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Hi Fraser,

You should be given a crop screen after uploading your avatar where you can drag a square over the portion of the image you’d like to use.

If this is not the case it sounds like an issue with the theme you’re using – you’re best getting in touch with the people that developed it. Alternatively you can activate the default buddypress theme and try to customise that to suit your needs.

Hope this helps,
Laurie

Hi, just found this post and tried adding the line of code to my functions.php but it doesn’t get rid of the view dropdown.

I added the line of code
`remove_action( ’bp_adminbar_menus’, ’bp_adminbar_random_menu’, 100 );`

to the file /wp-content/themes/[theme name]/functions.php

Is this correct?

alphonse.tan, what is the slug/name of the page that you’ve assigned to the “Groups” component in wp-admin > BuddyPress > Components? Changing that should update menus etc

@davidtcarson bravo to your theme.. i am currently using it with a wp 3.2.1 and bp 1.5.. it’s practically working fine.. and i am very happy with it..

there’s just one thing.. i converted all “groups” into “companies” and with the bp-default theme menus each and every link is working.. but with the frisco sub-menu… (please refer to this page..http://www.entrepnegosyo.com/members/alphonse/companies/) you can see that, it is still saying “Groups” and not “Companies”.. i have been searching from within the bp-default theme and within our great theme.. but to no avail..

Any assistance to point me in the right direction would be most appreciated..

Thanks and more power…

something like filezilla ?

many thanks @aces !!
respect man

I haven’t tried it yet as I wanted to see if there was an alternative way of backing up just the file/s I am working on, in the past, I’ve encountered site breaks during custom, and have developed a bad habit of doing full cpanel backups following these breaks. This has led to me losing several new member registrations on my site.

Is there an alternative method I can adopt – i.e. doing a copy of file first and saving it to a backup folder for instance, so that if something goes wrong I can just replace the file instead of restoring the whole public_html directory?

excuse my lack of back-ticks, it’s been a while..I’m a bit rusty lol

I would do it as another theme bundled in the plugin if its getting put into core. I suggested header/ no header and left or right sidebar as options.

You should give more detail on your install, what plugins, what theme, versions… etc.

Whether/whenever theme compatibility is fully implemented in BP, bp-default will have to stay around, in some form or other, for the purposes of backward compatibility. If the kind of rewrite that you’re talking about is able to maintain this backpat, I don’t see any reason why what you’re proposing couldn’t become part of bp-default itself.

“Decisions not options” is a nice general strategy, but I’m unwilling to dismiss the possibility of including some well-chosen theme options just because of that strategy. If you can come up with some simple options that help you achieve your goals, please feel free to pitch them.

As for your last question, bp-default is licensed under the same GPL as the rest of BP, so you can do whatever you’d like with it

While you’re thinking about this, remember that 1.7 is going to have templating like bbPress has.

> Other ideas could be build in some simple theme options like Twenty-Eleven does.
Decisions, not options.

https://svn.buddypress.org/tags/1.5.1/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php ?

in the bp-default header ( should be line 46 – 48 )
`

`
replace it in your child theme with something like
`

`
as it is the last parameter, I don’t think false has a comma after it in this context….

Make sure you back up before any edits in case something goes wrong!

nb: to use code on buddypress.org put backticks ` (normally above tab key) before and after…

so to clarify: in my header.php (child theme) replace..

wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container’ => false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ‘bp_dtheme_main_nav’ ) );

with:

<?php
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container’ => false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ” ) );
} else {
wp_nav_menu( array( ‘container’ => false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘secondary-menu’, ‘fallback_cb’ => false,
}
?>

I’ve just checked my header.php and it appears to be worded slightly differently actually..? for example:

false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ‘bp_dtheme_main_nav’ ) ); ?>

@SBrajesh I tried the codes you gave, but
I got an error when put in echo:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method DateTime::diff() in /home/dom/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/functions.php on line 377

Line 377 is this – $diff= $current_date_time->diff($dob);//returns DateInterval object

Any idea how to correct that?
Thanks.

You’ve got the right idea. You can tell from the markup, CSS, and javascript, unless it is has been heavily customised. Which for h-mag, it has (http://www.h-mag.com/wp-content/themes/hmag/style.css)

@liesl1698 paste it in your theme’s functions.php

Did you get this working? I have the exact same issue.
BP 1.5, and a child theme using BP template pack.
I have successfully used a language file on another site (BP 1.2. so I thought I understood the process.
Has something changed in the way language files are handled in 1.5?

Look in header.php of your theme , the code in header.php is look like that

header.php contains the header code. wp-content/plugins/buddypress/themes/bp-default

@mercime I´ve the same problem. I´m using single WP 3.2.1 and BP 1.5.1 (BP Template Pack + Followers Plugin). I always get a page not found error when I try to load my followers list, the activity of my followers (and the people I´m following). Problem is gone when I change to bp-default theme. Can you please help, what can I do to make it work with the theme I´m using (mymag)???

This must be part of your custom theme; it’s not part of BuddyPress core.