@nicholmikey You can make a WP theme compatible with BP by installing/activating the BP template pack plugin and go through Appearance > BP compatibility process.
– the process at a glance with some “template-packed” WP themes near bottom of page https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
– a recently “template-packed” artisteer theme https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bp-compatibility-plugin-with-an-artisteer-theme/
I believe there are some wordpress plugins with feature like this…
Some plugins like “PrintFriendly” perhaps ?
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/printfriendly/
Just choose a plugin that most compatible with buddypress..
Hi @mercime
Aside from the final tweak mentioned above… given the effort to make it all work so far… should I avoid adding further plugins such as listed in the plugins directory on here, or… should they all integrate without any problems now we’ve fixed the theme compatibility issues?
I’m thinking about things such as a login box, removing the WordPress bar from the top of the pages for anyone other than site administrators, adding one of the event management plugins, etc.
Basically… I don’t want to have to keep asking you for help ever time I try to add something new. 
Many Thanks,
Ronnie.
This is really a question for the theme in question, this forum is really meant to be for help with BP and it’s default theme.
But I see that you have already asked this exact same question :
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/frisco-theme-sidebar-of-width-300
So I suggest that you wait for a reply from that post firstly, cross posting the same question on multiple forums is considered a bad practise, if the theme author cannot help after a reasonable period then ask the question here or on other tech forums that might be able to help.
What have you attempted when you say it “doesn’t merge well”?
Have you started the template pack process as outlined in the BP codex guides, if not that’s where you must start.
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
if the theme is too awkward to integrate with BP then choosing a more compatible theme is wise and there are many that have been run through the template pack process and listed in the codex for you to choose from, alternatively Woo do produce a theme or themes? that are BP compatible you might want to consider one of those?
http://www.woothemes.com/2011/11/canvas-buddypress-gets-a-revamp/
If you can wait for BP 1.7 to be delivered then that will ease the process as it is theme compatible in that it will run with any well coded theme on activation.
Lastly I’m sure @mercime will help if you’re really stuck as mercime has with other themes but please bear in mind that this is a relatively complex process and time consuming.
Found this in BP trac. See if solution works in your installation https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4523
== but i dont have that folder in my server so i get a “page not found error. ==
Virtual pages ala folders are created and won’t be seen in your server at all. You mentioned that you have WP/BP installed in a subdirectory, mysite.com/wordpress/ What do you have installed in domain root mysite.com? HTML or PHP or something else?
@infodebroekriemnl Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you need to change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your esplanade theme folder in server during the compatibility process.
If you’ve previously changed any of the BP template files in your esplanade theme folder in server, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility.
Download the 6 clean BP folders to your computer hard drive.
A. At the top of each of those 16 template files I linked to above, replace
`
`
with the following:
`
<article id=”post-“>
`
Then, in each of 16 files, you’d like to change the BP Templates’ page title’s header tag from `
…
` or `
..
` to
`
`
where applicable, then move this to above `
` Just watch out when you do this in the /activity/index.php page.
Save files.
If it’s just the link at the menu item, you can just edit the page name and slug in page edit panel, then go to Settings> Pages and choose the new blog menu name from select box and click on Save. You know you’d also have to change title of the Blogs Directory page in yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/yourthemename/blogs/index.php in this line
Re Events Manager plugin -> please go to https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/events-manager then click on the Support link and post the errors showing up when you activate Events Manager with BP on. Do provide more information about your installation for the plugin dev
Re “join group” link -> is this issue related to Events Manager? If not, have you checked whether this is a theme issue (change to bp-default) or another plugin conflict?
WP/BP versions? Single/multisite? where are you hosted? Windows/Linux?
@mercime I unistaled it all off my server and re installed and it did… NOTHING. I did that about 2 hours ago. i made a new page and all it did was change /activity to /activity-2 and i still get the same “not found” message!
Strange.
Try Pages > Add New –> Activity (in title and nothing in text area) then publish. Then go to Settings > BuddyPress > Pages panel and choose the newly created Activity page and click on Save. See if that works.
@mercime I went through the wizard already. on the page part i clicked create page at mysite.com/wordpress/activity/ but it never created one!
@villnoweric After activating BuddyPress, you need to go through the Installation Wizard https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/
Also, double-check Settings > Permalinks, it should be set to other than default permalink structure. BP requires “pretty permalinks”
You can use a responsive WordPress theme and install the BP Template Pack plugin to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress. We have a list of “template-packed” WP themes at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes. This is the route you should take if you’re planning to launch your site this month or early next month. There’s still BP 1.6.2 coming out sometime December https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap and no set schedule as to when BP 1.7 is coming out yet.
@ant01 BP Codex is your friend
– https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
– https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/
– https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/
– https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
I suggest that you use BP Default theme while you’re setting up BuddyPress and test driving to see if everything is working as expected. If all’s well, then you focus on the theme:
– create a child theme of BP Default theme OR
– choose a WP theme and install BP Template pack plugin and go through BP compatibility process. We have a list of “template-packed” WP themes at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes OR
– choose a free or paid ready-made BP child theme OR
– choose a free or paid BP-ready/compatible WordPress theme
I have found a plugin that can do so. But it will work upto wordpress version 3.2.1 and BuddyPress 1.2.9 or higher. You may try that.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-tinymce/
@modemlooper Thank you for your response.
Any idea about when BP 1.7 is coming?
Actually I am in a hurry and want to have the site(s) online within a week or so.
The sites don’t have to be fancy but need to be launched soon. I thought of choosing social theme because I am afraid of making lots of changes again if I choose a different theme later.
“BuddyPress 1.7 is coming soon and will work on any WordPress theme. If you are not in a hurry you might want to choose a responsive WordPress theme”
Are you saying that all the regular wordpress themes will work fine with buddypress/multisite/multi-network environment when BP 1.7 comes?
Are there any BP responsive themes that I can choose from at this moment?
Please advise. Thank you.
BuddyPress 1.7 is coming soon and will work on any WordPress theme. If you are not in a hurry you might want to choose a responsive WordPress theme
Hey guys,
@modemlooper
@mercime
I found the solution to the problem here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-buddypress-cant-post-update-in-activity-stream. It turns out the button was always there, but in the bp.css file in wp-content/plugins/bp-template-pack, around line 60, the button has a height of 0. you have to manually change the height to 40 or whatever you want.
It worked for me and my button is now there.
Later 
If I create a new page ‘New Activity’ from Plugins -> Buddypress -> Settings -> Pages, it seems to create the page, but if I click ‘view’ from there, it goes to the non-existant /wordpress/new-activity
Looking under ‘Pages’ in the dashboard, I see that it created pages named Activity, Forums, Members, etc. However, clicking on the ‘view’ link takes me to an undefined URL like ‘/wordpress/activate’. I can edit the page from there; it’s blank. If I add some text, like ‘test’, it saves it, but when I click ‘view’, it takes me to the same ‘not found’ url /wordpress/activate.
If I look in the wp_posts table, I see the ‘activate’ page, with a guid of /wordpress/?page_id=9
Loading that url redirects to /wordpress/activate, which does not exist.
