BuddyPress.org

I’m on 1.5.3.1.

Other Plugins:
AddThis
Akismet
AStickyPostOrderer
BrokenLink Checker
Category Order
Custom CSS
Dirty Suds
Flickr Gallery
Genesis Simple hooks
Genesis Simple Sidebars
Genesis Title Toggle
Google Analytics
Google XML Sitemaps
Hello Dolly (of course!)
Promotion SLider
Quick Page/Post Redirect
Raw HTML
Search & Replace
Search Regex
User Role Editor
Widget Logic
WPML Multilingual CMS
WPML String Translation
WPML Translation Management

That’s it.

Thanks for the reply mercime….

NIk

But buddypress plugin is disabled, and I need to, first, enable it. I do not see it in the plugin list to enable it.

lol…….I am a book of questions……but you’re right, this particular issue (I believe) is on the WordPress side, so I’m heading over to the WordPress forums to see if I can bang that one out……..

I got bp-columns up and it gave me my left sidebar……BUT NOW………it cut off the end of my customer header (logo) and changed my footer back to white!!!!! If it wasn’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all Aces!!!! I put the style.css into it’s own directory folder, like we talked about before, but this time it’s not showing up in my wordpress dashboard (themes) for me to activate it……..

Ok good buddy…….I downloaded and installed BP-column, but here’s the strange thing………After the install, BP-column appears in my database, but not in my wordpress dashboard with my other themes. Likewise, bp-default appears in my wordpress dashboard with the rest of my themes, but not in my database.

I tried doing a custom.php, but I must be doing it wrong because it’s not working either. I used the plugin “hide pages,” which took the pages off the top and cleared the view of my custom header (except for a weird link labeled “home” at the end~ no idea why it’s there or where it came from). Anyway, the problem with the “hide pages” plugin is that it hides the pages from EVERYWHERE, not just the top.

I figure I can just add the left sidebar and put my pages in there…….or another thought that I had was to figure out a way to remove the “author box” (with my name and all that) and put my pages in where that is instead.

I’m not sure what would look better, or be the easiest way to go about it……..I’m gladly open to any suggestions you may have……..all I ask is that you take a “for dummies” approach…….lol

@mercime

I did follow these instructions. The move went fine except for my “old” activities in the stream keep on redirecting to the wrong page..

Any advice on how to amend this?

Nevermind, I was able to get it to work. After installing and activating the BuddyPress plugin, I noticed on the WordPress plugin page at the top there was a notification to run the installation wizard. After going through the steps and finalizing the install, the BP pages loaded perfectly! I would recommend to have some sort of notification on the actual BP pages that the user needs to run the installation wizard first because there’s really nothing that tells the user what to do after installing the plugin and the blank pages don’t help.

I’ve converted all tables and rows etc to utf8, and changed to utf8 in wp-admin and the wp-config file. I checked in Firefox and thought ‘great it works’, until I tested it the following day in IE: Now any áéóíú anywhere (usernames, posts, activities) are not displaying e.g. Clánn Uí and worse still, in WordPress ‘Add new post’, it simply truncates at the accented characted (e.g. tést to t). Firefox works ok in WP. Any thoughts?

I have now tried to add the bp-template-pack from the wordpress.org site (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/). However, the download worked fine, the installation went fine, but upon activation both my admin and site went blank. Literally white pages instead of both. Any thoughts?