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Can I have members capable of making pages on their own? For instance, they swish to create a page about a topic, and diplay their imagery and some notes etc. Not a blog, but it would still need to be accessible to that member, and only that member (and admins of course).

Can this be done using BuddyPress? The theme I am using is FishBook, thanks.

It’s a child theme if the style.css or primary stylesheet that must live in theme root has ‘Template: bp-default’ sitting amongst the other details at the top, not sure how things work with these template pack conversions as I don’t use it, either creating a child theme from scratch or full theme.

I’m guessing everything works correctly if you tried the default bp theme, so not sure what’s wrong.

You do not need to do anything or at least shouldn’t. A child theme inherits everything from the parent until the point that you copy a file over to the child theme, however certain files are called regardless functions.php and the global.js files are called regardless. To start with do not do anything with your own custom functions file, leave that until things are working correctly. The mention earlier of the @mentions dropdown sounds like a JS issue not a functions file one so I wonder how you’ve set up the child theme. To actually confirm the base install works please activate bp-default and confirm things work.

The first part is probably possible by just modifying the theme page for the activity.

The second question go to the BuddyPress admin and General Settings and mark this: “Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?:” as yes.

Unless there is good reason you shouldn’t need to worry about functions.php or at least you can create your own functions.php in your theme root and in that add your own unique functions. It’s as Michael says earlier don’t copy any of the default functions, if you have created a child theme correctly you will inherit that file as well as being able to run your own one in child theme just as long as you don’t try and declare or call the same function twice

You shouldn’t need to copy over anything from bp-default functions.php as that will cause a ‘cannot re-declare’ error notice. it sounds as though you have separated yourself from bp-default including the javascript files, it’s probably best to run a child that still references the functions and javascript files just copy over any folders and if necessary the css folder and change your styles.css @import paths to reference the local folder.

Gah! Parallaxes are fun and cool, but you’re adding some serious bloat to your code by doing this. Save yourself the trouble and just stick with the static version. It’ll be less of a headache for you and your users (think about the various browsers, platforms and versions you’d have to support first in order for everyone to see the same thing… lotsa hacking and sleepless hours ).

If you google wordpress themes, click on the first link (should a wordpress.org one) and then search for keyword “buddypress.” This will bring up all the current themes that are available to you. WPMU sells some, as well. I think for an alumni theme, you’ll probably want to start of my mapping out your site and organizing what information will be most pertinent to your users and then go from there.

Don’t copy over BP Default’s functions.php into your child theme. Just start out by writing your custom function into a new file labeled function.php.

I am also facing the same problem.
geting this error -> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/*/public_html*/*/wp-content/themes/*/includes/theme-post-types.php on line 28

I can’t even able to open my site.
and how to delete this F**kin Plugin. please tell me. i cant even login to my admin. i hv 3.0.2.

@apuley

You are missing some CSS. This is the theme that’s in the WP repo. http://tempsg.com I notice that a plugin is adding @jQuery more than once and this theme is using jQuery to add CSS. Try disabling plugins. Having jquery load more than once can break javascript. Might be the site wide activity widget.

Hey, All
Trying to add the Citizen Kane theme. I am having some difficulties. I have set it up as listed earlier in the thread and in the Read Me file. I do not have the three columns as shown at the download link (http://bit.ly/dSbwAM). Mine is all over the place and I am having a hard time finding where to fix it in the code. My sidebar column is showing up at the bottom of the page under everything else and the breaking news column appears to be under everything else. Here is my page – http://bit.ly/erVTP6 – any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I’m using the buddypress side bar which is great for creating new widget areas for widgets, I haven’t quite figured it all out yet but so far pretty promising. Then more to the point of your question is the “login with ajax” module which allows for redirects and all other sorts of options. This module is very easy to understand. I did have my site crash though, when I used it in conjunction with the “theme my login” module that I forgot to remove first. After setting up the redirect url’s for the “login with ajax” module, I then went into the widget setup area, and added the “login with ajax” widget into one of the side bars. Works great so far!!! I just have to search for a way to get rid of the login link on my buddy admin bar and I am good to go, well I still have to figure out how to put a widget into my header, but that’s for another forum search topic. Hope this helps you out.
Eric

Sorry to bother @modemlooper, I was just wondering if you had time to have a look at the second column cut problem with Thin Wide Thin template ?

Thanks

The login stuff should be easy, just modify this plugin to go to activity instead of profile: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-redirect-to-profile/

I think there’s a similar plugin for redirecting after log out. Although, I think the default log out action is to send you to the home page.

To get the landing page as the home page, you can either modify the index.php in your theme to be what you want. Or you can make a page template and set that as the home page in your WP settings or…I think there’s other ways, but that should work.

Thanks – that worked.