@djpaul @karmatosed
I’m putting together my first soon-to-be-released theme package for BP (yay, I’m popping my cherry again! 
) and have a n00b question.
Once I’ve updated all required files in my theme to 1.2.6 (using the aforementioned “calm methodical copy and pasting session”), will users who are still running 1.2.5 be able to use the theme? In other words, will the new 1.2.6 tags, functions, etc be recognized by 1.2.5?
@karmatosed
Thanks again Tammie for your valuable time , and helping me out …
and yes I was facing some problems , and I did an update to the blogs-mu theme and trying it out on a demo install … Thanks for your valuable suggestions
Now it seems to work ok except ….
now I am jumbled up with a single issue , and yet it became a nightmare … 
After updating to buddypress 1.2.6 from 1.2.5.2 , my site does not show admin bar for guest user(as admin is disabled for loggedout users) , instead inplace it shows a white space …
Logged in users can view the admin bar correctly , but non-loggedin users or guest users cannot see the admin bar , instead of the admin bar there is a white space in place … !!!
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4278/whitespaceu.jpg
check this image, see in image, just below the address bar there is a white space , its the 25 px padding for the admin bar …
This started happening just after upgrading to bp 1.2.6 , (with and without updating blogs-mu theme)
if the admin bar visibility is turned on for loggedout users , the admin bar is displayed correctly , otherwise a white space of 25px…
It was not happening with bp 1.2.5.2 , then it was fine.
Can you kindly help me out with this issue , Please tell me what needs to be done, I would be very greatful …
Thanks Tammie ….
I would say all things should be required by Blogs-Mu to be honest. However, it’s going to be a case of you’re only going to know as do. You definitely will have template changes otherwise have the magical double button issues on friends and blogs
Not sure what you mean about php file … it’s a case of finding the file and replacing the content with the updates should be pretty much a copy and paste job with Blogs-Mu.
Are you sure your site works correctly? I’m fairly sure you’re going to find some issues about the site and to be honest I’d always recommend updating. Ultimately it’s up to you but my recommendation is a calm methodical copy and pasting session
The question of ‘how to create a custom theme’ is a fairly open ended one. My advice would be start with creating child themes of the parent theme. As Chouf1 already said the codex is a great place to start. You may also want to look at how others have done things and learn by example for instance here: https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/. If I was going to advise someone on how to learn I’d say you have to first off do a child, add a widget area.. learn about what CSS does what maybe using something like firebug to do inline changes and learn. If you’re looking to do a total fresh take non default theme then you want to follow the more methodical process of creating image > XHTML / CSS > theme when learning. By having your end goal from the start you can focus the things you will need to learn and apply.
You may find the widget version of default by modemlooper https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme gets you on the right track otherwise you can fairly easily add widget areas to your theme or use something like the 3 column or other default themes. Have you checked out a few of the default variations right here: https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/ ?
I changed the syntax for the one BP uses and the plugin is working so far.
For example, instead of using the standar conditional tags !is_page(‘register’) try !bp_is_register_page() in order to prevent a widget to show up in the sidebar when a user gets to “yourdomain.com/register”
A full list of functions to determine the current page can be found at https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buddypress-and-widget-logic (thanks to alanft)
I hope this may help
@nooi
If I’m not mistaken, I believe you’ve been inspired by http://www.workathomemommies.com/
If you want to learn how to widgetize a page so you can put whatever you want on it, here’s a great tutorial:
http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/
If you just want to style the appearance of blog posts on your frontpage, you can do that through CSS.
There are any number of great resources and tutorials in the vast wilderness of cyberspace to help you learn what you need to know. To help you identify exactly what you need to change in your theme’s CSS to get the effect you want, I highly recommend installing the Firebug for Firefox addon:
http://getfirebug.com/
Hope this helps!
Hi Roger,
Yes it is the activated theme and all other links works well including the creation of groups.
The url for edit profile is http://www.ohracing.net/buddy/profile/theduke/edit
It is likely padding creating the white space as you see it to preserve an area for the adminbar, sadly it’s difficult to help further with a static image, you will need to probably contact the theme authors? and see if they are aware of the issue, whether they have fixes or an update for the theme.
You probably need to update your theme. If you built it yourself, take a look at https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-default-theme-changelog/, otherwise ask the person who built it for you.
And is it the activated theme on your BuddyPress site?
Do the other BuddyPress links work.. Members, groups, activity?
Hover over your profile link – which URL is it trying to send you to?
That is the theme I’m currently using Roger.
Have you installed / activated a BuddyPress compatible theme, eg bp-default, on your BuddyPress site?
have you used firebug to inspect?
Which theme are you using? Have you tried with bp-default?
Does it show in safari / ie / chrome?
One thought.. Is the table marked up correctly? V4 of firefox is much stricter re: table markup needing to be valid. Have a search of firefox site for details on that one
@ modemlooper: thanks for your reply. Sounds to difficult for me. I am not able to create a child theme. Anyway, any idea how to remove additional pages like “imprint” or “contact” from the top navigation of the default theme? Plugin?
Thanks
Joachim
@hnla thanks hnla for your response …
Yes I have checked , Its working ok with BP default theme …
I’m using Blogs-mu theme , and after updating I am seeing this problem , even when admin bar is disabled for guests that white space is visible ?
as for details what would be required ?
as for example here is the screen shot for the home page of my website , in the image look just below the address bar , a white space is visible ?
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/4278/whitespaceu.jpg
what more detail can I provide ? please mention
Thanks
Glad you resolved it on your own. Btw, forgot to add, you should also install BP Template Pack to get BP components working in your WP theme – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
Can’t find tags. The only thing find is a tag template, and this is what it shows, if it’s right, I still don’t know where to place buddypress:
<?php
/**
* The template for displaying Tag Archive pages.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Ten
* @since Twenty Ten 1.0
*/
get_header(); ?>
<?php
printf( __( ‘Tag Archives: %s’, ‘twentyten’ ), ‘‘ . single_tag_title( ”, false ) . ‘‘ );
?>
<?php
/* Run the loop for the tag archive to output the posts
* If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
* called loop-tag.php and that will be used instead.
*/
get_template_part( ‘loop’, ‘tag’ );
?>
Open up active theme’s style.css and add buddypress to Tags:
I prepared this BP Template Pack walkthrough using the free Motion Theme which may be able to help you. Depending on the HTML structure of your WordPress theme, it could take from an hour or so.
the best way to modify the header.php is to copy it into a child theme, after what you can make your modification
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
oEmbed is not a video uploading plugin. It relies heavily on 3rd-party sites like YouTube, Vimeo et al.
SInce you’re using P2 to write a blog post, you should try enabling auto-embeds in WordPress:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Media_SubPanel
Make sure “Auto-embeds” is checked.
Also read the codex page for more info:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds
What you are asking sounds like you are referring to WP pages. If you want to change the default theme then you need to create a child theme and then copy over the file you want to change from bp-default into you child themes folder keeping folder structure intact
You will need to feed us a little more detail, you shouldn’t have any issues, the adminbar works fine on 3.01 and 1.2.6.
You need to tell us if you are using a child / custom theme and if so revert to standard bp-default to see if the problem persists if not then problem lies with the child theme.
Have you any plugins running that could affect things? Same principle disable any plugins other than BP to test whether it’s a plugin issue.
Which theme are you using? Does it work OK if you switch to the bp-default theme? Are you sure your theme has been written to make use of the slugs?
