[@lethality Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

You install it just as you would without BuddyPress. No difference. At least in my experience

[@lethality Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks Hugo… I tried that as well, and I am happy to go that route.

However, I am having the same problem… when previewing the child theme, looks fine. Activating it kills all styles and settings EXCEPT for those made in the child theme.

I am perhaps fundamentally misunderstanding about how child themes work… I thought they would use everything of the parent UNLESS, something new (template, style) was provided?

[@lethality Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

Well, I spoke to soon. This is my first experience with Child Themes, but I referenced this: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Seems like it couldn’t be simpler… I created a new director in wp-content/themes, added the required comments to the style.css file, plus the new css mod to hide the search form.

When I “preview” the child theme in WP, it looks good as it should, search form gone, all other styles and settings in tact.

But when I activate it, the entire theme goes back to the default BP Default, with the exception of the CSS change I made.

When using a child theme, do I need to essentially “re-configure” all of my theme settings, or is something simply not working here? Hmm… maybe this needs a new post.

Edit: New post for this topic: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/child-theme-not-working/

[@lethality Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks Mercime! Very helpful!

[@lethality Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

Thank you Paul! That did the trick… switched themes, activated, and switched back!