Hello,

I am trying to build a very generic buddypress child theme. I am fairly new to css and recently tried to make a style sheet by following the instructions listed at http://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

When I uploaded the child however I am getting a message saying “The parent theme is missing. Please install the “bp-default” parent theme.” However I already have buddypress installed as a plug-in and would like to inherit the default theme properties. My own style sheet follows the buddypress example almost line for line. Suggestions? Any help would be great.

thanks!

[@suchaqd Participant 14 years, 1 month ago]

Make sure your style.css starts with…

/*
Theme Name: BuddyPress Dusk
Theme URI: http://example.org/themes/dusk/
Description: Dark theme for BuddyPress.
Version: 1.0
Author: John Doe
Author URI: http://example.org/
Template: bp-default
Tags: buddypress, two-column, grey, dark
*/

and don’t forget the bold line!

[@jbea328 Member 14 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks Michael,

the stylesheet works when I paste the URI’s above. I would like to get a better understanding of Uniform Resource Identifiers and requirements in css. Do you have any good references?