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@mercine @modemlooper

Thanks, I’ve activated that plugin. The toolbar has reappeared which is great. However the layout on my iphone now has column on the right-hand side (I use a child theme of the default theme) taking up most of the screen with the main body just a thin sliver on the left.

Is there a simple fix to this or does this require editing the css? If any code needs changing, any info on where I should be looking would be extremely helpful.

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

Install this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-extended-settings

Has option to turn off setting.

@mercime just putting remove_theme_support doesn’t work. You have to add it to a certain action.

I have put this code into an empty functions.php in my child theme and nothing has happened. Do I need anything else? A hook of some sort? Or does that code sit alone within opening / closing tags?
I have looked around the net and tried a few things but nothing is working. I am a real beginner when it comes to php (and most things really ) so I imagine this is something quite obvious.

If it works in BP-Default, it’s a problem with your theme. You need to talk to the author of your theme and ask them for a fix.

Switch to the twentyeleven theme. Disable BuddyPress.

Can you reply to comments on posts/pages then?

Have you every used Firebug before (it’s a Firefox addon). Install it and then you can inspect which class you are trying to hide.

That code looks to be for a widget, not a menu.

Once you figure out what you are trying to hide, download something like this so you don’t have to keep making the change everytime your theme updates https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/safecss/

Then put

whateveryouarehiding {display: none;}

to hide the menu.

Are you seeing the same behaviour with the BP-Default theme? You need to first determine whether this is a theme issue or a plugin issue.

== I have to do more investigation as to whether I can use this plugin with my theme, or how to install it so it is compatible. ==

@nwweavers we have “template-packed” a number of WP themes for BP compatibility https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes

I figured out that I had to select BP as the default theme, which overrode my current theme and messed things up. I have to do more investigation as to whether I can use this plugin with my theme, or how to install it so it is compatible. Thanks for the response!

== and now our menu bar has disappeared altogether ==

@stuart-elliott is this happening for logged-in/logged-out users?

Some thoughts:
– Go to Settings > BuddyPress -> Settings -> Main Settings and make sure that you have checked ” Show the Toolbar for logged out users “
– Change to bp-default theme and check if issue is resolved. If so, it’s very likely a theme issue. Know that Themekraft will be updating the Custom Community theme next week if not sooner.

@marc-birkett Could be a theme issue and not a BuddyPress issue at all.

Your theme needs to have something like this
` if ( is_singular() && get_option( ‘thread_comments’ ) )
wp_enqueue_script( ‘comment-reply’ );`
in header.php or enqueued in theme’s functions.php file

@natetheaverage this thread is more than a year old. Pls start a new topic for your issue.

Could very well be that you have BP Template Pack plugin activated which enqueues global.js and your own theme enqueues the same global.js in its functions.php file, hence two global.js showing up.

Hey @Ben,

If you have never tried or seen this trick in Firefox — hit CTRL+SHIFT+i

You’ll go into inspect mode and there you can hover over block elements on the page and see the exact ID’s and Classes for your styles.

You can then use your theme’d style sheet to control styles by tagging “!important” (which you seem to be doing). It just might be that you are not capturing the right ID’s and Classes.

No prob Cal ( @mastermind12). Just remember to store the code below away because you will need to reapply it the next time, and every time, you upgrade BuddyPress. Once you have your own theme, you can put this in a style sheet called `style.css` in your themes directory and you will always hide the “bubble”.

`/* removes the activity bubble from buddypress */
ul#members-list span.activity {
display:none !important;
}`

No @mastermind12 — those 2 style sheet (.css) files are not coming into play on your Member’s Directory page.

Paste it to the bottom of `/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css` although you will need to repeat this paste each and every time you upgrade the BuddyPress plugin.

I made changes to the WP Admin Bar by adding this snippet to my theme’s functions.php file:

// Customize WP Toolbar
function change_toolbar($wp_toolbar) {
$wp_toolbar->remove_node('my-account-forums');
}

add_action('admin_bar_menu', 'change_toolbar', 999); 

You can remove any individual li by getting the id of it (in your case the li has the id wp-admin-bar-my-account-forums) and dropping the prefix wp-admin-bar-. The part where you remove the prefix is odd and makes it kind of a secret, but it works. I got the original idea here: http://www.sitepoint.com/change-wordpress-33-toolbar/

To display extended profile fields in the members directory, it’s easiest to add a function to your theme’s functions.php file. My theme is based on the bp-default theme, so in my file /wp-content/themes/theme-name/members/members-loop.php, there’s this action at the end of each member’s entry that we can hook into:

Open up your functions.php file and add something like this:

function add_member_custom_extended_profile() {
if ( $xprofile_tele = bp_get_member_profile_data( 'field=Telephone' ) ) {
echo 'Telephone:' . $xprofile_tele . '
';
}
}
add_action('bp_directory_members_item', 'add_member_custom_extended_profile'); 

You can get the exact field name to use by looking at a member’s profile page and copying the text in the left-most column.

I originally got this idea from here: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/bp-add-profile-field-data-to-members-directory-with-links