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@27Surf

Your frustration is understandable, especially since Modularity Lite is not a Buddypress-ready theme.
Have you tried contacting the theme author for help?
Have you been using the Buddypress Template Pack to modify your theme’s templates for Buddypress?

You can also try other, easier to modify themes that are Buddypress-ready.
I’ve put one together called BuddyLite that has a few one-click options like one or two sidebars, a full-page template (no sidebars), and more. http://buddylite.com/buddylite-basic/
There’s also a premium version – BuddyBuilder – with over 100 options so you can customize the heck out of it! http://buddylite.com/buddybuilder/

why would anything have happened to the WP default theme?

Unless Suffusion has done something screwy overall I don’t get what the issue is, and Suffusion is removed isn’t it?

“Trying to use WP themes modified for BP always seems to have issues, really best not done” – Hugo mused to himself.

No ; if you need to deactivate by re-naming and have ftp access do it that way, as long as the plugin is renamed and nothing else running then you ought to be back in business with WP – I’d be surprised if BP was running or needed renaming but for the sake of it rename it ‘buddypress-deactivated’ then you ought to be able to log in to the dashboard, but do ensure WP is running correctly before returning buddypress to it’s correct name so that it may be activated on the plugins page.

Six posts back??!!

I’m not really sure what you are having a problem with here, but please re-read that post I wrote earlier.

If Buddypress is deactivated and no other themes are installed & running then WP should fall back to using twentyten default theme.

Already explained that! in the crudest base sense you can rename a plugin to force deactivate it. No plugin would have made any changes to another plugins core files, thus buddypress files would have been fine unless you had modified any.

Deactivate “Suffusion BuddyPress Pack” plugin if you haven’t yet.
Also, why did you have to “re-install” the bp-default folder into bp-themes folder, or do you mean you re-uploaded bp-default theme to wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ ?

If you can’t get to the dashboard – rename the buddypress plugin navigate to the dashboard /wp-admin/ – login – go to themes ensure that a /the WP default theme is selected check the site and confirm before doing anything that WP is running correctly (check things such as permalinks are functioning correctly) if all is good rename BP to correct name navigate to plugins – activate BP and select the bp-default theme check once more that the site now running BP is looking correct.

May be simple or hard, depending on you, but it can be achieved, through some jquery

This is just off the top of my head in post-form.php in your theme

`function textLimit(field, maxlen) {
if (field.value.length > maxlen + 1)
alert(‘To much Text!’);
if (field.value.length > maxlen)
field.value = field.value.substring(0, maxlen);
}`

now the textarea:

`<textarea cols="20" rows="2" value=""
onkeyup=”textLimit(this, 40);”>`

Set “40” to limit

@thetoolman

1) s2member. You’ll likely need to download the zip and upload to your site via ftp ‘cuz it’s a huge plugin.
http://www.primothemes.com/post/product/s2member-membership-plugin-with-paypal/
2) Buddypress includes a private messaging system (kinda like internal email) but there are a few chat plugins available too. See this post:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/chat-rooms-chat-scripts-any-recommendations/

Hope this helps!

suffusion doesn’t use the BP template pack plugin as it has it’s own: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/suffusion-buddypress-pack/

In theory you can deactivate any plugin or theme simply by renaming it via ftp or other means.

@Bigjimmysisco I do not use the arras nor brownbuddy theme. I would rather roll out a bp-default child theme theme similar to Arras than take too much time to decipher all the theme’s intricacies, not that I’m going to at this time. The light at the end of the tunnel for you is that come BP 1.3, BP components will be rendered in regular Pages so hopefully lessen or eliminate any conflict.

In the BuddyPress plugin there is a folder bp-themes. In this folder is the default BuddyPress theme. The reason to use a child theme is to not edit these files making upgrades as easy as a few clicks.

A child theme is a WordPress theme that has a parent. The child theme gets all it’s files from the parent. If you want to override a file then you copy the file and folder structure over to the child theme.

Example: say you want to ad something to the header. instead of going into the BP plugin folder and changing something you would copy the header.php over to the child theme and edit it. Since it’s a child theme it will override the same file in the bp-default folder.

Read this on how to create a child theme. https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Another issue is if you are not using a BP enabled theme then you will have to use the BuddyPress template pack to get the corresponding files and functions working on a standard WordPress theme.

Not sure if you ever got an answer to this, but I was looking for one. I just built my own custom cancel button and got rid of the “esc to cancel” text.

` $j(‘.ac-reply-content’).append(‘Cancel Reply‘);

$j(‘.cancel-reply’).click(function(){
$(this).parent().parent().slideUp( 200 )
});
`

You can do this by simple using this plugin: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar/