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Whilst I’m not familiar with the plugin I have another suggestion that you use built in featured images that comes with WordPress. Forgive me if you have other reasons for using that plugin but maybe this will work for you.

You can add post thumbnails using featured posts like this for instance in functions.php (adjust size according to what you want):

`if ( function_exists( ‘add_theme_support’ ) ) {
add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 210,160, true );
}`

Then in the code:

` `

There are many ways to skin the thumbnail cat though this link may help:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_post_thumbnail

== hmmm I paid for this and get charged monthly somebody please give us the fix. ==
@dougison WP and BP are free downloads, perhaps you mean you’re paying for your hosting?

In any case, did you use the auto-install of BP? Then try to upload BuddyPress plugin again via FTP or cPanel. After activating BuddyPress, you should see the bp-default theme when you go to dashboard > Appearance > Themes.

There’s a bug in the ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_datebox’ that’s preventing overriding the date field.
See – https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2947.

—

@bobsie – To override the year value temporarily, you’ll need to patch /buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-templatetags.php:
https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/2947/2947.001.patch (only lines 457-534 are important).

Once you’ve made those changes, add the following to your theme’s functions.php:

`
function my_datebox_field ($html, $type, $day, $month, $year, $default_select ) {

// change your max year here
$year_max = 2013;

/* Check for updated posted values, but errors preventing them from being saved first time */
if ( !empty( $_POST ) ) {
if ( $day != $_POST )
$day = $_POST;
}

if ( !empty( $_POST ) ) {
if ( $month != $_POST )
$month = $_POST;
}

if ( !empty( $_POST ) ) {
if ( $year != date( “j”, $_POST ) )
$year = $_POST;
}

$html = ”;

switch ( $type ) {
case ‘day’:
$html .= ‘–‘;

for ( $i = 1; $i < 32; $i++ ) {
if ( $day == $i ) {
$selected = ‘ selected = “selected”‘;
} else {
$selected = ”;
}
$html .= ” . $i . ”;
}
break;

case ‘month’:
$eng_months = array( ‘January’, ‘February’, ‘March’, ‘April’, ‘May’, ‘June’, ‘July’, ‘August’, ‘September’, ‘October’, ‘November’, ‘December’ );

$months = array( __( ‘January’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘February’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘March’, ‘buddypress’ ),
__( ‘April’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘May’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘June’, ‘buddypress’ ),
__( ‘July’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘August’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘September’, ‘buddypress’ ),
__( ‘October’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘November’, ‘buddypress’ ), __( ‘December’, ‘buddypress’ )
);

$html .= ‘

for ( $i = 0; $i < 12; $i++ ) {
if ( $month == $eng_months[$i] ) {
$selected = ‘ selected = “selected”‘;
} else {
$selected = ”;
}

$html .= ” . $months[$i] . ”;
}
break;

case ‘year’:
$html .= ‘—-‘;

for ( $i = $year_max; $i > 1899; $i– ) {
if ( $year == $i ) {
$selected = ‘ selected = “selected”‘;
} else {
$selected = ”;
}

$html .= ” . $i . ”;
}
break;
}

return $html;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_datebox’, ‘my_datebox_field’, 10, 6 );
`

@testador thanks for elaborating on what you’ve done so far.
– Check out the Ride Oregon site in BP.org showcase – https://buddypress.org/showcase/
– I recall seeing a travel or tourism site here before – http://www.bpinspire.com/

Re themes, I prefer to create my own themes – either child themes of bp-default theme or use BP Template Pack for a couple. It depends on a lot of factors. Here’s a simple walkthrough for BP Template Pack for reference – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

Re media plugin, I’ve been using the BP Gallery plugin, (premium) since early 2010 to date. Preference is hosting own media rather than having it hosted at Kaltura/Cincopa servers.

Good luck

I can’t help you, but can I see your site?

I’m a suffusion theme user as well.

http://damatrixstudios.com

@ddgdaily – on the Thesis theme, sorry, I don’t use it. I recall some Thesis users a while ago who mentioned getting info from Thesis support forums to get BP compatibility on using the BP Template Pack.

Why not just backup database tables and server files then go maintenance mode for an hour to test BP in site? Use bp-default theme which has the regular WP template files but souped up for BuddyPress and see how it goes.

Or, export XML from your site, and install WP with BP it locally in your computer to test it out.

@manimaranvel BuddyPress can only be activated once in either the main site or a secondary blog of a WP Multisite installation – there is no BP multisite at this time. If you allowed your members to create own blogs and then want to show the member profile in his/her blog, you can use a plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-profile-widget-for-blogs/

99% who help out here in the BP forums are volunteers. On a very rare day, someone might come into the forums and make a long long list of all that they need for a BP site and get spoonfed with all the answers in one go, though I haven’t seen that happen totally. I know you expect answers that’s why you go to the forums but on our end, we expect that you did some research on your own as well. If you want simple BP/WP install, it’s all easy (assuming you have good server). But If you want fully customized BP install, the learning curve is medium high if you’ve got WP experience.
BP Codex – https://codex.buddypress.org/home/
BP compatible plugins – https://buddypress.org/extend/

Back to Woo’s City Guide Theme, I only mentioned that theme because I saw it just before I saw your post here – CITY GUIDE. Also, as I mentioned before in post above, you would need to install BP Template Pack, make necessary changes, and if you have HTML/CSS/WordPress theming knowledge, it’ll be a breeze. You could choose whatever WP theme you want and install BP Template Pack or get a free BuddyPress theme or go for a premium BuddyPress theme with free support.

You may not have edited the files, but were they copied into your child theme?

Hi @joescars, did you put the ‘404-handler.php’ in your root folder or in your themes folder? I tried putting it in my root folder but on creation of Groups it redirects back to my homepage.

@jonnycardel so you want to delete that whole section with the avatar, login, AND logout? Open up sidebar.php https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.6/bp-themes/bp-default/sidebar.php starting at line 8 where Is_user_logged_in to line 56 with php endif; deals with the avatars, login and logout. If you do not want them, delete the block.

@pakhermawan that would certainly be an interesting project. Install BP Template Pack plugin and follow instructions on screen. Some BP Codex articles might help you along the way:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

@jonnycardel if you’re using a child theme of bp-default, then copy over sidebar.php from bp-default theme to child theme folder. If it’s only the Log Out link you want to delete, then delete this line from your sidebar.php
`<a class="button logout" href="”>`