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I hope the policy will be changed regarding child themes, since the default theme is bundled with BuddyPress I don’t think there is much of an issue.

What is the ratings plugin you’re using?

Oh. @Andrea_r –> any way you could point me to that particular Mike Pratt thread?

I was having major problems w/ sploggers. The link Chouf1 mentioned totally stopped ’em dead in their tracks. I think I’ve only had one splogger since, and it was a real person just typing it in somewhere in Thailand, trying to up their SEO ranking or something weird like that. :p

Dig the theme. Nice work.

zageek – in another thread @mikepratt mentioned he has a small number of required fields. If you just have the default stuff on signup, yeah, you’ll get flooded.

If you want, you can put it up at freebpthemes.com.

As far as I know, the theme repo doesn’t allow child themes.

I’ll also list it over at freebpthemes.com so more people can find it.

Actually there is a bug in your CSS file which is the reason it’s not picking up the bp-default as the parent.

In your child theme’s style.css you have:

@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/style.css );

This should be:

/* Inherit the default theme styles */

@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css );



/* Inherit the admin bar styles */

@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css );

This was totally my fault, and was a mistake in the writeup of how to do it. If you do it this way, you can simply add your style overrides in style.css below those two lines.

@diesellaws: Are you running WordPress 2.9? The bp-default theme will only be picked up in 2.9+, I’ve just tested and it worked fine for me.

Mostly what I mean by not copying over the stylesheet is that you should just override the bits you need to change (colors in your case)…

So in bp-default’s css you might have:

body {

background: #fff;

color: #000;

padding: 25px;

margin: 0;

}

Instead of copying that entire declaration, all you need to do in your child theme is:

body {

background: #000;

color: #fff;

}

That way you are not duplicating anything, and only overriding and changing what you need.

This bug was fixed after RC was released.

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1815

Looks great! Happy to see people starting to build child themes.

A couple of things I noticed – you probably didn’t need to copy all of the default theme css into your theme. This will be loaded when you call the @import() call to the default theme CSS. At the moment you are basically loading the CSS twice. You actually only need to override the bits you need. By doing that you will gain CSS updates from the default theme when it updates. So if anything new was added to the default in the future, you would inherit the new styles.

Also, in your instructions you mentioned you needed to move the default theme to the themes folder. You definitely shouldn’t do this, WordPress will automatically detect it is in the BuddyPress folder. If you move the default then you will never get any updates when BuddyPress updates – it sort of defeats the purpose.

Could you add this to the WP theme repository? That will allow you to keep track of stats, let people download from within their BP installation, and allow you to provide automatic updates to your theme.

Nice work!

This is a wpmu problem who happened also with the first 2.8.x version if i remember well…

so put it in the wpmu trac

https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/

Great to see a new theme and it looks very polished and cool! I have no use for a dark theme, but I’m sure there are a lot of people who will! Thanks for sharing this with the community

Have you read these recommandations ?

http://www.bp-tricks.com/tips_and_tricks/stopping-the-sploggers/

They help in many cases. Really.

Spam is becoming a serious threat to Buddypress. We need to create a dedicated Spam section to help people fight it.

Ever since I posted my site here in the showcase thread I suddenly had a flood of spam

I guess I win the prize!

Added instructions to keep old user / group avatars:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

Michael (or someone else), let me know if these instructions work for you.

I have a feeling the absolute path is going to throw some people off… feel free to edit the page!

Very nice job. Server is so slow though.

@thekmen please share. much appreciated.