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BOOM! https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/bp-default-theme

Is there a place to upload zips of just the theme? Here maybe? bp.org/download/theme ?

I want to add direct zip download link.

This should be a new topic but I agree with Roger. I think BP-default should be on WordPress.org. I’ve had on many occasion needed an older version. It also gives users an indication they can use another BuddyPress theme from .org. I would even go as far as not bundling BP-default and only use .org. It’s easier to delete a theme when beginners mess up code and download via .org than to mess inside /buddypress

I will create codex page. We need a discussion about the theme changes in 1.7 so it will be done properly to benefit the community. I know there is talk of using something like bbPress but I have struggled to understand its method and this is not good for designers who are not as good with php

Each person’s personal activity is on their profile’s activity stream. For instance:

http://testbp.org/members/johnjamesjacoby/

What I think you want to have is a filtered activity to only show people they are friends with – is that the case?

If that is then you want to look to customise the activity loop and a good starting point would be here:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

I’d like to check what you are trying to do here if that is ok. Are you trying to add pages to the entire BuddyPress site or just show extra pages when on the directory pages eg; members, groups? Or are you adding page templates to the theme directory for BuddyPress?

This is why beta/RC testing helps us identify areas that we’ve inadvertently broken, so we can address any regressions.

Other argument: why can’t we make minor changes to the theme? In 1.6, we’ve made some JS and CSS improvements to allow parts of those things to be more easily overridden by child themes. I think that’s the extent of the changes, though I can’t remember until I/we write up the release notes.
Functionality hasn’t changed. The more drastic theme changes in the old 1.5 did cause some upgrade complications, and we’ve learnt from that.

The themes are versioned. I don’t believe CSS/JS tidy up merits a “new” theme. If/until BP-Default is put on WordPress.org’s theme repository, if someone wants to make e.g. a codex page with links to .zip of BP-Default from each BuddyPress, go for it.

At any rate, we all know the pain points in building a BuddyPress theme based off BP-Default at the moment. Future releases of BuddyPress won’t ship with a theme, so this problem will eventually go away.

Guys – bp-default shouldn’t change with every release of BP, particularly if you’re encouraging people to build child themes off it.

If you want to change look and feel of the default theme packaged with BP, you should release it under a new name, pretty much as WP does (kubrick.. default.. twenty ten… twenty eleven). Then when a user upgrades the core, their site will continue to look and feel just the way they intended it to.

If, because of the nature of BP (regular new features), you’d also like to offer a parent theme that grows with each release, then OK — offer that as a second option — but label them clearly.

Bump. Anyone? Or maybe @djpaul?

Need to finish writing the change log too

@mercime We’d have hope theme authors were testing their themes when we were in beta — but if you find any regressions in BP-Default in RC, please raise trac ticket

As people might be know, Web Notifications (http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/) are similar to how Growl displays its notifications, but are very different in most ways. You can see them in Safari 6 and Chrome today. In OS X Mountain Lion, notifications appear in the new “Notification Center” (http://photos.appleinsider.com/notificationcenter_hero1.jpg — the grey vertical column on the right). I believe they will also appear in iOS 6’s existing notification panel, but I haven’t tested that.

I don’t know if Web Notifications support will be added in the *next* version of BuddyPress, but I’m going to try to get them into a future version of BuddyPress. I’m actually playing with some implementation ideas for another plugin that I am working on, so by the time it comes to BuddyPress, it ought to work nicely.

@michaeljdornan it’s unfortunate that sbrajesh’s Join Blog Widget for WPMS doesn’t work in your WP MultiNetwork /BP MultiNetwork installation. Following options are available: you’d have to code one or hire a developer to do so for you or wait for a developer to release a free plugin just like the Join Blog Widget for your set up.

You’re welcome @timetraveler – Marking this as resolved.

@gswaim as I see it, the theme dev intentionally made the BP pages full-width.

Initial scan shows that you’d have to revise around 16 BP template files within 6 BP folders included in your supermassive theme (I assume they are bec. dev said it was BP-ready) to change the HTML markup and add style classes as well as sidebar to the BP pages. Not sure whether you’d have to pay the theme dev to provide the revised pages or if he/she would provide revised template files for free.

Thank you @boonebgorges First tests looking good except for a couple of my custom bp-default child themes

Have to update BP Codex on new Activity Stream panel, group/sitewide forums, etc

@tomcoady we are aware of the search issue on this site. I suggest you use Google in the meantime with “buddypress.org keywords or phrases” as this site’s been indexed pretty well

@websitevala start off with hardening your WP installation before activating BuddyPress https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/ ?

https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/