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@wilsontray it would work if you create a child theme of bp-default and upload it to wp-content/themes. The script doesn’t recognize path to wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default as I recall.

Amm… I’m not sure, but maybe you can edit the file inside you theme folder (members/single/profile/edit.php) and remove the line of

`<select name="_year” id=”_year”>

`

I’m not sure, but maybe it can work.

Easiest way to research how is to examine the two core files responsible for the adminbar/buddybar:
buddtpressbp-corebp-core-buddybar.php & bp-core-adminbar.php

CSS is only a presentational language, display:none not the best way of hiding/removing something

to remove the site name completely add to your functions.php file in a child theme or in bp-custom.php in plugins folder this line:

`remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_logo’, ‘bp_adminbar_logo’ );`

In your child theme, open adminbar.css and add #admin-bar-logo{display:none} that it.

== I am going to paste my header.php in the pastebin.com ==

You’re welcome. But why header.php? The structure you’ll be imposing on the BP template files transferred to your active theme will be coming from page.php

Any theme can be a q&a theme with some modifications to the comments.php and adding something like gravity forms to the frontend for user posting(questions). There’s other language stuff you can modify so all your verbiage is inline with Q&A terminology (instead of posts & comments replace with Questions and Answers.) Add BP layer and you’ve got a pretty nifty social Q&A site. every bp site I build has a q&A site component so you’re on the right track.

You could possibly also use Forums in such a way but I wouldn’t go that route because of how they are tied to groups.

You can do this a regular WordPress plugin. What features specific to BuddyPress do you need? Or get a premium theme like this: http://wordpressqa.com/instant-qa/

@idunno2day lov yer handle!

Always try to search the forums before asking a question that has very likely been asked before. You would have found this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/transforming-the-default-navigation-bar-activity-groups-members-etc-into-a-dropdown-menu/

EDIT: you could also try a theme that already has custom menus enabled. Mine comes to mind http://BuddyLite.com

@mikeytrooper let’s take it here, better than in my profile update page

== I just have one more question I am looking at the on demand html and I don’t see the style.css I was wondering if you knew if it may be under a different name. ==

Not quite sure what you mean. Go to On Demand theme folder and open page.php with text editor and check HTML structure as I noted in the walkthrough. Your style.css file should also be in that theme folder. Like I mentioned above, last time I tweaked On Demand was a year ago. Though there must have been some major revisions to the template files since then, surely there’s a page.php and style.css file in the folder.

If you want me to check out the structure, copy contents of your theme’s page.php file and paste in http://pastebin.com/ and save. Post the generated URL here.

By walkthrough, you mean this one? https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

The last time I checked out an On Demand theme was almost a year ago, but I remember it has a page.php file where you can see the HTML structure you should impose over the BP template files transferred when you went through the compatibility process with BP Template Pack.

I am interested in this thread. I would like to have 3 BP networks with three separate brands and three separate URLs, but them all using the same database. That is, a user signed up in site3 can see, group with, friend, email, etc a user in site 1 seamlessly.

So site1 would be subdomain.domain1.org and typing in that URL gets you to a page where you see a a theme and branding specific to domain1.org. Site2 would be domain2.org and likewise going to that site you would see a theme and branding specific to domain2.org, and likewise for site3.

The independent branding is important, but the ability to have cross site networking is important as well.

On solution I thought of is the following:

Set up BP network with users subdomain.domain1.org/domain2 and subdomain.domain1.org/domain3. Then use the Domain Mapping plugin to map domain2.org to subdomain.domain1.org/domain2 and domain3.org to subdomain.domain2.org/domain3.

Then I would want to continue to be able to make new users like domain2.org/names and domain3.org/names.

Or is this all possible using the Multi-domains plugin?

== I added the extra bit still no joy ==

Hmm, I know the code works. I assume you revised the whole wp_nav_menu code in your functions.php with the whole code I posted above.
– Post content of your footer.php here.
– Did you create a new menu in Appearance > Menus – Choose Footer Menu from Theme Locations and clicked on Save after creating the links?

== if you click that you will get a 404 error, ==

– Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress then re-run Settings > Permalinks – Save.

@wuphilly Some ways to get a BP-compatible theme

1. Create a child theme of bp-default theme – then style it to taste
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

2. Make your WordPress theme compatible with BuddyPress via BP Template Pack
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
More info
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

3. Some BP compatible themes/child themes
https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/

4. Search online for BuddyPress premium themes

Greg, I am using W3TC for object caching (xcache opcode) and browser caching. Along with that I am using MAXCDN as the CDN (was prior using Amazon S3). MAXCDN is set now to cache almost all of my graphics, css, and javascripts -including plugins and child-themes. One of the two sites I was referring to is a straight WordPress site: http://mustech.net and the other is a BUDDYPRESS, non-multi-site (single site), site (htttp://musicpln.org – registration only).

I’ve set up a different pullzone for each of the sites using maxcdn.

UPDATE!

I know this hasn’t been updated in 7 months, but I needed this feature and none of the plugins and mods here worked, but I figured out a way and wanted to share it.

Add this before HTML tag in your theme’s header.php file. (Note: Be sure to replace YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME with the domain of your buddypress installation.)

`<?php
global $post;
if ( is_home()) { ?>

user_login; ?>

<?php
} else {
// User is not logged in – Display homepage
}
?>`

Now I’m using a plugin called Branded Login for Buddypress by Brajesh Singh — This plugin includes `<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="” />` on the login.php file but I’m pretty sure the normal BP login form has this as well so it should work.

Result summary:

After login the script checks if the current page is the site HOME page, if true it runs another script to see if the user is logged in, if the user is logged in it redirects them to there profile page. if the user is not logged in, or it is not the HOME page it does nothing and loads the page normally.

End Result: Instantly takes user to profile page after login, and if they try to reach the site homepage its now there profile page.

Hope this helps! working wonders for me

It actually needs to read:

`remove_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’, ;
remove_action( ‘admin_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’ );`

as the admin footer hook has no priority in the current versions of buddypress (1.2.

@steliodj quick glance at your theme, for cross-browser compatibility, when you float an element, add width to the element as well. e.g.

`div.item-list-tabs ul li {
float: left;
list-style: none outside none !important;
margin-right: 10px;
width: 300px;
}

div#content form#forums-search-form.dir-form form#forums-directory-form.dir-form div.item-list-tabs ul li#forums-order-select.last {
display: block;
float: right;
margin-right: 35px;
margin-top: 3px;
position: relative;
width: 200px;
}`

As for the hover background showing up in statc links, add/define background in regular links for item-nav e.g. #ffffff

Ok, I see the screenshot now. And yes, you have links to the Pages (text so small I can’t read them all) at the footer of your theme.

In actual site (home page) looking at page source, I see the empty div
`

`
wp_nav_menu is being called but not rendered. This is because the function is not supported in your theme.

Open up functions.php file of your theme https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/bp-columns/1.2/functions.php
and add the following line just above closing `?>`

`add_action( ‘init’, ‘register_goldbrick_menus’ );

function register_goldbrick_menus() {
register_nav_menus(
array(
‘footer-menu’ => __( ‘Footer Menu’ )
)
);
}`
Then save and upload.

Open up your footer.php and replace:

`<?php wp_nav_menu(
array(
‘theme_location’ => ”,
‘menu’ => ”,
‘container’ => ”,
‘container_class’ => ”,
‘container_id’ => ”,
‘menu_class’ => ”,
‘menu_id’ => ”
)
); ?>`

with

` ‘footer-menu’ ) ); ?>`

Then save and upload.

In dashboard Appearance > Menus. Choose Footer Menu and add the links.

@dukehm

Look in plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/blogs/index.php