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Good to know @boonebgorges

@porscheheritage – exactly! If you are happy with the content being produced by the template files, then yes, just create you own style.css (and other css files) in your child theme, and modify to meet your needs. I quite like the bp-default folder structure for images and css files, so you might want to copy [...]

Thanks @rogercoathup

So, I can just copy the CSS and mangle that to taste and not copy the “template files”

@porscheheritage: have you read this article on child theme development: http://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ ? That’s the best starting point. You don’t copy the BP-default theme – instead in your child theme, you create new templates where you want to override the default ones, and simply inherit the others. A directive you add to your child theme’s style.css file [...]

Thanks @boonebgorges

So… do i just make a “child theme” of “BP-Default”? meaning “copy the content of that” into a new folder “myChildTheme” and make that the “child” of “bp-default”

great site!

though, im not a fan of the “must fill” (required) stuff when logging on via twitter. but still very cool.

oh, and the site seems a little sluggish..

nevertheless – very cool!

Oh boy, I love this.. it was exactly what I was searching for. searched “Share” and this was the first hit!

@porscheheritage :

you can do this very simply from your wp-admin backend -

Goto “settings … reading … front page displays:”

@techguy

creating a whole new “child theme” vs.. ONE LINE of httaccess

seems like an easier choice to just add that one line of httaccess

any thoughts on this guys?