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@johnjamesjacoby @porscheheritage @gpo1 I would love that idea. The main reason why I think that diaspora has some great potential is because users can connect and become friends with each other across multiple domains who also have diaspora installed. The fact that diaspora is written in ruby might be a small obstacle because there are less…[Read more]

@porscheheritage – Yes, BuddyPress would definitely benefit from a serious UX review. Theming is much harder work than it should be. It’s far too tightly coupled to the core, with too much presentation code / decision making embedded and difficult to change. The permalink activity pages are definitely the worst presented and often most useless aspect […]

“I’ve been taught not to mess with those files because when update day comes im screwed.” @porscheheritage, you can mess with those files as much as you please as long as you are not editing the files within pluginsbuddypressbp-themesbp-default You should in fact have a child theme an entirely new theme to edit so you don’t […]

@porscheheritage – exactly! If you are happy with the content being produced by the template files, then yes, just create you own style.css (and other css files) in your child theme, and modify to meet your needs. I quite like the bp-default folder structure for images and css files, so you might want to copy […]

@porscheheritage: have you read this article on child theme development: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ ? That’s the best starting point. You don’t copy the BP-default theme – instead in your child theme, you create new templates where you want to override the default ones, and simply inherit the…[Read more]

@porscheheritage :

you can do this very simply from your wp-admin backend –

Goto “settings … reading … front page displays:”

@porscheheritage – thanks. sorry, but at this moment I am busy with other jobs so I am not able to modify it for public use. But I will think about that in future if I decide to change look of the network 🙂

@porscheheritage
I’d suggest using a child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ You’ll just want to override the index.php and you can make it look however you want.

@porscheheritage –

You edit your wp-config file, adding that new line.