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You could have different layouts/colors for different sections/pages of your site within one theme already.

You could create a Twenty Eleven child theme, then install/activate BP template pack plugin and go through the Appearance > BP Compatibility process. The cool thing is that you create a header-buddypress.php (with link to own stylesheet) and a footer-buddypress.php, both with the same structure as the BP Default theme and basically you’re good to go. The two new files would cover all the BP templates transferred to your Twenty Eleven child theme.

Did you add a plugin recently? If you change to bp-default theme, do the mentions show up?

You just need to apply the styles from #megamenu to `body div#wp-admin-bar .padder` to start off and copy over the block_top.png from megamenu to your theme’s /images/ folder
`body div#wp-admin-bar .padder {
border: 1px solid #000000;
border-bottom: none;
background-color: #333333 !important;
background: #333 url(images/black_top.png) top left repeat-x;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#333333), to(#111111));
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #333333, #111111);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #333333, #111111);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #333333, #111111);
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #333333, #111111);
-webkit-border-radius: 2px;
-moz-border-radius: 2px;
border-radius: 2px;
-moz-background-clip: padding;
-webkit-background-clip: padding-box;
background-clip: padding-box;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 0px 0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 0px 0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 0px 0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
}`

If you have a child theme you can edit memberssingleprofileedit.php and search for

<textarea rows="5" cols="40" name="” id=”” aria-required=”true”>

and replace it with:

<textarea maxlength="250" rows="5" cols="40" name="” id=”” aria-required=”true”>

Just use change the maxLength value and you are set!

If you are using the BP-Default theme you just go into your WordPress Admin panel, go to Themes, choose “Editor” and you should then be able to find what you are looking for in BuddyPress Default under;

Main Index Template
(groups/index.php)

This file should be where you can rename those few things, among others, though you really should create a child theme (https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/) to add any such changes or customizations with in order to future-proof yourself so that when a new version of BuddyPress is released it doesn’t overwrite your own custom changes to the code.

Don’t forget to save the changes to the file before you proceed, and be extra careful as to what you are making any such changes to when doing so!

If you mess it up you can always pull a fresh file from another copy of BP-Default and upload it to the correct place on your server and just start over from scratch.

Good luck!

I’m having a similar issue. Everything worked fine until I upgraded WordPress and Buddypress day before yesterday to:
WordPress 3.4.2.
Buddypress 1.6.1

Now whenever someone posts text the whole page is displayed in the text box for a couple of seconds and then the page makes like it’s going to save, but hangs white. If you stop or refresh the page whilst it’s hanging this is displayed infront of the url http://wyciwyg://62/

I’m using the custom community theme, but have tried using the default them and it still does it. The only person that doesn’t have this problem is me when I’m logged in as admin. All other user levels have this problem though.

I did add bbpress forum after upgrading and have tried deactivating that, but that didn’t fix it. Posting in the forum works fine though.

Any ideas on how to fix this please?

activate bp default theme to test if its the theme. If it’s the theme, you may need to update to latest version.

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/buddypress-social-theme/

My guess is the theme isn’t loading scripting needed but the plugin does. You could test this theory by trying BuddyPress default

charlietech – It looks like a problem with Suffusion. Tell the Suffusion developer to search through his theme code to look for “adminbar.css”. The developer is probably trying to enqueue it without a `file_exists()` check.

Simplest way would be by adding this to your theme’s stylesheet:
`#sidebar div.item-title,
#sidebar div.item-meta {
display: none;
}
#sidebar ul.item-list li {
float: left;
margin: 0 5px 5px 0;
padding: 5px;
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
}`

BP/WP versions? Single/Multisite WP? Does this happen when you’re using the bp-default theme?

@charlietech I believe I’ve seen you post the same issue in WP forum and here some time ago. The issue is with the Suffusion BP pack plugin, please contact the theme/plugin developer.

You need to install/activate the BP template pack plugin to make WP theme compatible with BuddyPress. I don’t know if the JS conflict has been fixed with Canvas already, but here’s what we tried to work out before https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/woo-canvas-child-theme-customization-and-ajax/
EDIT – at end of that page http://labzip.com/shop/canvas-child-theme/ which claims compat with BP. I would suggest before any purchase that you make sure it’s compatible with latest BP and WP pages.

Has anyone actually created a plugin for this? I’d really like one.

Try this in your child themes style.css:

div#wp-admin-bar {
width: 1000px !important;
}

If your theme has custom menu support, you could always add the links to your main navigation via Appearance > Menus

bp_profile_field_data(‘field=Company’); works in my desktop theme, not in mobile. I tried bp_member_profile_data(‘field=Company’);, still nothing.

I also am getting nothing with bp_profile_field_data. It is spitting out the values in my regular theme’s member-header.php but when I plunk it into the BPMobile theme, nothing. Any ideas?

Great Marking this as resolved.