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@thewomaninus
== I have Artisteer and started working on a theme and since I just installed buddypress am now wondering “Will it even work with it?” ==

It could work with BP Template Pack, BUT
1. personally, I’d recommend against using Artisteer to generate your theme. Better to download theme closest to design you want from https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ then adjust accordingly.
2. code generated could most possibly make it harder for your to integrate BuddyPress template files
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/
3. don’t know whether any javascript generated from creating that theme with Artisteer would have conflict with BuddyPress or BP plugins.
4. etc.

== Can anyone explain to me how to have the front page of my site not as a blog or buddypress? Then to have a blog of different Categories on different tabs? Then a place to click to go into where buddypress would be? Does that make sense? ==

Yes, I know what you mean. That is basically a WordPress template question. Create a Page Template, put in code for that template, publish the page with custom Page Template and set it as front page of your site.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates
https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
For more thorough assistance on this area, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates

The bar you see at the top of the screen at e.g. http://testbp.org/ and this site is the BuddyPress Admin Bar. Did you disable it from logged out users in dashboard > BuddyPress menu ?

@Brooker , any news mate? would be interested in getting a plugin done for this

== so I think its unlikely I can get into contact with him ==

@JamieWade I would recommend you leave a message for @sbrajesh at at his site because he’s the one who can address necessary updates to the theme..

@r-a-y, I would love to use this, but I get: `Fatal error: Class ‘BP_Core_User’ not found in`

@DJPaul but that was to fix the incorrect nesting of elements, the paragraph tags still exist for the bp_the_profile_field_value()

would not something like xprofile_get_field…() be better?

Those don’t appear to have an action or a filter attached. If you make an enhancement ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/, we can add some to the next version of BuddyPress for you.

We fixed this in trunk the other day. Take a look at the change here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4351/

If you don’t want to use those components, go to your site’s Wp-admin -> BuddyPress -> Components, and disable the ones you don’t want.

@mercime
Could you post a link to an article explaining how to do it?
Cheers,

@phoenon I can confirm that code works well. you should check your step by step implementation.

@eventfulsd

When logged-in, simply visit the Members Directory or the member’s Profile and click “Add Friend”.

EDIT: remember to also make sure “Friends” is enabled under “Buddypress” > “Component Setup” in your WordPress backend.

@phoenon what are you having trouble with? I need a link to your site or you could use firebug and tell me what errors are occurring.

and thanks @4ella

The theme on buddypress.org is not and will be not be available. Full stop.

The Buddypress.org theme isn’t too far down the line from the buddypress default theme. Some heavy CSS measures might be required however.

No.