BuddyPress.org

@jblevins1991 Please check through the BP codex documentation we provide a few guides there that set out how BP templating is structured and how to overload the files to a theme or child theme, this is your first port of call for information thereafter if you still have questions not covered in our guides do ask back here.

@jblevins1991

…but I just feel like the codex should not be so freaking skimpy and weak.

Then please help to make it better! As mentioned BP is a voluntary project representing many many hours of freely given time by the core dev team and various contributors. The codex is something that takes a massive amount of time to organize and update,…[Read more]

@jblevins1991 You need to explain exactly what you have attempted so that we may understand where things are going wrong, so you need to show exact steps and directories and files created / copied over.

Assuming you have setup WP and BP correctly and have a vanilla instance of BP running under a theme of your choice then:

You create a dir or…[Read more]