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You need to use a BuddyPress compatible theme. Just activating BuddyPress on a WordPress site is not enough.

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

Why upload a blank .htaccess file? You don’t need to do this WP edits that file for you. If you do not have the buddypress default them activated that could be the problem. BuddyPress must have a compatible theme.

Don’t just paste your header.php, it’s useless and alters the page layout, as you can see

First of all, what is wrong with the multi level navigation? It should guide you through everything you need.

Second thing, is this is not the support forum you need for your issue. This is a buddypress plugin support forum, so I would recommend you go to your theme’s support forum and get nav support there.

The sub nav does not just involve html, as well as css, if your theme does not support navigation at all.

Hi Zack,
Did you manage to straighten out the funky results? I’m trying to get use the Theme My Login plugin with Buddypress, with no luck thus far. Thanks!

I’m very new to Buddypress and to WordPress. I’m having a similar difficulty with profiles, groups, forums etc… links all redirecting back to the homepage. I had just loaded the great Suffusion theme, which i love, but will now try to go back to default to see if i can trace the problem. I would welcome any ideas.

Now that’s weird. In your previous activation, only the register function did not work so it is ironic that now only register is working and the BP component pages are not. From where you were in your post above:
1. Deactivate BP Template Pack, then delete BP Template Pack folders/files within your active theme folder.
2. Activate BP Template Pack, check if all pack template files were transferred in your active theme’s folder. If not, transfer only the missing files observing folder structure.

I just activated BP Template Pack v1.0.2 in a WP 3.1 RC2 and BP 1.3 trunk 3805 test installation earlier today and all template files from BP Template Pack transferred to twentyten, the active WP Theme and working great. Of course some styling needs to be done but other than that, looks okay.

== Too bad that old theme of BuddyPress isn’t available anymore. ==
Actually, there’s a new child theme of the premium BP framework, BP Mag theme, which has the vertical navbars
Demo: http://bpthemes.buddydev.com/bpmag/classic/members/sbrajesh/

“Too bad that old theme of BuddyPress isn’t available anymore. “

Sure it is. All old code is held in trac. you;d have to update it for the latest verison.

like I said in another email, you’re setting a buddypress theme on a subsite – where buddypress is not used. THAT is the issue. you have to strip the BP parts out of a copy fo the theme.

If you look at the body element and swap between the pages you should see various different classes applied depending on page being viewed. You should be able to use these classes to effect descndent selector styling, in other words you will add a class from the body element at the start of your selector group e.g:

body.groups #id .class {}
body.directory #id .class {}
body.profile #id .class {}
etc

The question of these classes has been raised and improvements to them have been committed to 1.3 to make it a little easier to use these hooks for styling.

At the moment you might find that to, say, style all the single member pages you have to group styles as there isn’t a class that covers the general members account/profile pages views.

working in a child theme yes you can copy over files and add extra classes where you think it helps and/or add custom styles to the main stylesheet in the child theme to override the default styles. When copying files over preserve the directory structure that exists in bp-default so your files get found and used in preference to the default ones.

@espeon
If you had actually read that codex page in the second link without dismissing it as not what you wanted (what did you want? I suspect what has been offered above!) then you would have noted this line:
We’re going to modify the ‘My Blogs’ menu without changing the core code

Operative words there are “without changing core code”

When you come to a tech forum that offers help you need to bear in mind that the prerequisite to gaining that help is that you demonstrate a willingness to get involved and to be seen to help your self as much as possible; please do not think that on a voluntary help forum that there is any obligation to help people it’s a co-operative process, and attitude of any sorts is never taken well!

You now have a function that looks on the surface to do what you require, and which you now test by adding to your functions file in your theme.

it’s important though that because some code has been provided that this isn’t perceived as the norm or that the forum is a coding service – the provision of code in this manner is up to each and every member to decide if they wish to provide and often it will be but it mustn’t be taken for granted.

@stars4321 yeah, BP Nicey is a child theme of bp-default and most probably wouldn’t have cause the registration glitch. Change to bp-default theme, deactivate recaptcha and plugins other than BuddyPress and see if /register/ still goes to home page.

@Ann_Whitt_Wen running BP Template Pack moves the following 13 files within 6 major folders to your active WP theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#revise-templates. Looks like member folder files are missing. Double-check via FTP/cPanel that those 13 files are there. If not, go through the BP Template Pack process again. Or, copy over the missing files/folders from BP Template Pack plugin to your active theme while maintaining folder/file structure.

@NrFive That was the layout of the BuddyPress parent theme pre-BP 1.2. It’s do-able but not easy as A-B-C.

== every user created blog to be part of the main site ==
It can be as simple as making your blog a multi-author blog in a single WP install. But even if you go multisite, you can achieve the same look and feel by creating the child theme and just changing main navigation in header.php to get navigation of main site with BP.

“define(‘WP_DEFAULT_THEME’, ‘twentyten’);”

This line says “use twenty ten on new blogs”.

Put the theme’s folder name in there.

@pjnu at least we know that there’s no error if you’re using bp-default theme, so it’s not a BuddyPress issue at all. What theme are you using exactly? Have you read your theme docs whether it requires activation of a membership plugin? I would contact theme author especially if it’s a premium theme for support. Good luck.

i’d try removing the logo something like this in your functions.php or bp-custom.php…

remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_logo’, ‘bp_adminbar_logo’ );

…and try applying your welcome message start here & here:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar-not-working-in-bp-customphp/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

I’m having the same problem. Custom theme, but using BP default theme makes no difference. I’m running WP 3.0.4.

See for yourself: http://www.vistagranderesort.com user: guest password: vistagrande

WP/BP versions? Looks like a membership plugin is interfering. Also, there are some themes with built-in membership code which could cause this. Change to bp-default theme and see if that resolves the activation issue.

You have to “tell” your install to use a default theme for all new blogs. In your case, I’d create a child theme then set it as default. http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/change-the-default-theme-for-sites-without-a-plugin/