Mercime is very generously giving you pointers to make changes to your theme. If you’re still having problems, you may need to hire a theme developer to help you out.

I did cover the image header question in the other thread – no I didn’t copy the code in to the thread as – in all honesty – stating “copy this ‘named’ function” ought to be sufficient to get started with.

I’ll now copy the function I referenced originally – you need to copy this into your child theme functions file, this function will alert BP not to run it’s original version and allows you to manipulate the rulesets that are created for custom headers.

`
function bp_dtheme_header_style() {
global $post;

$header_image = ”;

if ( is_singular() && current_theme_supports( ‘post-thumbnails’ ) && has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) ) {
$image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), ‘post-thumbnail’ );

// $src, $width, $height
if ( !empty( $image ) && $image[1] >= HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH )
$header_image = $image[0];

} else {
$header_image = get_header_image();
}
?>

#header { background-image: url(); }

#header h1, #header #desc { display: none; }

#header h1 a, #desc { color:#; }

<?php
}
`

Now in the other thread I explained how to adjust the image dimensions by setting the define(‘HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH’, 400) that will be displayed on the dashboard settings page and that represent the sizes the image will size and crop to, so you should still have that aspect in place.

If you leave the BP default layout unchanged then the header element width is likely wider than your background image ( the header width is stated in the stylesheet, the background image is set from the embedded styles in the code above) and that background image will repeat – but we went over that on the other thread, with the code above you can now add the required properties to prevent that.

Now code does need to be copied carefully and any stray code that may be causing issues might still affect things. Headers already sent errors have a number of reasons and are not necessarily easy for us to diagnose, I explained one possible cause but only you can determine if that is a reason.

On this issue of instruction; as I have said and now mercime this is a volunteer support forum, we are not obliged to provide absolute instruction we attempt to help and guide, also when one is a web dev professional there will be a level of expertise expected in general terms regarding coding experience. You are attempting to customise buddypress past what it offers in the default so you must expect certain aspects of doing that to be less than utterly idiot proof and there are aspects of BP that many of us struggle with.

@mac02 check if we have “template-packed” your WP theme from list near bottom of https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

Case in point, here is the very specific video I created for our BP install: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CO&hl=es-419&v=9vJ6AtP7DSI. I made this using Camtasia from techsmith.com, it’s a pretty simple process, but once you create it, you can’t make too many changes to theme or navigation (again supporting Paul’s point).

Under Buddypress / Pages, have you created all of the requisite pages for Activity, Groups, Members, etc.? I don’t understand “Everything was spread all throughout the page”. You’ll need that template pack enabled, and it needs to move some components into your active theme. Did you run through the 4 step process?

It’s a beautiful theme you’ve got going there, but I have honestly never had much luck converting a non-bp theme to be truly bp compatible without a lot of massaging. It’s not a plug and play process, hence the default theme. You may want to consider creating a child theme of the default: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Does it happen with the Default theme enabled? It could be a theme issue.

Did you install the Buddypress Template Pack Plugin? If you are using a theme that doesn’t have buddypress functionality baked in by default, you need to install this plugin and run through the steps to enable compatibility. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

== When searching these files, i cant find the exact code you wrote. for instance in activity, i found … ==

I don’t know what file you’re opening. For activity/index.php –> lines 12-17 in https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.5/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/index.php

B. At the bottom of the same 16 files, replace:
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with the following (except for registration/register.php):
`

`

with the following for registration/register.php:
`

jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();
jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});

`

Save files.

C. Upload the 6 BP folders containing the 16 files you’ve just revised to your server wp-content/themes/wp-clear/

D. Copy the style modifications made in BP Twenty Ten at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/ and paste to your theme’s stylesheet. Adjust to taste.

@turfnet Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you need to use the first option, i.e., change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your wp-clear theme folder in server during the compatibility process.

If you’ve previously changed any of the BP template files in your theme folder in server, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility.

Download the 6 clean BP folders to your computer hard drive.

A. At the top of each of those 16 template files I linked to above, replace
`

If you switch to the BP Default theme, do you still get the problem? You can switch back to your regular theme after testing, it just helps narrow down the possibilities.

Wendy BuddyPress customization isn’t for beginners you do need a degree of dev experience definitely a basic understanding of PHP / CSS/ and markup.

In reference to the header I thought that was sorted out in the other thread? In which case it oughtn’t to be raised again as it’s a bit misleading, if however it is still an issue post back on the other thread.

I noted that your child custom themes functions file had the BP enqueue function along with it’s wrapper function:

`<?php
if ( !function_exists( ‘bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles’ ) ) :
function bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles() {}
endif;
?>
`

That doesn’t look right, I would remove that unless the child theme actually handles loading styles somewhere else as this will prevent BP loading any styles – which may be the intention, mercime may be able to confirm that this is correct.

As for the headers sent error this may be due to having white space in the file after php tags are closed, that is after the final ‘?>’ you might have an actual carriage return which acts as actual parsed data if that’s so it needs to be backspaced out.

And you are not sure about the correct location of that file ???
“Once Again” What were you trying to delete ??? Your theme or what ?