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@xiayou, from looking at your website, it looks like you are using a custom theme. The first thing that comes to mind, is Are you using the BP template pack?

Are you using a host that is free, or do you have a subscription?

If you have a subscription, it is most likely not the host, more likely conflicting plugins, or a theme that just has a bad bug.

Try switching to the BP default theme to see if the problem persists, so we can knock off the possibility that it is the theme.

Yes, I do have the problem, except it does not overlap the sidebar. It is a flaw with the plugin, because it is meant for a buddypress default theme.

For your sake since it is overlapping, try going into the plugin css, and setting the right margin position to “hidden”.

Another option is to disable the sidebar in the right, but you might not want to do that option.

You also can go into the easy albums forum, and search on similar topics to this issue.

@robert, If this happened just recently, there is a high chance that there is a conflicting plugin. It is usually not the php file that is incorrect. First, try deactivating all plugins that relate to buddypress, and see if the problem persists. (deactivating will not delete settings)

If you have done that, and it is still not working, try installing the BP template pack again. This will recreate the template files, such a groups, into your custom theme again.

You can get all the styling for you custom theme in /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/inc/css/default.css

In order for it to take affect in your theme you need to add “/* Inherit the default theme styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css );” into your custom css page.

@robert,

To help solve your problem, you need to list some more information.

Are you using the Buddypress default theme, or a custom theme?
What version of Buddypress are you using?
Has this problem always been there, or just recently?

How can I set-up a drop-down menu for the main navigation?
For example, I want to put Activity, Members, Groups, Forum under Community.

Thank you,
D.

@kkeller22,From viewing your site, it may look like you have not enabled some features in the WP-Admin.

Is the “Extended Profiles” enabled in your “Component Setup” In Wp-Admin? Do you have Buddypress Template Pack Plugin Installed? (if not using default theme)

If it is, always check for plugins that may be causing the problem. If that is not it, tell me, and we can work on going inside the html structure of your website

Sorry have no idea but it shouldn’t be hard to determine, download it and check it’s stylesheet comments, or even try and install it you should soon know if it’s BP compatible.

@vanisla – It will be easier if you have HTML/CSS and WP theming experience. Check out this template pack walkthrough for some ideas – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

You can borrow styling from lines 291 – 1750 of the default.css of bp-default theme.
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.6/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css
Then adjust/customize styling to taste.

Just to clarify: All people experiencing this problem are using the default theme, and have the friends component disabled, right? By design, the autocomplete does not work with Friends turned off (a limitation which was recently fixed in the trunk), but it definitely shouldn’t be doing what some have described here.

You’ll need to run the template pack plugin on it

I can’t recreate this issue on a clean 1.2.6 / 3.01.

If you do think this is an issue with BP and there are no custom themes or plugins running that may conflict with JS then you will probably need to create a ticket in Trac so that one of the core devs can look into it.

The forums component of BuddyPress i.e the forums available under / within ‘Groups’ is provided by a bundled copy of bbPress, so now the extra detail (this is why it’s so vital to supply all pertinent info from the start) you provide somewhat changes the nature of things:

And little more info on the problem, is I am not using the current version of BB, because the latest version just put me on more problems
<snip>because, as an experiment, I switched to the BB default theme!

BB theme? do you mean BP theme?

I think you are going to need to clarify – in detail – your site setup, so were clear on what were dealing with.

So do we take it that you have installed a separate copy of BBpress? of so I suggest that you uninstall / deactivate it and re-run the buddypresss forum install as a fresh install, but I’m not 100% on that as I’m not sure really exactly how you have set things up @mercime may have some thoughts on this so best to wait for further input.

You do need to establish how your site is set up, what paths and directories it uses and as to how you access them well that for most folk is normally via ftp and ftp connection will generally log you into your server root, that is the level above your doc root, you would then normally see a few directories listed. On a Linux server your doc root can variously take names such as html_docs, www, html_public, http_public, htdocs but it’s this directory, however named, that contains your main site files and in WP/BP case it holds the main config, index, and other startup files including bb-config. We can’t really tell you how you access your site that is really something you must work out, you must have got the files up there in the first place or was this one of those script installs?

@prionkor yes, it’s clear now. You would have to add the 2nd sidebar yourself in the files moved over to your active WP theme when you went through the BP Template Pack Process.
Here’s a walk-through example which could give you some clues on what to expect or how to proceed – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/