BuddyPress.org

BUT at the same time, when I search for buddypress theme – it is is not showing up as a download option…

That’s because it’s not available as a standalone theme, it has been suggested that it might be in future and likely will be.

Less worry should be placed on this, people will be able to use bp-default for ever and a day if they wish, and it’s pretty easy now to decouple it from the core files and run the templates and styles from a theme or child theme.

i think it is interesting in what buddypress/bbpress is suppose to be about community engagement which seems to be quit the opposite.

I think that’s a little unfair, @mercime and I have gone to great lengths with the codex effort to make things as inclusive as possible with posts, tweets, polls, and requests in general for feedback from the community at large.

It’s worth keeping an eye on BP blog posts & bpdevel.wordpress.com to keep abreast of what’s happening.

One thing – perhaps to what Boone refers – that would help and that has been discussed and is favoured by some is to try and vring the three major aspects of BP under one domain proper so themeing, Documentation, and core dev exist as subdomains of buddypress.org and as such have their own homes for news and updates.

Thanks for joining in the conversation.

Though I’m still pretty confused with the semantics used —

That it is not being abandoned and will live on as a “legacy theme” BUT at the same time, when I search for buddypress theme – it is is not showing up as a download option…

I mean, take for example – I am currently running the “bp-default,” if I were to experiment with a new theme “Theme-X” – would I have any way to revert back to “bp-default” with a simple activation?

Not providing further update for bp-default is one thing, but Why not leave “bp-default” in the theme repository with that note that it is no longer being update?
To provide another option, if nothing else.

BuddyPress doesn’t have a very straightforward way to add links like this to the Groups menu. By design, the links in the group nav are intended to correspond to sub-pages of the Group (which are created by BP_Group_Extension), rather than arbitrary external links.

That said, while we don’t have a very elegant way of making this happen, you could rig something up to directly insert the link data into the navigation array, just before it gets printed to the screen. Something like this:

function bbg_add_my_profile_to_group_nav() {
    // Logged-in users only
    if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
        return;
    }

    // Bail if not looking at a group page
    if ( ! bp_is_group() ) {
        return;
    }

    buddypress()->bp_options_nav[ bp_get_current_group_slug() ][] = array(
        'name' => 'My Profile',
        'link' => bp_loggedin_user_domain(),
        'slug' => 'my-profile',
        'css_id' => 'my-profile',
        'position' => 9999999, // make it last
        'user_has_access' => true,
    );
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bbg_add_my_profile_to_group_nav', 100 );

Note that you can’t use the function bp_core_new_subnav_item() here, because you’re not registering a valid screen callback (among other reasons). Thus the hack of directly inserting the link into the nav.

Good luck!

Another brief thought: You say that the Register component is linked at Dashboard > Settings > BuddyPress > Pages. But make sure that the linked WordPress page has its status set to Publish.

It’s weird that it’s appearing as blank. This could be the case of a failed redirect.

Make sure that registration is enabled on your site. On Multisite, go to Dashboard > Network Admin > Settings; you’ll see a set of radio buttons where you can select “Users can register” or something like that. On non-Multisite, go to Dashboard > Settings > General, and make sure that “Anyone can register” is checked. (What I suspect is happening is that you don’t have registration turned on. BuddyPress tries to handle this for you by redirecting people away from the Register page when registration is closed, but it could be that the redirect is failing because of something about your Windows setup. Just a hunch.)

If you’re talking about the author icon on a *blog* post page, then it probably doesn’t have anything to do with BuddyPress – that’s handled by your WordPress theme. In any case, it’s likely that you’ll have to change it in a template file, or at least use CSS.

What theme are you using?

I am also having this problem-though only since I upgraded to Buddypress 1.9. Does anyone know how to get the comments to show again for non-logged in users? I have seen other buddypress sites where I can see the comments without logging in, but maybe they didn’t update? Any help would be appreciated.

I created a version without BuddyPress that you can try
https://github.com/modemlooper/Buddy-Default

Pretty gutted by this decision to not support bp-default as it seems to support bbpress and for my site personally, like the emphasis on forums, members activity stream.

https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/buddypress
Looking through the handful of buddypress/bbpress focused theme, there doesnt seem to be one thats quite barebones-functional like the Bp-default. Blog-post on the left-center and members/log-in widgets on the right.

Does buddypress have any plans to release a new “bp-default”?

thanks

If you have bp-default active it will still show when upgrading. If you deactivate bp-default it will not show.

Please consider moving your site to a new theme. There may not be fixes for any new features in the future.

The define listed above is for sites that do not want to upgrade theme right away. It was created as a fix to give sites time to move away from bp-default. Contact the theme developer and have them remove BuddyPress from your theme so it can use theme compatibility.

hi all

@mdpane The BP-Default theme is critical to my site. I am running wordpress and bbpress along with buddypress 1.9

A couple questions:

1- Does this mean if I update to buddypress 1.9.1, my bp-default theme will disappear?

2- Regarding the solution you posted, of adding the code, what exactly does that do? Does it activate the BP-Default theme should you install BP 1.9 or latter?

3- Will/Is my current installed BP-Default theme in risk of not working in the future?

Thanks

There are not enough contributors to BuddyPress to do something as extensive as the make.wordpress

Here is the current options to get involved https://codex.buddypress.org/participate-and-contribute/

BP Default Theme – moving forward with BP 1.9

As of BuddyPress 1.9, bp-default has been retired, so it won’t show up in your themes. However, you can create a file called “bp-custom.php” in your plugins folder which will force WP to load it. Add these lines to it:

<?php

add_filter( 'bp_do_register_theme_directory', '__return_true' );

?>

That should fix it for you.