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@AnindyaRay

Have you seen this thread? It looks like there may be a solution to your problem near the end:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-1-2-6-adds-extra-padding-top/

It is, indeed, a theme issue. You should be able to fix things based on the info here: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2679#comment:1

well, my idea was this:

reading through the forums and the codex I found a couple of settigns that seemingly can be used from wp-config.php BUT I don’t want to clutter it too much.
Alternatively I can use bp-custom.php or make a small plugin and pop it into mu-plugins.

here is my collection of lines, please let me know where I can find more (built-into BP as I know plugins also offer several of these). What is recommended for what? I try to use wp-config.php only for WP related stuff, mu-plugins only for stuff that really needs to be running on every page and functions.php for stuff specific for my theme (and in this case the main page)

`/*add user with ID as group admin, alternatively change to mod*/
define( ‘BP_RESTRICTGROUP_AUTOADD_ADMIN_USER_ID’, 1);
/* disable the admin bar*/
/*define( ‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, false);*/

/*customize all slugs*/
/*define( ‘BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG’, ‘activate’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG’, ‘activity’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_BLOGS_SLUG’, ‘journals’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_FORUMS_SLUG’, ‘discussions’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_FRIENDS_SLUG’, ‘peeps’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_GROUPS_SLUG’, ‘gatherings’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’, ‘chefs’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_MESSAGES_SLUG’, ‘messages’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘register’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_SEARCH_SLUG’, ‘search’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_SETTINGS_SLUG’, ‘settings’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_XPROFILE_SLUG’, ‘info’ );*/

/*customize more stuff*/
/*Put profiles in the root � http://example.org/username/*/
/*define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES’, true );*/

(btw. since I have decided upon the final theme to use, I guess I will be going via the functions.php route)

/*Change the default tab opened when looking at a user’srofile (default is activity):*/
/*define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘profile’ );*/
`
Also if you want yo ucan give some more information about order of invocation?

You can add the login form to one of the columns after

<div id="third-section" class="widget">


login code:

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

        <?php do_action( 'bp_before_sidebar_me' ) ?>

        <div id="sidebar-me">
            <a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain() ?>">
                <?php bp_loggedin_user_avatar( 'type=thumb&width=40&height=40' ) ?>
            </a>

            <h4><?php echo bp_core_get_userlink( bp_loggedin_user_id() ); ?></h4>
            <a class="button logout" href="<?php echo wp_logout_url( bp_get_root_domain() ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Log Out', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>

            <?php do_action( 'bp_sidebar_me' ) ?>
        </div>

        <?php do_action( 'bp_after_sidebar_me' ) ?>

        <?php if ( function_exists( 'bp_message_get_notices' ) ) : ?>
            <?php bp_message_get_notices(); /* Site wide notices to all users */ ?>
        <?php endif; ?>

    <?php else : ?>

        <?php do_action( 'bp_before_sidebar_login_form' ) ?>

        <p id="login-text">
            <?php _e( 'To start connecting please log in first.', 'buddypress' ) ?>
            <?php if ( bp_get_signup_allowed() ) : ?>
                <?php printf( __( ' You can also <a href="%s" title="Create an account">create an account</a>.', 'buddypress' ), site_url( BP_REGISTER_SLUG . '/' ) ) ?>
            <?php endif; ?>
        </p>

        <form name="login-form" id="sidebar-login-form" class="standard-form" action="<?php echo site_url( 'wp-login.php', 'login_post' ) ?>" method="post">
            <label><?php _e( 'Username', 'buddypress' ) ?><br />
            <input type="text" name="log" id="sidebar-user-login" class="input" value="<?php echo esc_attr(stripslashes($user_login)); ?>" /></label>

            <label><?php _e( 'Password', 'buddypress' ) ?><br />
            <input type="password" name="pwd" id="sidebar-user-pass" class="input" value="" /></label>

            <p class="forgetmenot"><label><input name="rememberme" type="checkbox" id="sidebar-rememberme" value="forever" /> <?php _e( 'Remember Me', 'buddypress' ) ?></label></p>

            <?php do_action( 'bp_sidebar_login_form' ) ?>
            <input type="submit" name="wp-submit" id="sidebar-wp-submit" value="<?php _e('Log In'); ?>" tabindex="100" />
            <input type="hidden" name="testcookie" value="1" />
        </form>

        <?php do_action( 'bp_after_sidebar_login_form' ) ?>

    <?php endif; ?>

    <?php /* Show forum tags on the forums directory */
    if ( BP_FORUMS_SLUG == bp_current_component() && bp_is_directory() ) : ?>
        <div id="forum-directory-tags" class="widget tags">

            <h3 class="widgettitle"><?php _e( 'Forum Topic Tags', 'buddypress' ) ?></h3>
            <?php if ( function_exists('bp_forums_tag_heat_map') ) : ?>
                <div id="tag-text"><?php bp_forums_tag_heat_map(); ?></div>
            <?php endif; ?>
        </div>
    <?php endif; ?>


You should set your slugs in wp-config.php

Comments should be fine in bp-custom.php – there must some error in the way you have the file set up

Ps you are right that functions.php is theme specific, and bp-custom.php is install wide. However there are also order of invocation issues.. They don’t happen at the same place in the initialisation.

For slug and URL mods have a read of the documentation on here

@rogercoathup

Hmmm… OK, so here’s what I’ll do: as I’ve created this, my first, theme based on 1.2.5, I’ll make it available for die-hard 1.2.5 users on my site. But I’ll update the theme to 1.2.6 before shipping it off to the theme repo with a heads-up that a 1.2.5 version is available for download at http://&#8230;

However, I think the advice given by @karmatosed is sound, so I’ll ensure future themes are in sync with latest version of BP.

Thanks guys!

@AnindyaRay: Hmmm you got a link for your site? My thoughts are maybe a javascript error (try in firebug to see that) or something like error in files (did you copy over the adminbar.css and also both javascript files (ajax.php / js)? I certainly don’t get any issues with the default or my themes that don’t use custom admin bars – perhaps the custom admin bar code. Worst case maybe you could remove that feature (hate to suggest that but if it’s causing issues).

@pcwriter: General rule is last supported version is latest with BuddyPress / WordPress or at least that’s the way I work with themes myself. Can’t really speak for others. I myself choose that route as there are generally security and other reasons for upgrades.

@Roger: I get the frustration but to be truthful I’m a theme designer and I don’t have these issues as said before I go with latest version support and I think you will find most do. This is of course a point of debate and maybe not the place for this said debate as a personal choice / company choice depending on your working situation. This happens with every release it gets better and more gets added… WordPress has same problem if you think of what happened around 3.0 for instance.

I do think it’s perhaps a point of note to those of us in themes to get more involved and this is one point I myself have in the past few months realised. We can complain about things and claim them wrong but until we get involved can we be surprised over something getting changed. It’s a project we all can get involved in and perhaps this all should be a call to action rather than a soap box moment which I know myself I’m feeling. BuddyPress themes will I think truly benefit from those of us that work with them getting involved where we can. Please take this in the good nature it’s meant as I’ve also had this realisation.

@pcwriter

No, any new template tags will not be recognised by your 1.2.5.2 installations.

I’m dismayed by the 1.2.5.2 -> 1.2.6 decision making – with users unable to use 1.2.5.2 themes on 1.2.6. You’d expect some new features in a minor subversion upgrade, some additional template tags you could take or leave, but not for the behaviour of key regularly used functions to be changed overnight (e.g. the multiple friend button issue).

It’s been an issue for us with how on earth we can handle existing bespoke client implementations, but you raise another problem for generic theme developers – you’d have to have two versions of your theme.

@djpaul @karmatosed

I’m putting together my first soon-to-be-released theme package for BP (yay, I’m popping my cherry again! ) and have a n00b question.

Once I’ve updated all required files in my theme to 1.2.6 (using the aforementioned “calm methodical copy and pasting session”), will users who are still running 1.2.5 be able to use the theme? In other words, will the new 1.2.6 tags, functions, etc be recognized by 1.2.5?

I would say all things should be required by Blogs-Mu to be honest. However, it’s going to be a case of you’re only going to know as do. You definitely will have template changes otherwise have the magical double button issues on friends and blogs

Not sure what you mean about php file … it’s a case of finding the file and replacing the content with the updates should be pretty much a copy and paste job with Blogs-Mu.

Are you sure your site works correctly? I’m fairly sure you’re going to find some issues about the site and to be honest I’d always recommend updating. Ultimately it’s up to you but my recommendation is a calm methodical copy and pasting session

The question of ‘how to create a custom theme’ is a fairly open ended one. My advice would be start with creating child themes of the parent theme. As Chouf1 already said the codex is a great place to start. You may also want to look at how others have done things and learn by example for instance here: https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/. If I was going to advise someone on how to learn I’d say you have to first off do a child, add a widget area.. learn about what CSS does what maybe using something like firebug to do inline changes and learn. If you’re looking to do a total fresh take non default theme then you want to follow the more methodical process of creating image > XHTML / CSS > theme when learning. By having your end goal from the start you can focus the things you will need to learn and apply.

You may find the widget version of default by modemlooper https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme gets you on the right track otherwise you can fairly easily add widget areas to your theme or use something like the 3 column or other default themes. Have you checked out a few of the default variations right here: https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/ ?

I changed the syntax for the one BP uses and the plugin is working so far.
For example, instead of using the standar conditional tags !is_page(‘register’) try !bp_is_register_page() in order to prevent a widget to show up in the sidebar when a user gets to “yourdomain.com/register”
A full list of functions to determine the current page can be found at https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buddypress-and-widget-logic (thanks to alanft)
I hope this may help

@nooi

If I’m not mistaken, I believe you’ve been inspired by http://www.workathomemommies.com/

If you want to learn how to widgetize a page so you can put whatever you want on it, here’s a great tutorial:
http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/

If you just want to style the appearance of blog posts on your frontpage, you can do that through CSS.
There are any number of great resources and tutorials in the vast wilderness of cyberspace to help you learn what you need to know. To help you identify exactly what you need to change in your theme’s CSS to get the effect you want, I highly recommend installing the Firebug for Firefox addon:
http://getfirebug.com/

Hope this helps!

It is likely padding creating the white space as you see it to preserve an area for the adminbar, sadly it’s difficult to help further with a static image, you will need to probably contact the theme authors? and see if they are aware of the issue, whether they have fixes or an update for the theme.

You probably need to update your theme. If you built it yourself, take a look at https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-default-theme-changelog/, otherwise ask the person who built it for you.

And is it the activated theme on your BuddyPress site?
Do the other BuddyPress links work.. Members, groups, activity?
Hover over your profile link – which URL is it trying to send you to?

Have you installed / activated a BuddyPress compatible theme, eg bp-default, on your BuddyPress site?

have you used firebug to inspect?

Which theme are you using? Have you tried with bp-default?

Does it show in safari / ie / chrome?

One thought.. Is the table marked up correctly? V4 of firefox is much stricter re: table markup needing to be valid. Have a search of firefox site for details on that one