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This aspect shouldn’t really have anything to do with PHP it’s a markup issue or markup and CSS in respect to matching class or id names, however I’m not familiar with the theme you reference.

I don’t care I just want it fixed… is this wrong??

Not wrong but one has to be careful of the tenor of ones comments/requests, obviously no one is under an obligation to help being that this is a volunteer support forum.

As per my previous suggestion have you tried opening the two files I suggested and comparing the structure? Looking at such elements as say

<div id=”content”> in the BP file and comparing that to your chosen themes file if they differ you need to adjust the BP file to match also look for other elements that may be in your chosen theme file but not present in the BP one. It’s this structure that you need to get to match for the BP files to work, it’s markup/ specific not PHP even though the files might be typed as .php

If this still proves too difficult or demands on your time not permitting (most of us have huge demands on our time ) then I suggest posting in the jobs board group for some hired help.

Lastly The theme Artisteer might just possibly create themes in a manner that is simply not possible to work into a BP theme or at least that presents additional difficulties over more static themes, that is speculation though but I would say that there are a fair few themes that would never work well with BP due to flaws in their construction.

There have been dozens if not hundreds of posts on this issue due to the fact that this step requires – as I believe it does pretty clearly state – a basic knowledge of CSS/HTML and of how themes are structured and from that point on requires some manual work.

There comes a point where a little coding knowledge is required BP is not a simple application and the requirement to have it use a WP theme not a standard one jivany makes some vaild points about this earlier in the thread. That said it isn’t actually that difficult only requiring basic level knowledge and you do state I have a good understanding of CSS, and HTML but when it comes to PHP I am pretty much beat. a good knowledge is more than is required and as for PHP at this stage it isn’t really relevant.

In some of those posts you allude to there are further explanations of what needs doing , I know as I’ve responded to a few, but a basic pointer in the right direction is about all that can be given the rest is up to the individual, call it if you will the price of admission? Checking those threads carefully might help? Usually it’s only a case of comparing two files and ensuring that the structure matches i.e elements and names they are given page.php is a possible starting point to compare against one of the BP directory index files?

Please note this isn’t meaning to be unhelpful but to ask that members take this further is possibly asking too? much of them. An absolute and definitive guide to the template process is never going to be that easy to do as themes will vary and the steps required change accordingly.

Providing a zip file suggests you hope that someone will take the files and do the work for you this isn’t appropriate to expect of anyone, but maybe someone with time on their hands will, if not as suggested earlier in the thread you might need to hire someone for a few hours to do this for you?

Re: Step 3 – customizing theme for BP.
There has been dozens, if not hundreds of posts regarding this issue, is there anyone here that can edit my files, or provide a full tutorial on how to do this.
I have created my theme using Artisteer, and no matter how many times I have tried to correct the alignment it just will not work!!
I have a good understanding of CSS, and HTML but when it comes to PHP I am pretty much beat.
The files are all local, I am working on this locally on the Mac, using MAMP so I don’t have a URL to give, but can give a location where I have a zip file of the required files.
Hopefully someone with a bit of know-how will create either a plugin to correct this, or a fully explained tutorial that covers this properly.

Simply beautiful. Congratulations on a job well done.

I have been trying to make Artisteer files usable for BP, with no luck…
Having tried several times I cannot seem to get the code right on all the files, below is the theme’s page.php code, can some kind person here please highlight or indicate to me (I am not good at PHP, CSS, or HTML yes, but not PHP) what I have to carry across to the BP files.

bacticks

bacticks

Your plugin works a treat rich – thanks for sharing!

I think ajax refresh is THE thing that’s missing from BuddyPress at the moment. How does the P2 theme do it? Maybe we could “borrow” that functionality.

I wish I was a coder…

With regards to any ‘full width’ theme you have some fundamental issues / things to consider:

1. Line length and readability of text – humans naturally read better in limited widths.
2. Smallest and biggest need to both get good experience of your design – with regards to resolutions

There are ways around all of these and full width themes can work but they are as far as I’m concerned not the solution for all site types. Just because you are running out of room on a site it won’t be solved by using a full width if a user has a smaller browser and you have to design to the lowest resolution (1024 is generally considered that gauge now but most sites design to 980px to avoid scroll bars and have a background).

You need to compare the theme you want to use and one of it’s files i.e page.php or index.php to one of the newly created BP ones like /member/index.php the BP files need to mirror the html markup and class/ID’s structure that your chosen theme files have e.g if your theme file has an element named ‘content-main’ and the BP file has ‘content’ then the BP one needs to change to match.

I’m afraid that if it’s still ‘all gibberish’ then things will be difficult, adjusting a theme to work with BP does require a degree of coding knowledge albeit at a basic level you must be comfortable modifying files and working with HTML markup.

@opensourcelover: If that doesn’t work what is suggested by @pcwriter my suggestion would be to look at what is causing your JavaScript error on your page. Using firebug I can see you have one. The first port of call I’d suggest would to turn off all plugins and widgets. This could explain the difference in browsers or at least be a good next thing to try if no CSS is different.

I totally second and agree with @pcwriter about using a child theme. Only way forward if you are going to make changes like this.

@opensourcelover

My first thought is that it’s a text-shadow causing the blur effect. As the adminbar is called via the footer, try adding the following to your CSS:
`div#footer {text-shadow:none;}`

BTW, you really should create a child-theme rather than using bp-default, otherwise any changes you make to the default theme will be lost when you upgrade Buddypress. See here to learn how:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

@electroman we can’t give you a step by step guide this is not a paid support forum however we can help but you will need to have first ensured you have followed all the steps outlined by the template pack and read the help guide linked to earlier, bear in mind that the template pack doesn’t do all the work for you and there is a degree of coding skill and understanding of WP theme files required.

You will need to provide a link to your site that works – if that is your site that you linked to it’s throwing PHP errors and exposing your server path structure which isn’t a great idea – then someone will hopefully be able to spot what elements you may not have replicated in your BP files.

The 404 error is possibly that you haven’t set a permalink structure, and you will need to visit the permalink page in the backend and select a structure and save – the assumption is made that you are running mod_rewrite and able to write to the .htaccess file i.e permalinks work under plain WP?

Am having a terrible problem with Buddypress working on my theme. my site is so ugly and unaligned with this Buddypress and the layout is distorting my website layout.
Any help on how to add the static header widget on the header of my theme? how do i add the SIGNUP link to the static header widget. Somebody please give me a step by step full detail on how to align this buddypress on my site.
I have a header.php
i have a page.php
i have an index.php
and i have an footer.php
What exactly am i gonna do to setup my site like http://test.emotique.net/register/
MY REGISTER LINKE SHOW ERROR 404 NO PAGE FOUND

SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP AM DIEING HERE.

sure. Buddypress on an iPhone would be cool but … what would you have? just the activity stream like an RSS feed?

I think the issue is that template pack gives the impression that it’s a fully automated click process, and the fact that there will be manual editing seems to get overlooked.

I’ll “bump” this one – just getting an install set up now, would like to know if it’s worth trying to get people to use this feature or not, since it seems to be pretty unintuitive. I can see the tag cloud on the side with the standard buddypress theme, but no idea which ones are on my post when I open it to edit and no way to add tags if I forgot one

This gets asked on a daily bases. Try this thread.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/making-your-theme-buddypress-compatible/

Link and i’ll tell you how to fix it