[@lincme Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

@Erich73; We find having an @ mention name and a full profile name useful, as long as they don’t clash and cause confusion. The ‘usernames-only’ plugin from @r-a-y takes care of that. We hope to include business members, so provision for their ‘business card’ name is essential, but only on their profile and pages they pay for.

[@lincme Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

We recently tested and (we think…) have settled with WP3+BP for a site. Our only thoughts are that BP should be much simpler, and as others have said, have more clearly defined objectives and uses. And of course, be optimised for speed and reliability. Not asking much from a freely available Open Source project, eh..? Thanks to all who put in so much time and hard work.

[@lincme Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

A good reminder. Before doing anything, always check your cache..!

[@lincme Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

@sj; I discovered that it’s not always the obvious file. Windows Vista’s internal file search fails me for some reason, so I downloaded a freeware tool called Agent Ransack, which hunts through folders and files very quickly. I search inside files for text labels on-screen, and always find the relevant template(s).

[@lincme Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

@ajamison5579; We’ve had some fun with themes too, and just getting used to what exactly is WP controlled, and what’s BP controlled! (Bit of a nightmare, to be honest, but it all seems to work ok in the end).

To use a standard theme you need the BP Template Pack (at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/). In the end I pulled the guts out of a BP template to give us a very simple Facebook-like look (http://lincme.co.uk) If you have a peek you’ll notice that a lot of BP stuff went under the knife, as it’s way to complicated and busy looking for many people. As some have said elsewhere, this site is too.

As to your final question above; the default BP theme has all the code templates you require (of course) and you can clone it, modify the CSS info so it doesn’t clash, and hack away. Any template files you use override the default ones, so you can pull files out and just modify the bits you want to. And the CSS, of course. Have fun!

Add; To clone the BP theme, create your own folder such as wp-content/themes/my-theme, then copy all the files from wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default into your new my-theme folder. Be sure to modify the header content of the style.css file so WP/BP recognises it as a new theme.