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I am wondering if there is some file for the Main Theme that comes bundled with BuddyPress

There are two default themes that come with BP–the bphome theme and the bpmember theme.

My standard caveat when creating custom themes from the default themes:

Make sure that you make a copy of both bphome theme and bpmember theme. Your customizations should be done in copies, not the original. That way, if you have issues with your custom themes (and we all do when working on customization), you can switch back to the standard BP themes to see how things should work.

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With regards to your second issue, this thread may help

I believe that thread is more about the user getting 404 errors. My problem is that I’m not.

Pierce2-

You’re correct! My mistake.

Okay, do have the the bpmember theme selected in WPMU’s backend?

BuddyPress > General Settings > Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages

@Dabomb

Good luck with the customizations!

If this issue is resolved, as best it can be given the nature of your topic, please set the light to green above.

You can use any WordPress theme for the home theme.

But, to have success integrating it with BP, you’ll need to copy the functions.php in /bphome/ to your new home theme’s functions.php file. Also, there are certain code elements in the header.php file of the /bphome/ theme that you’ll need to add to your own home theme.

You may then also want to design a custom member theme that takes the look and feel of your home theme.

There is no option called “BuddyPress”, under “Site Admin” menu.

That is correct.

BuddyPress has its own menu grouping found at the very bottom of the menu group column. It is just below the Settings menu grouping.

Pierce2-

Thanks for the details.

Carefully read this thread and see if that solves your problem. Post back in this thread either way.

@Aran

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2059

buddypress theme as the main theme from buddydress (shout) but still I canot get the directory blogs to show the list when I click on the blogs

Does it work when using the default member theme, bpmember?

But to get the forums to look as though they’re part of your BuddyPress, do you need to do something with the forums theme locally?

If I put a link into the navigation bar at the moment, it takes me to the bbPress installation which looks completely different to the BuddyPress installation.

This site (buddypress.org, I mean) seems either to have integrated the call to the forums or made the forums look like the BuddyPress theme.

Anyone able to give me some pointers?!

Thanks in advance for any clues…

Whatever theme you want to be the default for your blogs needs to be put in the ‘default’ folder in the wp-content > themes.

If you want to use the buddypress home theme for the blogs copy it (with your customizations) into the default folder. The folder needs to stay named Default. When WPMU/BP creates a blog, it will use whatever the Default theme is.

All the best to you!

@Peterpan77 – please do not shout. No-one replied to your last post a week ago, and shouting won’t have convinced anyone otherwise.

If you do not have exactly the same problems that Sugarmindy has, please start a new topic.

@Sugarmindy – most of this thread consists of posts you have made. Personally I find it very hard to collect and compile all of your info in my head. Can I suggest we start over? Please reply here providing the info we have asked for at https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2674 and summarise your problems again, like you did in the first post (if they are still relevant). Thanks

@ M:

when will the plugin become available to download ?

Mcmc-

installed via simplescript at bluehost

This may be your issue. You really should not be installing complex software platforms like WPMU by using third-party installers. You should manually install WPMU paying careful, close attention to the readme.txt file that comes with it.

Also, search the forums for “BlueHost” to see the issue other users have when using simplescripts. Here’s one to get you started.

the redirection plugin (checked that already), avatar plugin, wordpress.com stats, akismet, statpressCN, Sociable, Author Avatars List, google analytics

To isolate WPMU and BuddyPress issues, you need to deactivate all plugins. This means that BuddyPress should be the only plugin running period. If your site issues go away, then you activate one plugin at a time, testing with each reactivation, until you get the problem again.

not aware of any relevant errors

The question asks for a listing of any errors in your server’s log files, it does not ask for you to decide whether or not they are relevant.

When providing a listing of errors, you do not need to copy into the thread the entire contents of each error file. A single error can be repeated many times. We just need a single instance of each, unique error. More times than not that is sufficient. If we need more info, we may ask to see the entire contents.

Yah… whichever file has your Home, Blog, Groups, Members etc. navigation. You could maybe just hardcode those links instead of using a buddypress function and then wrap the ones your want hidden with that if statement. Again… I’m just talking off the top of my head. I haven’t actually tried this. I think you might have to do it in a few places though since home uses it’s own theme right? Let us know if you get it working. I’m going to want to do a similar trick (for the time being… until the permissions access component is released).

For those that want to use this solution with a theme like ‘default’ or ‘classic’, I think this is enough to get you going. For me, I find it a bit discontinuous to start from the buddypress theme home page and then bounce into the ‘classic’ theme of some individual user, and still think about it all as being the same site. I completely respect that that is a legitimate model & approach. It’s just not what I have in mind for my particular implementation.

Unfortunately, it’s not quite enough to just make the facebuddy theme default for all users. The ‘thing’ I want to ‘resolve’ is that for any user’s new blog, wordpress basically gives that user their own buddypress front page, that the user then needs to configure with their own widgets and stuff through the wordpress admin.

For my needs, I would like to make something that is more turnkey for new users, such that they only have to register & create the blog & start posting. I don’t want them to have to think about layout. I may offer them the option, but I want their blog home page to look polished off the bat. Furthermore, this ideal default setup would have a unified feel with the entire site so that as you went from user blog to user blog, a visitor feels like all the content look & feel is homogenous across all blogs in the wpressMU install.

Another way to put this idea is … when you go to the user’s specific blog page, there should more emphasis on the fact that it is a user of the main site discussing on some specific site topic, within the context of the site branding, etc …. rather than making the distinction that you are visiting someone else’s blog. Like a newspaper … only the by-line and the article content vary.

I have some ideas on ways I can approach this. If anyone else is interested in this, I’d be happy to share ideas and collaborate on knocking out a solution. Maybe someone has already solved this problem, but if they haven’t, I imagine it could be useful to a few other folks as well.

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For example: ‘team’ instead of ‘group’

It sounds like you are specifically talking about changing slugs. If that is the case, read this article that Andy wrote.

Trying to accomplish the same objective, I found this article: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/1463

After following the setup directions, when I created a new user, created a blog, created a post, and then went to view the post, it appeared in the expected theme. As the user, I *did not* need to go to set the theme myself.

Towards the end of the thread, there is the following

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As of 2.7 this information:

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Lines 311 and 312 of wp-admin/includes/schema.php in the populate_options function.

add_option(‘template’, ‘yourthemename’);

add_option(‘stylesheet’, ‘yourthemename’);

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