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== , to check if the changes were rendering, which they are not. ==
@nathanwoulfe Sanity Check. When you say child theme, do you mean child theme of the bp-default theme? If not, if you have a child theme of a regular WP theme, have you installed the BP Template Pack plugin and have gone through Appearance > BP Compatibility process?
WP/BP versions?

== a h3 tag [h3][?php _e( ‘Site Activity’, ‘buddypress’ ); ?][/h3] that isn’t rendering either… ==
– I’ll assume that you used brackets instead of the “ symbols so that they show up in forum post. Know that you don’t have to use brackets, just surround your code with backticks, symbol you see between parentheses `( ` )`
– the Site Activity title doesn’t show up in Activity Directory page when user is logged in

@jende The avatars in the sidebar widgets are constrained down to 40px x 40px via stylesheet. The actual avatar size is 50px x 50px. You could change the avatar size via your bp-default child theme’s style.css file like so:
`#footer-widget-area div.item-avatar img, /* remove this line if you only want to change size in right sidebar */
div#sidebar div.item-avatar img {
height: 50px;
margin: 1px;
width: 50px;
}`

@dave953 I suggest that you set up a separate WP/BP test site using different DB on the same server where your current WP is installed. That way, you can test BP, different BP plugins and/or themes first before installing or introducing it to your users in your main site.

@coxis123 It’s the other way around. You need to make your Thesis theme compatible with BuddyPress. We use the BP Template Pack plugin to make WP themes compatible with BP.

Overview to the compatibility process and the list of WP themes at the bottom of the same page that we’ve made BP-compatible at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

@coxis123 Their site states “The Thesis Theme framework is a premium template system for WordPress that is designed to serve as the rock-solid foundation beneath any kind of website.”

With “any” emphasized… So, you can assume so.

But, it’s up to the theme developer to make their themes compatible, so you should ask them.

@bigjosh Please don’t hijack other threads especially when you have opened your own topic: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/email-not-sending-to-new-user-on-my-site/#post-126755

Please follow up on your other thread ( with more precise information such as error messages and hosting / config / theme / plugins / steps taken etc details )

My reply was to @britt2802

WP/BP versions? Did you install WordPress manually or via webhost script like fantastico or simplescripts etc? Have you tried re-uploading BuddyPress again manually via FTP to plugins folder. Basic troubleshooting includes deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress and change to bp-default theme.

So what you want to add another widget area after the login form in your sidebar. You would have to register a new widget area in your child theme’s new functions.php file, then add a new get_sidebar call under the code of the login form in your sidebar.php. See how: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/11/08/sidebars-in-wordpress

1) BuddyPress requires “pretty permalinks” so go to Settings > Permalinks and set to something other than default and Save.

2) If you do not see any “Repair” link after that announcement, go to BuddyPress > Pages and create or associate the pages https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/#bp-pages

I used to work with the Atahualpa theme. I have been unable to use it with BuddyPress then moved to a home made child theme of the bd-default. I’d be glad to see there is a way to do this as Atahualpa is definitly a very achieved tool for wp users.

Are you using the original buddypress theme, or a child theme?

– Install BuddyPress and test it in your server using the bp-default theme.
– If everything’s working well, change to the Atahualpa theme or another WP theme,
– Install and activate the BP Template Pack plugin then go through the Appearance > BP Compatibility process to transfer the BP template folders to Atahualpa theme folder in server.
– Upload the header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php file to your theme folder

Just a thought, you didn’t delete your theme’s header.php right? You shouldn’t

It should. Are you sure you uploaded the revised index.php file into same directory structure as in themes/yourWPBPtheme/activity/index.php in your server? Cleared cache? What changes did you make?

The sidebar is on the right in the bp-default theme.

Hi

There’s unfortunately no guaranteed solution to prevent spam user signup. There are a couple of easy things to start out with; try items 1 + 2 from http://themekraft.com/spam-in-buddypress/

== i have interchanged group activity button with personal activity button ==
How did you change it? And where did you make the changes, in your child theme?

== I get a 500 Internal Server Error or 404 Not Found when trying to get Buddy Press pages. ==

When did this happen? After you uploaded header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php ? Or after activating a new plugin?

Have tried running Settings > Permalinks again to other than default, and click Save?

1. /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/

You shouldn’t need to touch those files, instead create a child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

2. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/welcome-pack/

https://github.com/sbrajesh/bp-redirect-to-profile/blob/master/bp-redirect-to-profile.php

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/29545/login-redirect-to-certain-bp-profile-page

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You mean where does it appear in custom theme files?
Various places, here is one:

wp-content/themes/your-theme/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php