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Deactivate BuddyPress and BP Plugins, set Appearance to a regular WP theme.
Then go back and activate BuddyPress only, set Appearance to BP-compatible theme and go to frontend.

You’ll need to create a custom page template and then upload it to your theme folder. Then create a brand new page (.e.g “Welcome”) using that custom page template you created instead of the default page template provided by Fishbook. Then in your Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading you’ll need to set the front page option to the brand new page (e.g. “Welcome”) that you created and set your posts to show up on a different page called “Articles” or “News” or something else that you like.

Your theme’s footer.php needs to call wp_footer, for example see https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Footer_.28footer.php.29

@johnwinch42 –

It may, but without knowing all of your themes’ CSS setups, it’s not possible to say for sure. Order of CSS is important, later definitions will override previous ones. More specific selectors might interfere, as might indiscriminate use of !important.

Give it a try!

sadly we have to stick like glue to the stable packaged releases of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), so a php upgrade out-of-cycle is highly unlikely. Bring on RHEL6…

@DJPaul – have verified with plugins disabled and default theme installed… same story.

Are you working with your own bespoke child theme, but using the JavaScript from the default theme?

If so, you may have removed / altered some of the markup around the first element that the JavaScript for editing requires.

Have a look at the selectors in your JavaScript and see if you can spot anything obvious

@castleofislam

I just thought of an alternative solution. You can always try the Buddypress Widget Theme for what you want to accomplish.
https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme

@latenitebooks

To get you started, here’s a replacement file for activity/post-form.php with a 500 character textarea limit.
http://pastebin.com/eXuSa4iK

Adjust to taste on line 52. With an if/else conditional, you could set it so different roles have different limits.
Simply create a new post-form.php file in your child theme, copy/paste the contents of the pastebin file and upload to the “activity” folder of your child theme.

Hope it helps!

@mdehart85 With WP 3.0.1 you can go mulisite in subdirectory mode then, as @pcwriter mentioned above, install BP in secondary blog. You can have different themes on each site.

If for your own reasons you still want the separate WP blogs using same database – read this. Make sure that both WP installs are working before installing BP in the 2nd WP install.

@nunomad

yes, they were on separate themes in 1.0.3, but the primary site and BP pages now share a single theme.

If you take a look at this plugin, you should be able to update thesis for BuddyPress:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

Once updated, activate the theme in your admin system and select it instead of the default.

I’m sure others will have updated thesis, so you might be able to get specific help if you run into difficulties.

I suggest asking them as a separate forum thread.

Good luck!

@latenitebooks plugin delayed because of another plugin.
There are non-plugin solutions which would involve manually adding javascript on relevant pages and code within respective forms. Also, If I’m not mistaken, the plugin I mentioned would be good for child themes of bp-default theme but would require some addition of template tags for non-bp-default themes.

Are you using the default theme?

The default theme shows the profile on a separate tab when you visit the member’s page. If you want to move the view profile content onto the activity tab you can look at copying the content from members/single/profile.php into members/single/activity.php (do this in a child theme of course).

If you want something more sophisticated, take a look at the custom loop examples under Support …. Docs on this site

Adding a link – Have a look at this thread: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-moverelocate-the-links-in-the-admin-bars-my-account-individuallyseparately-to-the-sidebar/

Your other issues are CSS rather than BuddyPress related. Check the admin bar CSS settings in the different themes you are using for your blogs. If you want them to look the same, they will have to have the same settings.

If you are adding your own filters you can add them either in your theme’s function.php file or in bp-custom.php in your plugins folder.

This article introduces you to the concept of filters in WordPress (albeit from a plugin perspective): https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Filters

To find the hook in question (content_save_pre), I suggest using your file editor and searching the files in your WordPress install. Also have a Google, and you’ll find some information: e.g. http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks/hook/content_save_pre?version=1.5.2&file=xmlrpc.php

[Edit: Rich has already given you the line to add for the filter – try it in your functions.php]

Of course BuddyPress + BuddyPress Album + BuddyPress Chat Component + BuddyPress Group Email Subscription + BuddyPress Like + BuddyPress Profile Privacy + CodeStyling Localization + CodeStyling Localization + Google XML Sitemaps + Seo for Buddypress + TDLC Birthdays + WP-FB-AutoConnect

I tried to desactive one by one. No result.

Theme : BP-default

As @crashutah said, in your child theme, override activity/entry.php and remove the appropriate line.

I’m assuming you have somehow changed your theme. If you haven’t, then the same but applies but it’s one of your plugins:

You probably have white space (i.e. literally a ” ” or a newline) at the top or bottom of a file, outside of any PHP tags.

@rgauny + @rogercoathup:

Like Rich said, @mentions- are basically a filter and a nav item.
It should be possible to remove the filter and the nav item by doing the following:

1) Removing the filter

Add the following to your theme’s functions.php:

`
// removes @mention links in updates, forum posts, etc.
remove_filter( ‘bp_activity_new_update_content’, ‘bp_activity_at_name_filter’ );
remove_filter( ‘groups_activity_new_update_content’, ‘bp_activity_at_name_filter’ );
remove_filter( ‘pre_comment_content’, ‘bp_activity_at_name_filter’ );
remove_filter( ‘group_forum_topic_text_before_save’, ‘bp_activity_at_name_filter’ );
remove_filter( ‘group_forum_post_text_before_save’, ‘bp_activity_at_name_filter’ );
remove_filter( ‘bp_activity_comment_content’, ‘bp_activity_at_name_filter’ );

// remove @mention email notifications
remove_action( ‘bp_activity_posted_update’, ‘bp_activity_at_message_notification’, 10, 3 );
remove_action( ‘bp_groups_posted_update’, ‘groups_at_message_notification’, 10, 4 );
`

2) Removing the subnav:

Add the following to your theme’s functions.php:

`function ray_remove_mention_nav() {
global $bp;

bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $bp->activity->slug, ‘mentions’ );
}
add_action( ‘init’, ‘ray_remove_mention_nav’ );`

Then, copy over /bp-default/activity/index.php to your child theme and remove the hardcoded li#activity-mentions from /activity/index.php.

Et voila! @mentions- are gone!

Might turn this into a plugin if requested.

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*Edit: Also need to remove the table row on the “Settings > Notifications” page. This can be done by removing and duplicating the existing bp_activity_screen_notification_settings() function (located in /buddypress/bp-activity.php) hooked to the “bp_notification_settings” action.

@omosha

Hi again. I found a link to your site on another of your posts. The problem is caused by your theme. There’s a “text-shadow” effect applied to the #body container so it affects everything.

Add the following to your style.css to remove that effect from the adminbar:

#admin-bar-logo, #wp-admin-bar li.no-arrow a, #wp-admin-bar ul li a {text-shadow:0 0 0 #fff;}

@/businessbites

You make a series of statements where’s the question

Without sight of some code or a site link it’s not really possible to help that much.

It sounds like you perhaps need to make some adjustments to the styling of your theme, have you tried to?

Suffusion is not the default BP theme, problems and issues might need to be taken up with that themes authors where possible and applicable.

Do you mean you cannot edit the WordPress theme from theme editor? Or that you revised your WP theme’s index.php, uploaded it to server and revisions do not show?