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Nice one @pcwriter. I think my favorite theme, FunkyBuddy, will be cooler still with the header image rotator

i experienced same thing with wp fb autoconnect thank you @partyfrikadelle for narrowing it down …worked great on a theme that uses buddypress template pack…but when i used it on a buddypress default child theme no luck …it worked sometimes meaning eventually it did create an account but did not transfer the user avatar image. andy peatling built a plugin facebook buddypress connect that worked with the buddypress default theme

@WWDay3

What theme are you using? Is it BuddyLite?
We’ve chatted a bit in the forums there, that’s why I ask.

that’s true ,lot’s of things are hidden.

I found out that if your theme is not correctly set as “Child theme” of buddy press, it will produce
this error. After you make your theme BP child theme go to admin panel and activate it again (even if it’s activated).
Good luck!

We’ve built a lot of sites on BuddyPress now… if I’d time to write about it, I’d unfortunately probably be agreeing with woothemes.

There’s a lot of great functionality ‘hidden’ in BuddyPress, but the API / template tags need some serious work – especially removing all the html they unnecessarily throw in – design & presentation decisions belong in the theme not in the API (and particularly not in the ‘get_’ functions).

If you want to break away from the default theme & basic structures, it’s not easy to theme BuddyPress: too much time is spent stripping out / rewriting unwanted functionality, rather than adding building your site and adding features.

@liping – was about to post that this may need to go into bp-custom.php rather than functions.php

This order of invocation issue should really be addressed. Changes like tab orders, removing tabs, etc. should be theme specific – i.e. you may want to run a site where you switch themes – with the presence or not of tabs being determined by the theme.

Unfortunately, needing these things to be in bp-custom.php means they affect all themes, not just the one you want it for.

Anyway, thanks for the heads up on bp_core_new_nav_default() function… I’d removed the general tab from settings… and was searching for a way to remove the default link to it that still remained.

Removing Login link – Open up active theme’s functions.php file and add
`remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_login_menu’, 2 );`

More information at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

Create a new temepate, or copy/paste the default page.php to your child theme folder, modify it to whatever you like, give it a new name. say, new-page. php.
At the top of your new-page.php , within ‘<?php', wite this: Template Name: xyz
then, you’ll see it appears at the change template drop down list in dashboard.

Adding bp_adminbar_notifications_menu() in your header will probably work (as long as it’s nested inside of a `

` element), but you will need to modify the styles. You can go in one of two directions.

One, you can try to bring over the styles from bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css. You can import that entire stylesheet into your child theme with this line at the top of your child theme’s style.css:
`@`import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css );
(See https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ for more info on BP child themes.) The downside of doing this is that, depending on your theme and the element in which you’re trying to nest the notifications menu, you’re going to have a really hard time getting it to look good with your theme.

The other method is to skip bp_adminbar_notifications_menu() altogether. Instead, copy the entirety of that function from bp-core/bp-core-adminbar.php into functions.php of you child theme. After you’ve copied it, change the name of the copied function (to something like wwday3_adminbar_notifications_menu() – it doesn’t matter, you just have to avoid duplicate function names). Then – and here’s what will make your life easier – change the markup, and in particular the CSS selectors (classes and ids) being produced by the function, so that it matches the CSS selectors in the existing dropdown menus you’re trying to integrate with. Then, in header.php of your child theme (or wherever you’re currently trying to call bp_adminbar_notifications_menu()), make sure to call this new function instead.

I moved my noticications_menu to somewhere else too. it works fine. If your theme still load adminbar.css, maybe you can take a look at what’s going on in the css.

… and so you open up your instyle’s page.php file and compare the HTML structure of that page file with the HTML structure of the template files transferred to your instyle theme folder during the BP template pack process.

For more info about the whole process and a sample walkthrough:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

What do you mean “results in a broken link”? The image was not uploaded at all? i.e. you can’t see the image you would like to crop on screen?
1 – default max file upload size is 2MB
2 – check if GD library is installed.
3 – can you upload images via Page/Post Write Panel and do they show up after you publish the page/post?
4 – change theme to bp-default theme and see if the upload works

@Haxs1990 I see a right sidebar here http://elegantthemes.com/preview/InStyle/?page_id=135
if this is the Instyle theme you’re referring to

WP/BP versions? Have you deactivated plugins except BuddyPress and changed to default theme with that configuration?

Only way your files can get written to is by someone getting your FTP passwords or has access to server. That is easily done if you get a virus/malware on your computer. Is somebody else accessing the FTP on another computer? Also, bad themes and plugins can do this as well. NEVER use a plugin or theme that was not from a reputable developer or from the WordPress repo.

If this helps anyone…I have a multisite blog farm with buddypress and have a solution that seems to work pretty well. I can’ use W3TC because I have multiple databases.

I use memcached and batcache which speeds up the main site and all sub-blogs tremendously for non-logged in users. Batcache only applies to visitors – which protects nicely against traffic and load spikes from Digg, etc. I have a browser where I have never actually logged-in to my site that I use to test and pages routinely load in under 1 second.

But, for members, batcache doesn’t help. I’m using widget cache and gravatar caching plugins, as well as Cloudflare as a CDN. This combination works well and my page load times are tolerable but not great. PageSpeed generally from 75-85 and YSlow from 66-76 (though YSlow doens’t recognize Cloudflare yet so I think they are docking points unnecessarily).

The biggest drag on my load times – and I think for all of us BP users – is the time it takes to load all of the separate JS and CSS scripts. Of got about 30 of each. Tis the price we pay for using child themes and lots of plugins. And minifying doesn’t work, it just makes the site go screwey.

I would love to see expert advice or a tutorial for how to enable parallel loading of CSS and JS from different domains. Or, maybe there is a way to copy all of the JS files into one file. Or, a way to pick-and-choose which JS files to load in the footer (I can’t simply put them all there because some functions break).

Hope this is helpful.

I can confirm this as well.
1) Download WP 3.1
2) Install plug-in for buddypress
3) activate buddypress theme
4) Use FF to login, logout
5) Go to your URL again and login it won’t refresh. You are logged in, but UI does not refresh. Chrome, Safari, doesn’t do this.