I want to have the Activity stream as the home page, but I’d like to have it look more like the blog page with some widgets on the side (e.g. – groups, who’s online, etc.). Is there any way to do that?

I’m very new to this and do not have a working knowledge of css or programming. So, I operate from the user-friendly environment only. Any help you can give this newbie-of-all-newbies is appreciated.

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years ago]

@michael

Try Modemlooper’s widgetized theme as a child theme of bp-default. It might be just what you’re looking for.

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme

[@mcclevmr Participant 16 years ago]

Thanks for the heads up, @pcwriter! I’ll take a look at that.

[@mcclevmr Participant 16 years ago]

That was a GREAT lead for me, @pcwriter! Modemlooper has actually created 2 widget-supported themes and I’ve been playing around with both of them. I like the 3-column theme for what I want to show up on the site. It’s working well.

If you’d like to take a look, see: http://citizensofinfluence.com

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years ago]

@michael

Great site! I’m glad the template’s working for you. I would however recommend a slight mod to the css of http://citizensofinfluence.com/forums/

The “Unsubscribe” buttons overlap into the right sidebar. To correct, add this to your theme’s custom.css file:

table.forum td.td-poster, table.forum td.td-group {
min-width:100px;
}

You’ll find the original in bp-default (default.css) on line 940 where the column width is set to a minimum of 130px.