Don’t be confused by the term ‘Legacy’ those files in that directory section are the format for template files working under BP’s new theme compatibility layer, use those for any custom mmods you need to make copying them to a theme/child theme in a directory named either ‘community’ or ‘buddypress’ and observing the folder structure within that directory to maintain paths.
That is my point. I was confused by the term legacy (thinking those were the old ones and not being used) and by the fact that there was a bp-themes directory (thinking that was what was being used).
What I am suggesting is that the term legacy should not be used as it opens the door to confusion. I am not sure what the correct term is (as I am still learning the power of buddypress).
Thanks everyone for this hard-to-find-info!
Where is the user experiance and human point of view dear Buddypress team? Totally confusing using “legacy”, and I consider myself old in the game…
I also assumed that legacy implied they weren’t intended to be used any longer.
It’s an understandable assumption but sadly an historic nomenclature that can’t be changed now. In some senses though that set of templates will become a legacy of the older bp-default standalone theme that was provided before ‘Theme Compatibility’ arrived in 1.7 as essentially they were revised copies of the existing bp-default templates, when we get the Template Pack project added to core, hopefully in 1.9.1, those will represent the best and latest set of templates to use with theme compatibility. Not sure if that makes anything clearer though 🙂
>Thanks everyone for this hard-to-find-info!
Well we have attempted to provide some guidance in the codex.
As for the general point about naming I have raised the issue of ‘bp-default’ on trac as when this old theme is finally moved out from core and added to the WP repo I for one would prefer that it isn’t any longer referred to as ‘default’ as that is confusing as it isn’t the default theme, theme compatibility is the process BP uses now and as such that isn’t a theme more a set of templates designed to work in conjunction with any chosen theme.
