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With regards to any ‘full width’ theme you have some fundamental issues / things to consider:

1. Line length and readability of text – humans naturally read better in limited widths.
2. Smallest and biggest need to both get good experience of your design – with regards to resolutions

There are ways around all of these and full width themes can work but they are as far as I’m concerned not the solution for all site types. Just because you are running out of room on a site it won’t be solved by using a full width if a user has a smaller browser and you have to design to the lowest resolution (1024 is generally considered that gauge now but most sites design to 980px to avoid scroll bars and have a background).

You need to compare the theme you want to use and one of it’s files i.e page.php or index.php to one of the newly created BP ones like /member/index.php the BP files need to mirror the html markup and class/ID’s structure that your chosen theme files have e.g if your theme file has an element named ‘content-main’ and the BP file has ‘content’ then the BP one needs to change to match.

I’m afraid that if it’s still ‘all gibberish’ then things will be difficult, adjusting a theme to work with BP does require a degree of coding knowledge albeit at a basic level you must be comfortable modifying files and working with HTML markup.

@opensourcelover: If that doesn’t work what is suggested by @pcwriter my suggestion would be to look at what is causing your JavaScript error on your page. Using firebug I can see you have one. The first port of call I’d suggest would to turn off all plugins and widgets. This could explain the difference in browsers or at least be a good next thing to try if no CSS is different.

I totally second and agree with @pcwriter about using a child theme. Only way forward if you are going to make changes like this.

@opensourcelover

My first thought is that it’s a text-shadow causing the blur effect. As the adminbar is called via the footer, try adding the following to your CSS:
`div#footer {text-shadow:none;}`

BTW, you really should create a child-theme rather than using bp-default, otherwise any changes you make to the default theme will be lost when you upgrade Buddypress. See here to learn how:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

@electroman we can’t give you a step by step guide this is not a paid support forum however we can help but you will need to have first ensured you have followed all the steps outlined by the template pack and read the help guide linked to earlier, bear in mind that the template pack doesn’t do all the work for you and there is a degree of coding skill and understanding of WP theme files required.

You will need to provide a link to your site that works – if that is your site that you linked to it’s throwing PHP errors and exposing your server path structure which isn’t a great idea – then someone will hopefully be able to spot what elements you may not have replicated in your BP files.

The 404 error is possibly that you haven’t set a permalink structure, and you will need to visit the permalink page in the backend and select a structure and save – the assumption is made that you are running mod_rewrite and able to write to the .htaccess file i.e permalinks work under plain WP?

Am having a terrible problem with Buddypress working on my theme. my site is so ugly and unaligned with this Buddypress and the layout is distorting my website layout.
Any help on how to add the static header widget on the header of my theme? how do i add the SIGNUP link to the static header widget. Somebody please give me a step by step full detail on how to align this buddypress on my site.
I have a header.php
i have a page.php
i have an index.php
and i have an footer.php
What exactly am i gonna do to setup my site like http://test.emotique.net/register/
MY REGISTER LINKE SHOW ERROR 404 NO PAGE FOUND

SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP AM DIEING HERE.

sure. Buddypress on an iPhone would be cool but … what would you have? just the activity stream like an RSS feed?

I think the issue is that template pack gives the impression that it’s a fully automated click process, and the fact that there will be manual editing seems to get overlooked.

I’ll “bump” this one – just getting an install set up now, would like to know if it’s worth trying to get people to use this feature or not, since it seems to be pretty unintuitive. I can see the tag cloud on the side with the standard buddypress theme, but no idea which ones are on my post when I open it to edit and no way to add tags if I forgot one

This gets asked on a daily bases. Try this thread.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/making-your-theme-buddypress-compatible/

Link and i’ll tell you how to fix it

Love the theme! I have it activated on my blog, https://blogs.otis.edu/community.

However, I’m having trouble with the Members functions. First, when viewing a member’s page, there is only one button for join/cancel. The buttons for sending a message and @mentions do not appear.

Second, sometimes I have to reload the Members tab to get lists to display. When I click on Members-My Friends, nothing loads. The link appears to be correct (https://blogs.otis.edu/community/members/heather/friends/my-friends/) and I can copy the URL into a browser and everything loads. The list of friends does load when going via My Account-Friends. Then, to stay on the wacky side, sometimes when I click on Members, the full list appears even though the My Friends tab appears to be active.

Edited to add: I’m still running BP 1.2.5.2. Do the buttons only work for BP 1.2.6?

Try and change

id=”container” in a bp file
to
id=”primary”

You basically have to match up the container and content divs to match your theme files or BuddyPress is like a house without walls.

Does this documentation page help?

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

I have also uploaded bp-default theme. in my wp themes directory and deleted it from buddypress theme but the problem is same I am not able to accept any friendship request please help me

Use a child theme next time and it won’t happen: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

I know that this topic is old… but I just watched that video again… its a great design! Does anyone would like to make a theme for buddypress in this style out of it?
Or does anyone know how to get round corners on the images and avatars?

It’s hard for me to guess without seeing the markup. Keep in mind that the css that you’ve posted is looking for a *child* of div.activity-list with the class name “red”. Make sure that the activity item markup still has its CSS class rendered by the following code (in entry.php of your child theme):
`class=””`
or else the filter won’t do anything.

As an aside, I’m not sure what you can do with divs that you can’t do with ul/lis. With a software like BP, in my view it’s better to make changes with CSS if possible, so that your child theme doesn’t override too much of the default theme (thereby making upgrades easier for you).