ideally i would like to able to at least ‘have a go’ at editing myself..my biggest hurdle is finding exactly ‘where’ to make these edits and always get confused between editing in admin area in buddypress and on the cpanel server-side,
@Virtuali where exactly can i find my current theme’s ‘activity/index.php’ ?
@r-a-y looks too complex for me but thanks for replying. I’m an absolute beginner with code I’m afraid.
If you check through all the options for groups as admin you will find settings to manage all aspects of a group.
Not sure I understand the second question, you should be able to login from the sidebar which will return you to the front or home page.
If you are still using a custom theme, I would advise you work with the BP default theme first to get used to the system working fully as custom themes can cause issues with missing functionality.
I ended up changing my theme before I read this and that was the issue. Now, I need to know how to delete a group. Thanks for your help.
Do you also know how I can redirect log in from the WordPress sign in page to go directly to my site?
Isn’t it easier to just edit the template file in my opinion?
Go to your current theme’s activity/index.php and change the
“`
Site Activity
`
To whatever.
– To create a group, assuming you’re using bp-default theme and that you’ve allowed Groups in BuddyPress > General Settings, go to http://yoursite.com/groups and click on the “Create a Group” link beside the Groups Directory header.
– The bp-default theme has a log-in form in the sidebar. Then assuming you allowed registration, it will have a link to the default BP registration page.
– Before installing any plugin, WP or BP, check plugin compatibility with your current BP/WP versions. If plugin notes compatibility up to WordPress 3.0 and BP 1.2.6, then you shouldn’t be installing that plugin in a WP 3.1.3/BP 1.2.8 installation.
Please check out the BuddyPress Codex for more information
https://codex.buddypress.org/home/
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/
thanks for the response! I just want the regular loop, I am going to add Thumbnails to it like in the guide above. Here is what I’ve been using, like i said it works on non bp themes perfect without bp installed. The first part works, but not the query for the loop
`<?php
/*
Template Name: blog_in_blog
*/
get_header(); ?>
<?php // get the content of our "my blog page"
if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<div id="post-” >
<?php
query_posts(‘posts_per_page=3’);
rewind_posts();
get_template_part( ‘loop’, ‘archive’ );
?>
`
Thanks again
When you copy files from bp-default into your custom BP theme, you would have to follow the directory structure as r-a-y mentioned above.
So if the file you’re copying is /bp-default/members/single/home.php then you have to copy it over to /wp-content/themes/your-custom-bp-theme/members/single/home.php – where you would have to create the /members directory and within that, the /single directory
Posted the same question on the WP forum as suggested. I tried the default theme and got the same problem.
I’ve moved the home.php file to my theme folder which is what I think you meant Ray. This changes the look of my wp home page but does nothing to my user profile. Am I missing some thing or is this the correct path?
You need both template pack and BP, but template pack is only required if you have an existing theme you want to make BP compatible. There are a couple of guides to setting up the template pack in the BP codex. If I were you though I would run with the BP-default theme.
As much as auto installs are discouraged as they often present issues, in theory it should be a one click install, if it isn’t working then it’s really down to the support desk to try and get it sorted not fob you off, but then on a free account I’m afraid I wouldn’t be expecting too much help also you may find that a free account won’t run WP/BP that well as it will be very restricted in allocated resources.
When I go to youareditched.com/members I get
“To enable the member directory you must drop the “plugin-template.php and plugin-sidebar.php” files into your theme directory.”
which is something I’ve not seen before.
So you have BuddyPress installed and activated; installed Hybrid theme, and then installed and activated Malleable child theme in some order or another. Next thing you need to do is install the BP Template Pack plugin which is not what I see in your page source.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
== When a user Create’s a Blog and follows the link from the site to their created blog they get the following error; Error establishing a database connection ==
This is not a BuddyPress issue. Deactivate all plugins including BuddyPress; change to twentyten theme and check if you as Super Admin can create a blog from the backend. If not, then you have to resolve multisite setup at WP.org forums https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite
As for BP Social Theme, you should be able to get free support for your premium theme at http://buddydress.com/
EDIT- could very well be a theme issue. If you change to bp-default theme, does the same error appear?
Thank you for your time Ray. Your recommendation for blog post worked as stated. I’m finally making some head way.
The user profile is another matter. when it comes to the user profile, I feel like a three-legged cat trying to bury a turd on a frozen pond. I’ve copied the single folder out of the buddypress default theme folder and placed it in my active wordpress theme. I’ve gone through and edited each file in the folder trying to get some kind of change to happen to my profile page, but nothing. Have I understood you correctly? The home.php file is the file that dictates the relationship of the others? Am I to transfer the single file to my wp theme and then edit the original or the one I’ve copied? I’ve done both with no result, then deleted both with no result.
Any Ideas would be cherished! Thanks for your time again.
p.s. If this helps, here’s what I was told by my theme designer:
“Ask if there is a conditional statement from BuddyPress that lets the page know the page is a group forum directory. Once you get the conditional statement open page.php and find:
`ID, ‘ghostpool_layout’, true) == “Full Width”) { ?>`
Replace with:
`ID, ‘ghostpool_layout’, true) == “Full Width” OR is_group_forum()) { ?>`
Where is_group_forum() is the conditional statement.
@en0ch
So sorry I didn’t see your request for more help. I have my settings to be notified of any @mentions and replies to my forum posts but for some reason I did not receive any notification that you had replied. Not sure if it’s a problem with BuddyPress.org notifications or what.
Anyway, it’s probably too late and you hopefully found a solution already, but I’ll post this here just in case you or anyone else are still looking for a way to disable the random visit menu in the BuddyPress admin bar without disabling the admin bar itself.
Rather than explain the inadequate solution of changing #bp-adminbar-visitrandom-menu display to none in the stylesheet, let me give the function override solution instead:
In your theme’s footer.php file, right BEFORE it says “, add the following code:
`
<?php
if (!is_user_logged_in()) {
remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_random_menu’, 100 );
}
?>
`
That’s if you want the random visit menu to be removed only for users who are not logged in.
If you want it to be removed for all users, whether or not they’re logged in, use this simpler code instead:
`
<?php
remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_random_menu’, 100 );
?>
`
I see that the font for the code I just posted is not clearly legible in places. Please note that the remove_action line ends with a semi-colon ;
HTH
Marian
Sure you can create a Page Template and use that to create a new page – especially for the “blog” portion of the site. You can create category-buildings.php and that will show up with all your posts in said category.
Is BuddyPress installed in the same WP where your 84 existing posts are?
Are you using a child theme of bp-default or a WP theme with BP Template Pack?
BP/WP versions?
== integrating Buddypress onto the Genesis Framework ==
@apriljoy217 The Genesis Framework has its own “Genesis Connect” plugin to make the Genesis theme compatible with BuddyPress.
Yes it already inherits from the theme – which is the problem. I want to be able to CUSTOMIZE the BP CSS and remove some of the styles it inherits. But only a few things like the width, and images.
In your theme’s style.css
Those are making calls to pull IN the BP ones.
Sorry, I don’t know why it does that with code tags.
Put this:
/* Inherit the default theme styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css );
/* Inherit the default theme adminbar styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css );
Do you have template pack installed? If you do, all the files you need to edit are currently in your theme folder via FTP.
For example, yourtheme/members/single
To edit styles, template pack, or buddypress doesn’t add any styles to buddypress by default. You can add them by adding this to your current CSS.
`/* Inherit the default theme styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css );
/* Inherit the default theme adminbar styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css );`
Then, of coarse, edit the CSS to what you like.
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