/* Inherit the admin bar styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css );
This was totally my fault, and was a mistake in the writeup of how to do it. If you do it this way, you can simply add your style overrides in style.css below those two lines.
Looks great! Happy to see people starting to build child themes.
A couple of things I noticed – you probably didn’t need to copy all of the default theme css into your theme. This will be loaded when you call the @import() call to the default theme CSS. At the moment you are basically loading the CSS twice. You actually only need to override the bits you need. By doing that you will gain CSS updates from the default theme when it updates. So if anything new was added to the default in the future, you would inherit the new styles.
Also, in your instructions you mentioned you needed to move the default theme to the themes folder. You definitely shouldn’t do this, WordPress will automatically detect it is in the BuddyPress folder. If you move the default then you will never get any updates when BuddyPress updates – it sort of defeats the purpose.
Could you add this to the WP theme repository? That will allow you to keep track of stats, let people download from within their BP installation, and allow you to provide automatic updates to your theme.
If 15 minutes have passed since the last update and someone visits the group, it will update again. I’ll look into that link, but after 1.2 is released.
Don’t hack the code like that, you will only cause problems down the road. If the time since is not working in the trunk, there is something wrong. All times are recorded in GMT.
There isn’t a way no. I still think this is a bad idea. You wouldn’t expect a blog post to move to the top when there’s a new comment. It’s chronological based on the original post date.
There is a built in option in the core, pass ‘show_comments=stream’ as a parameter into the bp_has_activities() loop. This will show new comments at the top of the stream.
Looks good, but you don’t need to copy the template. Just add this function in your child theme’s functions.php file (or wherever you put the other code):
function my_theme_add_activity_tab() {
if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
return false;
?>
<li id="activity-myclass">
<a href="<?php echo site_url( BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG . '/#myclass/' ) ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Activity for my Class Year.', 'buddypress' ) ?>">
<?php printf( __( 'My Class', 'buddypress' ) ) ?>
</a>
</li>
<?php
}
add_action( 'bp_activity_type_tabs', 'my_theme_add_activity_tab' );
