This is strange and I don’t think it’s the same old redirect to home page issue. For my case it only happens when I activate my child theme. Everything works fine with “Twenty Twelve” theme, but when I activate my child theme, all links redirect to home page.

My child theme is based on bp-default theme and it’s located in my root wp-content/themes/child-theme-name and these are the only files I have inside my child theme:

• functions.php
• style.css
• header.php

Is it okay to start with these files or should I copy/paste more files/folders such as activity, blogs, forums, groups, etc from my bp-default theme?

By the way, this is the code I am using in my functions.php so bp doesn’t queue up the default stylesheet:`<?php
if ( !function_exists( ‘bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles’ ) ) :
function bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles() {}
endif;
?>`

and I modified my header.php and added a line to link my new css file.

Any help for resolving this is appreciated.

Thanks

[@mercime Participant 11 years, 6 months ago]

Is it okay to start with these files

@faramarz Yes. You only need to copy over the template files from BP default theme if you want to make modifications.

Everything works fine with “Twenty Twelve” theme, but when I activate my child theme, all links redirect to home page.

… which shouldn’t be the case at all.
– What plugins do you have installed?
– What modification/s have you made to your header.php, what did you add?
– What other code do you have in your functions.php file?

[@faramarz Participant 11 years, 6 months ago]

@mercime the only plugin I am using is bbPress and the only modification I made to header.php is adding this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

and my functions.php only has this code:

<?php
if ( !function_exists( 'bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles' ) ) :
    function bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles() {}
endif;
?>

[@faramarz Participant 11 years, 6 months ago]

okay, I just removed the line I added to my header.php in my child theme, now the CSS of the website is broken BUT the redirection is not happening and the links are working. This is strange.

[@faramarz Participant 11 years, 6 months ago]

@mercime .. I found the problem. It was my CSS file. I added something in my style.css to remove the site name and use an image logo instead, so I used this for my logo link:

h1#logo a {
	display: block;
	width: inherit;
	height: inherit;
	padding-top: 9999px;
	overflow: hidden;
}

the padding-top was hovering over all Groups, Members and Profile links and of course it was taking you to home page because I was actually clicking on logo URL. duh!!!

Sorry for this confusion and thanks.

[@mercime Participant 11 years, 6 months ago]

@faramarz No problem. Glad you found the cause and thanks for posting it here.
Cheers.

[@philmay Participant 11 years, 3 months ago]

so how did you fix this?

[@mercime Participant 11 years, 3 months ago]

@philmay he fixed it by repositioning the site header link to above the navigation bar instead of being right on top of it in his theme’s stylesheet.