There’s no real reason, other than knowing exactly what my theme is doing and what it’s outputting in each scenario. I appreciate it’s a little idiosyncratic but it’s just how I do it.
If I do let buddypress.js by default, how would I make it sing nicely with this theme which is shrouded with custom markup?
It’s actually the Site Tracking in conjunction with Activity Stream which allows for post publishing to be tracked.
I don’t know exactly what you’re trying to do here, but you could first start by increasing the excerpt length to be a little longer. I’m not sure what the default excerpt length is for BuddyPress, however the function below will increase it to 750 characters.
Place the function below into functions.php or bp-custom.php
function px_bp_activity_excerpt_length() {
return 750;
}
add_filter('bp_activity_excerpt_length', 'px_bp_activity_excerpt_length');
Hey. Its just a custom page template for the home page.
Its weird it will work if I pass the parameter of type as an empty variable and default to active but wont output anything if its set to newest or online for example.
I think that’s what I’m getting at with this theme.
It’s deliberately neutral, which is maybe counter-productive. I feel it could be a catch-all with a neutral design, the content of the demograph would speak for itself.
I don’t think there’s enough time in the day to build a theme for multiple audiences.
I’d like to get this theme to a stage where it’s robust enough to maybe start a community on a whim, but it’s not quite there yet.
Ultimately I think I want to retire from theme building, and have this as a going away gift to myself. That all said, it’s not very satisfying.
I get what you’re saying though and yes the headaches suckkk.
Do you have any audiences in mind? Maybe we could tackle a personal project together @henrywright ?
@buddyboss – Thanks, it’s nothing fancy. I keep getting annoyed with the messy code I write.
@henrywright – Yeah it’s a little bit tighter but could use some work yet.
I keep getting frustrated with the code I’m writing. It seems verbose and hurts my head. ^^
Can any of you guys envision who would use a theme like this? Feels like i’m building for no one but myself, and that’s not too wise.
@bilalvirgo10 I’d love for you to join in, I’ll be uploading my theme shortly. You can take a copy and look at the code to help with learning.
@mercime thanks! I got there, it’s now on version 0.2 I tighter design, WordPress options and soon BuddyPress support. I despise BBPress theming though, it just aint that much fun.
@buddyboss Thanks man, i’m not looking at it as a paid gig.
