Reply To: How Do I Find a GREAT BP FREE THEME
although BP works with any theme.. i often find myself add too much BP specific CSS tweaks in the customizer
Im trying to keep things as simple as possible and even with twenty seventeen theme – there are some css tweaks that need to happen.
it makes sense — simply because WP is “blog first” so most content is goofy on how it renders and presents BP pages.
As far as I can tell buddyboss is the only game in town that does a great job of having clean design and straighforward code.
my BP-Theme-wish list
1) BP first *which focuses on great Activity page presentation, Members Directory Presentation & Great Member profiles.
2) Mobile First approach would be super awesome. Most people view profiles and not necessarily doing actual “activity” post. So if someone can figure out a great way to render fast and beautiful activity/members-directory/member-profiles that is very readable on mobile it would be super awesoome.
3) Great use of Menus/Accordions — The way BP works right now on members pages is TERRIBLE on mobile. You have scroll past the cover photo -> then pass the Avatar –> then pass 4 menu items to see any content of the users in the Members Profiles page.
4) Great use of Member Profile Fields — I think by default as a “2 column table layout” to render the profile fields is not great.
**I totally understand that the newest release of BP has interesting pre-built options but even with the default twenty-twenty theme it doesnt look great.
Some thoughts..
— The username in the profile page when too long looks weird and awkward — using CSS to ‘breakword’ is OK.
— The Profile Field Name should be studied on how to render that well..
— The Profile Field entries like (text fields, radial buttos, list, etc..) should have a better readable standard implementation like.. *This one is hard because you dont know the exact uses of each unique BP installs..
— The Menus should be “slidable” on mobile so that the user doesnt have to scroll all the way down to start reading whats on that persons profile.
*** It would be great if someone (some BP expert) post an Ultimate BP/CSS guide that shows how to target each of the BP specific elements… without doing theme surgery.. like a cut&paste into the CSS customizer –BONUS if it can include media queries 🙂
anyway.. rant over..
