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To get a WP theme working with BP, you need to install the BP Template Pack plugin then go through the steps – see BP Template Pack walkthrough https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
Btw, BP Template Pack plugin needs to be updated for BP 1.2.6 yet, but someone has unofficially updated it at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-template-pack-and-buddypress-1-2-6-things-break-but-i-have-a-solution

@JustinCA: here’s the solution. I have had the same issue for a long time until I came accross this small plugin. However, I hope you are descent enough to understand that nobody here ” owes you help”. The same goes for anyone who thinks along those lines. If I had been here 3 months ago, possibly it would have helped, but I was possibly roaming the web elsewhere because we DO NOT live here, NOR do we work here!

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/

@ketan khope: If you left buddypress already, coming to vent about it to buddypress users is pretty cheap man. Grow up and learn to appreciate others’ efforts. How many CMS or plugins have you put together? I bet 100% certainly that it can’t be much. Even if it is, it can’t be the size of buddypress/wordpress because you wouldn’t be on this forum thread. Would you?

This site is not meant for production support; what ‘service’ are you referring to anyway (obviously everyone here is volunters, though mainly enthusiasts).

Your posts aren’t including any technical details around your setup yet you’re expecting a resolution? What version of wordpress? What version of buddypress? What version of php/apache? Multisite enabled? What do you see in your error log? What has recently changed in the environment, plugins, themes, etc?

Themes more obviously break things, they are for more obvious if they perform badly, and reflect that much more on WP as a whole would be my guess. I’ve always been of the opinion that they really ought to be vetting plugins as a badly written plugin could have far more serious consequences it would be nice to see a two tier repository where there were approved /recommended /tested plugins and a second general pool but it’s probably a lot of work.

It had crossed my mind to mention the lack of comment tag in pages but sort of thought that it might have been for a reason and that I’d be pointing out the obvious.

Hi guys,
Rather than start another mail on this topic I thought I should add my question to this thread.
I have experienced the same problem with both hotmail and gmail- nothing delivered to test profiles set up under both services.
Just wondered if anyone has cracked this problem yet as it may well effect many potential users of my site.I would appreciate a heads up if it’s been sorted.

Darn it I could have added that ages ago is this really the first time it’s been noticed

@modemlooper https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/3334/
I’ve just put this into trunk. Thank you for the heads-up.

Isn’t the simple answer to copy across page.php fix up and submit? they are testing the child theme after all, it will perform as expected then, it may defeat the purpose of a child theme but fixes the issue from your perspective?

You’ll need to load this manually, preferably via functions.php (https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script). Javascript and CSS files aren’t automatically loaded by WordPress child themes.

I don’t know what you mean. Plus I think we are reluctant to change the default theme at all before 1.3.

perhaps if you read this you can do what you want:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_filter_kses
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_filter_post_kses

Hello Boone,

Thank you for your reply. I really appreciate getting an actual answer as I may be pretty comfortable working with WordPress but BuddyPress code has me a bit lost at the moment. I will Try this and post back.

About my quote, i’m sorry if it seemed “confrontational” but I guess its just my frustration talking. I’ve been asking about this and searching for months but could never find a rational solution.

Thanks again,
I’ll try it out now.

You have to resolve permalink issue in WordPress before installing BuddyPress.
Apache Module mod_rewrite must be enabled for “pretty permalinks” so check with your webhost. Or, if you have access to the httpd.conf file, find #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so and delete the # to uncomment it

Check out other WP configuration requirements before installing BP
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#wp-configuration

@Paul Gibbs

It seems it is possible to integrate Simple:Press into the activity streams.

Integrate Simple:Press Forum into the BuddyPress Activity Stream! [Update
http://blog.slyspyder.com/2010/08/15/integrate-simplepress-forum-into-the-buddypress-activity-stream/

and here

Integrating Simple:Press into BuddyPress Activity Stream

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From my enquiries, I believe VaultPress only backs up the regular WordPress tables (i.e. not BuddyPress’).

I have the same problem as Dudeski. I also get the wordpress installation address, rather than site address. So the home and other buttons don’t work.

Are you sure that your custom-sample.css file is actually being included? With a file name like ‘custom-sample’, I’m guessing that it might not be. Check out the theme’s main style.css, and see if there’s an @import rule for custom-sample.css (or if there is a rule in any other imported stylesheet).

I’m not sure how bp-social works (it appears to be a premium theme so I can’t look at the code) but if it is a child of bp-default, then you won’t be able to create a “grandchild” theme so that your changes won’t be overridden – WP doesn’t support that. However, you could fake it by dropping a snippet in your bp-custom.php file that looks something like this:

`function bbg_custom_style() {
$myStyleUrl = WP_PLUGIN_URL . ‘/custom.css’;
$myStyleFile = WP_PLUGIN_DIR . ‘/custom.css’;
if ( file_exists($myStyleFile) ) {
wp_register_style(‘myStyleSheet’, $myStyleUrl);
wp_enqueue_style( ‘myStyleSheet’);
}
}
add_action(‘wp_print_styles’, ‘bbg_custom_style’);`

(See https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_style for more info on how to enqueue styles)

Just make sure that you have your custom styles in a file called custom.css in your plugin directory. That should make sure that your styles get loaded, but that they don’t get overwritten by future upgrades to your main theme.

The bundled version of jQuery in WordPress is different than the stock jQuery library.

WP adds a jQuery.noConflict() call. Most WordPress plugins rely on the WP version of jQuery. So by getting rid of the WP one, you’re going to be breaking some plugins.

I’m pretty sure WP has jquery-ui in their includes folder.

Check out this nifty codex article on wp_enqueue_script() to call a specific, bundled JS:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script