The reason Mercime asked you to deactivate BP was to establish whether blogs worked with WP, blogs are a feature of WP rather than BP and it’s important before running BP or attempting to troubleshoot issues that it’s established everything is working properly with plain vanilla WP.
You need to switch to a NON BP theme if you have disabled BP. Select the default twentyten theme or whatever default theme is installed for WP and confirm whether blogs work correctly.
Thanks, but not sure if I understand. If I deactivate all plugins including BuddyPress, I not only can’t access the blogs but I can’t access my main page either. I get the following: Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_page_title() in /home/cetateni/public_html/wp-content/themes/simple-wp-community-theme/header.php on line 9
Thanks for your help but please clarify.
For purposes of a single installation of BuddyPress, the main difference is when the files are loaded. Actions and filters in bp-custom.php are among the very first things loaded when BP is loaded. functions.php isn’t loaded until the theme is loaded, after all of the BP components. So if you need something to be loaded early, it’ll have to go into bp-custom.php.
BuddyPress applies the wpautop filter when it displays xprofile field data. So what is stored in the db as `/n` or `/r` should be converted to `
…
` on the way out. If you’re not seeing line breaks at all, it could be one of two things: 1) your stylesheet is displaying paragraphs as inline elements, or 2) something in a plugin or theme is turning off wpautop. What happens when you deactivate plugins and use bp-default?
@LPH2005
The avatar can be enlarged, sure. But, as with the bp-default theme, clicking any avatar already links to the users profile.
Looks nice. Can you enlarge the avatar in the upper left, then below the avatar add profile button (linking to profile) next to the logout button?
Important to note if you want to use @boonebgorges code with “GROUPS” and not “MEMBERS” sorting -you will have to change to the GROUPS slug… use this:
`function groups_alpha_by_default( $query_string ) {
global $bp;
if ( $bp->current_component == BP_GROUPS_SLUG && !$bp->current_action)
$query_string = ‘type=alphabetical&action=alphabetical’;
return $query_string;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring’, ‘groups_alpha_by_default’ );`
Look in your style.css file that will show where default.css is being called from.
That’s what I was looking for, but I don’t have a default.css file anywhere.
I have rtf.css, and style.css, in the theme editor. Neither of them look like the above code snippet.
Where do you see it?
look at the default.css look for the ‘body’ ruleset
<snip>
`
@import url( reset.css ); /* Reset browser defaults */
/* > Global Elements
*/
body {
background: #eaeaea url( ../images/background.gif ) top left repeat-x;
font-size: 12px;
font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;
line-height: 170%;
color: #555;
width: 90%; <<<<<<<<<
min-width: 960px; <<<<<< delete
max-width: 1250px; <<<<<< delete
margin: 0 auto;
padding-top: 0 !important; /* Remove the top padding space for the admin bar in this theme */
}
body.activity-permalink {
min-width: 960px; <<<<< delete both change to width
max-width: 960px;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
margin: 5px 0 15px 0;
}
h1 { font-size: 28px; margin-bottom: 25px; }
h2 { font-size: 24px; margin-bottom: 20px; }
h3 { font-size: 20px; }
h4 { font-size:
`
Do all that in a copy of the file in your child theme otherwise the changes will be overwritten when you upgrade BP
Child theme can simply be a new folder under /themes containing new styles.css and calls to copies of the other BP stylesheets which you’ll modify in stead of the original, the codex/docs has greater detail on this.
yeah, your lengthly response the other day was a little over my head. It’s the standard buddypress default style. My problem is with knowing specifically where to make the change. Where specifically. In the CSS file? In the Header File? If in the CSS (as I assume) where do you see width:90%? And what min/max widths should I delete?
Sorry for the questions…Thanks for the answers
Hnla /Hugo answered your question on this original thread:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/header-image-not-fitting-on-site/
Please be mindful not to tie up resources around the net needlessly 
There was no reason not to have continued in the original thread and you should have done.
You have to be a little more liteeral then as to what you have been trying – sorry not wanting to come across too … but do need things explained in coding terms i.e reference actual elements, perhaps show the the snippets of code pertaining to the attempts, is this a child theme? does it work off the BP default styles or is it a unique layout, need some detail to be able to understand what you have tried.
Oh just checked the site strangely familiar! why did you feel the need to ask how to set a fixed width after the very lengthy post I made or did I miss a a question asked in the thread?
I’ve just changed the width on the body ruleset from width:90%; to width:900px; works for me! I would lose the min/max widths though.
OK, if anybody else has this problem, it is a simple but odd solution. The instructions in “bp compatibility” that shoes up after you install the plugin tells you to modify the code THEN hit continue. Turns out you won’t see that code change Until you hit continue and select the option to bypass bp css.
interesting…. but, it now works
oh, I mean I did put 900px…but no matter where its at the header doesn’t change
If you state a value then unless it’s zero it must have a unit, 900 what? banana skins, doughnuts, or perhaps px, em, %
could you tell me how to do that?
No nothing will if you don’t describe a unit!
I had the same error and still wanted to use the theme – after I renamed it and got rid of the error message, I tried disabling the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin I’d installed to try to get a normal WordPress theme to work. Then I went back and applied the same buddypress theme again, this time with no problems.
You would need to modify the profile loop template so only BP site admins can edit the profile field in question.
Get acquainted with the profile loop:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-profile-data-loop-bp_has_profile/
Which you can modify in your BuddyPress theme’s /members/single/profile/edit.php file.
You can use `is_super_admin()` to check if the logged in user is the admin.
@boonebgorges your “less” good solution is the best in my opinion… rather than add to the theme’s function just put in in bp-custom.php best of “both” worlds… (don’t forget to change order of drop-down as Boone suggests in the theme)….
Could be that the theme/s in user blog/s do not have “ in footer.php
I wouldn’t know how to modify the CSS to fix the issue.
