You will only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php

If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your peekaboo theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your envision theme folder in server – activity, blogs, forums, members, groups, register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.

A. COPY your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php

Open up header-buddypress.php and at the BOTTOM of the file, below other code contained within, add this:
`<div class="middle” id=”ID, PREFIX.’_page_sidebar_position’, true)==1 ) echo ‘sidebar_right’;
elseif ( get_post_meta($post->ID, PREFIX.’_page_sidebar_position’, true)==2 ) echo ‘sidebar_left’;
elseif ( get_option(PREFIX.’_sidebar_position’)==1 ) echo ‘sidebar_left’;
else echo ‘sidebar_right’; ?>”>

@hnla thank you

@strek-break will post in a little while.

Would have helped to have posted that link in the first place then

The third step does require some manual modifications did you try that or are you not familiar with basic html /code?

I’m sure mercime will help shortly – but I do stress again that the help forums are not to be regarded as a service.

Please bear in mind that this is a support forum to help with BP issues and problems, it is not a coding service. People here are volunteers giving their free time to help.

You really should make an attempt to begin this process – using the template pack plugin if required – or post to the jobs board with the request and pay someone to help you with this requirement.

If you make an attempt to get started I’m sure @mercime or someone will guide you along with the process and help where you get stuck.

Also do check out the codex pages as – apart from the template pack walk throughs – Mercime has done a lot of work converting themes to BP and has an extensive list of themes that have been converted or threads where the process for a given theme exist.

== Getting Started’-type issues ==
@tilley46 check out BuddyPress Codex – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/

== How do I create a standard Home Page for my BP site ==
What’s a standard home page for you? The list of blog posts like it is with bp-default theme, Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven themes? If you want a static front page, do the same thing as you would do for a regular WordPress theme.

== I don’t see anywhere for new users to register new profiles’, etc ==
Basic WordPress, go to Settings > General and allow registration.

Do you need it to work with each MU site? Next version is in dev and will be a plugin you can activate on each sub site. You could use it for WordPress alone.

@bryceburk Actually, if you don’t need social networking, you can do this in WordPress alone. You can use custom post types or categories for countries and states and those are searchable. Users can add posts or custom post types from wp-admin or from front end via
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-user-frontend/screenshots/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-post-widget/screenshots/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-from-site/screenshots/

If you want to use BuddyPress – there’s http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-simple-front-end-post/ where you can created different forms which you can configure to contain what you need. Needs PHP and HTML/CSS skillsets for this though.

There’s also the premium Gravity Forms plugin which can work for both WP and BP.

@kristopherlouie You’d need to use the first option, i.e., change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your custom theme folder in server during the compatibility process.

If you’ve previously changed any of the BP template files in your theme folder, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders in server – /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
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I see. Have you tried https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-external-links/

@wewetho I see organizational structures, slide presentations and the like. You’re missing an online donation page (or did I miss that?). Curious: Where is the main HQ of ESF located? Telephone number/s? Who or what companies sponsor this organization? Good luck.

As Hugo points out, this is almost certainly a memory issue. Check out http://www.nerdgrind.com/increase-wordpress-and-php-memory-limit/ for details on increasing your memory limit. If this is not the problem, then, as Hugo says, we’d need more details from server logs to diagnose properly.

== In my dashboard, to update the buddypress plugin ==

@jloc14 to clarify, when you update BuddyPress plugin to BP 1.5+, you have to go through the installation wizard as seen here https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/buddypress-1-5-installation-wizard/ As you can see, you do not move any page at all nor have to use Filezilla

== the next step was to move the template files as in each page, register, members, groups, forums, etc. ==

Which most probably means that you are referring to BuddyPress Template Pack plugin instead. What WordPress theme are you making compatible with BuddyPress? We have “template-packed” some WP themes already, check if your theme is in the list – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes

@aprioristic You got it right, you’d need to use the first option, i.e., change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your SMPL theme folder in server during the compatibility process.

If you’ve previously changed any of the BP template files in your theme folder, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders in server – /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
`

Did you go through the Installation Wizard? Check dashboard menu BuddyPress > Pages and double-check that the Register component has a Page generated/selected for it.