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Just as a first step, have you tried updating your theme to the latest version that works with 1.6? When an update happens it’s time to also update any theme or plugins you use.

Just to check, have you updated your theme to BuddyPress 1.6? Or have you made changes to your theme to reflect those in BuddyPress 1.6?

I could be wrong but that looks like the message styling in your theme needs either a different colour background or the text to be set to something darker than white.

span.activity, div#message p is my guess

If you can please provide a link if you need more exact information then I can take a look at your site.

@modemlooper sorry should have been more descriptive. I use one menu if a user is not logged in and another if they are, Like so:

`
if( !is_user_logged_in() ):
wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container’ => false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ‘bp_dtheme_main_nav’ ) );
else:
wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container’ => false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘logged_in’ ) );
endif;
`

This works fine for me unless I just haven’t run into any issues yet. Just started using BP.

I can’t really comment on pods sorry but if you want to customise your status updates you can using CSS fairly easily – depends on what you want to do though. Are you looking to style their look in the theme or style them when posting the update?

Hi Charlietech, the BuddyPress admin bar is now merged with the WordPress one.

So, you can use this:

‘add_filter(‘show_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’);` in your functions.php file to turn off fully.

Alternatively, you can use:

‘Settings > BuddyPress : Toolbar Show the Toolbar for logged out users’

You can also select to show or hide the WordPress admin bar on your own profile.

If none of those work for you then you may need to look see if your theme is forcing something.

Just a slight point on top though, if possible can you only start one thread per question as it does help to focus responses?

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_current_user works with buddypress… I use it like this.

To personalise the admin bar I use something like this (bp version 1.5.7)

@shawn38 – as @karmatosed and I have pointed out, you won’t be able to make the Corporate Theme ‘responsive’ just by setting a percentage width for the outer wrapper.

It will probably take a lot of work, and just for starters you’ll have to consider the knock on effect of changing the outer container to a percentage width on all the elements it contains. Do they have fixed widths, margins, etc, etc. specified, how will floating elements react, and so on.

@free3dart You need to fix alignment of the template files to match your theme’s HTML structure. Let;s give it a try … Open up your balance theme’s header.php, copy all code, paste in pastebin.com, click submit and post the generated URI here. Do the them for balance theme’s index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php.

Hi @shawn38, I showed you the div that you can interact with to change the width. I saw this looking at your site in Firebug and examining the wrapper about your container.

`#wrapper {
font-size: 0.6875em;
margin: 0px auto;
width: 1000px;
}`

But, as @rogercoathup just making that 100% isn’t what making your theme responsive means. If you want to do that you have to look at how it looks on a range of devices and change things using media queries (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/) for instance.

Just to add to that reading list would be http://www.abookapart.com/products/mobile-first/. BuddyPress default itself is to a point responsive now (but not mobile first). The theme you mention Shawn38 isn’t and therefore will if you want not just a 100% width but a proper ‘responding to devices’ probably cause some issues.

Responsive web design (as it’s known) is a major subject area — basic fluid designs are one approach (percentage widths and so on, and will help with your white space concern), but it’s a much richer field than just that.

Check out a book such as: http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design/

You can also look at some of the responsive ‘frameworks’ as a base for your site – twitter’s bootstrap, zurb’s foundation, or Andy Clarke’s 320 and up.

You’ll also find plenty of responsive themes for WordPress (2011 included), that can be enhanced to support BuddyPress.

@blixus the styling is not coming from BuddyPress. Download Firebug, a Firefox add-on to identify the styles associated with the Avatar i.e., img.avatar in your stylesheet and make revisions as needed.

It depends on what theme you are using. Usually yes you can put that in your style.css and it would work.

@alexcurrie123 Yes, that’s the code of permalink.php. I believe that you only needed to create two files to fix alignment of the BP template files based on the HTML structure of your theme.

In this case, to make it easy for you, open up that permalink page and make the following revisions:

A. Beneath “ and before `

Hi, sorry to hear your site has not taken to the upgrade well. What it could be is a plugin or theme issue though – those are the easiest to look at so good first ports of call. If possible make sure all your plugins and themes are up to date before an upgrade. However, you can as a check maybe rename your theme you are using’s folder so it pops to the default theme.

Failing those methods not working is there anything in your error logs that perhaps would indicate where the issue is? If you don’t know how to access your error logs your hosting can help you there.

B. COPY your theme’s sidebar-single.php file (that’s the file called from your page.php file) and Save As > sidebar-buddypress.php

Open up the blank sidebar-buddypress.php file and at the very TOP of the file, above all code add this:
`

`

Save file.

C. Upload header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to your theme folder in server wp-content/themes/celebritypress/ in the same directory where your regular header.php and sidebar.php files are

D. Final note: Copy the style modifications for some BP elements https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/ and paste those at the bottom of your theme’s stylesheet, then adjust to taste.