[wilsontray]

Maybe Im goin crazy but I seem to remember in MU I was able to set default themes for site wide stuff. Now I cant figure out how to do it. Is there a way to change themes site wide or at the very least change it so new blogs get a specific theme?

Im sure I can do it in config somehow but every change I did screwed things up so if thats the solution could someone please give me an example how… or better yet is there a plugin to do it if Its not an obvious setting Im missing.

Thank you

[@mercime]

@wilsontray it would work if you create a child theme of bp-default and upload it to wp-content/themes. The script doesn’t recognize path to wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default as I recall.

[wilsontray]

I added it but I still dont see an easy way to set it as a default theme for new blogs… did they just hide it with the new 3.1 multsite or somthing? Or did I install it incorrectly as now I dont have my superadmin menu just a way to toggle between network and site admin on the top menu bar

[@mercime]

@wilsontray With WP 3.1, you’ll find the Network Admin goodness when you click on the “Network Admin” link in topright area of your screen.

After uploading child theme of bp-default theme, you need to go to Network Admin > Themes > Themes > Choose the child theme and Network Activate

[Hugo Ashmore]

But ensuring a certain theme is always used for new blogs? is that the question? If so in wp-config add

`define(‘WP_DEFAULT_THEME’, ‘myCoolTheme’);`

There was also, and still is, a useful plugin for managing various default settings for new blogs, think this works up to 3.0 but not 3.1 but may be wrong:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/

[wilsontray]

thank you, ya the question was for new blogs… only problem I run into now is with buddypress default if thats what I pick I cant get it to be the default… I tried with buddybase and a few other themes and they all worked perfectly with that line to wp-config just cant get the default to work.

[Hugo Ashmore]

You’ll have to make a child theme as mercime mentioned four posts up.