Reply To: Adding bp-default's ajax.js and global.js to your theme
@henrywright-1
I think on balance I would tend now to favour going the theme compat route, as the process best to follow in all theme/site building respects, we added extended capabilities with the template hierarchy which make it more useful and the templates and styles were updated and improved.
But the other approach is perfectly valid and leaves full templates directly in your control.
Personally I like the the ability, though, of being able to neatly segregate BP templates under one root dir /community/ or /buddypress/
As for the js being the reasoning remember that both approaches essentially use copies of the same file/s so you still get those either way, one thing I’d like to see and may propose is the main js & ajax files being centralized as bp assets that both approaches could access rather than maintained separately in the theme folders – although that is the place they ought to live really.
This whole question of approach taken is one I’ve raised as there are confusing aspects and I want a codex guide that outlines the approaches on offer and brings some clarity to making choices, which we’ll pencil in to the new guides once Codex is straightened out.
