[@ahjira Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Sweet thanks for the tip about the custom theme file.

[@ahjira Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Gary I have to say your site is a great example of how WPMU and BP can benefit a community with a shared interest.

Back to your question… have you been watching the development of the new BP theme framework at http://testbp.org? I think that has what you’re looking for. I was just out here looking to see if there’s an ETA on the 1.3 release and saw your note.

[@ahjira Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Hum… never mind Marius, I just realized Groupblog is using the plug-in page template and I hadn’t copied that into my theme yet.

[@ahjira Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Hi Marius – I have a question. I just uploaded a fresh copy of Groupblog, deactivated the plug-in, reactivated it and then went to check it on the site. I’m seeing the groupblog content inserted on the group home page – I had created two posts prior to the upgrade which are still visible, but when I click the “blog” link in the menu, I get a page not found error.

I thought maybe I had to move the page templates into my theme but that didn’t change anything.

If you want to take a look, you can hit the group directly with this link.

http://holisticground.com/groups/animation-order/home/

It’s the “Blog” link in the tabbed menu at the top of the content area that’s causing me the trouble, even tho clearly the plug-in is inserting the groupblog data in the areas below it.

PLEASE NOTE: That site is full of dummy data to make development easier. If necessary, you can create an account if it helps. I have that enabled.

[@ahjira Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

I’m basically one-week new to BuddyPress and but I agree, right now, it’s a bit difficult to be theme agnostic since you have to provide the page templates yourself. We’re going to have to work with Andy and the other devs to find a way to start moving more toward the way WordPress does it:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy

This way your plug-in’s action, i.e. create new link, just uses the template framework’s create.php page and you don’t have to provide your own. Same with directories. There should be one directory.php file in a theme and every directory uses it.

Granted this is a huge task But maybe we can spur it via Links since Links is kind of the poster child for BP component plug-ins. I’m available to help hammer that out if any devs catch this thread.

[@ahjira Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Maz you have my vote for awesome plug-in as well. I’m excited about this one and the addition of the social media stuff this round was a great surprise.

If you want help with the presentation layer, I will help you. That’s my forte. I’m developing a theme framework for BP right now and am finding a lot of plug-in developers writing their code with a dependence on the BP theme framework

I’d like to see everybody move toward theme independence where you create tags that theme developers can drop into their page templates. I realize we may need BP to serve up a standardized page template, with all the appropriate hooks and standardized list navigation for plug-ins however, but we have to start somewhere. I just don’t want everyone to get so far down the road where we’re all stuck with using the BP theme framework because all the plug-ins were written with its HTML and its CSS.

Ping me and I’ll help you.

P.S. I use Safari 4 so you’d have that piece covered too.

[@ahjira Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

Nice – thanks for the quick function Burt!