BuddyPress

I just started creating a new a child theme called “Frisco”.

The goal is to release it around the same time BuddyPress 1.3 comes out, if possible, so that BuddyPress users have a solid (and free) option for a theme that looks different than the default theme.

Aiming for clean and simple. Ideally, it will just be a stylesheet and functions file. And the theme should be as responsive as possible so that it works reasonably well on mobile devices. It would also be great to add support for the more popular plugins, too.

No demo site yet. But here are a few screenshots from my local setup.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/frisco/screenshot-1.png

https://s3.amazonaws.com/frisco/screenshot-2.png

https://s3.amazonaws.com/frisco/screenshot-3.png

https://s3.amazonaws.com/frisco/screenshot-4.png

If you are interested in contributing or trying it out, please download it from GitHub and report issues. I’ve only put a few hours into it so there’s lots to do. I hope to update it a lot more in the coming days and weeks.

https://github.com/davidtcarson/frisco

Note: This theme is not even close to being ready to use on a live site. It has been tested locally only using the BuddyPress trunk (1.3-bleeding) as of today (July 17th, 2011). Download the theme only if you are going to install it on a development/local install of BuddyPress. Don’t expect anything to work normally after you activate this theme.

If you would like to get notified when the theme is further along or the demo site is available, please head over to the theme site and drop your email in the box.

http://friscotheme.com/

@David: This looks really great. Very clean + a mobile version? amazing.

Love to help out.

Very nice

Thats its a great job, i will be glad to translate to spanish if needed.

GG!

Well done!

“so that BuddyPress users have a solid (and free) option for a theme that looks different than the default theme. ”

Cool! Will you be submitting this to the WP Theme Repository?

Cheers.

Will you be submitting this to the WP Theme Repository?

That’s the plan. I remember reading about BuddyPress child themes having difficulty with theme review, so if anyone has any updates on that or if you’d like to help, please let me know.

” I remember reading about BuddyPress child themes having difficulty with theme review, so if anyone has any updates on that or if you’d like to help, please let me know.”

There’s a special queue for bp-default child themes in themes trac. These themes go through the same process as regular WP themes. For your reference:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test

http://www.chipbennett.net/2011/04/20/a-guide-to-reviewing-themes-for-the-wordpress-theme-repository/

http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/theme-review-process-and-scope/

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/upload/

Thanks @mercime. I haven’t submitted a theme before but I have read through the codex/theme links before. Just haven’t seen any info specifically discussing BuddyPress child themes.

If BuddyPress isn’t active, my child theme doesn’t work.

Do you know if that is going to be an issue? I have looked through other child themes in the repository and they seemed to make it through.

A theme reviewer with test BP install will be checking out your theme, so no worries.

When you submit a theme to the WP Theme Repo, a trac ticket will be generated.
Your theme (bp child theme) will be queued and the next available reviewer with BP experience, will test your theme and post the review in that trac ticket. Review process can take from a few hours to max 7 days. You will be notified via email and you’ll see whether the theme is approved or whether it needs to be revised and resubmitted to the theme repo. If approved, it’ll take one week max before your theme is shown live in Extend > Themes.

Thanks @mercime. Very good to know that.

Thanks @David. I am creating a child theme for BP 1.3 to learn. Your’s is going to help me a lot.

Bage.

I couldn’t get this theme to work with the latest trunk version of BP from a few days ago. I stuck the theme in the both /wp-content/themes/ and in /plugins/buddypress/themes/, and everything, but WP would never pick it up.

Looks very sharp. Have you ever heard of an in-page (as opposed to in the WP environment) text editor that works with BP? I want to save my members a step.

I’ll definitely try out Frisco.