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@hugo was not attention to discredit anyone. Just an effort from someone attempting to contribute to the buddypress project because I know only few that contribute (via 🙂 stalking or following); which is only a handful: @boonebgorges , @jamesjjacoby, tammie leister, ray, @modernlooper, @sarah . That’s just the dew I know off the top of my head.

I am not developer & barely knew hmtl/CSS a few months ago, I am just learning functions, fields, &php which is completely out of my realm. I only attempting to contribute by noticing this miss lap/division of the WordPress community as a whole, that could be learned nor have to recreate the wheel by learning to utilize the bb’s potential.

What made me think of posting this in the first place was a review of make.wordpress.org and watching the discussions on the metaphoris project enhancing the metafields/metadata in wordpress.

That’s when I thought my buddypress already has included the ability for profile fields with text, select, radio, Multi select elements….why not look at what buddypress has done!

I purely believe that presence on the make.wordpress.org can increase awareness in the general wordpress user exposure but more importantly the wordpress developer involvement as a whole.

At this point, is the only way i feel I can contribute with out technical experience is via feedback & observation of what seems disconnect in community awareness of buddypress.

Sorry to go on a rampage but noticed also that bbpress has some documentiion on how to style.

My only purpose is to insure inclusiveness and encouragement of wordpress community as one.

Thanks. I am happy to help in anyway to contribute; if it testing a local version or so what…you just will have to tell how…LOL. I will certainly try.

Sorry to go on rampage

I submitted the original post on this issue. I did what was suggested above by mdpane to add a “bp-custom.php” in your plugins folder which will force WP to load it.

For the first time, I can see the connect theme in my WordPress dashboard but when I activated it, on my home page I have a blank screen with a few text links on the left. So this did not fix the problem.

I am not as techie as most of you so I just wanted to purchase a ready made template to use that I thought would be easy to install. Now I have a big problem and less money. It would seem that if a host provider connects to other providers for people like myself to install in “one click” themes from third parties, all of these technical solutions would work together.

I don’t really know what to do now. I have contacted tech support here, MOJO, Bluehost, and the theme author WeSmashedIt and no one has a workable solution.

Just for reference, I opened an issue for this: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5307

thanks for replying Hugo: I’ve tried a lot of things including basic trouble shooting steps.

I think part of my problem is the “members” directory buddy press uses. I originally had/have a subdomain “members” with a wordpress on it. I have since manually removed the word press… but the members page remains blank…. SO….

I got tired of going blind and made a subdomain named Demo: loaded a new instance of WP and a new instance of BP. Now the members page shows all members button and a search all members. So I’m about to strip the entire thing and start from scratch… my members might be a bit freaked but oh well.

Right I got two test sites up and running and it seems to work, the only thing is, is that my real sites will take a good few days for me to be able to get everything up and running on a wordpress MU network and for me to completely get this sorted in this way.

I am wondering if there is any quicker ways then this?

If not then I am going to have to re-install my sites and get everything back up and running, which will be an pain.

Cheers, Liam

Thanks for sharing @modernlooper — I will check it out on how to contribute.
I think there could be room made at Make.Wordpress.org to encourage BuddyPress Community Engagement & Exposure because I see discussion merely on metadata group or other adhoc groups.