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Examine it in Firefox Firebug (add on), internet explorer developer tools (built into v 8 & 9) or equivalent for other browswers, to find the right css to edit?

Change theme to bp-default theme – see if same behavior repeats or not.

@cactuspot

Hi, would you care to elaborate some more on this topic. Is there a specific “bp template pack” customized for eleganthemes?

Yes essentialy. I would do a fresh install regardless, get WP set up configure it, ensure permalinks are working correctly, and emails being sent, when WP is set up and working correctly upload the BP plugin, activate that check it functions correctly, then select your theme from the dashboard appearence>themes and activate that and check it’s correct after all that install your other plugins. You could still at any point after installing WP import you local DB and overwrite the existing one and have all your pre-set options re-created but you will need to edit the site url -probably!

What’s buddypress ‘stuff’? you must be specific on tech forums and be clear as to what ‘things’ you are referring to

If you are not worried about any test posts/pages plugin settings then all you need to do is get all the site files uploaded including BP plugin and your themes folder, then when you have run the WP install routine you will be able to log into the dashboard and start to configure basic WP parameters and then activate BP and set that up. As for DB stuff I mentioned that briefly on another thread, you should perhaps stick to one thread otherwise things become disjointed and hard to follow.

Groups works in slightly different fashion it’s index ‘home.php’ tests to see what parts it needs to display so if it was the sidebar you needed to remove to make fullwidth then you would remove sidebar for all group views. You could though wrap the sidebar in a conditional logic to not show the sidebar if forum view – something like:

in : /wp-content/themes/your-theme/groups/single/home.php
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Not sure how well that will work for you as your site is locked down and we can’t visit those pages.

WP/BP versions? Have you tried deactivating plugins except BuddyPress and changing to bp-default theme?

open bp-default/activity/post-form.php
look for these lines
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<option value="”>

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It should be 43-45.
remove it from the post from and user can only post to his profile.

Btw, if you have child theme, then copy this file in your child theme and modify there. Otherwise the changes will be lost in another upgrade of buddypress.

Yes, I suggest that you check Platform Pro theme forums or documentation and see whether the theme lives up to the “buddypress” tag, which should include at the very least providing the markup necessary to use on BP template pack files – 2 col or 3 col per your choice.

I checked the free version in WP theme repo and content of index.php contains basically the same `setup_pagelines_template();` so you can’t tell till you look at page source code online and then eliminate the header and footer markups to find out which markup you need for the BP template files – which can be overwhelming for many.

I am on WP 3.1.3 with the Twenty-Ten child theme. I noticed a message in the dashboard that prompted the completion of the template pack set-up by linking to the BP Compatibility page, however, I get a permission error when attempting to access the page. Since I’m not using a BP child template, I don’t have a BP Compatibility option in my Appearances in the dashboard.

I upgraded the template pack to 1.1.2 last night, yet still have the same issue regarding permission to –

‘../wp-admin/themes.php?page=bp-tpack-options’

Anyone else have this dilemma?

There is a BP Template Pack for Elegant Themes? Who’s the author?

The image you posted alone won’t help us help you. If you used the template pack plugin, check whether 6 BP folders with files inside were transferred to your active WP theme folder. Here’s an example on how to copy over HTML structure of WP theme onto BP template pack files https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

Before we continue, make sure that you’ve upgraded BP Template Pack plugin to latest version, so that you won’t have to do this all over again. Download the BP template files transferred to your theme in server down to your computer hard drive.

Starting with activity/index.php, replace top part:
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Save file and upload to folder following the structure of theme folder in server

Platform is not BP compatible. I just downloaded it and verified. The author of the theme has put the ‘buddypress’ tag in the theme’s metadata, which tricks unsuspecting folks into thinking that it’s compatible. But there are no BP template files in the theme at all. (A pretty crappy thing for the author to do, if you ask me.)

Not to worry – you can make the theme compatible by installing the BuddyPress Template Pack: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

Andrea,
If e-mails are not related to the theme, why does it work with the default theme, and not with arras?

Morticia, what’s needed is the code within the full-wdith/one-column template file you have within active theme folder which should have something like “ at the top and “ at the bottom and code in between.

Check out template pack example https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/