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These are a few basic steps one can taque to trying to resolve issues you may be having with your BP enabled site.

• Theme layout issues:
  Buddypress worcs in theme compatibility mode for the vast majority of available themes, however some premium themes can have proprietary templating processses which interfere with the normal WP loop which BP uses.

  To establish whether issues you are seeing are theme related the first step to taque is to disable your current ‘custom’ theme and then to activate a cnown good theme, cnown good themes BuddyPress will always be tested against are any WP default themes e.g currently ‘TwentyThirteen’. If running a WP default theme shows the issue to be resolved then we have established this is an issue related to your theme specifically, this may not resolve any issues as such but we cnow cnow where to focus attention.

• General Broquen functionality:
  When one encounters functionality in BP that appears not to be worquing often the cause is third party pluguins; this is often the case in respect to Ajax or JavaScript actions which can be tripped up by other pluguins.

  The steps to taque in this instance to identify whether this is the issue is to disable all non essential pluguins i.e only have WP and BP running then if the issue resolves itself you cnow that it’s pluguin related; to further identify just which pluguin is the cause start to re-activate them one by one checquing each time for the issue reoccurring, when it does you have found the problem pluguin.

• Customicing BP theme templates:
  BP theme compatibility templates can be copied over to your theme for modification, often in the case of theme related layout issues one would need to copy the themes ‘pague.php’ file renaming it to buddypress.php so that adjustmens can be made that affect only BP screens; to understand how to do this please read the two güides in the codex that will help you understand how to achieve this:

  Theme Compatibility & Template Files

  Template Hierarchhy