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Thanks for the answers which answered the same question for me. However I don’t get the message in an orange box – cut and pasted the code into widget in my theme but had to take a couple of bits out – do I need to put anything back in?

@modemlooper i’ve been starting working with a blog-as-forum theme, basically a QA theme. That could be something you could do. a Forum theme. I’m getting ready to leave the bb forums all together, because I’m not seeing a benefit in forums over a modified community QA theme blog.

@johnwinch42

Yes, you’ll have to either modify the CSS for the BuddyPress page templates, and / or actually modify the template files (PHP / HTML), depending on how much you want to change the default layout.

Don’t make the changes in bp-themes/bp-default though. Instead, it is best to create your own child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

In the standard setup, the site administrator has to install the themes that will be available to the users for their own blogs. I don’t know if this can be overridden to allow the users to install their own themes directly.

If you want to display both usernames and display names you can use this version in your theme’s functions.php:

/*Display Username and display name in Directory */
function my_member_username() {
global $members_template;
if ( empty($members_template->member->fullname) ) {
$members_template->member->fullname = $members_template->member->display_name;
}
$toReturn =$members_template->member->fullname .’ @’.$members_template->member->user_login;
return $toReturn;
}
add_filter( ‘my_member_username’, ‘wp_filter_kses’ );
add_filter( ‘my_member_username’, ‘stripslashes’ );
add_filter( ‘my_member_username’, ‘strip_tags’ );

add_filter(‘bp_member_name’,’my_member_username’);

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@johnwinch42 – I think it is a terminology problem:

Each page in a WordPress / BuddyPress site can have it’s own template, so for example a template for posts (single.php), for categories (archive.php), etc.. You can even specialise it further, so that different types of posts have different templates and so on.

BuddyPress extends WordPress in the same way, adding new template files for groups, activity, members, profiles, etc.

A theme is a collection of template files, CSS, and javascripts, that are used together to give your site its design, look and feel.

A BuddyPress site typically has one theme that contains the template files for both the main blog and the social network parts. Although it’s one theme, you can style each part uniquely (e.g. the main blog and social network can look different), because you have different templates within that theme for each part of the site.

Take a look at the BuddyPress default theme (it’s in plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default), and you will see all the separate template files, including sub-folders with the templates for activity, members, etc.

Your secondary blogs can have any WordPress theme you want: you simply install more themes, and assign them on a blog by blog basis to the other blogs.

I forgot to mention that this won’t fix existing blog posts in the activity stream.
See if new posts work.

FYI, if you’re going to be making changes to the bp-default theme, it’s better to create a child theme:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

@pcwriter

Okay, I feel like a schmuck but I can’t seem to get this to work! I am using the MyBuddyPress child theme of the default, and whether I copy/paste all the code into a file called forums-loop.php and put it in the child theme folder or if I enter the code before the loop in the BuddyPress default theme files, nothing happens.

Am I doing something wrong? I’m so confused and I really need this to work.

I tried the s2Members plugin and it worked okay but I had some issues with it. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I would be so happy if you do.

Thanks and best wishes,
Kristen

@kunalb @johnjamesjacoby I get this error message in the wp admin side:”The plugin generated 294 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice ‘headers already sent’ messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin.” … I did but it keeps occurring.

Also, it pushes my “Jooc” theme header down when I click on the Events link: http://i34.tinypic.com/15dnmnb.png and the word “Called” appears in the upper left of the screen. Anyone know how I can overcome this minor issue? Thanks. If I overcome this I’ll use it on my live site!

Are you asking if there is a way to have a user’s friends only available to him or her? Adult dating sites and consulting groups/companies find the end users like a layer of privacy that doesn’t let site users see their friend connections. I dont know if it can be done in buddypress.

You could go line by line through the theme to remove pages that display friends, but I’ve never tried to see if it would work.

I’d use post types instead of using custom fields for using as a shop. Custom fields was the old way but now that post types are available it’s better to use those. You can create admin panels that are user friendly.

I’m creating a theme for ‘eshops’ that use post types. Basically a BuddyPress version of etsy.

Did you go to Appearance – BP Compatibility and then go through all steps to final page?

@john:

Your option 1 is a standard BuddyPress install structure. (although themainblog is probably better referred to as sitename)

Your second option is in two parts – nameofablog.sitename.com is again the standard BuddyPress / WP subdomain install.

buddypress.sitename.com/members/ does not fit in though. It would be http://www.themainblog.com/members as per your option 1.

Each blog can have their own theme. The BP admin bar can be shared across the top of all blogs, or removed on a blog by blog basis (a call in the blog’s template file – functions.php)

So, to summarise, the standard BP / WP subdomain install is:

http://www.sitename.com – the main blog
http://www.sitename.com/members (etc.) – the social network elements – profiles, directories, etc.
anotherblog.sitename.com – a member’s or other blog on the site

You can style the main blog pages to look different to the social network pages (although they are using the same theme: different template files / CSS, etc.)

Each additional blog can have it’s own completely independent theme

The admin bar can be shared across the top of all blogs

Hope that helps, Roger

Try http://buddydev.com/buddypress/creating-the-sitewide-globalunified-search-page-for-your-buddypress-theme/
I got it to work. Just download the zip file towards the end of the post and follow the instructions.

@hnla

noted! Thank you! sorry about that!

Notice how I’m linking to a specific post in the thread, rather than the beginning?

The post I’m linking to should allow you to override the BP-truncated excerpt with the original content.
I’ve updated the post above with a direct link to the code I’m referring to.

Add the snippet to your theme’s functions.php.

I found this fix and it appears to be working for me:

1. Open the index.php, save it to your theme as posts-page.php (or whatever template name you like).
2. Edit the newly created posts-page.php file and place the following at the top to create a page template:

`<?php
/*
Template Name: Posts Page
*/
?> `

3. Now scroll down in the posts-page.php to the beginning of the WordPress loop and just before the line “ add this one line of code “ Note: (5 == the number of post to show you can change this to whatever you want.)
4. Save the posts-page.php file.
5. In your WordPress/BuddyPress admin panel create a new page called “Blog” (or something similar) and select “Posts Page” under Template.
6. Publish page.

You should now be able to go to your Settings -> Reading menu and set a static page and select your Posts Page to show your blog posts.

@Mark: What kind of folder structure do you have? I had to do some trickery to pick up theme files from the plugin itself, without copy/pasting anything, and that seems to be causing a problem on your install.