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== but would love to see anything that didn’t require changing the theme….==
Choice for either allowing all members or the admin only to create groups is in BP 1.5 beta 2

== I want to be able to create a user role that has moderator access to all groups.==
A global forum moderator role is not available in the current version of the BuddyPress forum integration at this time.

Single WP or Multisite? BP installed in domain root or secondary blog? Linux or Windows server?

Change to bp-default theme.
Deactivate all plugins except BP.
Groups are enabled in your BP Settings.
Check root where you installed WP (domain root, subfolder or subdomain), if there’s a bb-config.php, delete it. Also, make sure you didn’t install/activate BP in a subfolder/subdomain named the same as one of BP components – i.e. shouldn’t be groups, members, forums, etc. you get the drift.

First thing, you need a child theme if you haven’t already created one. Doing a quick search online should find directions on how to do it if you need.

Second, In that child theme you need a CSS file to make changes to your buddypress site’s style.

Third, there is a buddypress file called default.css where all the default styling is set up. In many cases your CSS file and the default file will have conflicts, but not to worry…there is a solution.

Using code from karmatosed from above, I’ve added a couple of modifications.
a, a:link{color: #ffffff !important;}
a:visited{color: #ffffff !important;}
a:hover{color: #ffffff !important;}

Hope this helps!

There’s no blog-loop.php in bp-default theme. So what theme are you using?

Are you using the_content or the_excerpt to show the content? the_excerpt should give you exactly that an excerpt so if using you would need to make that smaller:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

Specifically useful to you would be this:


function new_excerpt_length($length) {
return 20;
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');


You appear to not have a style for the links so as a result yes it is going to default.

Try this:


a, a:link{
color: #ffffff;
}
a:visited{
color: #ffffff;
}
a:hover{
color: #ffffff;
}


I listed hover and visited separately as ideally you’d show those states with a colour variation even if a slight one of #eeeeee or something.

Put the code in your stylesheet / child theme preferably would be one to have this (don’t know what set up you are using). It should then work otherwise please post back and say where put to aid diagnosis.

Basically, the solution was to refrain from renaming divs within HTML structure in child theme of bp-default unless you know what you’re doing and make corresponding change in js where required as well. Re-upload BuddyPress and you should be good to go – unless you’re using a totally customized bp-default child theme then you need to contact theme author.

@incrediblehimachal As valuser mentioned above, install BP Template Pack plugin
The process – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
An example – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

You mean what is using activity / groups and files in it unless I’m mistaken?

I can’t think of a quicker method than having the default theme open with child and following the path it’s fairly accessible in 1.5.

Some links that may help you:

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/the-bp-default-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

However, if I’ve missed the mark can you give me an example of what you want to do may help me see?

This could be the issue not sure but to run BuddyPress you need to have a capable theme.

Are you running BuddyPress? I know its a silly question but people have posted on here before about WP issues.

Yes, what wilfil said will change the link color to a darker blue, but if you want more control over how dark it will be you can replace the word “blue” in his code “a {color:blue !important;}” to a hexadecimal value.

After doing a quick google search I found http://www.2createawebsite.com/build/hex-colors.html. Scroll down to the color box and after you select the color just copy and paste the hex value from the bottom right of that box. You will need to include the “#” along with the six digits that follow it in your code.

Example:
a {color:#0C19A2 !important;}

To further explain the “!important” exclamation, it just allows you to override CSS properties already assigned to an element. In this case the color property is being overridden from the default.css blue (which has already been set by buddypress) to your newly assigned color for the “a” element.

Hope this helps!

yeah, I’m saying do not use the default themes that come with wordpress. Just to test. It shouldn’t matter but I think there have been problems with using default WP theme and children on MultiSite.

Is your 20 11 parent theme BuddyPress ready? This could also be a problem. If you are using BP Template pack and 20 11 and then trying to use a child on top of that.

also when you get a white page it could be a php coding error in your theme