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It’s a mock-up indeed: http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/new-buddypress-theme/

That was either a mockup or from a very early version of BuddyPress. I’ve never seen it.

What Mythailife said. We get asked this virtually every week.

@Detective Thanks for the fix! it worked!

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/wp-sigupphp-and-register#post-26127

By the way, for those of you that are wondering, you have to add Detective’s fix to your theme’s functions.php file!

I was also having the error where the code was stopping at:

<script type=”text/javascript”>var ajaxurl = “http://yourdomain.com/wp-signup.php&#8221;;</script>

Detective, How exactly did you figure this out and how does the fix work and why are we getting this error? This should be a fix for the next release of BuddyPress.

Also, everyone, make sure you copy over the functions in the “functions.php” file from the bp-sn-parent theme to the “functions.php” file in your own theme. Without these functions, some things won’t work like member and blog listings as well as sidebar customization when using the “home.php” template.

For example if members.TLD.com is Blog id 2, put this in your wp-config.php:

define( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, 2 );

The text “The default theme for BuddyPress” cannot be translated as it is in a .css file. As only the site administrator will see that text when they activate the theme, is it a big issue? The other text here is part of WordPress.

The wrong path thing is more interesting and there are some other forum posts here with that problem. I don’t know when I will get time to look into it so maybe someone else can help.

No, I’ve asked that question already. They want to make this site unique. Makes sense…

hi,Your page will not be accessible as http://yourdomain.com/features.php as it resides in your theme,It should be accessible via http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/your_theme_name/pages/features.php

Now my advise,better look at How to use page template in wordpress.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates

You can use your features.php as page template and create a page features, so this file can be accessed via yourdomain.com/features

Hope it helps.

Same here, and I’ve tried moving the bptheme files to the wpmu theme files directory and activating them there and still the 404 error on everything, All the codex.buddypress pages have gone blank to for installation instructions too so yeah not looking great is it….

This is really cool! Thanks it really makes the blog function fit in with the rest of buddypress! super vet gedaan man

Great idea and I would love to help out in creating buddypress themes.. I’m experienced in making themes, but not familiar with wordpress/buddypress but I think it would be good to have a site dedicated to bp themes only

I am trying to get an old theme called darkpress theme to work without any success. The home page goes blankm, however the members areas are fine. How can I go back to buddypress 1.1. Where can I download the old buddypress 1.1? The new default theme works fine on the homepage.

You could look in file bp-core-templatetags.php, but I’m not sure there is anything direct.

Have you looked at the profile-loop.php file (in member-theme/profile in 1.0.x installations)? You could put OTHER member conditional code in there, using !bp_is_home().

You can make use of bp_current_user_id(), and the parameterised versions of functions such as bp_has_blogs() to obtain other member details.

Also, please note that after installation you have to transfer theme files from

wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes

to

wp-content/themes/

The folders you need to move are:

bp-default

and

bp-sn-parent

If you do not do this, you’ll be getting 404 errors! Read the install directions!

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/

If you are making a custom theme, make sure to move the extra template files to your new theme folder!

@Jacoby who wrote “I’m curious how many queries other social network sites use on a single page load.”

I was too, and saw that it varies widely — from about 40 queries per page for the commercial SocialEngine script (which now includes Zend fragment and full page caching, very nice) to the mind-blowing 1.364 queries just to show the Dashboard on Elgg as reported in Elgg’s own forum. As for Drupal, it makes a similar number of queries per page as BuddyPress (of course it depends on the number of modules, etc) and with that level it is such a mess that Jesse Farmer, the main developer for Popsugar (the most trafficked social network built on Drupal) abandoned the project and wrote on a developers forum that Drupal is impossible to scale and “it would have been easier to start from scratch”. And bear in mind that Popsugar got $5 million from Sequoia Capital, so they have plenty of money to “throw hardware” at the problem.

@DJPaul, who said “Your post is not very constructive as you haven’t suggested a particular page on a site which interested developers could look into – saying that the entire thing needs attention may be valid, but we need to start from somewhere.”

I am not a coder, so how about starting here: I will pay $500 dollars to the person or team that reduces the number of queries on the main Buddypress blog page to around 20 (which is the normal number for a WordPress blog running the default theme). I am ready to escrow this money on the site of their preference.

Update-

I know this is a dead thread, but the code is all still functional, and it’s a good tip for people, so I’m just going to append the latest update of the wiki/WPMU integration theme.

More info, change log, and download here: http://aaron.dighumanities.org/2009/10/19/mediawiki-wpmu-deep-style-integration-update/

@madyogi

Your questions are really better asked in a new thread, not in this thread.

To help you get started, have a look here:

BuddyPress Codex

You may have issues accessing that link at this time. It is a known issue that is being investigated. But, once it’s accessible, you will find many resources there to help you get started.

Hey all. I have just been hired full time as a web developer and videographer for a major medical school. The idea is to create a site that will recruit more young people to go into healthcare related fields.

Anyway, I want to use WPMU and Buddypress as the architecture for content management and some social networking components. I have a good bit of WordPress experience, but am completely new to BuddyPress. I am right now in the process of developing a totally custom theme for the site.

There is a lot of content outside just the main blog and the BuddyPress components. The wordpress functionality is basically complete and I’m now starting on the BuddyPress portion. I’m a bit confused as to how to step into the theme development. Is there a good explainer somewhere that might help me understand how exactly the BP components are called or hooked into what would otherwise be a standard WP theme?

I would not be able to share the custom build with the community as it would not have any applicability outside this site, but once I get my feet wet, I would be happy to help develop a more generic theme to donate to the cause.

Personally… I would just try to make it work with jQuery instead since WordPress already includes it… and then you won’t be using two JS Frameworks. I’m pretty sure that anything MooTools can do… jQuery can do.

I was looking at http://www.dailywp.com/jobpress-wordpress-theme/ which is in use at http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/. I was wondering if it was compatible with WPMU and Buddypress.

I would definitely interested in ur jobboard component!