Now, I’ve been mucking around with various cms/blogging whatnots for years, none are problem free. Now for my current needs Buddypress is the only one which is easy to install and the plug ins/themes are so easy to install, it’s all done for you. Wonderful.

Now my only problem is a theme. I want a darkish red theme for my site, and I’m trying to install ‘child themes’. I have followed all instructions, activated the child theme and not the parent theme but it just isn’t happening. I am on the verge of giving up entirely because I just want things to work without spending days hunting around for solutions, uninstalling, reinstalling. So many days………………………….

Can someone please give me a dullards guide on installing child themes. How I am doing it now because that’s what I’ve read, is to activate the child theme and not the parent theme. But it still ain’t happening.

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

== Can someone please give me a dullards guide on installing child themes. How I am doing it now because that’s what I’ve read, is to activate the child theme and not the parent theme. But it still ain’t happening.==

The question is whether you created a child theme of bp-default theme or of a WordPress theme.

– If you created a child theme of bp-default theme (https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/), upload the folder you created to server wp-content/themes/, then activate the child theme and you’re good to go and customize further.

– If you created a child theme of a regular WordPress theme, then you also need to install and activate the BP Template Pack plugin to make your child theme compatible with BuddyPress
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

[@andrea_r Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

And a link to your site will help. “it still ain’t happening.” isn’t much to go on to help troubleshoot.

[@trouble-maker Member 13 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks for the replies. I decided to use a different theme now and gave up with child theme stuff, it wasn’t originally what I wanted but I’ve been testing it out today and it all works so I’m gonna stick with it.