[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

I’ve had a home.php and a blog page working in custom child themes of bp-default since 1.2 trunk and in bp-sn-parent before that, I did it this way:

1. create home.php as usual

2. create header-home.php to protect home.php

– made it when in 1.2trunk a conditional statement inserted in header.php limited home page to blog page or activities page and kicked out my home.php

– in home.php call header-home.php with

<?php get_header('home'); ?>

3. create “blog page” with pagination

– 2nd option in this post http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/creating-a-blog-page-with-paging/

– Make sure you delete spaces between <?php after copying codes from that post

Except for the hiccup in #2 above, home.php, a WordPress template file has been respected in BuddyPress custom child themes and it overrode any home.php file in parent theme.

Cheers.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

@Michaelmarian, For the Members subsection, easiest way is as Boone Gorges mentioned using body classes: e.g. Member’s Profile page use selector body.profile; Member’s Blog Page use selector body.my-blogs; Member’s Message Page use selector body.messages; etc.

However, if you still want to use conditional statements see

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/conditional-template-tags/

Thing is, locate_template array did not work for me in all the different incarnations of custom child themes I made before so this method might help you too

<?php

if (bp_is_profile_component()) {

include ('mystuff1.php');

}

elseif (bp_is_activity_component()) {

include ('mystuff2.php');

}

elseif (bp_is_friends_component()) {

include ('mystuff3.php');

}

else {

include ('mystuff4.php');

}

?>

– For more specificity you could probably add – && bp_is_page(‘members’) – or whatever slug you used

– Add wp_reset_query(); right after the opening <?php if this query is placed latter part of the page or add the reset just before ?> if placed near top of the page.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

We definitely need a plugin which will allow user to deactivate BuddyPress triggering automatic deactivation of all BP-related plugins/components AND auto-revert theme to WP Default Theme

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Dwenaus, saw this link from namoo.co.uk. Yup, it’s calmed down for sure Thank you.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Grosbouff, looking great. Will be testing it tonight. Cheers.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Go to respective blog’s Settings > Privacy and choose the 2nd alternative and the blogs won’t show up.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

It would be cool to have a plugin where BuddyPress components/plugins are automatically deactivated when BuddyPress is deactivated and at the same time change theme to default theme (esp. with WP 3.0 2010 theme) so that there’ll be no more white screens of death. Something to think about.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

or try to make WP theme compatible with BP https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Check out different CSS for posts and pages – http://digwp.com/2010/02/custom-css-per-post/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

+1

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

@mkels – have you tried https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

If you purchased that custom BP theme, then contact theme author. If you created that custom theme, then double-check template tags as many have been deprecated from older BP versions to current 1.2 stable. Also, it would help others help you :https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

+6

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

@avim, I have the same width for both testbp.org and a fresh BP1.2 install with bp-default theme.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Haven’t tried changing it yet, but I would start with adding some filters/changing parameters

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

At the very least your WPMU version and BP version, VHOST=yes/no?

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

@bewst – fix to what? Buddymatic Theme or a child theme?

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

I am into HTML5 as well. However, definitely can’t discount the IE user crowd (which is larger than others seem to think), play elitist and leave them off the markup grid. The w3c stats page only reflects those who visit w3schools – those who are more technically progressive and therefore use FireFox, Safari, etc. Sales of PC’s of all brands and sizes is still overwhelming larger than Mac et al, and then only a minority of PC users download and add Firefox or any other browser. That’s life.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Wow! You could install BP in Yahoo! Hosting? I’ve seen many support questions at WordPress.org/forums where users are bogged down or get errors with that hosting, didn’t know that Yahoo! had mod_rewrite enabled

You can login on the sidebar at http://3rut.com/3rut/ where your BP is installed. Not sure if this is going to work with Yahoo! hosting, but test if this could be added to your wp-config.php

Allow BuddyPress to function on multiple blogs of a WPMU installation, not just on one root blog:

define ( 'BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG', true );

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

@Dwenaus, very nice. Will be checking it out. Thank you.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

I tested the Unplugged theme and yeah, it was sleek and cool, no errors – kudos diessellaws.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Hi DCartwright. I would say that the GPL even allows anyone to take WordPress core and release an ‘improved’ version and charge for it as long as it’s released under GPL as well. You know that the WP plugin repo requires GPL, but whatever you decide, you’ve got my 1pence or more

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

Fresh install WP 3.0 alpha-trunk-r13040 with BP 1.2 trunk-r2639

When installing Forums component, getting this message:

bbPress files were not found. To install the forums component you must download a copy of bbPress and make sure it is in the folder: “wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/”

Quickfix: I placed the bbpress 1.0.2 folder and files within. Then I went BP > Forums Setup and the regular options found for internal set up of bbpress appeared in panel.

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

lol, good one, @Modemlooper

[@mercime Participant 16 years, 8 months ago]

speaking of book releases, WordPress Bible by Aaron Brazell with Mark Jaquith came out yesterday — now that’s a keeper.