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Have you seen this?

http://labzip.com/shop/canvas-child-theme/

You reply suggest you haven’t read through the guides I mentioned above?! If not please do so as they have been written to help users.

You have to match those files to your themes primary html markup as that is where things differ, your theme will have certain major layout elements e.g id=”container” the BP files must match to your themes markup, generally you would use index.php or page.php as your themes example to follow

The list of themes already put through the process by mercim are listed here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

@elbowrobo What help do you want from the community? When you say you are at a complete loss what is the issue you are having, it would help to know what you have tried and what the issues are that you have hit.

The template pack is only meant as a helping hand, starting point – it does require that you do some manual file editing of a basic nature and for that you do need rudimentary HTML skills and ability to understand how read code and copy paste it around. Without those skills you might struggle and perhaps need to be getting a developer to help you or choosing a theme that has already been template packed.

Have you actually followed the guides written by mercime in the BP Codex? these are extremely helpful walkthrough guides to working through the steps involved including the manual step 3; or look at the general list of themes that mercime has added and maybe choose one of those instead?

If you want to customise the twentyten theme, you are best to post on the WordPress.org forums for support. This forum is for BuddyPress-specific questions.

I took a different approach to this that worked… I was looking to hide content from people who are not friends… In any pages that friends are not connected I did this..

?php if ( bp_is_friend() != ‘is_friend’ ) {
if (bp_current_user_id() != bp_loggedin_user_id()):
locate_template( array( ‘members/single/not-friends.php’), true )
endif;
}
php if (bp_current_user_id() == bp_loggedin_user_id() || ( bp_is_friend() == ‘is_friend’ ) ): ?>
// add page content for friends
?php endif; ?>

for groups you can do the similar with bp_group_is_member()

naturally you would need to create;
members/single/not-friends.php

but this way you take away the permissions settings from your users and control them yourself with your theme…. With a little bit of configuring you can do the same with users who are not logged in.

Hope this helps…

Cheers

@karmatosed. I saw your work at WPMUDEV; I mean how you helped a guy to resolve his buddypress sidebar issue. I was following the tutor but at a point I got hooked up. I thought of joining WPMUDEV immediately and ask you this question, but then again, I am not well equipped financially at the moment. Please if you help me solve this issue out, I will not forget about it so easily. Thanks. Now this is what I have done. FIrstly I added this code in my childtheme functions.php file.

register_sidebars( 1,
array(
'id' => 'leftsidebar',
'name' => 'Christlike-sidebar',
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',
'after_title' => '</h3>'
)
);

Then I saved it and refreshed my browser in my widgets administration panel. Guess what the sidebar did appear. So I added some widgets into it and saved it. Then I created a new sidebar with a notepad in my child theme and named it Christlike-sidebar.php. Then I added this code into it.

<div id="leftsidebar">
</div>

I learnt from numerous tutorials I read online that you have to add a code to your index.php file to enable the sidebar to appear in my site. I obeyed promptly and added this code:

immediately below

I saved everything and refreshed my browser. Damn… nothing appeared. I have read and read and read, searched out for how to do this on Google, Bing, and Yahoo but all my efforts have yielded nothing. Please help me out.

Again, if there is any developer that knows how best I can achieve this, please help me out. Thanks alot to you all.

Gabriel.

@pcwriter Please, can you help me outline how you added your own sidebar. I will love it when you reply. I have been suffering over this issue for a long time now. Thanks buddy

Hello fishfinder. Your tutor about this is the best I have seen so far. I have spent countless hours searching on Google, bing, and Yahoo about this. Your tutor indeed is clear but my problem is that I am using the latest version of buddypress, so I am not able to see the locate template stuffs in my single.php file. Please I really do need your help here. If someone else here have found a solution, please help me by droping the link and your help will be well appreciated. Thanks.

@ikosweb this CSS is essential for the avatar cropping feature. If anyone is developing their own theme and has decided to disable the default BuddyPress CSS then try adding this CSS snippet to your theme’s .css

Go to the TwentyEleven theme. Remove BuddyPress. Create a page. Go to the page. Does the page load?

If it doesn’t, what’s the URL to that page? This is probably a permalink or rewrite rule problems, and creating a page is the easiest way to find out what’s going wrong.

Hi, unfortunately it is a little bit hard to give advice on how you should change it without seeing what you have had happen. Would it be possible to provide a link to your site?

Without a link my advice would be to look at your CSS ‘wrapper’ or page classes and see if any of those are impacting the widths. I would recommend using a tool such as Firebug or Inspector to do this in your browser.

No, they are talking about changing your entire theme, not a page template

From Appearance … Themes… choose bp-default, and test if it works

If it fails in bp-default as well, there is something wrong with your installation.

if it works in bp-default, it’s something wrong in your Parallelus theme.

However, that’s not easy for you to do if your site is already live. The best option would be to set up a separate test installation to test these things on. It sounds like you probably need to engage a developer if you go down that route.

As you are using the Parallelus theme – it might be worth asking on their support forums if this is a known problem