BuddyPress.org

Hi @mercime, thanks for the suggestions.

I finally had a chance to create a test site where I could deactivate and re-activate everything without worry.

Turns out it’s the NextGen Gallery plugin that is not playing nice with BuddyPress
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-not-work-with-buddypress?replies=7#post-5743296

No fix for it yet. I will just have to keep NextGen Gallery deactivated until there’s a fix or replace it entirely.

Karla

@3rdEyeGuam I posted that fix last week in this thread.. Unfortunately, the styling code didn’t fix my alignment or functionality of the meta buttons. Buttons such as “Delete” “report user” and “Share” are still showing up vertically until I click on “Load more”.

Theme support has suggested a complete fresh install of the database and wordpress even after I did a clean install of the theme.

for one site, i just used bp-default directly because i figured it would always be there and would always work.

but i did find this:

If you are already using bp-default, either directly or as a parent theme, don’t worry.

at the link you recommended…

right now, i am less interested in making buddypress look and feel the way i want it to — than in just using wordpress community software that actually works.

with BuddyPress, over the years, i noticed that the best strategy is just to leave it alone and not try to do anything with it, because then it’s just going to break in unforseen ways — and not even “configuration,” but just implementation can and will be riddled with errors and problems and headaches.

so, for one site, yes, i used a child theme, but for the site in question, i didn’t. i just figured some form of “buddypress default” would always be there — and it would always work.

if “it” changed, i would just configure it — but i would not need to dig around and search for errors and fix things and ask at the forum and have peoples’ emotions flare just cuz i am interested in having the software work — etc.

i also figured it would be a theme buddypress would always maintain and upgrade — and improve. for example, have you ever seen the activity stream in twentytwelve? while there may be classier activity streams around — for 2012 — it was easily one of the nicest looking activity streams available. so — i figured buddypress would notice that — and just continuously improve whatever the “buddypress default” theme was…

i “might” make a child theme now — but i have now looked around at some commercial themes — so maybe i’ll buy one of those.

really — it is about immediate functionality and convenience. it needs to work, first and foremost, and it needs to “look good” as well (but it needs to actually work — first).

anyway — what this development at BuddyPress did — is it sent me searching for a commercial theme to upgrade to. not sure if that was the intended result, but it’s what it did in my case.

best and blessings and thanks for all the work you do, let us know if you ever plan on releasing a kind of “default theme” in the future ok?

sincerely,
dainis

Hi @djouonanglandry

I have seen this in action already on another site, I am just not sure whether it is a buddypress site or even a wordpress thing.

All the evidence looks like it is as it has activity/groups, etc but it is a privately built website so not sure.

http://www.rvillage.com is the site and the accounts are free if anyone as 5 mins to go and have a look at the explore page on the site. This is the page that has the functionality

Jayce

Thanks @mercime. It does seem to be a theme problem. I’m using Divi by Elegant themes. I guess I’ll need to create a subdomain and a separate installation of WordPress to make this work.

Best,

I’m very sorry. This is all so confusing for me – I didn’t realize that there was a difference between the WordPress “Dashboard”, (which is the v3.4.4 that I initially referred to when I started this thread) and the “WordPress” that I have installed (Which is v3.9.1). This version of WP should be more than compatible. 🙂 Please help me understand why I cannot upload or crop avatar images. Thank you for your help.