Reply To: Add BuddyPress to Theme
Most themes support BuddyPress these days, thanks to template compatibility in that the BuddyPress pages are displayed and work. What most BuddyPress theme’s mean when they say they support BuddyPress is that they have modified the BP theme files and/or css in order to provide BP specific features.
There’s over 100 template files that can be overloaded, most BP specific themes do not touch the majority of these, they tend to concentrate on just the main pages such as the members and group list and profile pages to give them a theme specific feel. Much of this modification is simply to add their own specific css to allow better control of how a page looks.
To make overloading of the template files easier I created a plugin called BP Template Overloader. This displays all of the files available for overloading, allows overloads to be set up and allows you to compare your overloaded file with the BP master file.
