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– Copy over the header.php from bp-default theme to your child theme.
– Open header.php and add class to the li’s of default BP components starting from line 47 on header.php

<li class="icon-home">
<li class="icon-activity">
<li class="icon-members">
<li class="icon-groups">
<li class="icon-forums">

You would have to ask plugin authors of “Links” and “Achievements” on how to generate addition class for styling hook.
– after you’re done, save and upload to your child theme folder in server
– in style.css add background image to li.icon-members, li.icon–groups, etc.

@ewebber – Just checked. Yeah the message gets escaped, so you can’t add HTML by default.

If you want to add HTML, you’ll have to remove how BP renders the message, then you’ll have to write your own custom message function.

Untested, but this should work in your theme’s functions.php:

`
remove_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_core_setup_message’, 2 );

function my_bp_core_setup_message() {
global $bp;

if ( empty( $bp->template_message ) )
$bp->template_message = $_COOKIE;

if ( empty( $bp->template_message_type ) )
$bp->template_message_type = $_COOKIE;

add_action( ‘template_notices’, ‘my_bp_core_render_message’ );

@setcookie( ‘bp-message’, false, time() – 1000, COOKIEPATH );

@setcookie( ‘bp-message-type’, false, time() – 1000, COOKIEPATH );
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘my_bp_core_setup_message’, 2 );

function my_bp_core_render_message() {
global $bp;

if ( $bp->template_message ) {
$type = ( ‘success’ == $bp->template_message_type ) ? ‘updated’ : ‘error’;
?>
<div id="message" class="”>

template_message; ?>

<?php
do_action( ‘bp_core_render_message’ );
}
}`

You can apply a filter to ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_datebox’ to add extra years:

`apply_filters( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_datebox’, $html, $day, $month, $year, $default_select );`

Find the bp_get_the_profile_field_options() function in /buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-templatetags.php where this filter is defined, so you’ll have a better idea of how to override it.

Some sample code that you can add to your theme’s functions.php:
`function my_year_field ($html, $day, $month, $year, $default_select ) {
// your code to override the year field
}
add_filter( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_datebox’, ‘my_year_field’, 10, 5 );
`

Remember the codex is your friend!
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/

Not too late. Just download the BP plugin to your computer so you can get the default theme. Create your child theme and upload that and enable it. Then, upload the default BP theme back to its original location.

Warning: Backup first in case something goes wrong:-)

Check with the Theme author. Sounds like a theme specific issue.

If they don’t respond try the SeoPress plugin and you should be able to set the titles the way you want.

I think placing the following code at the bottom of functions.php of your child theme should do the trick:

`
/* Creates Blog navigation for Accordeon Menu */
function my_blog_menu(){
global $bp;
if ( !is_user_logged_in() || !function_exists(‘bp_blogs_install’) )
return false;
//two lines from bp_adminbar_blogs_menu() in bp-core-adminbar.php

if ( !$blogs = wp_cache_get( ‘bp_blogs_of_user_’ . $bp->loggedin_user->id . ‘_inc_hidden’, ‘bp’ ) ) {
$blogs = bp_blogs_get_blogs_for_user( $bp->loggedin_user->id, true );
wp_cache_set( ‘bp_blogs_of_user_’ . $bp->loggedin_user->id . ‘_inc_hidden’, $blogs, ‘bp’ );
}

if ( is_array( $blogs ) && (int)$blogs ) {

$blog=array_pop($blogs);//the first blog

?>
<a href="siteurl; ?>”>

`
After you’ve put this in your functions.php add the following to sidebar.php to call the function:

“`

Thanks to @sbrajesh for this snippet

I’ve fixed this and will upload to WP repo when BP gets updated.

BP Codex is your friend. Disable the custom header functionality on the default BuddyPress theme … add the following to your wp-config.php file:
`define( ‘BP_DTHEME_DISABLE_CUSTOM_HEADER’, true );`

Your best bet is to modify the css for the theme. I use Fifefox with the plugin Firebug. This allows you to highlight different sections of the site and see its styling and modify till you get things right and then apply that to your actual code.

Your problem is not buddypress related and is better suited in a html/css forum.

The code for the BP login form can be found from line 40 to line 52 here. Adjust divs and format to taste.

Try switching to the BuddyPress Default theme for testing. Try sending some friend requests. If it works, then the theme is the problem, and you’ll have to get in touch with WPMUDev.

If it still doesn’t work, please provide some more info about your setup. Are you using any other plugins?

– change permalinks in settings to something other than default – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#wp-configuration
– then change theme to bp-default theme
– configure BP Components – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/

@AnindyaRay I see that you’ve found a header parallax tutorial. The thing is, since you’re on localhost, it’s not as easy to ID the exact corrections which would give you a fix for what’s there in the image you uploaded. That being said, my stab in the dark is adding the following style to your child theme’s stylesheet
`body {
max-width: change to 960px;
}`
which will override the parent theme’s max-width of 1250px

If that doesn’t work, install the Firefox add http://getfirebug.com/ to find styling fix

@luvs123 Not sure where you are in getting Arras theme compatible with BuddyPress. But you might want to look at this Arras Child theme with BuddyPress templates installed and configured – http://durkkooistra.com/brownbuddy/
You might want to style the fonts smaller in the sidebar, but that’s not a deal-breaker
Good luck.

The javascript main file ‘global.js and also the ajax file are both included and enqueued from the main functions file in bp-default so I don’t really know why it isn’t working for you other than your child theme isn’t correctly referencing bp-default and that might be the fault of the custom theme?

you could try adding:
`
// Load the AJAX functions for the theme
require_once( TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/_inc/ajax.php’ );

// Load the javascript for the theme
wp_enqueue_script( ‘dtheme-ajax-js’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/_inc/global.js’, array( ‘jquery’ ) );
`
to your functions file in child theme and copying over the two files into ‘_inc’ folder of child theme and see if that works.