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It all depends on what’s happening here.

Could you go into your wp-config.php file and look for the line
`define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);`

Make sure this is set to true.

Re-visit your activation page and post the last error message you see (if any).

Also, in your BuddyPress theme could you find the file located here

wp-content/themes/your-theme/registration/activate.php

and post the code that’s within it please.

you send it here info@4ella.com , but I don’t consider myself theme expert !!

WP/BP versions?
What theme are you using? Have you tried changing to bp-default?
From what to what versions did you upgrade from and to?

Helps if you clarify the word ‘broken’ as it implies the core functionality to create groups isn’t working yet you then say you think it might be a missing div which is a broken layout, a slightly different matter.

One quick check you ought to make is to revert to the standard BP-default theme and see if groups work ok , then you know if it’s a theme issue which helps narrow things down.

The best thing you can do is to use firefox addon firebug which will easily find you all css classes and their properties in your theme and you can edit them and live preview them and finally change them with your text editor, you don’t need any documentation at all, just play with it, if you are lost send me here the link and I will try to help you.

First of all, what theme are you trying to make compatible with BuddyPress?

Did you install and activate the BP Template Pack?

Site URL?

Well it’s really simple to set up actually but if you’re trying to pull code from it, that’s a different story. I’m not sure how to put the log-in forms IN your theme without that plug-in (or Gravity Forms). You could just style the log-in page to match?

See here: http://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/custom-wordpress-login-screen/

If you’re just looking for a simplier plug-in then just do a plug-in search for “custom login” and you’ll find a bunch!

>> doubles the size of the actuall header, is this what needs to be edited in the css
Yes,

>> How do you remove the line thats on the left side of the widgets
In your child theme’s stylesheet
`div#content .padder {
border-right: 0;
}
`

Looking at the current HTML structure of your Members, Groups and other BP template files, each is missing some original theme divs which add background color and padding. You removed the div.padder container from BP templates and then added a new div#bp-block around the item-list-tabs to try to contain it.

Recommend the following:

1.Add back the opening div.padder and closing div per original BP template files

2. Remove the #bp-block container div you surrounded div.item-list-tabs with

3. Add the following to your stylesheet to compensate for the missing divs
`/* BuddyPress Mods */
#content div.padder {
background: #eee none;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
clear:both;
font-size: 9pt;
margin: 0 0 10px;
padding: 15px;
}`

4. Use the BP style modifications used in Twenty Ten Child theme for BuddyPress https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/

5. Adjust style to taste.

Have you tried Theme My Login?

1. You have to clarify what you mean by user’s page. You could allow each user to personalize their member profiles in some way via plugin http://buddydev.com/buddypress/allow-your-users-to-change-their-profile-page-background-using-bp-custom-background-for-user-profile-plugin/
If you meant by showing a new subdomain, that you would be giving them their own blogs in your installation, then allow them to choose which theme they want for their blog/site.

2. Pictures portfolio/gallery. Two choices available at this time:
– free BP Album aka BP Media plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-album/ and http://code.google.com/p/buddypress-media/
– premium BP Gallery plugin – http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-gallery/

– Copy over header.php and sidebar.php from the bp-default theme into your bp-default child theme folder.
– Open up header.php and remove the search form there.
– Open up sidebar.php and copy then remove the code for the login.
– Paste over the login code into header.php where you want it to show up.
– Open up your child theme’s style.css file and add styling for your login form which is now in your header.php

i solved it. the developer of Suffusion Theme [https://buddypress.org/community/members/sayontan/] had included bad references to BP in the functions.php file. i edited them out, all fine now.

You might want to check the custom community forums to check if such issue has cropped up and any solutions or if no such issue was brought up, post in that forum about your issue.

If you want to check if the issue is corrected using bp-default theme, backup your database where the custom community theme’s options are stored. Then change to bp-default theme and check if you can post updates without issue.

by the way, none of the above (ie: faulty adminbar.css link, or global.js) appear in source on the site using TwentyEleven theme. so i guess it is someting in the other theme that brings it out. i will look further, and try your hacks, guess i put them in functions.php of the offending theme. it was raining so hard here (east coast Australia) my internet was down for 10 hrs, back into it now… thanks Chris.