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What happens when you use the default BuddyPress theme?

Does the “Join Group” link work then?

@nit3watch – Awesome, it worked, in the sidebar.php in the bp-default I copied the code from line 3 to line 74.. and pasted it into a sidebar widget utilizing the “Executable PHP widget” wordpress plugin, and it works like a charm!

@hnla, yes you are correct… I am using a custom built theme and needed to incorporate buddypress so users can login/register via the front end and manage their profile via the frontend…. it is the only features I am using from buddypress because no other plugin I could find had similar functionality. It gets the job done though, and I like it .

I followed the steps in the template-pack plugin to get it working with my theme, it was pretty smooth and straightforward and I haven’t experienced the overlapping issues stated in the notices. so all is good.

I knew there would be some customizations needed that have to be done manually, I just couldn’t find it in the documentation or via forum searches. I had no idea about the bp-default folder, but now that I do.. I am sure i will be able to solve some of my other problems

cheers!

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

worked for me! thanks..it’s because the remove_action command requires the same priority as the original add_action that was used.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_action

http://buddydev.com/buddypress/here-is-the-bp-wire-for-putting-the-buddypress-wire-back-to-buddypress-1-2/
or

Using activity as wire in Buddypress 1.2 themes

😆

Oh ok so I need now to add

@christinerule you need to have a little patience your original post was only 8 hours old for many of us that was around midnight for others late evening you do need to allow a bit more time before expecting a reply.

One post – avoid multiple duplicate posts on the same forum – generally these get locked or simply removed.

Duplicate posts have the action of tying up forum members answering and possibly duplicating effort where an answer has already been given on the other thread – resources i.e member respondents are a valuable commodity with many requiring access to them.

As nit3watch says it’s just the default sidebar login code, not sure why this is an issue, other than I guess you are all using custom themes arrived at via template-pack plugin or some other means.

If you are using custom themes I suppose that you have to bear in mind that there will always be a certain amount of manual configuration to get things the way one wants or to replicate certain BP features?

@hnla – looks like she did

@christinarule

Point of general forum nettiquette: It is a frowned upon practice to ‘Hijack’ another’s post, this is due to the confusion it can introduce to the thread where you have multiple replies to different questions asked.

Please always start a fresh topic with your question unless you are responding in some fashion to the OP’s question.

@christinarule nice site. After installing and activating BuddyPress, you coudl install and activate Buddy Template Pack https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/ There are steps to go through with the Template Pack plugin and based on your theme, you would have to change the container divs of files within Template Pack. It’s not easy but it’s do-able.

There is a BuddyPress demo at http://testbp.org/

@christinarule

Give this a try: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-template-pack/

I currently have a blog site that I customized http://www.blokmovaz.com I really want it to turn into a social networking community and I thought buddypress was just the thing! How do I easily Integrate buddypress into my existing wordpress site?

It would be ideal if a user who is part of buddypress can comment on the post I make from my wordpress categories. Then once you click on a users profile they are given all the “buddy press features” to interact with that user..

Is this something that can be easily done or do I have to re-theme buddypress?

Thanks for all the help in advance!

Yes it is possible. Did you need the blog to be the root blog or is it another subdomain or subfolder blog? There are a number of different options depending on how you’ve setup the blog and which blog you mean.

Copy over /bp-themes/bp-default/index.php to your child theme and do the same thing I mentioned here:

There is a reference to the_time(), so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

It looks to me like you were storing images in the buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default directory, which gets overwritten whenever you upgrade BuddyPress. It’s a good idea to create a child theme for bp-default and to make all of your edits there. I see you’re using one called BuddyPress Colours Aqua; you should store all footer images in that directory, so that you don’t overwrite them when you upgrade BP.

@rogercoathup yeah I’m using the default theme and I just tried it I get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF, expecting ‘:’

@bpuser44 : Thanks for the positive feedback. I hit the support forums a little hard over the weekend.

You can find stuff on bp-custom.php and / or functions.php (which can be used for similar things in your theme folder) by searching the forums. BuddyPress development is not as simple as WordPress theming – you are looking at hooks, filters, and reworking core functions a lot more in BP. This should lessen as the API develops in future releases.

BP would benefit no end from a great set of developer tutorials; finding the resource (right people) and time to write them is the big challenge in the Open Source world.

There was a short lived job board forum on the site – that would be a great place to advertise and for you to find BuddyPress consultants, plugin developers, and website designers. Unfortunately, the board was taken down – I don’t know why. We have a current freelance opportunity for a skilled BuddyPress developer, but nowhere effective to advertise it – which is really frustrating.

Most of our work is on commercial BuddyPress developments – so feel free to give me a shout if you want to explore the consultancy route (http://21inspired.com).

@Whyameye and PeD,

In the plugin , there is a sub-directory called “events” (under bp-events) that need to be moved under the root of your selected Buddypress theme (i.e. same level as groups, members, activity, etc…)

Other thing I noticed:

When creating an event, one can attach the event to a group. The problem is that the group does not show up later on (it should display “organized by [name of the group]”) when displaying the event. In order to fix this, look for function bp_event_groups_dropdown( $grp_id ) in file bp-events-templatetags.php and replace this loop

foreach ($groups as $group) {
echo “name.”‘”;
if ($grp_id == $group->id)
echo ” selected”;
echo “>”.$group->name.””;
}

echo ”;

with

foreach ($groups as $group) {
echo “id.”‘”;
if ($grp_id == $group->id)
echo ” selected”;
echo “>”.$group->name.””;
}

echo ”;

(i.e. replace “group->name” with “group->id” in the if statement)

@mrbcollins

Switch to default theme and disable all plugins to test. Does it work after?

@tubruk

Are you using the default theme, or something similar? Are you trying to do this in the profile-loop.php file inside the profile loop? Is it only the About Me field you want to replace?

if so, you need to edit your profile loop with something like this (note: the default template files use tables for the profile display):

http://pastebin.com/zUZCvn6z

Making use of the bp_get_the_profile_field_name() to check you are only applying your image to the correct field.

And use the CSS files to style the table cells appropriately.

@tubruk

I’m not really sure what you are trying to do with your code. Whereabouts are you trying to hide fields with no data? In the default theme profile-loop.php, fields without values are already not displayed.

As for quick fixes: You’ll need to replace ‘your-field-id’ with a variable that’s got the field id in it. You’ll also need to write valid PHP e.g. closing the PHP code before beginning your html. I’d steer clear of inline style definitions as well; the default BuddyPress theme comes with a comprehensive set of CSS files, and you’d be better augmenting these with style definitions.

Unfortunately, this forum isn’t really the appropriate place for PHP coding tutorials – You might be better reading up on PHP before attempting to modify the theme templates in any depth.