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It would seem that you have neglected to copy the appropriate BP themes from under the BP-directory to themes directory and activate them at the buddypress blog dashboard.

Of course, having read the the documentation about installing BuddyPress, you already knew that…

So, could you give some more detailed information about your sitution?

This is a WPMU issue. Check this:

http://wpmudev.org/project/New-Blog-Defaults

It’s really more a feature request…and a good one. BP handles all the functions but passes lost password requests back to WP which blows because it takes unsuspecting uses into eh Wp back-end, under a different look/theme. Same thing plagues blog posting as well, which is fine for sites that want to create a user/blogs owner kinda ting (the blog owners expect some sort of admin) but for the rest of us making use of BP’s great social/engagement features, it just causes confusion unnecessarily.

This is awesome. Of course, I’m not a coder and don’t understand it yet, but it’s a beginning. I will try the same thing with Hybrid theme next month. Not sure about using the custom function, but if it’s easier and more flexibile, I guess I’ll learn.

Thanks for sharing this. I’m sure MANY are thinking about how to do this

The default BP theme will only work on the home blog. Things like the menu code will complain, otherwise.

@proceon

A lot about what you’re trying to achive is said here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-theme-framework-and-exisiting-wp-themes

Otherwise, I myself am trying to get a step by step procedure to integrate BuddyPress as a section of a “normal” website, that is not full BuddyPress based.

So far, form my experiments with theaming and integrating I can say:

1) Delete all the files from “bp-sn-parent” that are already in your WP Theme (header.php, footer.php, index.php, …). Leave just all sub-directories and “optionsbar.php”, “userbar.php”, “plugin-template.php”, “style.css.

2) Copy this at the bottom of “header.php” (WP Theme):

<?php if ( !bp_is_blog_page() && !bp_is_directory() && !bp_is_register_page() && !bp_is_activation_page() ) : ?>

<?php locate_template( array( ‘userbar.php’ ), true ) /* Load the user navigation */ ?>

<?php locate_template( array( ‘optionsbar.php’ ), true ) /* Load the currently displayed object navigation */ ?>

<?php endif; ?>

3) In the header (comments) of the “style.css” in “bp-sn-parent” theme write this:

Template : your-wp-theme-name

…so you make this theme a child of your WP Theme, right?

4) Activate the “bp-sn-parent” theme in the backend, under “Site Admin/Themes”, then activate it under “Apperance/Themes”.

This will be the theme ofor the whole site, but it’ll call all the WP theme templates when no BuddyPress functions are needed. It’s a reverse way of doing the integration. I think it’s better.

This procedure makes a lot of what you need, I think. Like, it gets your WP Theme working as it should and it “calls” the BuddyPress into play only when needed.

But, I need to warn you that I am still struggling with styling (or skinning) the BP theme.

So, I am still on it. But maybe it was worthing sharing already what I got so far, so that other may take it from there.

Hope it helps…

Check out this plugin…it will do mostly what you need, including creating a group specific blog. What more, it includes a theme for that blog and remains tied to the group, so you can pull in group information on that blog.

However, it only allows one blog per group. Check out the details here:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/

Group specific forums are already inherently part of groups since BP1.1 came out.

Flynn… why not just register your extra widget areas in the child functions.php file? They should just be added to the already registered widget areas (sidebars) in the parent functions.php

p.s. As to the original poster… ya… what Paul said. Two functions with the same name = white page.

I had this problem adding extra site bar areas to the footer of my theme…

It’s not perfect, but if you backup your functions.php to be safe, you can edit the parent functions.php

Of course, this means that updates will erase your changes, so you’ll have to babysit any BP updates until a better solution is found.

I’m almost certain you are getting a white page because, by copying parent theme functions.php into your child theme, you are re-declaring a function of the same name which PHP doesn’t like.

AFAIK you don’t need to copy the functions.php into your child, that should be inherited. If you are trying to change a function which has been written into parent functions.php, you’ll need to approach it another way.

It’s the default theme which comes with BuddyPress 1.1.1.

What’s in your web server error log? I’m guessing a PHP duplicate function declaration warning.

Thanks for the answear, Detective.

So,the 3 layers thing as suggested by outolumo is never going to work, right?

Does that mean that I will have to merge the “bb-default” css and images files into “bp-sn-parent”?

You can’t have three themes loaded, only two: a parent and a child.