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Just use the stylesheet_url if it’s a child theme. Or get_stylesheet_directory_uri()

the quick and dirty way would be to go to wp-content >> themes and rename the theme you want to use ‘default’ (you can rename or delete the actual ‘default’ one when you do this)

so the way this child theme is built is by changing the different values in the stylesheet as well as editing/deleting/editing images. it’s not touching the bp core nor the parent theme, so that upgrades are easy to maintain — you’re just upgrading the parent theme files all the time, which will pass on the upgrades to the child theme.

here’s where things get slightly tricky… because this child theme relies solely on css, there’s really no way to delete the third homepage widget from the Dashboard Widget panel, because all the css is doing is telling your browser to hide that element from view, not delete the piece of php that calls it to display in the Dashboard. to do that, you’d have to copy over functions.php from the parent theme, move it to the child theme and edit out the lines of code that call the ‘third-section’.

here’s another slightly tricky part… let’s say BP 1.2 has a whole host of new features that are called through functions.php, then you’d have to copy over that file again to your child theme folder and make the homepage widget edits again — not a *huge* deal since it’ll only take you about a good minute or two, but it’s just something that you or any theme author will have to remember every time you upgrade.

as to the actual order of the widgets, i’m not really sure what happened there, to be honest. i’ve accessed my avek9 1.1 bp install and ‘first-section’ is laid out on the left, the ‘second-section’ is on the right and the ‘third-section’ is hidden from view (but it would be located to the right, moving ‘second-section’ to the middle), so everything should display that way. i can tell you one thing that controls them are the ‘float’ (left or right) properties (or you can lay out everything with z-index and margins). hopefully, that helps explain it a bit!

Here’s what I did as a (no doubt really hacky/bad-practice) fix. Seems to display okay in IE8/Chrome/Firefox. Not so much in IE6 but luckily for the piece of work I’m doing I don’t need to support IE6 (muwahaha)

Edit

/wp-content/themes/avenuek9/_inc/css/layout/home-page/3c-right.css

#second-section {
float: right;
width: 525px;
}

#first-section {
float: right;
display: none;
}

No doubt someone with better css experience will come and point out everything I’ve done wrong here But it’s working well enough for me to evaluate the theme a little more.

No worries Mike – and definitely no call for a heart attach. It’s appreciated that you share your work. While your support is great (and accurate and always welcome!), seems like collectively we should be able to figure most of this out.

So, for anyone who has the TWO column version of this theme working (like Mike’s), please share how the heck you got to work. I understand Mike’s directions for the 3 column layout (although I haven’t tried it). I think Mike implies that the two column layout is the default for the avenueK9 theme and this is what I’m trying to implement. My widgets admin backend indicated that I have 3 columns/sections but I would expect it to only have 2 columns for the home page. As shared previously, placing widgets in various combinations within the 3 backend columns/sections results in a mess (which would probably be fixed by deleting the ‘layout’ folder- if you wanted 3 columns). What’s the trick to getting the default 2 column avenuek9 home page?

Mike, we’ll see if someone in this community can enlighten me, but if after your wedding, honeymoon and a few kids, you see this isn’t resolved, feel free to set me straight.

This all depends on what you want your website to be about.

I’m guessing that you can modify the groups heavily so that they’re believed to be forum categories instead. Strip everything but the forums from the groups (members, admin, all) and change the way they look. The forums should be more prominent and have larger fonts, etc.

The downside is that all the groups-features will be unusable. At this time I’ll probably try to make this change and see what happens. It will be a modified groups child theme oriented at forums.

I’m all for integrated solutions and don’t want to have a bridge. They tend to collapse from time to time (at least back in the phpBB2 days).

Originally posted by Mike:

i’ve been swamped with my wedding

Congrats man!

@Mike,

I do like your idea to number the comments like “Comment #1” and “Comment #2”, etc.

How can I achieve this ? Could you please help ?

Is there a plug-in to achieve this for ALL comments at my website ?

NEW AveK9 BP 1.1 Theme Released

thanks a lot !

I’m attempting to do something kinda similar. I just want to create a block (pardon my Drupal lingo) that shows a blog’s author information in my theme. I want to specifically show their BP custom fields.

Right now I’ve copied over bp-sn-parent/profile/profile-loop.php to my theme and called: locate_template( array( 'profile/profile-loop.php' ), true ) but this gives me everything in the user’s profile. I would like to get a little more granular and just specify certain fields. hmmm

Here is my current example as it exists.

I’ve got the same problem (I believe) as mark and not sure why it happened.

I’m going to try to start making my own child theme that is a fixed width and see how that goes, and if I can I’ll help others with their problems.

…

My sign up page appeared once I merged the BP default theme with my root WP theme as per https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/. The styling isn’t quite fixed, bu tthe sign-up fields and buttons are all there, which was the point of my question above.

Have started a new thread with my leftover queries at https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/merging-bp-default-theme-with-wp-root-blog-theme

James

Hello,

I am using WooTheme’s Newsport on a WPMU 2.8.4a install with BuddyPress 1.1.1 (www.threesheetsnw.com).

I’d like to spend some time this weekend integrating BuddyPress 1.1.1 into my theme and was wondering if anyone had any more thoughts on the best approach.

Sepecifically, should I hack Newsport theme and add the Buddypress Templates (as recommended by BuddyPress) or …

Create a child theme, leaving Newsport alone, and including the BuddyPress templates in that child (as recommended by Detective above)?

I know that WooThemes use frameworks for its themes.

Thanks much for helping with this brave new world!

Marty

@Chris, Mine is a root install so it seems that wouldn’t be related to the problem. I’ve switched to the default bp theme for now. I disabled all of my plugins without getting any improvement.

Even if you don’t have a solution, please post if you’re having a problem using AvenueK9 theme. That may help us determine the cause of the problem. Is the problem more common than would indicate here (only 3 of us)?

They are action hooks and can be used by custom themes and plugins. Leave them in.

You get the forum activated in the backend under BuddyPress->Forums Setup. You can find the information that makes up your frontpage in a file called home.php in your child theme folder. The forum stuff you find in directories->forums->index.php. You could copy everything, except the sidebar bit over to home.php, but there’ll probably be some CSS issues, cause home.php is completely widgetized. So it’ll make more sense to package the forum stuff up as a widget and drop it in the first-section sidebar.

The rest (memberlist,groups,mesageboards) is set up automatically for you by BuddyPress.

Happy Coding!

In the default buddypress theme, the main blog is under the link “Blog” the rest under “blogs”. (At least for me.)

As for the columns, you can add widgets. (Go to the Dashboard, and there Appearence, Widgets).

The appropriate widgets would probably be Recent posts and Sitewide recent posts. You may also try the RSS widget.

Hello,

over here i encountered this problem too.

I am using wpmu 2.8.4 with Buddypress 1.1.1 and an BBPress Forum (not the integrated version, cause i want to use it as standard forum too).

So since i changed from the old “Two-Theme” system to the new one where the member theme is inside my wp-maintheme, i have this Problem and cant get rid of it.

Step 1:

Everything is in DB and seems correct

Step 2:

after clicking “Next Step” there is another group created without base data but with status.

There is no new groupforum created.

Step 3:

Sometimes i get here and if so i have a correct group(or so it seems in database), but after choosing the avatar i get another error saying “try again”.

Step 4:

Long time no see ^^ I have not seen this step since i changed the theme -.-

Hopefully someone will find out what causes this error

Start a new thread.

How do you go about reactivating the old Social Network logo in the new updated buddypress installation? I’m not very familiar with PHP.