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@newrambler – for /index.php, it’s on line 26:
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.5.2/bp-themes/bp-default/index.php

@pisanojm – maybe a filter on the_time() would suffice, some might like the existing relative time. Definitely create an enhancement ticket!

Try and re-save a custom permalink stucture.

I have to admit I’m still confused–there is no the_time() reference in index.php, nor is there any obvious place that I can see where you would insert such a date command. I just want the date of a blog post to appear on the main page, as it would in an ordinary WordPress blog installation, but it’s unclear to me where one would do so.

A little more info please.

Assuming you are using the bp-default theme?

The header image is manageable from the dashboard by the user thus the styles are added to the doc head (embedded styles) these would overrule the rules you create in a linked stylesheet, that’s the first C in CSS ‘Cascading’.

In your functions.php file add this line between php script tags:

/* Disable default themes header stuff */
define( ‘BP_DTHEME_DISABLE_CUSTOM_HEADER’, true );

Not sufficient information for a meaningful response, the single.php in a child theme should override the parent/original for the display of single WP posts.

@zanzaboonda –

To make it easier to provide help: please provide more information –

Which version of WP / BP?
Does the problem exist if you switch to the default BP theme?
Have you tried de-activating other plugins and testing whether one of them is interfering with the behaviour of BP?

There shouldn’t be a problem having the login-form inside a widget ( side-bar ) as that’s how it is in the bp sidebar ( sidebar.php in bp-default theme ).

Regardless of the above, copy the form code from sidebar.php and insert it anywhere you like ( header, footer.. ), you can contain the form in a div, styling it to suit your needs.
Take note that if you are not using a child theme, your changes will be over-written when you upgrade buddypress. ( https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ )

This should be the login/log out form used in the bp-default theme: http://pastebin.com/gngAD97g

There is a link to support forums for your suffusion buddypress pack theme at end of the post – http://www.aquoid.com/news/plugins/suffusion-buddypress-pack/

I’d guess check for something in the theme’s css that would be set to clear:right in the php file for group forums….? That, or you could have a problem with an uneven number of opened/closed divs in that php file.

@cameroncameron – you’ll need to post some more information:

Which version of WP / BP?
Which theme are you using?

Do your blog urls display correctly with the BuddyPress plugin deactivated?

@sandra1010 – I’m just using WP with default BP theme… I can get to ‘Events’ from the standard nav but don’t have any events options in the profile subnav so can’t add any events…

@pattiearnold – you’ve got a ‘hundred’ different questions in here – you will need to ask them all as separate threads

In general, to achieve this level of sophistication – You’ll need to create your own customised BuddyPress theme. You’ll need to have PHP, HTML and CSS skills to do this. You could do it yourself or hire a BuddyPress developer

@ellaj – check out this page: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

@boonebgorges, @mercime, @hnla – the Documentation tab needs to be much more prominent, to save us having to keep typing this URL (and the child theme one) in forum threads

Ryan you really need to actually state what you have tried and what the issues are that you are having. To simply hope that someone leaps to it and sorts it out based on the above is unreasonable

So you have a theme you like? what have you attempted in order to make it BP compatible have you tried running the:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

The server is fine from that link it suggests you have a VPS which is effectively your own server to configure as you wish which is good, however that doesn’t mean it is set up 100% effectively, but for the moment one assumes it is.

– I had buddypress activated as a plug in on a site (which is a custom wordpress theme) when i visit it I am logged in as admin and a bar comes acrross the top of my screen Please seee http://blokmovaz.com/screenshot.png for a screen shot

This statement is a massive stumbling block as it tends to contradict other statements, ‘activated on a site’ ? on a site what site? This is what I was trying to establish, as earlier you say BP was/is being activated for the primary WP install – I am assuming it is.

Can you confirm that going into dashboard -> themes and deliberately activating the BP-default theme i.e removing any custom theme or otherwise from the proceedings, ensuring that any custom settings are removed for static pages under ‘General -> Reading’ settings page; so that we have an absolutely default BP install at work, the main page by default should be blog posts.

Hey @r-a-y I ran into this today as well… This fix is as you said in the files you said.

Simply delete the existing line and add this line to the files in question:

-?php the_time(‘F j, Y’); ?- at -?php the_time(‘g:i a’); ?-
Change – (minus signs) to PHP angled brackets.

Seems like this should be in the default-theme from the get-go… maybe a ticket?

Didn’t mean where the actual files were located that is a given they have to be in the plugin folder. More what I was trying to establish is that you were not trying to do something out of the ordinary such as BP running on a sub blog of the main blog install.

– Oh no it is installed on the servers root. I have a linode server http://www.linode.com/ that wouldn’t have anything to do with it would it?

So you have an absolute basic default install of WP/BP? WP installed in main document root of the site and BP activated as a plugin of that primary WP install?
– correct

When you try changing your permalink structure after saving do you get any messages returned along the lines of not being able to write to .htaccess , although I guess if it’s taking a manual ‘index.php’ it must be?
I did get this at first but i then changed my permissions on the .htcess and then reset the permalinks and didnt get an error.

Can you tell me what the page is I’m looking at when I land on the site as it’s not a buddypress default layout or what looks like a child theme, I’m assuming that you haven’t activated BP or rather left BP activated.
– I had buddypress activated as a plug in on a site (which is a custom wordpress theme) when i visit it I am logged in as admin and a bar comes acrross the top of my screen Please seee http://blokmovaz.com/screenshot.png for a screen shot

What version of WP 2.9 are you running is it MU to enable user blogs?
-Im just using 2.9 when i look in the dashboard it just says “You are using WordPress 2.9”
I’m not sure if its MU how do i tell?

Have you created a BP theme for use with the site, obviously BP needs a BP enabled theme in order to function correctly.
– I have not yet… I havent been able to get it working in its default theme correctly on my server. I wanted to do that first.

TBH I think that you need to try and patch up your differences with the developer you were working with or failing that find another that can get into the core site and establish what exactly is what. That you state you were just meant to be the designer suggests that this is not something you should be trying to sort out, generally a frontend developer would run a job the designer supply them with necessary graphics for layout along with layout impressions. What does the client say about the developer not having finished things or are you running this job and subbing out the development WP side of things.
-The clients are friends of mine so while not having this site up is disappointing its not as bad as if it were a client of mine…Having said that, we have dumped a lot of money into this site….this is our second developer who just kind of stopped communicating with us right near the end of the job (after first 2 milestones and payments were meant). I feel like I am more experienced then your average newbie at wordpress however i feel like speed is key here… and with me trying to finish this up its going very slow. My hands are kind of tied when it comes to our past developer…. he just refuses to take my calls, return my emails, or texts. Not even sure why.

Thanks

remove_action( ‘wp_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’ ,;
remove_action( ‘admin_footer’, ‘bp_core_admin_bar’ ,;

Didn’t work for some reason. The css fix works though

Yes, a ticket does need to be created for this!

*Edit – ticket created:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2598

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To have the topic content as meta description for forum threads, add the following to your theme’s functions.php file:
http://pastebin.com/w0rY2bnd