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You came here seeking help from those more experienced!

BTW, I’m a total newby at both WP and BuddyPress and came to the forum to find help, not to get dumped on

Where have you been dumped on?

It doesn’t help to get snippy about “generally not the done thing to do on forum

There is a very deliberate reason old threads are not raised again, and yes sorry but forums rules in general frown upon this action and do ask that people start their own threads. You claim this thread mirrors your own issue, but I’ll point out that your stated inexperience in matter leaves you not best placed to judge that.

I don’t think starting lots of new threads about the same problem will help anyone

Again let us worry about that.

Please set aside the attitude it doesn’t help. Once again you have come here for help, that help often comes from experienced professionals that earn their living coding and developing, please respect the fact that there is no obligation to help and that this help forum and the project itself is maintained by volunteers – unpaid!

You really needed to have followed my advice earlier about testing with bp-default and plugins disabled if you had lurked on the forum you would have noted that this is a very common and important request.

Now as to your concern as to losing work you wont! it is perfectly safe to change themes that is the nature of the WP themeing side of things, disable your custom theme and activate bp-default also deactivate any BP related plugins except BP itself nat and also any custom functions that you may have created in your themes functions file.

Test the registration process in this default state if it works then you now know you have an issue with either your custom theme or a plugin; if it still doesn’t work then you might consider checking that you have in fact told WP to allow registrations in the WP options screen, if that is set confirm whether WP itself can accept registrations – helps to make sure WP is set up correctly and working before moving on to adding further layers like BP.

When that is done please report back and let us know what the outcomes were and we can then proceed from there.

You can disable plugins and themes temporarily without losing work. WP and BP content is stored in the database and shouldn’t be affected by what themes and plugins you do or do not have activated.

It’s important that you test whether the problem arises with bp-default, the BuddyPress Default theme that comes with BP. If registration works with that theme but not with your custom theme, then we’ll know that your problem is theme-related. Most likely, your theme is missing the template files that BP expects to find when someone visits the registration page, and for some reason the fallback template (which should be wp-signup.php) is not being found either.

Please test with the default theme and report back.

Sufussion and Atahualpa , the 2 themes use quite different coding structure. You do need to consult the theme developer to get a smooth intergration.

We have WP 3.0.1 and are using the Citizen Kane 1.0.2 theme. I can’t see any way to tell what version of BuddyPress we have, but it was installed just a few days ago, so it should be whatever the latest number is.

BTW, I’m a total newby at both WP and BuddyPress and came to the forum to find help, not to get dumped on. This topic is dead on point. Although this thread was STARTED 5 months ago, nobody seems to have offered any help and people were still posting the same problem just a week and a half ago.

It doesn’t help to get snippy about “generally not the done thing to do on forum” when there hasn’t been any useful response to this one in the past and, frankly, I don’t think starting lots of new threads about the same problem will help anyone. Isn’t that why forums are organized into threads in the first place?

Can we get back to solving the issue?

Before we start dismantling all our work, what will happen to all the stuff we’ve created (design work, etc.) if we disable all the plugins and change themes?

You will probably need to add a little more detail, version numbers, theme in use plugins etc. 1.2.6 has no issues that I’m aware of with signup and works correctly so there must be something else upsetting things.

It would help to confirm whether disabling all plugins other than required BP and dropping back to the bp-default theme still presents the issue or whether it works with default bp

This thread is 5 months old and apart from possible usefulness as archive reading (not in this instance) it serves little purpose resurrecting old threads to post to, and is generally not the done thing to do on forum please always create a fresh thread on an issue.

On a volunteer support forum it’s not really appropriate to ask members to do work for free, members are generally willing to help people to work through things but it will always be expected that they will attempt with help to get this done. Of course if you really haven’t the skills then you can take the option to pay someone to do this for you then we would ask that you post a request for paid help in the Jobs Board group:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/

I presume you have used the template pack plugin to try and get your theme compatible with BP, have you run through the codex page to see if that helps at all:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

This thread where I stripped out the markup from a BP index file and theme page.php file to show the common markup that requires to match may help you a little?
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/lightword-theme-help/#post-80930

I’m afraid that is asking slightly too much as that approaches ‘Work’ and as such I earn my living – supposedly – from coding and development- it also takes the BP project site / support forum into the realms of a ‘Service’ which for any any ‘Help’ forum is a dangerous confusion.

When you attempt this kind of customisation you have to accept that a certain level of knowledge is required , it is only a basic level but you do need to learn it.

So no I am not prepared to do that work for you – and provide a ready edited theme for you to use as that would be chargeable work however on a help forum I am prepared to guide you through what you need to do and help you along, so get your site up and live somewhere and make a start, provide a link to it so that I or others can look at where you have got to and advise on the further steps required.

I f you re-read my last post it should make sense – i referred to checking for example elements such as <div id=”content”> exist in both files as these main elements must match. You can clearly see in the two examples you posted that straight after the header function call there are two elements in the index file but only one in the page.php file and it’s id is different – lightword will be managing the layout i.e applying it’s styles vie elements such as this ‘div id=”content-body’ if that id is not found as it’s not in /activity/index.php then any important CSS rulesets will not be applied.

I will strip the files down to the common elements for you removing those parts of the code which are unique and necessary for both files e.g the output loops essentially.

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Avtivity/index.php
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What you have now represents the common elements of both files and which need to match -obviously what has been removed is for clarities sake and is required if both files are to output their data.

There may be other elements introduced in other files that you will have to deal with and adjustments needed to styles and stylesheets but that will become apparent as you work through things.

You mean the main navigation links? Create a child theme of bp-default theme, copy the header.php file into child theme, open up and revise order of forums and groups, save, then upload to server.

You will want to modify the index.php file in your child theme’s forum directory. (/wp-content/themes/childtheme/forums/index.php)

The form action is the important section to modify.

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This is how the page looks: http://www.thechembook.com/tutoring

Important: Make sure you have an original copy (backup copy) of the index file available. Practice locally first. This link will help you with child themes: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Following is a walkthrough of the Motion theme with the BP Template Pack https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/ .
Per example there, you need to copy Retromania’s HTML structure onto the 13 files within the BP folders transferred to your Retromania theme folder in server. Save revisions and upload to server. You need to copy some styling from bp-default and adjust to taste.

Template pack walkthrough might help you
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

You might also want to see how someone created a BP Arras child theme. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/arras-theme-children-for-buddypress/forum/topic/brownbuddy-arras-child-theme-for-buddypress

Presuming you have run the template pack plugin on the theme to create BP pages you probably need to now ensure that the markup that lightword uses i.e it’s html element structure and classes or ids are replicated in the BP pages; so take a standard stock lightword file index.php or page.php and compare it to one of the BP files such as activity/index.php you will be looking at those major framwork elements such as <div id=”content”> your BP file must match the elements in the lightword files.

It’s not possible to help from a couple of images this is about code and specifically the symbiotic relationship between CSS and HTML there can be any number of reasons why an issue can occur and result in the same apparent rendering.

Would make more sense if you linked to your theme attempt rather than the WP repo, then it would be possible to see what was actually wrong, ‘Sidebar is out of place’ is simply too non descrip.

You have to supply code or a link if you want help.

That is something that you must have introduced into your custom theme, it’s not the default styling behavior – but then with some 22 stylesheets it’s going to be difficult to debug.

You will need to use firebug or Opera’s firefly to examine the element and isolate the rulesets that are being applied to that element, sadly a jpg isn’t much help to us in determining what is happening we would need to see the element in action so to speak.

Now with my Moderators hat on: You have been asked now by two moderators at least four times not to bump your posts inside a twenty four hour period. You must now observe this request, otherwise you will find it begins to hurt your rep on the forum and people will tend to shy away from helping.

No worries @eor, Yamidoo theme has sidebar style which affected the floats, add this to your theme’s style.css
`div#sidebar div.item-avatar {
width: 40px;
height: 40px;
clear: none;
float: left;
}`

@gunju2221 no offense, I had the suspicion that eor’s active theme’s css was affecting the style I gave in WP.org thread, and it did with the clear: both in sidebar divs in addition to item avatar div needed to be reined in and floated

@DJPaul @boonebgorges why is text bold?

@mercime, the CSS I provided fixes the problem. This issue only happens when they are not using a buddypress default theme.

I had the same issue and I added this, it it fixed the problem.