[@scotm Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Read: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/ and be prepared to tweak your template files to enable your sidebar and fix CSS issues.

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

@Mariusooms so the child theme will have the P2 look and feel with BuddyPress features and Group Blog functionality intact? Let me know if you need testers.

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Well P2 will work with BuddyPress, but finding a way to make the PS2 style sheet take effect has proven tricky. The page makeup for P2 is queer at best, with the sidebar called for just inside the top wrapper <div>.

But even after duplicating the page format in the BP template files as directed, the styles don’t seem to take effect. The only solution I’ve found is to hack the bp.css file extensively but even this is less than satisfying.

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@Adam

Try: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

For what it’s worth, the free Mimbo magazine theme works almost out of the box after installing the new template pack plugin.

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@Peterverkooijen

Andy’s post on t how to make your WordPress theme work with BuddyPress can be found under Developers > Docs > How-to Guides. The extension pack can be downloaded from there. Follow the directions and you will have P2 working, but you’ll likely need to make some style adjustments in bp/bp.css for example as a minimum.

I think you need to upgrade to BP 1.2 before you do anything. There is an element of P2 features in the new BuddyPress (post-form) and the Default theme but P2 is in no way integrated with BP 1.2.

Thx

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

I’ve tried P2 with the new Buddypress theme extension pack. Follow the how-to that Andy posted and you’ll see that it does work with Buddypress. Will require some styling though…

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

Andy is right…I’ve tried about six or seven themes and the issues are largely tied to the ‘content’ div not matching up, although I have at least one theme that doesn’t recognize the admin bar. Very good start though!

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@Andy

Thanks!

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@25knots

I’m aware of both threads but as you know they’re pretty old and do not address 1.2.

Am I the only one who finds it strange the idea of using existing WP themes with BP should be more of a priority (at least a detailed tutorial or blog post explaining How), versus creating child themes from the parent?

I see the benefits for the latter, obviously, but I can envision many WordPress users who wish to implement BuddyPress without switching away from their existing theme, etc. Is this not creating a significant barrier to entry?

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

So anyone have a general guide to converting an existing WP theme to work with BP 1.2?

Thx

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@thekmen please share. much appreciated.

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@andrea_r i’m looking to have posts on the main page. definitely potential for conflicts with js/ajax.

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@mercime I’d like to hear from someone who has enabled the P2 theme for BuddyPress, for starters, and I’m not looking for major customizations.

Simply ensuring that the features within BuddyPress stay intact when using P2 versus the default theme would do nicely.

Thx

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Andy et al

It appears this issue has been resolved here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/can-i-run-non-bp-theme-on-tld-and-bp-theme-on-subdomain-all-on-same-wpmu-install

The code must be dropped at or near the top of your wp-config file.

Thx

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I’m using them with no problem. I used the instructions that came with the download and to my recollection I didn’t alter the setup.

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

string(21) “http://myurl.com&#8221;

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Yes

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Gotcha. So does this eliminate the need for the BuddyPress plugin to be activated on a per blog basis (community versus root or across all blogs)?

The code took fine, but the links are still looking for (rooturl/members/admin/profile) versus (community.rooturl/members/admin/profile).

What am I missing?

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Andy

define( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, [2] ); in my wp-config file gets me the white screen of death.

Thoughts?

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Andy

Thanks!

[@scotm Participant 16 years, 12 months ago]

M

Great news re: Twitter plugin. Can’t wait to try it out.

[@scotm Participant 17 years ago]

@M Will they be released at the same time? Also, are we talking days, weeks, hours (lol)?

[@scotm Participant 17 years ago]

I’d like to know this one as well.

[@scotm Participant 17 years ago]

This is sometimes caused when logging in and out of your site. For example, if you have two windows opened and have already logged out in one window, you’ll get that message when you try to log out of the second.

Hope that helps…