[Globiana]

Yes! That’s exactly it, and I was afraid it wasn’t possible. Looks like I would have to alter the theme’s buddypress components significantly, and I don’t have the skills for that. 🙁

Regarding the other solution, Can I have buddypress as the main and the installation in the root be a subsite? Do I just not display anthing that is not to do with community?

[Globiana]

Thinking about your suggestion of overriding BP behavior on a child theme – I am just not developer enough to build a theme and construct it differently. I could have the templates for child theme and another BP theme side by side and I still wouldn’t know what to scavenge!

[Globiana]

To oversimplify it: We want the main site to look like tersus, and the community to not look like tersus.

Huddle or Buddy or any number of BP themes have a much cleaner, more user friendly, organized and rich design than the part of tersus that enables BP.

It there a way to have just the community part have a different theme – I know there’s only one theme per installation, but is there a workaround?