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@naijaping you’re probably best creating the logo in the size you want it to display and creating a .png with a transparent background – you should try not to use css to change the size of it

@mercime , put slash did not work aswell but declaring the whole path like this works well

<h1 id="logo"><a href="" title=""><img src="http://www.mysite.com/themes/mychildtheme/_inc/images/2.jpg" /></a></h1>

Any idea on how to style the width and height of the logo and to declare the logo background as transparent.

sorry to disturb

Globally? You’d probably need to allow divs in your theme, then define styles for them

BuddyPress doesn’t use Facebook’s wall idea. It’s more like Twitter; you need to @mention them. The default theme has a “public message” button when viewing another user’s profile; this is a shortcut and it provides the @mention for you.

Asked and answered at https://wordpress.org/support/topic/what-difference-does-it-make-if-i-install-wpmu-or-i-make-my-wordpress-theme?replies=3

Actually I stumbled across this question while spending several hours last night looking for the answer on the infamous Group Avatar step error message, after seeing there were as many different answers as there were questions, and not finding the solution (and doing what each answer suggested), I decided not to fight it. I don’t know if your question stems from this type of error or simply you’ve come to realize the group is created after the first step (as you said), but rather than using php or a core hack,etc, etc, I just removed the upload buttons and text of the avatar step using CSS, essentially users who create the group will consider it a default avatar, not get thrown off by an error message and click through the process; they then do any editing afterwords. Editing the avatar after the fact doesn’t throw any errors as it does when creating the group.
In my case, I know it’s a child theme problem and having a static home page, even though I followed the buddypress docs to a t. Didn’t want to give up the home page for the buddypress default, so that was my solution. it’s fairly painless and works.

@tommyhoang what says your “footer and header are ready to be used as widgets.”? Did you place the proper code in functions.php?

@sbruner, okay that second article was a lot more easy to follow. so now it says my footer and header are ready to be used as widgets. but when i got to wp-admin/apperance/widgets, i only see the menu for sidebar widgets, shouldnt there be a footer and header as well?

Yes, but I would expect to see it also as an option from the other menu or header bar, so will users I suspect. Is that not right? If this is the only way to get to that function it seems a very fragmented approach to the interface.
The other problem is that when using the other theme the sign up does not create a new user, but with the standard theme it seems ok.

or try the bp template pack download at https://github.com/boonebgorges/bp-template-pack

@guileshill I see that you’ve changed to bp-default theme. Go to http://artsnet.co/groups/ – do you see the “Create Group” link beside page title “Groups Directory”?

This site here is not a sandbox. It’s not meant to test things out. That would be http://testbp.org, as you can see from the theme, for example. testpb runs the default theme, while we have a more or less functional custom theme here

Install BuddyPress in a subdomain or, better locally on your home computer, and test out what it can do and what it can’t do. testbp is good in that you can see what you can do as an end user, but you won’t know what you can adjust as a site admin.

I don’t mean to hijack this conversation and of course will start a new thread if preferred but I have exactly the same issue. Logging in as admin or as user makes no difference. The install is the latest version of both BP and WP (its a fresh install on a test address). The site is at artsnet.co. The theme is called Traject, a fairly complex set up, but the adapted BP files seem to be OK. There are no plugins working except the WPMU updates.

If you want to use the child style yes that’s what you need to do

@mercime. Thanks!

Okay, that referenced information is what I stared at for a long time (I’m really new at this…) and the following is what I came up with:

`function bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles() {
// Bump this when changes are made to bust cache
$version = ‘20110804’;

// Default CSS
wp_enqueue_style( ‘bp-default-main’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/_inc/css/default.css’, array(), $version );

wp_enqueue_style( ‘bp-child-style’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, array(), $version );

// Right to left CSS
if ( is_rtl() )
wp_enqueue_style( ‘bp-default-main-rtl’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/_inc/css/default-rtl.css’, array( ‘bp-default-main’ ), $version );
}
add_action( ‘wp_print_styles’, ‘bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles’ );`

You may notice that in the second enqueue statement, I used `get_stylesheet_directory_uri()` to pull the child’s directory. Is that correct? No where in the referenced information does it use that function, only `get_template_directory_uri()` which presumably pulls the parent directory. Given that the directory function I used was not in the referenced information, I wonder if there is alternative, straightforward way that a seasoned developer would use.

@sbruner, apparently the function ‘bp_search_form_enabled’ has been deprecated in BP 1.5:

http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/buddypress/nav.html?_functions/index.html

@qrahaman – to post code here, you have to wrap it with backticks as seen within the parentheses ( ` )

We have initial docs on styling for BP 1.5 https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/1-5-developer-and-designer-information/

WP/BP versions? What theme are you using? Better yet, site URL?

Yes. If a user bought a premium theme or created his own theme, the user can email the theme to you and you can upload and activate it for use in that specific user’s blog only. No problem.

Note however that it is the responsibility of Network Admin to check out that theme first for security holes, deprecated tags, etc. before uploading it to server.

@simon_said – exactly right. Sorry I wasn’t more clear.