BuddyPress.org

Thanks for replying @danbp

I’ve acted on all your notes, but there are still some issues. First in terms of what I did:
1. I did go ahead and upgrade the theme, but I also switched the theme to twenty-fourteen as I saw a buddypress video where this theme was in use and gave good results in terms of buddy press.
2. I’ve removed the definition as per your ticket link
3. I’ve refreshed my pages removing duplicates
4. I’ve deactivated the ‘Show the Toolbar for logged out users’

The issues I still have:
1. The buddybar that I want is in my wp-admin, but not on my site. In fact there is an even better buddybar right here on this page (look up) which has the link to buddypress.org and “My Sites” which is needed for me since I’m running multisites. How can I get this bar on my site?
2. Having followed your instructions, there’s no toolbar at all, which is not what I want; I do want users who aren’t logged in to be able to do so without my added links in the site itself to a log/reg page

Please advise; thanks in advance

Apologies, I was trying out a few things so I had re-checked the toolbar for logged out user.
I’ve unchecked it now.
I can see the login/logout button on the left sidebar; please have a look and see if the site is as it should be.

If this is how it’s supposed to be, I would still much rather have the kind of toolbar that I get in wp-admin, or on this buddypress.org site. Is that possible?

Thanks in advance

Ok, trash emptied and slugs fixed.

There are no improvements however – when I log in, the META section still shows that I can log in or register. I would expect log in and register to be replaced with log out and other membership options.

Also I’ve noticed that my registration page is not hxxtp://vibral.co.za/register/ but rather
hxxp://vibral.co.za/wp-login.php?action=register. Not sure if this is an issue.

There’s some progress now; I tested in IE and the bar looks great!

However, it won’t show in Firefox or my (windows) phone. Do you know why this is?
I suspected it was an out of date flash player, but I updated and still can’t see it.
The strange thing is that I can see the bar in wp-admin (in firefox), but not from the main site.

Also, in firefox, on the pages that I can access, i.e. the groups etc, when I open those pages, I don’t get the same look as I get when I open in IE. In firefox, these pages don’t let me add new groups etc.
Also, when I log in with firefox, the login/register links are still there after login, whereas in IE after I login, the option becomes ‘logout’

Clearly, with certain browsers, most of the buddypress functions are just blocked.

Did you test my sit eon IE or on Firefox?

Ok, deactivated all plugins but BP.
I’m not using any custom scripts/shortcodes.
Yes, all the component pages are empty.

Still no change. Does it show fine on your FF? In that case it must be an issue with my setup.
It now actually works fine on my windows phone using IE – earlier I thnk there was an error I was making when doing the phone test.

I’m almost willing to say it’s just an issue with my FF setup, but still, it’s a worry since I don’t know if any of my visitors would happen to have the same issues with their set up.

Yes, I was just playing around – I don’t intend using it – I was actually looking for the theme that’s currently used on the buddypress.org site – this theme with the red bar on top – would you happen to know where I can find it? I like it since the buddybar isn’t right up top, so it’s more noticable.

I’ve also been looking for a way to extract the menu that you get from the buddy bar so as to use it as a sidebar widget. I have used the “(Buddy Press) Log in”, but when you log in, it doesn’t show the other options that you get with buddy bar, i.e. activity, profile, …, settings with the nice submenus.

I did try trawling the php code but I haven’t found it as yet. Is there an easy way to extend the Buddy Press login widget so that once you log in you get these other options as well?

Apologies if this is now going into another subject area – should I repost the new question as a new topic?

As to the original question, I think you solved it way back when you asked me to empty the pages trash and to rename the slugs. I still don’t know why my FF doesn’t work. I suspect that it is just not accpeting my log in, and that’s why I don’t get the bar. Also would explain why the login and register options don’t change. Perhaps the reason it doesn’t accept logins because I do all my wp admin through firefox? Anyway I’m prepared to live with it since it seems only the firefox on my local machine doesn’t get the bar.

Many thanks for all your help

Yes, I spent quite a lot of time in the past coding in php/mysql, but never did anything in wordpress before. So I’m fine with digging around php code, and know what to look for if I can just get to the file which has the menu setup. I have done a little bit of editing; you can see on my site now if you log in, you get a few more things happening than usual for the login widget.

I reposted this question here .

Thanks again for the help on the main question!