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wp_ tables are WordPress/MU’s, and wp_bp_ are BuddyPress’.

I’m looking to do the same things, so maybe I can be some help. For now, I may be putting the avatar moderation on back-burner and focusing instead on removing gravatar support. The low-tech solution is to delete the user’s avatar from the server.

Gravatars don’t make a lot of sense on BuddyPress, since they are stretched and look blurry on the member pages. There’s a plugin that disables the gravatar for WPMU & BP: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-user-gravatar/ Haven’t tried it with BP 1.2 yet.

Did you test BuddyPress before with just the default theme and no plugins? Did you have it working with the default (bp-default) theme before you switched to your theme?

Either way, the first thing I would do now is disable all plugins except BuddyPress.

Next, I would switch the theme to back to the default (bp-default) within Appearance > Themes in your dashboard.

Once you disable all plugins (except BuddyPress) and switch to the bp-default theme, you should confirm that the theme is working similarly to testbp.org.

Assuming that everything is working and you are not seeing any error messages, switch the theme back to your custom theme before you re-activate any of the other plugins. Check to see if you are still seeing an error message.

If you are, double-check steps 1,2,3 at https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/. (1) Make sure you’ve put the theme extension pack in your custom theme. (2) Make sure you’ve added the following line to the top of the functions.php file for your custom theme:

include( TEMPLATEPATH . '/bp/bp-functions.php' );

(3) And make sure you’ve added the “Tags” line to your custom theme’s CSS header.

Do you still see the error message? If so, try replacing the code you added to the top of your theme’s functions.php with the code as Andy suggested:

include( STYLESHEETPATH . '/bp/bp-functions.php' );

Check for the error message again.

Once you have BuddyPress functioning using your custom theme without any error messages, then you can try activating plugins one-by-one to ensure you can identify any conflicts.

P.S. You mentioned in #10 above that you had modified the core files by adding the functions line of code to the functions.php file. Just to make sure, the core files are in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/. You should not be modifying any files or folders within the core files. All of the customizations you need to make to adapt your custom theme should be within /wp-content/themes/your-theme/ which I believe for you is /wp-content/themes/wp-clear-basic/. So you are adding the theme extension pack within your theme’s folder at /wp-content/themes/wp-clear-basic/. And you are modifying functions.php and style.css within your custom theme’s folder only.

Does this plugin work for version 1.1.3? Or are there other versions and hacks floating around that work?

I’ll try after coffee…

Cool, I ‘m sure that’s the problem. I’ll check it out.

@armandmorin – it’s more than likely either the “container” or “content” div in your WordPress theme. The BuddyPress template pack uses:

[header]



<div id="container">

<div id="content">

[content]

</div>



<div id="sidebar">

[sidebar]

</div>

</div>



[footer]

If your WordPress theme doesn’t match this, then there are about 6 or 7 templates (mainly members/index.php groups/index.php etc etc) that you will need to tweak this html layout in to match the one used by your theme.

Once you have it matched, then the content should sit in the correct place and not break the layout. If you’re using a theme with this HTML layout, then you should be fine off the bat.

I’d put a download manager on your site anyway.

That’s pretty much how to do it. You have to go thru the BP files you added to your theme and change the markup to match your WP theme.

@geoffm33 – ah yes I can instantly understand why. You can tell my test sites don’t often exceed 20 users! Sorry for this and I will get a fix out this evening.

And the delete_blog_option – I’m actually blaming this on BuddyPress as it has missed this function from its regular WordPress compatibility files. Again fix out this evening.. thanks very much for the feedback, it is appreciated.

I’ve tried this on two standard WordPress themes and it breaks the CSS in the theme each time at the content section. any ideas on this?

These are the directions I used.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

BP isn’t remotely accessible – you need to load the PHP files. I do not have a working knowledge of Flex but I suggest you look into WordPress/bbPress “deep integration” and find out which files in the bbPress theme header are included to bring in WordPress.

We need to version that .zip otherwise we are going to have to wade through hundreds of confusing topics in future BP versions.

That looks like what everybody needed

Great, the zip is filled with loads of .tmp, .svn, _MacOSX files though (346 files in 187 folders!). Andy/whoever made it, maybe it should be repackaged?

Also, the instructions on https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/ are a bit confusing; if somebody got it working, maybe they can edit the documentation with some example codes?

I’m still working on this, I’ll post an update when I know more. It’s out of my control right now.

Does this help? https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

There’s wp-answers https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-answers/ too, for rating comments on wordpress posts. It’s a rough plugin that lurches into Spanish now and again, and doesn’t work on buddypress forums. However, it might offer a few more clues on how to get there.

The other thing to do would be to look for a buddypress plugin https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/ for forums that added some metadata to forum posts.

Please do report back if you make any progress – I’ll be interested to hear how it goes.

And if I make progress with my mailman <-> forum plugin, I’ll let you know how I went about adding metadata to, and manipulating, forum posts

Anytime you want.

My install of BP 1.2 final on my WPMU doesn’t seem to work with the v1.6 Welcome Pack plugin. It activates fine, preferences save, but when new users join, they’re not welcomed with anything. Any ideas why it installs fine but doesn’t seem to work at welcoming new users? Thanks.

pjnu – Works for me. What type of WordPress MU install do you have (example.com/blogs or blogs.example.com). Anythign in your error log? Emails not being caught as spam?

Exactly. I believe this to be off-topic, but try disabling BuddyPress. If the issue still occurs, then it’s a WordPress problem. If it only breaks *when* you enable BuddyPress, file a report on http://trac.buddypres.org/ using your username and password from this site.

@Andy

Do you have an updated ETA on the WP theme to BP theme tutorial mentioned above? Thanks!