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Not sure if this needs a separate thread, but as it is connected to the original post:

I have spanish speaking users and have uploaded the spanish Buddypress translations.

However:

– The buddybar follows the language settings of the blog it is on, not of the user that is logged in. Meaning that a Spanish speaker (with language settings -> Spanish on their settings) will see a nice Spanish buddybar when on their own blog, but when they go to an English blog (the main blog for example) then the buddybar turns to English, even though it is ‘their’ buddybar, with their blogs and links to their profile etc. Is this by design or a bug?

As the community homepage is almost separate from the main blog, it should follow the user-set language as well when loaded.

– As the translation is available, I think the language of the main blog/home theme should change according to the (logged in) user visiting it, else they are lost on the community homepage. However, currently it sticks strictly to the language settings of the main blog.

update: just created ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1245 but would like to hear your thoughts on this as well.

Cheers, Harry

You can try use another template or theme to see if the problem is the same as a default theme? I think on buddypress.org there is another bb 1.1 theme that is available for you to download.

There’s nothing about BuddyPress that makes it difficult to theme. The only reason most sites don’t deviate much from the default theme right now is simply because BuddyPress is still in it’s infancy and the people making sites with it are probably mostly hobbyists without a ton of design/css/html/php skills. There’s nothing stopping anyone from making a theme that looks nothing at all like the default theme.

Once you learn how you will design your theme, I hope you tell the rest of the community – and release the theme to the public.

Thanks for the advice…I guess. I feel like I was being scolded for asking a question… anyway.

First off, I think the work Andy and the gang did to make Buddy Press is brilliant. Which is why I picked it over other social site options.

Second, I know it is still in the beginning stage and totally look forward to all the themes and plugins to come. Another reason I picked Buddy Press.

Third, thanks for the advice of where the calls were for the user and options bar. I have managed to remove the me bar from profile pages.

Again thanks,

–Chew

Ok, so “functions.php” in the “bp-sn-parent” (which will be a child of WP Thme”) is one of those files that you don’t delete toghether with “header.php”, “footer.php”, index.php” (reduntants of the parent theme).

Thanks for the clarification.

It depends on how complicated your design is and how it differs from the default BP design.

With the new parent / child theming structure of BP (since v1.1), you won’t have to worry about updating your theme when BP gets an upgrade!

And… you also won’t find many BP theme frameworks right now since v1.1 just got released! So it’s probably easier to create a child theme of the default BP theme.

And also, I want to use the ‘admin-bar-logo’ rather than the text in adminbar. Is there an easier way to do this? aside from deleting adminbar.css?

I have spent more than 24-hours non-stop (literally!) to put back my site online after upgrading to Buddypress 1.1.1. I knew it would be painful but the new features and integration are something hard to pass. I have used this theme, and tweaked it a bit (btw, I don’t know anything about PHP) and combined it with my previous facebuddy theme. The site still looks awful (http://bloggista.net) like those sore at the Header Nav. Also the recently active avatars are lining up in one single line down to the bottom.

PHP Gurus, do you have some tips to a newbie like me how to fix it? It used to work nice before the upgrade, but somehow it looks bad now.

Argggg, I spent 24 hours of non-stop trial and error (considering I am a PHP noob) to make my site work after the buddypress 1.1.1 upgrade. Made a lot of tweaking with the avenuek9 theme to look like how my site used to looked like before the upgrade. I hope you gurus can make this How-to- stuff soon. If you look at my site, its still a mess (http://bloggista.net) but it should be back in its handsome form once those minor issues are ironed out. Like, the recently active avatars are lining up in single file down to the bottom as if they’re queuing for the some firing squad.

Thanks folks, looking forward to it.

chewbaker, it’s not really the job of a develper to supply the perfect theme to go with the software. Everybody wants something different anyways. Andy has created a brilliant starting point with the default theme and I don’t think it should be changed. He’s made it even easier to change things with the use of a parent theme, so I’m pretty confident that it’s not on any roadmap

BP is still in it’s beginnings. With time you will see a lot more child themes and probably a few parent themes from other people that might do exactly what you want. Either you wait for that to happen or you get your hands dirty and dive into the simplicity that is CSS. There’s loads of tutorials available on the net and a few really good ebooks that can get you started (search for o’reilly, for example).

As for your question, the two navigation bars are in files called userbar.php (the ‘me’ bar) and optionsbar.php. In the parent theme the call to these files are to be found in header.php all the way at the bottom surrounded by an if statement that tells the system to only display it on certain pages. You could move all three files to your child theme, delete the complete if statement in header.php and then include the call to userbar.php and optionsbar.php wherever you want them to appear. Any file you modify, though, you have to copy over to your child theme.

Happy experimenting!

Ahh. Perhaps it’s a path issue? Just for the heck of it… try a full path to that loop file… i.e. http://www.mysite.com/wp-content/……

That’s not a bad idea… just making an admin theme that looks more consistent with BuddyPress. Less jarring for newbies.

Have a look at style.css in your child theme. There should be a commented line saying something about a bp-custom.css file (I think it was called that). Uncomment that line, create that file in _inc/css/ and put your modifications in there. Because this file gets loaded later it will take precedence over existing files.

Previous to BP 1.1, all user registration was dealt with by WordPress, so it’s technically correct to point people towards existing WordPress/MU resources and forums for help.

Since BP 1.1, however, BP changes the new account confirmation/activation email – because on the standard BP 1.1 signup page, the user can pick their own password. And of course, it’s a security issue if we were to somehow send their (encrypted) password back to them. So BP 1.1 overrides the standard WordPress MU email so it doesn’t include the password text.

But, the activation link is part of WordPress. Yes, the BuddyPress default theme uses this behaviour too – but it calls the WordPress code.

Leave it alone. Most themes put a lot of functionality on functions.php. And, if the child theme has a functions file, both of them will be loaded.

@Detective

I got a question about the “functions.php” file that is “bp-sn-parent”.

I am trying to make yor approach of having the “WP Theme” as parent and the stripped out “bp-sn-parent” as a child.

You said:

The child theme will be the BP theme framework, but without the redundant files ( header, footer, archives, index, etc).

What am I supposed to do with functions.php? I guess it holds a lot of stuff needed by BP to function. I tried to copy/paste the whole code from functions.php in BP theme to functions.php in WP Theme: I got a blank page. No error messages displayed, just broke.

Well, just wanted to know about the use and the place of “functions.php” in BP and what I am supposed to do with it, if I follow your way.

Thanks in advance for insights.

What I would like to happen is remove the me column when i am looking at other peoples profiles… it should only be there when i am on my profile, not others. It does the same thing when looking at groups. Is there anyway to remove this???