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I am looking forward to this! AND, after looking around your site (theme is looking good!) I wish you all the best in your endeavor! Your are bringing some creative and honed skills to the recovery community! I hope your site provides the help many people need! God Bless!

Is this in the BP core already? I have the latest version of BP, but still cannot do this. I can only kick & ban as before, not remove members from group.

Also, if I add the code mentioned above to my function.php, my whole site goes blank.

I am using the Custom Community 1.5.1 theme for WP.
Anybody an idea what I am doing wrong?

Wow, I think I just figured out how to do it. It’s kind of hacky but I’ll share it with yall anyway.

1. Make sure that you’re working on a child theme of the BP Default theme.
2. Copy/paste the contents of bp-default/activity/index.php into your child theme’s activity/index.php folder
3. Find the line <li class="selected" id="activity-all"> and delete class="selected"
4. Scroll down a few lines further to <li id="activity-friends"> and insert class="selected" just after id="activity-friends"

And that should be it. One thing I’ve noticed though is that the browser still seems to remember what the last tab was that you were using. But if you login into your account with a completely new browser then your default activity tab will be “Friends”.

If anyone else has a less “hacky” solution then by all means share with us.

Hmm… did some more snooping. The relevant file is /bp-child-default-theme/activity/index.php

Ideally there would be a single function that should generate the current activity tabs, that way we could use the hook to remove the existing function and then drop in our own existing function via add_action();

Unfortunately I see nothing of the sort. Here are lines 18 – 56.

http://pastebin.com/PH8BTyN8

I think you removed the wrong one. Look at the original file in the bp default theme to compare.

that change is to a theme file – did your theme update as well? (or is it a child theme?)

I am having the same issue as AWeathers: I have WP 3.01 & BP 1.2.6 – I have various sites running successfully as subdirectories from my main site, but when I try to have BP default theme activated on a new subdirectory site, while it works seemingly perfectly the header image displays the main site title instead of the community site I am trying to create. If I add: define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 3 ); to wp-config.php it fixes it up but then places my main site as a “secondary” site to the community site and “sees” it as just another blog. (edit: the other sites continue working fine though)

Ray you point out the default is not meant as a network wide theme, but if you create a child theme of the default you can have the same theme across all blogs – I do not want this, only on the community site alone, with all my other sites having their unique themes. Is this at all possible?

I too, am looking to simplify/modify the registration page. I would like to control the fields, is there a plugin for this? I would like to remove the email as a required field. I’m running the default BuddyPress theme. Can anyone help with this? I just want username and password. I have used CIMY Extra Fields, but it seems to not appear in BuddyPress installations, and it does not allow for removing the default fields. If anyone can also tell me how to force avatar or photo uplaod at registration, please post. Much appreciated, everyone.

No, but you could recreate it as a child theme.

Theming BuddyPress is like theming any other WordPress theme.
You’ll just need to add all the BuddyPress-related template files to your theme for it to be BuddyPress-compatible.

There’s a plugin out there that automates this, BP Template Pack: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
However, use it as a guide as it needs to be updated.

There’s also another guide by @thekmen, which can be found here:
http://bp-theme-converts.com/convert-buddypress-theme-to-wp-theme/

BP 1.2.6 made some changes to the way buttons are rendered.

Read this for more info:
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-default-theme-changelog/

Follow the steps listed in the second point.

If you encounter any other problems with your child theme, please post follow-up responses in this thread.

The BuddyPress Default theme is not meant to be used network-wide.

If you want to use the same theme across your blogs, you need to create a child theme of the BuddyPress Default theme.

Then you can modify the header (header.php) to use the main site’s header image.

@Altermann

I’m currently working on a theme package with widgetized front page;
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/new-theme-sneak-preview/

Here’s a good tutorial on how to widgetize any page:
http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/

Hope this helps!

I have the same issue as open flips and Sebastien; the second column does not extend the height of the page when it’s longer than the other two columns, and therefore the widgets get cut off.

Any solutions?

Hello,
I’am using this template and working fine. I just want to know if I can use only 2 columns and how I do that.

Thx

test and learn with the buddypress-widget_theme, specially designed for the homepage and with widgets on 3 cols
https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme

I have the same problem with the Thin Wide Thin template and have no idea how to fix it. Is it due to the central column absolute position ? Thanks.