation **Snippets** Blog Support Download
Snippets that actually work with WP4.1.1, and BP2.2x or BP 2.3 it will be an excellent and useful addition. Infact, users with some repu/creds can be allowed to post such snippets in this section, which can then be rated, commented or tagged. Making it a subsection of forum will make it less prominent but a tab by the side of plugins will be great.

PS: Just curious, is there any such easy code that hides items from the left side nav bar in the site admin’s backend dashboard ?

You’re welcome 😉
And to resume the situation in one word, say: integration.
One example between many other here.

Add this to your child-theme functions.php or to bp-custom.php

Not sure it will work with your theme, and ‘activity’ tab seems now impossible to remove (since 2.2 at least). I don’t know why exactly. Uncomment both lines to see if it works for you.

function bpfr_hide_top_nav() {	
	
	if( !is_user_logged_in() ) {	

// bp topnav items to hide	
	//	bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'activity' );			
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'profile' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'friends' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'groups' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'forums' );	

//bp subnav (my activities, my groups, etc)
	//  bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'activity' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'friends' ); 
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'favorites' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'groups' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'mentions' );
	}
}
add_action( 'bp_ready', 'bpfr_hide_top_nav', 10 );

@marketraisen,

the original code is %s posted an update
To modify this the right way, you have to use the language file and an appropriate compilator such as poEdit to generate the mo file.

Don’t know what solution you didn’t found, guess you have to search this forum for translation related topics.

A very dirty solution would be to use this snippet and add it to your child-theme functions.php

function marketraisen_change_bp_update_text( $translated, $original_text, $domain ) {
		
	if ( 'buddypress' !== $domain )  
	return $translated; 
	
	switch ( $original_text ) {
		case '%s posted an update':
		return '%s posted on';
				
		default:
		return $translated;
	}
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'marketraisen_change_bp_update_text', 10, 3 );

@tendersqatar Enfold is a premium WordPress theme which we have no access to so it would purely be guesswork to assess what’s going on in your installation.

Please change to the Twenty Thirteen or Twenty Fourteen theme and check if registration is working in your local installation. If you encounter the same issue using those themes, could you give a step by step instruction on what you did and where in the registration process the error occurred.

for some reason my nav bar (which has dropdowns to sub-pages of the site) doesn’t work properly

@themusicbusinessnetwork For this issue, please contact the theme developer as we have no access to the premium theme.

… where I can’t set up user registration properly. I have the fields setup but something with the pages that I direct them to don’t work

Could you please clarify what you mean by “pages that I direct them to”? Are you referring to template redirect after submitting registration form or something else?

I also am having issues updating the Theme. WordPress is giving me an error message saying the data is already there and it can’t install.

As mentioned above, we have no access to the premium theme. But to help you find the possible causes, change to Twenty Thirteen or Twenty Fourteen theme, are the issues resolved or still there? That way, you could provide the theme author more information about the issue. Recommend that you share what shows up in error logs.

Which icons are you talking about ?

And please give details: used theme & plugins, bp version…

Hi @stefanievalentic, I don’t see white text in http://nerc.napoleonnewsllc.com/members/alexguthrie/profile/ and could you point to the table you’re referring to? You can change any text color in the theme’s stylesheet or a child theme.

Btw, know that your theme is still using jquery 1.7.2 while latest WP/BP enqueue jQuery v1.11.1, so there could be some conflicts along the way. Please update your theme or ask the theme author to update jquery version.

It’s working for me.

Do the user_id exist ? If you use bp-default-date plugin, users have a 2 digit id.
Do you added the if has_members to your child-theme members-loop file ?

Accepted sort order type are ‘active’, ‘random’, ‘newest’, ‘popular’.

If the included users never logged in they can’t be active or popular. And are considered as newest only if they match to include and max.

Try with ‘random’ and add user 11 and see if it change something.

a useful link May be

https://github.com/modemlooper/Buddy-Default

It is a version of BP-Default theme converted to use theme compatibility – by @modemlooper

Glad it’s resolved.

You might want to consider dropping that theme a note about this or at least check if they have an update to their theme. Themes that state a claim to something like BP support/compatibility have a responsibility to ensure their themes are kept up to date with possible changes in BP releases, BP releases tend not to have too many fundamental changes to template files but they do from time to time and those might be lost if templates overloaded to themes.

Hi @rosyteddy,

since BP 1.7 theme compatibility was introduced, which allowed the use of almost every theme on a BP powered site. Previously, you could practicaly only use bp-default theme. Since bp-default was removed (7569) from the install package, that theme lives his own life. A few time later, it was decided to publish the source code of the bp-default custom theme used on bp.org…

I wonder then why BP is not releasing this as a default theme for BP!

Don’t wonder ! Because devs wanted to concentrate on their plugin, not on a specifical theme. It tooks hard working to isolate bp-default. And certainly not to introduce a new one today. 😉

You have access to the source code. You’re free to use it and to skin it to your needs.

If you don’t see colors or any other elements, you have to check your work and redo it if you comes if you have errors or omissions.

Difficult to tell you what you did wrong. IMO nothing, but if you’re mixing your theme and bp-default à la bp.org, you missed probably somethings.

If you don’t know how to do this, you can hire somebody on BP Job Board forum.