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Are you using the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin? (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/) I used that and followed the procedure for adding BP compatibility to my theme that the plugin provides.

You’re welcome.

== only thing missing is the background image ==
That is because the body class .custom-background where your black background is added to is not automatically generated in the BuddyPress template files. If you are set in what your style is, you could copy over the body.custom-background styles to body { }

== If I got rid of the sidebar for a full width view, would it break? ==
Check if the theme has a full-width template file and make the changes in header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php per structure.

That happens every time i use the template pack css.

add this to your css…

div.item-list-tabs ul li.last {
margin-right: 40px;
}

Open up sidebar-buddypress.php, at the top of the file, above other code add this:
`

jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();
jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});

`

Save file.

Upload to wp-content/themes/quickstart/

Re: styling of BP components. You might want to use some or all of the style modifications used in Twenty Ten theme https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/

First of all, delete footer-buddypress.php, we won’t be needing it.

Open up header-buddypress.php and at the bottom of the file below other code add this:
`

It’s in a WordPress context. Unfortunately, get_avatar() accepts a size parameter, but simply scales the thumbnail rather than fetching the full-sized image. There must be a way to retrieve the full-sized image?

@Craiglovelock – the “create an account” link is in the sidebar.php file.

Line 37
Seen Here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-themes/bp-default/sidebar.php#L37

@Craiglovelock – you will have to figure out how to insert a custom textfield into the wordpress registration page and then insert a “name” field (sorry, cant help more since i have never touched the wordpress registration form)

Since you have disabled the buddypress registration form and you have given wordpress back control over it, you may get better answers on the wordpress.org forums.

== I also tried to use some of the code in prior threads that helped others with this similar problem, but nothing worked. ==

Those won’t work because of different HTML structures in all probability. Let me check on what you’ve posted so far.

EDIT – Please confirm that the codes within header-buddypress.php, sidebar-buddypress.php and footer-buddypress.php are original copies of your theme’s header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php respectively. That is, you have not added any other code to the aforementioned xxx-buddypress.php files.

Correct.

== If that’s true, I’m gonna have to rethink how I do future WordPress installations ==

True, but you could also export XML from one install and import that into a new WP site installed at domain root. Or, if that’s going leave behind other data you want to keep, have you posted at WP org forums to find a way to reverse the process of giving WP its own directory so that you could export clean DB from old install and import into WP installed at domain root.

You mean https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory which doesn’t work with WP multisite either?

It would appear that BuddyPress overrides the send from address to wordpress@yourdomain.com which you may not have setup as a email on your host.

But yes the Mail From plugin allows you to change it to an address that you have on your host.

you can go back the the wordpress toolbar by adding
define( ‘BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR’, true ) to your bp-custom.php file – https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/

The buddybar is being depreciated, so it’s no longer worth messing around with it to get it perfect (and the wordpress toolbar is alot cooler lookin’)