Chris Jean gave a talk at WordPress Raleigh last week in which he proposed the notion of a standardized loop API.

You can read the full text at his site here: http://loopstandard.com/

I bring this up for 2 reasons:

1. He specifically calls out BuddyPress and the need for a child theme in order to interact at the loop level
2. There is a discussion in the “Call to Arms” thread elsewhere in this forum regarding the future of Buddypress and premium themes. Figured it would be better to split the “in the future” conversation into it’s own thread versus derailing a “what we need to do today” conversation.

[@djpaul Keymaster 13 years, 6 months ago]

As an aside, we’re going to use custom post types and therefore a lot of the regular WordPress loop in BP 1.4.