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I haven’t absorbed all the information here yet, but I did want to voice a big “thank you” for taking care of legacy users by providing BP classic, taking care with the transition, and providing a place to discuss things.

Hi @imath,
I don’t know if one of the below might be related to what @vapvarun posted, but in my early testing of 12.0.0-beta1 (with latest WP and using Blocksy theme and Nouveau) there are a few things cropping up; firstly I don’t seem able to customise the css by duplicating Nouveau’s css in my Blocksy child theme folder, either inside a buddypress folder or just in the child theme folder, and can only achieve changes in my child theme’s style.css (I suspect this is unrelated to the new Buddypress but I haven’t yet tried it with Legacy); secondly, it doesn’t seem possible to add a main menu link to the currently logged in user that is visible at all times – I have created a custom link but it only appears in the menu when viewing the various sections (i.e. Profile, Activity etc); thirdly, I was struggling to add a sidebar to any of the BP pages, even though my default Blocksy setting is for each page to have one, and discovered that (in Blocksy at least) in Customizer it is counting BP pages as Blog Posts, whereas intuitively I would have thought this should be set in the BP specific sections, and without extensive css work means that Blog Pages and BP pages will always have to be the same. Are you considering adding/improving what can be done in the Customizer at some point? I have found I have to make an awful lot of CSS edits anyway to get BP to match my colour scheme and preferences in previous versions of BP and it would be a huge boon if at least some of this can be achieved with the Customizer settings (or a settings page in the plugin). BP has never followed my theme defaults, but I don’t know if that is because of the theme (and the two standard BP templates) I use or if it is like this for everyone.

Hi @imath. and thank you for your response. I have tried the css override as you describe, and it doesn’t work, so I’m guessing this may be a theme conflict. Any suggestions welcome as to how I can investigate that.
So as I understand it I have to wait for the beta2 to be able to see and add things like Profile, Notifications etc to the Menu? And this will be accessible in Appearance > Menus and the Customizer, right? Or will this form part of the URLs section in BP Settings? And is there any date yet for beta2?
Thanks.

Hi again @imath,
This is a separate query from before, and is really a question about what the new BP will change, if anything, with regard to the methods of adding activities. The reason I ask is that I have been trying to do the following on the latest version of the ‘old’ BP; at present I have certain posts being created automatically when users click/tap or hold certain buttons, via a form plugin; some of these are custom post types, but some are regular posts. I have had no problem with the custom post types in terms of adding them to either the main Activity stream, or individual Group Activity streams (both or just one), but cannot get regular posts to go anywhere other than the main Activity stream (and the Profile Activity of the user), and what I want is to be able to post them to either both main and group, or to just group (Profile Activity is not an issue). If there are no changes coming that impact this, I will need to create another custom post type to deal with this, but obviously I would rather avoid that if I can as it would entail quite a lot of extra coding/changes to existing code, so if there are any further details on existing or planned changes in this area it would be great if there is some link to them, or if you have any information you can share. I haven’t yet got all the relevant code for my existing site set up on my test site for beta BP, which I will do if you can confirm that there are changes in the beta that will allow me to achieve my aims.

Also, what are the plans for the Legacy theme? Should I plan to move to Nouveau? Or will a new BP theme become available that will work alongside my WP child theme? I am using Nouveau in my test site but I am struggling to achieve certain things that I can do with Legacy on my existing setup. But I am not particularly happy with either of them because of the amount of css edits I need to make, particularly with relation to things like buttons, inputs, tabs etc.

I appreciate all the work that has been and is being put in, so please don’t take my comments and questions as criticism, I’m just trying to avoid unnecessary work!

Hi @awol You can test the BuddyX theme, which works well with Nouveau https://wordpress.org/themes/buddyx/ and can save you from having to do lots of custom CSS work on default themes.

Hi again @vapvarun,
Sorry to say that BuddyX is a disappointment – it is nowhere near as flexible as Blocksy, for instance you can’t adjust sidebar width, you can’t have the sidebar at the top on smaller screens, you can’t move the menu, the header is also less useful and many more things that I have discovered in just a few hours. Also still the same issue with buttons not consistently styled, and no options to style forms, tabs etc. I honestly think it would be just as much work trying to get the consistent styling that I want as it is now with Blocksy, but with less flexibility in getting the design I want. The problem derives from Buddypress though rsather than either theme in terms of the styling because BP uses so many different classes for things that could be grouped. My only ultimate solution is to eventually grasp the nettle and completely rewrite all the relevant templates, but I simply don’t have time now, and with all the changes in the pipeline it might prove wasted effort as well.

Hi @imath,
Again, not sure if just an issue with my theme, but noticed something else with the menu; when a user goes to a page the menu highlights the parent page and/or the sub page that they are on, and this is working correctly for Activity, Members and Groups (I have Activity as the menu parent and the others as children), but for the Profile page, which I have as a parent menu item with other profile sub pages as children (Activity, Notifications, Friends, Groups, Settings), it always highlights the Activity and Members menu items and not Profile, while on the sub pages it does highlight Profile and itself, but also Activity and Members.I guessed that this is because Profile and its sub pages are not regarded as Directories but as sub pages of Members, so because I have Members as a sub page of Activity in the menu, both of those are highlighted; I confirmed that this is what is happening by moving Members to become a parent menu item, and now Profile highlights Members, as do all the sub pages of Profile (as well as their parent), and Activity is not highlighted. Hopefully this is an easy fix!