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What theme are you using? Just to be clear, you’re talking about titles in BP template files, correct?

WP/BP versions? What theme are you using?

I agree about scepticism on free hosting – I wasn’t suggesting moving the data simply trying the WP configuration with the established theme then adding Buddypress and looking at the result.
However as a newcomer to WP and BP perhaps my thinking is a bit woolly.
I dont trust my data to free hosting either but I am finding it a good way to learn what seems to fit together for my purposes.

Ah sorry thought by you saying older site no updates you meant you’d not updated WordPress either.

Well there is the template pack you can use for BuddyPress https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/. Or yes, you can go with making a child of Bp-default and that as your basis. I’d recommend creating a child theme.

Personally I’d be very sceptical over ‘free’ hosting. You are putting maybe your data on their site and personally I’d be sceptical about a free service like that. But, that’s my opinion everyone has their own.

If you don’t already use free hosting you might like to consider using http://www,000hosting.com or http://www.cixx6.com for prototyping changes they both have fairly easy WP installation which might enable you to set up a duplicate/development site (minus members and using their provided domain) to see how installing Buddypress will affect your theme without affecting your production site.
Just a thought.

It may sound brutal but you really should be updating WordPress whether you are using BuddyPress or not. If your theme is limiting you then I’m afraid you do have to consider an alternative or update to it. Upgrades when done right shouldn’t effect your blog posts – it all depends though how far you’ve gotten behind though as to this task (and it won’t get less leaving it).

In saying this I do understand sometimes restrictions and issues happen that mean upgrading isn’t easy or as frequent. I usually find though that the issues in doing are out weighed by the benefits.

The logo fits right into that theme that’s really cool like the header a lot. I guess for me a community which is about sharing photos, videos and stories and connecting perhaps should have a little more of that header personality though. I’d love to see maybe other elements of the site have some non-default styling. Perhaps the profiles or the sidebars would be a starting point.

There is a lot you can do to encourage people sharing to – perhaps a feature slider of users videos or a story page with a feature story of the week? I’m just throwing some ideas out there.

You probably want to take a step back and look at how register.php is done in the default theme. You’re doing a few things differently and whilst I don’t know the reasons I’d recommend that as a starting point for you. For instance using the same form submitting:

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Scanning source of the Geotheme demo pages, you’d have to use the first method for Step 3 of BP Compatibility — change HTML structure of 16 BP template files — and not the two *-buddypress.php files like you mentioned above.

If you still want to proceed,
open up your theme’s header.php file, copy all, paste all to pastebin.com, click submit and post the generated URI here. Do the same for index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php.

Add this to the wp_nav_menu array in the theme’s header.php file
'menu_class' => '',

You can change the text on line #21 loop-forums.php within bbPress plugin folders https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.0.2/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/bbpress/loop-forums.php

For more information, please post at bbPress.org support forums

The BuddyBoss theme has a ‘wall’ similar to facebook

Yep it just represents an insertion point in a file, marker points throughout a theme template file where ‘stuff’ may be added.

B. COPY your theme’s sidebar.php and Save As > sidebar-buddypress.php

Open up sidebar-buddypress.php

Add the following code at the TOP, above original sidebar code:
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[ DELETE FROM HERE ]

<?php break;
case ‘pos_4’: // Shortcode Box 1
echo “

“.do_shortcode(stripslashes($mt_bp_scbox1)).”

“;
break;
case ‘pos_5’: // Shortcode Box 2
echo “

“.do_shortcode(stripslashes($mt_bp_scbox2)).”

“;
break;
case ‘pos_6’: // Shortcode Box 3
echo “

“.do_shortcode(stripslashes($mt_bp_scbox3)).”

“;
break;
} // end switch-case

} // end foreach

[ DELETE UP TO THIS LINE ONLY ]
`

Save file.

C. Upload header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to your theme folder in server wp-content/themes/metrolo/ 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.