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How to make Buddy Press Compatible with Theme


  • mister.hill
    Participant

    @misterhill

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi All,

    I’m really sorry as I know you must get asked this constantly, but I was after a little guidance getting BP running on a non supported theme. It’s just seems to be an alignment issue, but i’m unsure on how or where to resolve it. So that you’ve got all the details i’ve got the following so far..

    I made copies of the theme’s header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php and renamed them to header-buddypress.php, sidebar-buddypress.php, and footer-buddypress.php. But then got lost tying to alter the structure of these new template files (header-buddypress.php, sidebar-buddypress.php, and footer-buddypress.php) to resemble the theme’s page.php (or index.php).

    For example my header-buddypress.php is like this – http://pastebin.com/jZhjtRTZ
    And my page.php is – http://pastebin.com/AgjrxYqQ

    I screwed it up completely when I tried to figure it out. An example of the current layout can be seen at http://www.undergrounddatingsociety.com/drumstickdojo/groups/

    Thanks for your help and advice – I really appreciate it.

    Jason

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  • mister.hill
    Participant

    @misterhill

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi there – anything at all? Or can someone point me in the direction of somewhere that might explain it in a bit more detail?

    Thanks


    Melita Poropat
    Participant

    @mebo

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi

    ok, what you did is not a mess but this is simple full width page.
    If you want to get it in eight row div than put buddypress layout in that div before sidebar div.


    @mercime
    Keymaster

    @mercime

    11 years, 5 months ago

    @misterhill

    1. Initial scan reveals that we can make the templates compatible by creating two/three files only and uploading it to your theme folder in server. The thing is, the page title won’t look like the “Contact Us” title on this page http://themes.blahlab.com/vagenta/?page_id=70 but would be within the content area of the left column. If you prefer that the page titles on the BP templates look like that of “Contact Us” title, then you’d need to revise 16 BP template files

    I would opt for creating two/three files only intead of revising 16 files. What say you?

    2. Either way. Open up your theme’s header.php file, copy all source, paste in pastebin.com, click submit, and post the generated URI here. If you haven’t changed anything in the header-buddypress.php as well as the code for the page.php posted in pastebin links posted above, no need to repost. But I need you to paste your theme’s index.php, loop-page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php files in pastebin and post the pastebin url’s here.


    mister.hill
    Participant

    @misterhill

    11 years, 5 months ago

    @mercime – Thank you so much for your time and assistance – I really appreciate it. Changing only 3 files sounds much better :)

    I havent changed anything in the header-buddypress.php and the page.php that I pasted earlier, so the other pages you require are as follows..

    index.php http://pastebin.com/YSapbSr3
    loop-page.php http://pastebin.com/eRfPRvZP
    sidebar.php http://pastebin.com/DsFKfk7k
    footer.php http://pastebin.com/RuyJN18v


    @mercime
    Keymaster

    @mercime

    11 years, 5 months ago

    @misterhill You only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to make your theme compatible with BP.

    If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your vagenta theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your vagenta theme folder in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /members, /groups, /register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.

    A. COPY your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php

    Open up header-buddypress.php and at the BOTTOM of the file, below other code contained within, add this:
    `

    `

    Save file.


    @mercime
    Keymaster

    @mercime

    11 years, 5 months ago

    B. COPY sidebar.php and Save As > sidebar-buddypress.php file

    Open up sidebar-buddypress.php and at the very TOP of the file above all other code, add:
    `

    `

    At the very BOTTOM of the same file, below all other code, add:
    `

    jQuery(document).ready( function() {
    if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
    jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();
    jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
    jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
    });
    });

    `

    Save file.

    C. Upload header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to your theme folder in server wp-content/themes/vagenta/ in the same directory where your regular header.php and sidebar.php files are

    D. Final note: Copy the style modifications for some BP elements https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/ and paste those at the bottom of your theme’s stylesheet, then adjust to taste.

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