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I think you would have to go into buddypress it’s self and change the css.

I was able to do a fair amount of style customization to BP but I’m using custom theme designed to work with bp so not sure how others would go about it.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-group-css/

That being said you might want to give this plugin a look and see how it does things and then adapt and aplly to your own needs.

I didn’t know if this was a bug or something intentional in WP. It would be very nice to be able to edit the child theme PHP files in the WP editor rather than editing offline and re-uploading to make any changes

Just started getting this problem too! I believe it may have began after I inserted my own PHP file for group-header.php in my child theme. *However*, the only lines of code I deleted were lines 6-9 from that file, to remove the Group Admins text and avatars and only show the moderators. The text “Group Mods” shows up but below it says “no mods” just like your issue.

Any help would be great!!

Your not an idiot. You can use `<a class="button" href="` anywhere in your theme to place a button to link wherever you want it to.

Place this in the code wherever you want it to appear

But make sure you end it with ``

@StevieG

Nothing has been changed in bp-default theme from Buddypress 1.2.7 to 1.2.8. You can see changes have been made only to core files here:
https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F1.2.7&old=3570&new_path=%2Ftags%2F1.2.8&new=4078

If you’re unsure about updating, keep a copy of BP1.2.7 handy so you can revert back to it if anything breaks

hi, everybody,

I’m also stuck in this….
But I got the solution…

actually i used the tipe from ‘wizard_clp’ that he identifies the location where the actual problem is…

for this you have to activate friends and also u have minimum one fiend to auto complete to workout.

then his problem is how to edit core files

i just copied that function ie ‘messages_autocomplete_init_jsblock’ into my theme unction page renamed it.
add it into the actions wp_head;
then i changed the class of that variable to make different from original one
ie var acfb =jQuery(“ul.first”).autoCompletefb({urlLookup:’root_domain . ‘/wp-load.php’ ?>’,inputClass : ‘.send-to-inputs’,});

i think this vl help you lot…

Thankz for the tip…
god bess you
xavieremerson1@gamil.com

@FiestyLatina you’re welcome. Note that you will have to implement your theme’s HTML structure to some BP plugins, not all. You’ll know when you have to make the changes when you see the misalignment of your sidebar and content area on the page/s where the plugin is being implemented.

@bazookaman

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ says:

“If you create a blank functions.php file in your child theme, the parent theme functions.php will still be loaded. This will allow you to inherit existing functions, but also add your own. You must make sure you give your child theme functions a unique name, otherwise they will clash with the parent.”

In other words, you CAN create a functions.php file in your child-theme, but the functions IN that file must have unique names.

@StevieG adding footer.php from bp-default to your child theme shouldn’t mess with your install.

So going back to “If I try to access the files in my child theme I get the error message ‘Sorry, that file cannot be edited’.” is this in relation to editing the child theme files via Network Admin > Appearance > Editor panel? If not, what files are you trying to edit and where?

EDIT- just found out you posted same topic in WP Forums and the problem as posted there was clearer

Can you be specific? Excluding widgets, the bp-default theme doesn’t have a sidebar nav.

Had the same problem on a fresh BP 1.2.8 install on a fresh WP 3.1. Changed theme to bp default, changed permalink settings, made sure .htaccess contained rewrite rules as generated by BP. mod_rewrite was definitely activated. However, the .htaccess in the BP root (a subdirectory under a local domain) was not evaluated at all. Ubuntu 10.04 server edition, everything installed via packet management except for WP/BP which were simply unzipped from the download archives.

This entry in httpd.conf helped:
~~
`
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo Options
Allow from all
`
~~

After that all the links on tabs, registration etc. worked fine.

Had the same problem on a fresh BP 1.2.8 install on a fresh WP 3.1. Changed theme to bp default, changed permalink settings, made sure .htaccess contained rewrite rules as generated by BP. mod_rewrite was definitely activated. However, the .htaccess in the BP root (a subdirectory under a local domain) was not evaluated at all. Ubuntu 10.04 server edition, everything installed via packet management except for WP/BP which were simply unzipped from the download archives.

This entry in httpd.conf helped:
~~
`
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo Options
Allow from all
`
~~

Change the root dir of bp accordingly. After that all the links on tabs, registration etc. worked fine.

Had the same problem on a fresh BP 1.2.8 install on a fresh WP 3.1. Changed theme to bp default, changed permalink settings, made sure .htaccess contained rewrite rules as generated by BP. mod_rewrite was definitely activated. However, the .htaccess in the BP root (a subdirectory under a local domain) was not evaluated at all. Ubuntu 10.04 server edition, everything installed via packet management except for WP/BP which were simply unzipped from the download archives.

This entry in httpd.conf helped:
~~
`
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo Options
Allow from all
`
~~

Change the root dir of bp accordingly. After that all the links on tabs, registration etc. worked fine.

You can have your own functions.php file in a child theme. Just make sure that the new function you’ll be adding is not the same as the ones already in functions.php of bp-default parent theme.

Ka Yue, thats exacly what i need.. when does this theme release? i want to use it to understand the buddypress code so i can build my site from scratch…. thanks a lot

Go back to the default (unedited) theme, disable any plugins other than BuddyPress, and try again. If it still doesn’t work, are there any messages in your web server’s error log.

https://codex.buddypress.org/home/

The docs are fairly thorough, and assuming you’ve correctly installed buddypress and bbPress forum integration, the forums should appear along with all the other newly created pages – i.e. – example.com/forum, example.com/groups. If these pages are not appearing in your navigation, your wordpress theme may not be compatible with wordpress. In this case you could switch to a theme designed for BP or work to make your current theme compatible.

Also, make sure these components are enabled in the buddypress admin dashboard settings. If you feel you’ve done everything correctly, you should be able to create new groups by going to yoursite.com/groups and clicking the new group button that appears at the top of the page.

@JamieMM

You seem to be having difficulty with the basics. May I suggest switching to an easier theme to customize?

I designed BuddyLite with newbies in mind (like me!) You can get a similar look and feel as your current theme, while taking full advantage of WP3 custom menus, and a bunch of basic customization options through a simple admin panel.

You can download it here: http://buddylite.com/buddylite-basic/

The fact that I’m using a standard wp-theme (arras – adapted to work with bp together with template pack) made me realise, that I have the same problem. When the site’s loading I can see the “?” for a short time, then it disappears and doesn’t work.

At the end of the BP template pack process, per instruction on screen, you need to add (hardcode) new navigation tabs or links to your theme’s header.php to link to BuddyPress components directory pages.

Add link to the components you enabled in BuddyPress settings. The default set of links are:

* Activity: http://yoursite.com/activity/
* Members: http://yoursite.com/members/
* Groups: http://yoursite.com/groups/
* Forums: http://yoursite.com/forums/
* Register: http://yoursite.com/register/ (registration must be enabled)
* Blogs: http://yoursite.com/blogs/