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@ScotM – Although converting a WordPress theme to a BuddyPress child theme is a bit more challenging than converting an HTML template to a WordPress theme is, the basic concepts are the same – knowing at the very least, HTML and CSS plus basic PHP and JS, and adapting it to the required environment.

The level of difficulty and required skills for conversion of a WordPress theme to a BuddyPress theme depends on what aspects of that WordPress theme you want incorporated into your BuddyPress theme.

– If it’s the styling or layout, then level of difficulty and required skills = Medium.

– If it’s incorporating/combining functionality and design of a WordPress theme framework like what @designodyssey and @Windhamdavid are discussing above, then level of difficulty and required skills = High.

– If it’s incorporating/combining functionality of truly advanced layout designs and functions like what you would see in say, Headway theme or ithemes’ Builder Theme, then the level of difficulty and required skills = Superduper.

So to better address your question, my question is what WordPress theme were you thinking of porting over as a BuddyPress child theme?

The member directory alphabetizes by the ”Name” field, which is a mandatory profile field defaulted by buddypress. So the only place that the username is really displayed and used is in the url.

Hi Zastrow,

As far as I know there’s not an explicit way to edit the links from the admin site.

Just to be clear, if you don’t use Forums and Groups, disabling them BuddyPress ‘components setup’ page will automatically remove them from the user menus.

I’m not sure how comfortable you are with theme modification, but for more fine-tuning (including adding pages), you can create a simple child theme and in the functions.php file create actions to modify the menus. You action might look like this:

function mytheme_add_top_pages() {

wp_list_pages( 'title_li=&depth=1');

}

add_action('bp_adminbar_menus','mytheme_add_top_pages');

Please, note, I have not tested the above function!

Hi Grosbouff, thank you for all the update. As nexia mentioned above, the classifieds theme folder, css folder and js folder are not in the buddypress-classifieds 1.002 download. So does this mean we use the classifieds theme, css and js from buddypress-classifieds 1.0 beta download?

Those are tags you have to create in your data-blog and then put their “ids” in (eg:7,4)

My bad, read too fast and missed the last phrase Thank you.

The roles are retrieven from your blog. I don’t understand your question very well but you should find the usual wordpress roules there

Thank you. Strange thing really, when I checked the roles for classified ads in my test install this morning – there was no Keymaster role, and I could have sworn it was there in the classified roles list last night

Looking at the Roles & Capabilities panel of Classifieds (cool tool), almost all capabilities are self-explanatory except that I am not familiar with “Republish my Classifieds” – what does this mean and how can this be done? I haven’t explored the plugin that thoroughly yet so may be missing something.

Kudos Grosbouff for getting this plugin up and running with the bp 1.2 default theme.

Thanks again.

@1stAngel; Groupblogs is not presently compatible with wpmu 2.9.1.1 (for many). At the very least you’ll need to add the code mentioned in the middle of the linked topic below. That may, or may not help as results seem to vary. For me (with bp1.1.3) new group members are not automatically becoming blog members unless I promote them to Mods or Admins. Hopefully once bp 1.2 is stable the plugin can be updated to work well with 1.2 and wpmu 2.9.1.+:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-groupblog-error-call-to-undefined-function

I believe they just use a seperate bbpress install here.

i just downloaded this… and i see:

Move the directory buddypress-classifieds/theme/classifieds to wp-content/themes/your_current_theme.

…. problem is that we do not have that directory in the release…

I haven’t seen any plugins do this

Um. We’ve seen lots of issues on the forum here about corrupt installs via simplescripts or other weird options. I’d suggest you install WordPress and BuddyPress manually.

@odyssey ~ thanks for the nice writeup – one other step that I’ve found helpful in a merge is to call a custom – bp-header.php in the bp dependent files to reduce a bit of weight on the non bp pages, reduce any instances of javascript conflicts, increase the design and flexibility of the BuddyPress pages, and use bp specific functions(<?php bp_page_title() ?> in the alternate header.php ~ so I swapped out the get_header’s, sidebar’s, footers on the default theme with these ~<?php locate_template( array( ‘bp-header.php’ ), true ) ?> or <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/bp_header.php’); ?>

@jimi ~ http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/

you won’t have multiple/duplicate userdata in the db, buddypress will plugin just fine and you’ll be able to enable it on a per site basis for multi-site.

That’s not really a buddypress question, more of a bbpress question. If you’re using the one click install group forums, you wouldn’t be able to use any plugins anyway. The only way to use a plugin for this would be to use the external bbpress integration.

Has there been a plug-in developed to allow for this? Especially one that will work with 1.2?

Great thing – Grosbouff!

I tried it in my testinstall and the following experiences I made:

1. I couldn’t post a classified from the frontend – gave me a 400 error (could be, that it’s just me?!)

2. Posted from backend (created a post in the blog)

3. “All classifieds” in the directory says (0) – but there is one! All the other “tags” I created say (1) although I only posted it in one of them (“sachen”).

4. The advanced search doesn’t really work correctly: When I try to filter, it just ignores my setting.

5. When I click on a category-link underneath a classified – it jumps to the filtering, but shows nothing (although there for sure is one classified with that categorie

6. The design in the advanced search seems a little messed up in FIrefox 3.6 (the gray menu stops in the middle of the page)

7. The classified-activity doesn’t show up in the activity-stream. Not even, when I set the blog visible for everybody (also google)

8.The menu in the single-classified-view is underneath the text. Is that on purpose? The “Start” is empty… (should there be something)

So far my experienced “bugs” (if they are any…)

Further comments:

1. I like it very much!!!

2. Great idea with the ability to make tags dynamically showing up as tabs!

3. In my opinion it would be crucial that classified activity shows up in the activity-stream (in BP1.2 that is THE central point!)

4. The classifieds should have the possibility to react. I would recommend the same functions as any activity-item (comments, favorite) –>maybe that’s hard, because those are actually blogposts?

5. Pictures are very important (as mercime said). It is important to have the possibility to add pictures!

6. It should be translatable – but maybe that’s already in there, for your language is french . I would need german…

Thanks for your great job so far! I am really looking forward to it, et je te dire: merci beaucoup!!!

Greez from Switzerland (la Suisse)

http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/03/limit-number-of-blogs-per-user-for-wordpress-mu-and-buddypress-websiteblog-network/

This is not a BuddyPress question. This was introduced in a recent version of WPMU. I am closing this thread; if you need further information, please visit the WMPU forums.

Same trouble when i want to create a topic: “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare checked() in /home/vhosts/siteurl/wp-admin/includes/template.php on line 380”

WordPress-MU 2.9.1.1 + BuddyPress 1.1.3 (new installation)

Install WP/MU as a directory.

Directory install, is it in root.

BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in

Active plugins: “rus-to-lat”

Using the standard BuddyPress theme.

I didn’t modify the core files.

You can’t out of the box