All I have to say about this: if you “try” their platform, make sure you have backups.
It will ask you to convert your site to “their” structure and I don’t think it’ll be easy to revert back.
I was a customer. I still have and use their products, but I guess I’ll have to look for another theme provider as they seem to have lost their midas-touch introducing this stuff.
As this is the only bug preventing me from going live with this new site, I’ve spent the entire day messing around with it.
For what it’s worth: the issue lies in the bp-activity-oldestpage cookie.
Once I delete this individual cookie the page loads fine again. Once the page is reloaded the cookie reappears (as it should) but it doens’t seem to refresh properly.
Thanks for your comment. Really appreciate the feedback, and couldnt agree more!
First of all, im more then willing to make current themes BuddyPress compatible.
Although they already are, the default style shipped with BP might not suit the users theme as much as they wanted. (Unfortunatly cause Theme Compatibility really rocks!)
Regarding the user menu’s: with my latest theme(http://buddyflare.themebp.com) im considering building in a function that allows a user to disable the default menu and use the black sidebar menu instead with the new BuddyPress menu features. This should solve the menu problem you are talking about 😉
BP-Media is a complete other story, but: Fixed it.
After reading your comment I’ve decided to integrate special templates to match my theme so BP-Media is fully compatible with BuddyFlare!
Hope this will help you in the future, and feel free to contact me via http://themebp.com if you need my help or want to discuss future themes!
Today i’ve started http://themebp.com – The place where I will be distributing the themes I come up with. Please let me know if you have any requests for themes and ill work on releasing them asap 😉
Cheers,
Aron
PS: Make sure to join the newsletter so I can notify you of new and upcoming themes 😉
Thanks for the feedback everyone – as there’s a lot of reply’s ill work on a special site for BP Themes. Stay tuned.
@naijaping please email me at info(at)aronprins.com and lets work together on this.
Very curious what you have in store and if you’d be willing to work on this together 😉
@bphelp
But this has nothing to do with the bp-default theme? This is a theme that is based on twitter bootstrap customized to match with a buddypress site. It also works with WordPress that has no BP enabled…
I feel that there are just a few really good themes for BuddyPress out there like BuddyBoss and recently InspireBook by rtCamp. Im looking to contribute to that list 😉
Thanks for your reply. Im completely aware of this, and even though ANY theme is now compatible with BuddyPress it would look like the basic BP theme that ships with the plugin. For full specific theme integration we’d still have to adjust that to match the theme right?
Looking forward to your feedback! Thanks again 🙂
Cheers,
Aron
You might be interested in the Pro-Sites plugin, if you don’t already use that in your network.
Via that plugin, you can set the bbPress plugin to nobody which disables it throughout the network except for you as super admin to activate/deactivate.
Dane,
Thanks for your thorough readthrough of the forums and knowing what to put in you posts ;). Welcome to BuddyPress!
Unfortunatly this is currently not possible. To my knowledge the people of bbPress and BuddyPress ( a select few awesome peeps ) are making bbPress(.org) more compatible with BuddyPress which should enhance it’s features ( if you ask me… ).
