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I personally like the wpmu buddypress templates of Milo (3oneseven.com), these probably aren’t beginner class, but they still are awesome.

http://3oneseven.com/wpmu-buddypress-themes/

I’m using the template “Bruce” right now as a reference for my own buddypress community.

Had the same problem with an older buddypress template (deprecated template) on a new buddypress release. Gave me a 404 even when I used either of the forum installs. Then when I used the newest release of the template it worked fine. So yes, its most likely the same problem.

Why not just take an existing template that works and edit that? As far as I know there shouldn’t be any major changes on templates anymore.

The default BP theme works perfectly fine for me in Safari, FireFox and Chrome. Make sure you are using the most up-to-date version of Safari. Also, if you don’t use FireBug, I recommend that you do.

Hey Erich,

in header.php look for this bit around line 47:

<input type="text" name="log" id="user_login" value="<?php _e( 'Username', 'buddypress' ) ?>" onfocus="if (this.value == '<?php _e( 'Username', 'buddypress' ) ?>') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = '<?php _e( 'Username', 'buddypress' ) ?>';}" />

Use this instead:

<input type="text" name="log" id="user_login" value="" />

Don’t forget to copy header.php into your child theme.

No, what you need to do is copy header.php and footer.php into your child theme and adjust them. Then, if you need different headers for each section do it with if statements (also in header.php and footer.php). You can find all the conditional tags in the BP codex.

You could also code a little switcher that works with includes. That way you’d have the various headers in different files. It’d be easier to maintain.

Updated AvenueK9 theme for BP 1.1.1 here >> http://www.avenuek9.com/avenuek9-bp-theme … BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! It now comes with EVEN MORE documentation!! AND THAT’S NOT ALL… it’s completely FREEEEEE!

You can also demo it at http://michaelkuhlmann.com

Enjoy

Updated AvenueK9 theme for BP 1.1.1 here >> http://www.avenuek9.com/avenuek9-bp-theme … BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! It now comes with EVEN MORE documentation!! AND THAT’S NOT ALL… it’s completely FREEEEEE!

You can also demo it at http://michaelkuhlmann.com

Enjoy

There’s no such thing as a simple adjustment in CSS. A 1px change can ‘blow up’ a layout very easily. Nothing wrong with the code provided in the default themes. It’s actually really solid.

Yeah, they (Andy) made Buddypress in a really weird never before seen way, I had too hack my whole theme to just get it back to normal. Your idea sounds great as well, about the advanced and simple blog option, if they hook it, then you could even make the advanced blog a VIP (paid) only option.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, I’m not that good of a coder, so for me this is impossible, the fact that your asking for someone to make a plugin, suggests that your not a hardcore coder either. So we’ll just have to hope that someone reads this and wants to help.

Anyway, back on topic..

“Add a global header to EVERY blog in your WPMU install (by default the global header isn’t activated on the mainblog) with adding your own HTML and CSS.”

So, plug and play as far as I can see, you can even use PHP in it if you’d like. Not sure how well it’ll work together with Buddypress, but it should show a bar on top of every blog.

Might be a silly question but do you have any forums created for any of your groups?

After many tries, I decide I am going to try to adopt detective method, however I am not verse in what is parent/child theme.

What do I need to do in order to get it to work? Where must I add the code to call out the child them. I would be glad if someone would be able to direct me to tutorial where I can have a look to see what is going on.

Sounds interesting to me, but the only add you made is the “favorites” on the bar, other than that you can already use that plugin (global header).

I’m personally working towards removing the blogs fully and just give each member 1 blog on their normal profile page, that way you just have everything of a member on one page, without the option of themes and making more than 1 blog. Basicly the same as any social community works (facebook for example). I’m also looking for a way for members to change the look and feel of their profile page, so that they can differentiate a little from the rest (background, colors etc.). But that’s just me rambling..

Hi, I’ve upgraded to 1.1.1 and am getting lots of these warnings, too. A custom theme from dev.wpmu.org

I’ll post over there to see if they claim responsibility!

Superb!

#1 – I’ve had problems with things not showing up. In what folder have you put your BP-theme?

found typo, but = not.

What’s the url of your member’s blog? What theme is he/she using?

Don’t edit the parent theme, this will give you grief down the road. Instead create a new child theme and copy the header.php template into it. Make your edits then activate that theme instead.

Diesel: Nice site. I’m doing something similar, except it is centered on journalists.

As for changing the site title to an image, I copied header.php from the parent theme, commented out the “<h1 id=”logo”>” block and replaced it with this bit of code:

This function helps provide the ‘Latest Forum Topics’ list of topics which is default; part of the parent theme on the forum index page.

For your help:

Here is the case breakout of the types

break;

case 'alphabetical': default:

$this->groups = groups_get_alphabetically( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

case 'random':

$this->groups = groups_get_random_groups( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

case 'newest':

$this->groups = groups_get_newest( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

case 'popular':

$this->groups = groups_get_popular( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

case 'most-forum-topics':

$this->groups = groups_get_by_most_forum_topics( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

case 'most-forum-posts':

$this->groups = groups_get_by_most_forum_posts( $this->pag_num, $this->pag_page );

break;

}

As you can see, if specifying ‘most-forum-topics’ it runs:

From there it does a straight up dynamic select to the database to get the forum data.