Is there an update for this fix? 1.2.7 broke this solution on our site and I can’t find an alternative so far.
Really, it’s extremely annoying that BuddyPress keeps making changes to the themes in minor updates. Every update (1.2.7 also saw us gain an unwanted admin bar menu item with links to the WordPress backend) sees us having to chase down the little changes they made which break our layout.
Did you remember to import the stylesheet of the parent theme in your child theme’s style.css?
See “Inheriting CSS” on https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
You will need to make that child theme then. I would add to your child theme folder structure the _inc/css/ structure as you have edited the main style files simply copy them over to this child theme directory, your child theme style.css in theme root will call those files in the same way as default does. Copy over any main files you might have edited such as footer, header etc to child theme.
When you have all the files you have edited safely copied into the new child theme download a fresh copy of BP and replace the files you edited with copies of the originals that way you can drop back to the default theme if need be.
Hi @modemlooper, here comes a new BP release. Is there any good news in it which would help to get our problem fixed ? What about the bp-default theme, any improvements ? Thanks.
A link to your site always helps, becasue a lot depends on the theme you’re using. 
yes, of course, and i tried it several times. then, instead, i renamed the sub dir mentioned at the offending dir, and tried that, and then the theme had been recaste, so i switched it back to the buddy theme … so it saw the buddy theme without this other subdir, after i reset the buddy theme and did compat stuff, i then switched dir name back to original name, and turned back on groups so they could be started by members. now i have a members question, because i had too many spammer hackers. now i have checked OFF the ANYONE CAN REGISTER box, because i cannot have these spam hackers in. how can i have moderated memberships?
Rename wp-contents/plugins to something else. Visit yoursite.com/wp-admin/ and go to themes and plugins page. Rename wp-contents/plugins back. Go back to yoursite.com/wp-admin/ and re-enable your plugins and choose your theme again.
@hnla, no, I did not get it working? :0
BrownBuddy has the same problem as me, but brownbuddy is even worse when it comes to intigrated.
The steps I listed on the top of the thread got everything working except functions….
Such as…..
The dropdown bubble “%is a unique identifier for %…..”
And the friend request accept is broken, because functions are not listed.
The code to get this working is listed in bp-default theme’s functions:
`/* Add words that we need to use in JS to the end of the page so they can be translated and still used. */
function bp_dtheme_js_terms() { ?>
var bp_terms_my_favs = ”;
var bp_terms_accepted = ”;
var bp_terms_rejected = ”;
var bp_terms_show_all_comments = ”;
var bp_terms_show_all = ”;
var bp_terms_comments = ”;
var bp_terms_close = ”;
var bp_terms_mention_explain = ”;
<?php
}`
But Where do I put it so it gets working?
Putting it in Arras’s functions.php does the trick, but gets too many errors to even function on the site…
Glad you got it all working. You sorted the issue with the functions file, which seemed the main thrust of the thread ?
Oh, and brownbuddy theme has a worse intigration than my theme!
The Friendship email response is most probably a theme related issue as I am using the Genesis Buddy Executive theme. It does not seem to have a members page. How can I create one to show members profile and respond to friendship requests.
=== I’m assuming i have to activate the child theme in the main wordpress dashboard, is this correct? ===
Yes. Activate the child theme in dashboard of WP site where BuddyPress is installed. So if your BP is in main/primary site, activate child theme in dashboard of main site.
thanks mercime, that was really helpful. but actually, after reading your post, all i did was swap out the URLs in my child theme’s stylesheet, so now i have,
/* Inherit the default theme styles */
@import url( ../../themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css );
/* Inherit the default theme adminbar styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css );
that seems to have done the trick, as now if you visit the mockup2.html page, it looks just like the pre-mockup.
the next thing i’ll need to do is actually throw the switch by activating the theme in the wordpress admin, i think with the above mockup page, all i did was copy the homepage source code and save it as a .html file so i could play around, and linked it to the child theme style.css by changing the link in the head. however to get this live on the site, I’m assuming i have to activate the child theme in the main wordpress dashboard, is this correct? (a little nervous).
bump
Ok for future references, here is exactly what I did for my arras theme, And so far, it’s pretty good.
1. Installed Arras + Buddypress.
2. Installed Buddypress Template Pack
3. Called the Buddypress Stylesheets into my theme (/* Inherit the default theme styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css ); Put that into Arras Custom.css
4. Deleted the CSS from template pack, did not need anymore (following step 3)
Everything is dandy except functions. I am missing a step… but where?
@hnla, @mercime, @boonebgorges, @r-a-y, @djpaul
=== do you think i am correct in my assumption that there is another style.css that i am supposed to be importing into the child theme, that i missed? or do you think there is another explanation for why the child theme style is ‘off’? ===
Your mockup style.css is importing from the bp-default theme in BP plugin folder http://electioncandidates.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css
while the pre-mockup style.css is importing from the bp-default theme in themes folder http://electioncandidates.com/wp-content/themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css where the styling has already been revised/customized. Initial scan comparing the stylesheets already shows that min and max width is set to 996px in pre-mockup; while your mockup still has the BP default styling of min width of 960px and max width of 1250px just as an example of the difference.
Copy over the styling of `default.css` and `adminbar.css` from the pre-mockup to your theme’s `/_inc/css/` folder and change the import call
from
/* Inherit the default theme styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css );
/* Inherit the default theme adminbar styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css );
to
/* Inherit the default theme styles */
@import url(_inc/css/default.css );
/* Inherit the default theme adminbar styles */
@import url(_inc/css/adminbar.css );
cross fingers
Also, change theme to bp-default theme and deactivate BP plugins except BuddyPress to see whether it’s cosmic buddy theme code or if there’s another reason that’s preventing you from posting updates to activity stream.
i wouldve supposed so..but evidently there is something wrong. Im suspecting it’s P and not my theme im also having an issue with “group creation”. im using a suffusion theme and it’s suffusion BP template pack.
any links to a current downloadable version? If anyone has one they can share, shoot it over to jake at ja-bob dot com.
@mercime I already enabled it. And already left a message on theme page. Thanks though.
@senTralsuLcus did you enable Activity Streams in admin dashboard > BuddyPress > Component Setup? If you did and it’s still not showing up, check if you have the latest version http://buddydev.com/themes/cosmic-buddy/ or leave a message at theme page
By the way, my wordpress theme is cosmic buddy.
I don’t recall where I read it, but doesn’t Suffusion theme author roll out his own version of BP Template Pack compatible with Suffusion theme? Contact him first.
