I’ll try to help a little….
1. Buddypress by default sends an email to user for activation. Your theme may not be pulling the “ and all the code thereafter. Check to see if switching to buddypress default fixes that.
2. Yes you can create your own login page. The easiest was is using a plugin like Theme My Login, though you could always do your own custom stuff.
BP-Default 1.3’s CSS is mine. @mercime has recently identified a number of issues which I am working through; if anyone wants to look at it with me, get in contact soon.
While I’m far from the most knowledgeable BuddyPress guy, that seems like it would be difficult to do even for the most skilled of developers.
Bit of a drag that we have to loop thru all members, but this works and I couldn’t figure out a better way
http://code.hyperspatial.com/all-code/buddypress-code/is-user-online/
@uloga – Are these things you are able/willing complete on your own, or are these ideas for a core wishlist?
@JJJ: Yeah I thought about the performance implications. Although I must say that the opinions about this are vastly different. a few http requests might make it slower, but these days that might not a big deal if theme development would be a lot easier. Actually combining adminbar.css, reset.css and using style.css for the base layout would solve this problem 
Shortcodes: Nice! I’ll look into that.. well I’ll ask @imath. Can’t program 
Supporter: Yeah it needs work and a lot of effort and planning.. sounds like a challenge
@bowromir
CSS
Decoupling the CSS into smaller pieces seems like it would go against the cardinal rule of minimizing HTTP requests to speed up page load times. Having everything turned on would load up 10 separate CSS files, just for the theme itself. They’d naturally be enqueued hierarchically so they cascade correct, so if one of them hangs for some reason, you end up with theme spaghetti.
I’d suggest giving this a shot and comparing the speed differences with BP trunk on your average web host account to see what the real-world impact would be. If it’s negligible or we can minimize the impact, I’m for it. Would be nice to separate it into structure, colors, etc… too.
Shortcodes
check out how the bbPress plugin is incorporating shortcodes, and how it’s theme compatibility works to get a head start on what will get ported into BuddyPress core in the near future (after 1.3) – I’m filtering the_content() and loading template parts in an output buffer, to inject bbPress forums into *any* existing WordPress theme with a page.php template file (with appropriate measures taken to minimize conflicts, etc…)
Supporter
The Supporter idea is neat, but doesn’t sound so much directly related to BuddyPress core. In the past, these kinds of donation based tasks don’t usually raise enough money for the hours of development that are involved in making something happen. Plus, who holds the money in escrow, who handles taxes and payouts, etc… It all gets really complicated, so you have your work cut out for you there.
@uloga
1. Decisions over options – and you’ll want to pair up with Maz and anyone else that’s interested in a new theme
2. How does privacy prevent spam?
3. I would suggest making this as a plugin to start. Having a proof of concept here is key.
4. Forums are already mine.
I’m interested in working on the bp-default theme. Some ideas:
– Splitting up the bp-default.css file into smaller CSS files on a per component basis. Then in turn load these stylesheets conditionally using the BP conditionals..
Ideally you would end up with:
Base.css (all the layout, typography and regular WP styling for posts and pages)
Activity.css (only activity stream css)
Member-Group.css
Forums.css (BBPress stuff)
In turn this means that theme development would be a little bit easier, since modifying the base theme would open up much more flexibility. In turn this means that the ajax functionality need to be refactored to apply the same concept as well. Splitting up the CSS and JS into “modules” and making them global and not tied to the core template layout would mean a huge step forward.
Besides that I’d like to work with @imath on extending the BuddyPress Shortcodes plugin. When this is handled properly it would allow you to display all kinds of BP content anywhere in a regular theme. It would not be a fully featured BuddyPress site, but it can be a powerful solution.
Finally I’d like to discuss the possibility of setting up a BuddyPress Supporter project powered by the community. The basic idea is so make one giant tip jar for (recurring) donations and using this money to fund cool BuddyPress related projects (chose and voted upon by the community). I understand that this might be hard to do on BP.org, but I’m willing to set up a special domain for that.
Looking forward to see more ideas pouring in
Without template files to display content, there is no BuddyPress. Having just gone through this with the bbPress plugin, it’s impossible to create custom WordPress components without theme files to back them up.
Are you saying you want to make a non-ajax default theme that is easier to extend?
I just think its wrong that a plugin takes over the entire WordPress theme. When you do that its not WordPress anymore its BuddyPress. It adds an additional layer of complexity that is not necessary. Additionally, keeping the theme inside of BuddyPress makes it too easy to couple the functionality of BP to its theme. This cohesion is what makes it so infuriating that your theme has to be “perfect” or it breaks all of the advanced BP functionality achieved with javascript. Separating the two would force BuddyPress to play nicer with WP.
First time I’ve heard anyone on VPS being told to take BP out @1stAngel. Seriously?
Please check out http://www.buddyboss.com. Our theme has a built in Facebook wall out of the box. It’s the real deal, much more Facebook-like than even buddypress.org.
Hi @sbrajesh.
Do you have a solution for this?
Thanks,
Giovanni
@candy2012.
Thanks!!!
I have not tried this yet but soon will. I’ve been waiting for a year for this solution. I wonder why the BP gurus dropped the ball on this.
I know this is an older topic but in case someone is still looking for answers; the unwritten fix for this seems to be to simply create pages within your theme and name them “groups”, “forums”, “activity”, “members” and “register”. The “Register” link only works when you are not logged in but does not return any error (it just brings you to the root url). Also, I had to re-install forums using the Suffusion BP pack after I created the pages. Hope this helps someone save time…
@Travel-Junkie Hello travel junkie , is this project dead forever or are you waiting for buddypress 1.3 so maybe should be actual in some future or are you already sure that it will never be released anymore ?
Bump. This is an issue related to recent changes on the wordpress.org site, and is still being looked into.
No, no; don’t start hacking WordPress or BuddyPress core files. You will cause yourself problems with upgrades in the future. This thread was 1.5 years old before ivanoats replied to it; ivanoats, I’m going to close this thread, but could you please make a new post with fuller details of what you’re trying to do, what you’ve done so far, the error you’ve got, the theme you’re trying to use, and the version numbers of BP and WP. Thanks.
This has been fixed in our dev version; take a look at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4169 for the fix
its under tools in my dashboard
BuddyPress Theme Compatibility
I was able to change every reference to https and make the page sure except for the user avatar which displays at the top bar of every page.
I am not able to understand what you’re saying due to the grammar errors.
using buddypress and there is a shopping cart attached
? Not able to understand either.
