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If you are using the bp-default theme —

All you have to do is login, visit someone’s profile, and the send message buttons are there

Probably a good first step would be to ease some of the load and one by one remove those plugins – or remove them all add back in one by one. I find with errors like this often stripping back will help.

You could also ‘sanity’ check your theme by setting to the default BuddyPress theme – of course if a live community you may not be able to do this.

It’s a little hard to follow but my suggestion would be to follow the template pack instructions and not dip into two tutorials which unless I’m mistaken you are a little. The guide to the template pack also is just a guide there are so many ways of doing it theme wise that your theme may be structured differently.

If you are still having issues a good help may be to let us know what theme are you using and maybe a link so we can see the issue (if that is possible) for ourselves?

You should be fine with the last method as you say if that appears in your index.php. I do have one question on that though – did that appear after you did steps in template pack? If it was always there perhaps your theme is designed for BuddyPress anyway and won’t need the template pack? You only need it if your theme doesn’t support BuddyPress.

BuddyPress supports private messaging ‘straight out of the box’ by default (‘send message’).

Do you mean ‘instant messaging’?

@michaeljdornan – there’s a job board group on this site (not easy to find though!)

It makes sense to post your requirement there: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/forum/

Your costs could vary considerably – from just a few hours work to add basic BuddyPress capabilities to an existing ‘news’ theme (dependent on amount of HTML restructuring, styling), through to several weeks development to build a fully fledged news site with full backend workflow support and tight ‘site function related’ BP integration.

Having an indicative budget when you add to the jobs board would help.

If you don’t get it sorted through the job board, feel free to drop me a line.

Roger

@jomjom will check this later today.

@workingman just so we can align the structure in one go, please post the codes for header.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php as well.

@michaeljdornan Email me at pwf.aron@gmail.com and i’ll be glad to help you out
Cheers,
Aron

Members can’t write on each other’s walls in BuddyPress anyway. Not unless you are using a plugin / bespoke theme that supports that.

If you are, you’ll have to disable the bp_is_friend() check in that code to enable the function in all cases.

@mercime sorry to revive this topic, I followed your instructions, but buddypress is not correctly aligning yet (eg. http://www.linkin-park.it/newsite/members/linkin-park-italy/activity/). I’m using WordPress 3.4.1, Buddypress 1.5.6 and InStyle Theme 2.7. I’ve attached some code from my theme. Let me know if you can help me out, thanks in advance!

Header: http://pastebin.com/XaLx9ixX
Sidebar: http://pastebin.com/vnHV5FDA
Footer: http://pastebin.com/puaLJRZg
Page: http://pastebin.com/ZKi9QeUh
Page-Full Width: http://pastebin.com/EdkA0Cfb

Have you used the template pack for BuddyPress? You need to either use that or make your theme a child theme of BuddyPress default. This is because the theme you are using is not a BuddyPress compatible theme from what I can see.

Many thanks for the tip. I presume adding the line to the functions.php of a child theme would have the same effect.

Crazily enough the plugin still works perfectly. Haven’t tried the linking to social networking bit yet. But otherwise all good. Separate words can be links with square brackets, and you can exclude fields altogether.

Have you started by doing all the basic steps:

1. Make a copy of your site (so you are not working on the live server)
2. Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress
3. Switch to bp-default theme
4. [Ideally make sure you have updated WP / BP to the latest versions]
5. Then uninstall multisite [which instructions did you follow to do that?]

Does it work correctly if you do this?

If so, the problem is in your theme or your plugins. If not, the problem is more general.

If working after these steps, switch to your theme, then activate plugins one by one, checking functionality at each stage.

If you can report back on that, it should be possible to give more help (if needed!)

[Edit: it would also be helpful if you gave the exact error message you received – with that information, finding the problem may be much simpler]

I disagree, by using a child you are guaranteed to have a working site on upgrades aside from the few changes made which are usually mostly cosmetic. The good thing is you can do either to fit your needs.

It’s a problem with your “Decor” theme. Switch to twentyeleven or another theme, then go back to complete BuddyPress setup.

Hi just did a uninstall and reinstall but didn’t get any log errors. The errors below were the last errors that i received, but i don’t think they have anything to do with buddy press. Where should i go to get help with this?

I am running wordpress locally on a mamp server could that be the problem?

Regards
gary

30-Jun-2012 23:53:27 PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ‘)’ in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/template-blog.php on line 16

30-Jun-2012 23:53:23 PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ‘)’ in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/template-blog.php on line 16

30-Jun-2012 23:51:51 PHP Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/template-blog.php’ (include_path=’.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/lib/php’) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/page.php on line 5

30-Jun-2012 23:51:51 PHP Warning: require(/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/template-blog.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/page.php on line 5