@Modemlooper so if I’ve installed the TwentyTen child theme, should I also have that as the main theme? I currently have the Default BP theme as my main theme, and the TwentyTen as child. Is that not workable? Or do you mean that I need to create a new child theme based on the Default theme as well as keeping the TwentyTen child theme?
Wow! @mercime !!!!!!! Thanks so so much for your post. Heading to modify what’s necessary right now. Regards!
@jeremyltn Nice. I agree with techguy re adding some links above-fold, “Employers”, “Candidates” and “Services” at least.
@techguy – this tutorial might help you getting a blog page in main site, Just make sure to delete the extra spaces between the ? and greater/less than symbols in code posted 
I’d love to have that feature too! buddypress.org has that feature. Under each profile there is a form for us to post comments directly to friends. I’d like to be able to do that in my site.
Regards.
Martin
Child themes do not get deleted, only the files inside wp-content/plugins/buddpress/bp-theme
This is why you never modify those files. if you want to change those files, then you copy them to your child theme folder preserving the folder structure.
If you want to change the header then you copy over the header.php to child them folder and BP will use this file instead of the one in the plugins folder. No fear of it getting wiped out on upgrades.
@r-a-y Nice bit of code. You can extend this to also show how many faves a post has:
= ( $fav = bp_activity_get_meta( $activity_id, ‘favorite_count’ ) ) ? $fav : 0
So if it will delete all the files during an update, then what’s the point of customizing? I don’t understand that. And won’t the same thing happen then when I customize the child theme and later apply the update to it?
I am using WP 3.0.1 and BP 1.2.5.2
I am definitely sure that others can see my admin, and not just some parts of it. One fo the other users and I were trying to sort this out, and she coudl see exactly what I see. She actually accessed my admin where she could see the Super Admin links, and she accessed these through one of the other member’s admin area. I suspect the problem lies in that when users register, they end up not as independent users, but as users on the main site ie. mine. When I look at the “sites” area in my admin, i can see that there are many users whose site address is http://melbournemodernquiltguild.com, and then there are a few (ie. a minority) with site addresses as http://melbournemodernquiltguild.com/username. The only thing we’ve been able to establish as to how come this is, is that it seems that if users create a blog at the same time as when they first create their account, they end up with their own site address, ie. http://site/username. Otherwise, if they first create their account, then at a later time create a blog, they end up as a user on http://sitename.com. And I cannot figure out why that is.
These are the plugins I have currently have activated:
Akismet
BP Blog Author Profile Link
BuddyPress
BuddyPress Chat Component
BuddyPress Follow
BuddyPress Group Email Subscription
BuddyPress Like
BuddyPress Profile Privacy
Eventbrite for The Events Calendar
Fast and Secure Contact Form
Invite Anyone
More Privacy Options
Network Privacy
One Quick Post
The Events Calendar
TinyMCE Advanced
Welcome Pack
Hi Paul, here are the plugins that are active:
Akismet
BP Blog Author Profile Link
BuddyPress
BuddyPress Chat Component
BuddyPress Follow
BuddyPress Group Email Subscription
BuddyPress Like
BuddyPress Profile Privacy
Eventbrite for The Events Calendar
Fast and Secure Contact Form
Invite Anyone
More Privacy Options
Network Privacy
One Quick Post
The Events Calendar
TinyMCE Advanced
Welcome Pack
There is also this warning at the top of the Plugins page:
“The plugins page is not visible to normal users. It must be activated first. Activate”
I haven’t done that because I’m concerned that other users who can get into my admin area will do something bad.
@jeremyltn Super! I know a lot of people will be excited about this. Thanks!
@pollyplummer thanks for the blog post. I didn’t think there was such a demand, but will add it to the repo once I get a chance to work out some of the issues. @rossagrant I’m going to work on the header issues. By default the message is sent from the account ID 1 (usually admin), it could be from blank if this account doesn’t exist. I’ll make it send from the logged in user in the next version.
First of all, do not add switch_to_blog function on the bp-default theme which I now see you’re using on the main site. Let me clarify how to do this.
– If you have BP activated in main site, or blog_id_1, the theme or child theme you use for the main blog must not have the switch_to_blog function in navigation at all.
– You only use the switch_to_blog function in theme/s for the subblogs or subsites.if you want the main navigation of main site in your subblogs
So if you are going to use the twentyten theme for your subblogs, then this is what you replace:
http://buddypress.pastebin.com/GDKypDpU
then, copy/adjust the CSS from main site’s theme
thanks
last question @r-a-y
I tried it also with bp_get_members_slug()
it doesnt work?
@nickmy – That’s actually your code, I just corrected it 
You should do a conditional for only the group you want to modify.
if ( bp_get_group_slug() == 'YOURSLUG' )
locate_template( array( 'groups/single/'. bp_get_group_slug() . '.php' ), true )
@warut. Fantastic… would love to implement your plugin on our site.
Make sure you activate the default BuddyPress theme or create a suitable child theme. BuddyPress is more than a plugin, you need a compatible theme.
You might consider tweaking the BP Group CSS plugin. Perhaps disable the “Group CSS” admin option except for Site Super-Admins. That way all the group’s default CSS settings will be set to your theme’s CSS files but then you as the Site Super-Admin can individually change the CSS for each group as you please.
@r-a-y thank you very much yep now it works but I sill need help
If I use your code I need to create a file for each group otherwise I get a blank page.
and will this have disadvantages???
@nickmy – You have the right idea.
However change bp_group_slug() to bp_get_group_slug().
locate_template( array( 'groups/single/'. bp_get_group_slug() . '.php' ), true )
@shimmermoss – Make the changes as outlined in the patch. There are three files you have to modify. You’ll most likely have to access these files via FTP to edit them.
