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I need assistance with this exact issue as well. None of the links work.

On Yahoo Web Hosting. Permalink structure is as follows:

index.php/%postname%/

Yahoo doesn’t allow for .htaccess files, so if Buddypress uses .htaccess, this won’t work for me. I’m hoping that isn’t the case.

Clicking on any of the buddypress links leads to a 404 error message. I am able to find the directories in the theme folder that match however, so i suspect that the links are trying to get into those folders. I should mention that this happens in either the default BP themes, the child themes i’ve installed such as “unplugged”, and themes i’ve converted to be compatible like “sliding-door”, so from my understanding, this is not a theme issue

Anyone got some assistance for us?

Thanks in advance!

@Andy_Bailey

Do you know what was changed in the developers theme sub nav items to get this to work correctly? I am running into this with my members and forums now.

Find :
div#content #padder – increase margin-right to 300px

#sidebar change width to 300px and margin-left to -301px

However it looks as though you are using the default theme and changes like this should be made to a child theme in as much as you create a new theme directory and set up a new stylesheet that calls the default.css and other files but allows you to add override styles into this new styles.css.

Edit/ just noticed that your are actively editing / changing your theme layout so my earlier advice may or may not hold good

I strongly recommend to build this into a child theme, otherwise you are going to regret it when BuddyPress is updated in future.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

r-a-y,
Why isn’t this part of the core default theme? Seems like an easy decision, no?

Open up index.php of bp-default theme line 26
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.5.2/bp-themes/bp-default/index.php#L26
and see code here – http://buddypress.pastebin.com/iWdcBik4

Here’s a tutorial to do that – http://buddydev.com/buddypress/using-activity-as-wire-in-buddypress-1-2-themes/

Child themes do not get deleted, only the files inside wp-content/plugins/buddpress/bp-theme

This is why you never modify those files. if you want to change those files, then you copy them to your child theme folder preserving the folder structure.

If you want to change the header then you copy over the header.php to child them folder and BP will use this file instead of the one in the plugins folder. No fear of it getting wiped out on upgrades.

Nice site. I wasn’t quite sure what to do until I found all the links at the bottom. You should find a way to get those links up at the top in a nice way. At least the most important ones.

It was also a bit weird, because I unlocked the badge for a course I took even though I wasn’t logged in. Are you using a plugin to unlock badges?

Also, is your blog a secondary blog or the main blog? I’m planning to do basically the same as you, but I can only get it to happen if I create a secondary blog (multi site) and then it all links up fine. The main blog still points to the main page and then it doesn’t show the posts (at least I don’t want it to). Is that what you’re doing with the blog? I do like that the blog kept the consistent theme. Felt like the same page.

First of all, do not add switch_to_blog function on the bp-default theme which I now see you’re using on the main site. Let me clarify how to do this.
– If you have BP activated in main site, or blog_id_1, the theme or child theme you use for the main blog must not have the switch_to_blog function in navigation at all.
– You only use the switch_to_blog function in theme/s for the subblogs or subsites.if you want the main navigation of main site in your subblogs

So if you are going to use the twentyten theme for your subblogs, then this is what you replace:
http://buddypress.pastebin.com/GDKypDpU
then, copy/adjust the CSS from main site’s theme

Make sure you activate the default BuddyPress theme or create a suitable child theme. BuddyPress is more than a plugin, you need a compatible theme.

You might consider tweaking the BP Group CSS plugin. Perhaps disable the “Group CSS” admin option except for Site Super-Admins. That way all the group’s default CSS settings will be set to your theme’s CSS files but then you as the Site Super-Admin can individually change the CSS for each group as you please.

There’s a tutorial for this on BuddyDev.com:

Using activity as wire in Buddypress 1.2 themes

Yep, of course it will.

Does child-theming of the BP Default theme (which resides in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes) will work if I put the child theme in wp-content/themes?

Because if I update buddypress plugin with the wordpress update function … all templates in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes will be deleted before the new version will bei installed!

cu, guido

Hello , i am using the RANDY CANDY theme and it has no “functions.php” file.
Anyway , i paste the code that Travel_Junkie gave in “fuctions.php” file
that is located is “/bp-themes/bp-default” folder , but still I see no change.

Please help , I am desperate… Sorry for the bad English , I am Greek.

The style sheet is a file that basically makes your site look pretty–it’s what controls the layout and the colors and the fonts and all that stuff. It sounds like you somehow downloaded and installed a corrupt version (or at any rate an incomplete version) of BuddyPress that was missing the style.css file.

If you did an automatic install through WordPress, I’d first try just uninstalling and reinstalling BuddyPress and see if that works. Otherwise, you’ll want to look through the files installed on your webhost for a file in your BuddyPress folder called something like style.css (at any rate, it’ll end with .css). If it’s not there, you’d need to add it. I can tell you more about how to do that, if you need, but try the automatic uninstall and reinstall first.

Helene
A child theme lives in its own directory, and inherits any files not presenting the child theme, from its parent theme. So what you would do is create a child theme of BP Default and copy into your child theme, BP Default’s header.php (for example – what you want may be on another page) and customise it. You’ll only have to worry about updating it in the future if BP Default itself is updated (probably not for a couple of months, at least).

Try https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

I created my own child theme for Buddypress following those instructions.