I thought we would use..buddypress.org and wordpress for theme hostings
Yup …. that was the idea…So why wait lets start… it will help us developing themes so that noobs can get a better design
Just a quick reminder, if you go forward with this idea and create a separate BP-designers’ website, that you need to follow the BuddyPress domain policy.
great idea !
everybody know something about design and usability – collaboratively we will be more efficient and have a better output than everybody is cooking his own soup.
No need to bother Andy & Team with Theme-questions….. they should clearly focus on code-hacking 
I’m sure that within the next few years there will be a ton of BuddyPress themes out there. It’s just too new right now. 1.1 just came out last week. But it’ll happen. Just look at the millions of WordPress themes out there. And all those theme developers can “hit the ground running” with BuddyPress. Especially with 1.1… which is much simpler to theme than 1.0. Doing a BuddyPress theme is basically the same as doing a WordPress theme… just with more templates (Profile, Directories, Site Activity, etc.).
Also, it’s only natural that the first few themes available will be pretty simple re-workings of the default. Again… I think it’s just a matter of time before we start seeing really different high quality themes… like with WordPress. Elgg on the other hand will probably never had any good themes because it’s next to impossible to theme. Every Elgg theme I’ve ever seen is just a simple (ugly) re-work of the ugly default. That won’t be the case with BuddyPress.
Thank you guys for all your valuable input !!!
The thin I am afraid of is the BuddyBar and the Dashboard. So I am not sure how to get rid of the Users-Dashboard, but still give them an easy way to post a “Simple” Blog.
I was thinking about using P2-theme for the Users own Blog, so that users can just make a Blog-Post without choosing their own theme and without all the Dashboard-options.
I do not want the users to go into the Dashboard at all, but still giving them the option of “having their OWN blog”.
Is there a way to do this ?
Thanks again !
Erich
Socialpreneur : I have searched…
But found only one or two themes; just some color variants of the default theme.
Maybe you know where I could find others ?
There are already good themes for buddypress. I guess you haven’t searched enough. Core teams should focus on development, not themes. Since 1.1 theme design got much easier than before, so any wordpress theme designers can design.
I just noticed I have the same problem. I am not sure if this is a bug as maybe not all admins check the old sign-up page?
I had renamed it to stop splogs, but after the BP installation (1.1, from scratch, with new standard themes), the register pages shows the entire form, including extra profile fields, but the ‘regular’ sign-up page only shows up half (see http://biketravellers.com/wp-newblog.php )
What is going on? No errors, it just stops halfway.
Cheers
That’s where you and me and the millions of HTML/CSS coders out there come in. Theme development is the last thing I would want the BuddyPress team wasting their time on. Their limited development resources need to be focused on functionality. As besides that… the default theme is already pretty awesome if you ask me. If you want to see an ugly default theme (that is impossible to redesign in a meaningful way)… look at Elgg. Ick.
It’s not a bad idea even if I’d rather have a more united navigation (and no userpages with lots of options hidden there).
The things you’re talking about should be easily done with CSS. As long as you’ve got php-files that are specific for the places you intend the color change. You’ll have to put in some new “div id” to make it happen. That means modifying BP-default-files and using them in a child theme, as far as I understand (ie copying the files over to the child).
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I solved the problem by deleting the folder “bp-themes” in wp-content.
But someone can tell me if this would make other problems?
May depend on what this error?
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Well. My version is this: WPMU 2.8.4a bp 1.1, no bbPress.
The installation is in the root directory site.com/
No updates, installation made from the latest versions.
No plugin installed now, and use the default theme.
No changes to the files.
No errors reported in the file.
Exactly Andy. That’s my issue. Hacking the parent function.php file is easy. But I don’t want to do that. So I created a function.php file in my child theme but the unregister_sidebar() function doesn’t seem to work 
I suspect this is a WPMU thing… not a BuddyPress thing. Here is the code I added to function.php in my child theme. Should work. Doesn’t. I’m at bit of a loss. I tried adding different priority levels to add_action() and they had no effect.
<?php
function remove_sidebar() {
unregister_sidebar('third-section');
}
add_action( 'admin_init', 'remove_sidebar');
?>
p.s. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/unregister_sidebar
Don’t touch anything in bp-sn-parent. You should override the code in your child theme only.
Andy, yes I deleted the bp-themes folder in wp-content.
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In your bp-sn-parent theme folder look in functions.php and delete the code in there. Then, in home.php delete the appropriate code. You can re-name them in functions.php as well. Here is one I’ve added as an example (it’s also the code you need to delete from functions.php):
register_sidebars( 1,
array(
'name' => 'groups-page',
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitleevents">',
'after_title' => '</h2>'
)
);
This is the code you need to remove from home.php:
<div id="third-section" class="widget-section">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('third-section') ) : ?>
<div class="widget-error">
<?php _e( 'Please log in and add widgets to this section.', 'buddypress' ) ?> /wp-admin/widgets.php?s=&show=&sidebar=first-section"><?php _e( 'Add Widgets', 'buddypress' ) ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
This should answer your question.
Thanks for your attention – the <?php wp_footer(); ?> was just called at the wrong place …
Can anyone direct me to some tutorial on this:
Hi, I did the upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1 and it looks ok. The only problem I have is that the “Blog” tab (to the right of the “Home” tab) on the home theme point to the wrong URL. How can I change that?
Travel-junkie – I would be very interested in this type of functionality.
Are you planning to do a plugin to accomplish this? Or would it just be part of your theme? If a plugin, any plans of sharing it?
Even if part of your theme, if you could share which hooks you used to accomplish this would be helpful.
Thanks
Colorful tones: deleted the bp-themes folder in wp-content?
It probably needs to be in the functions.php of the parent theme, and the template file itself should also probably be in the parent theme as well. I haven’t tested it any other way as I haven’t needed that particular kind of setup.
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Follow the instructions on upgrading, pay close attention to the part about using a non-buddypress theme, because there were some changes made to the integration. I had the same problem and this page helped me out, I just need to tweek some stuff because it looks funny, but the essential function is all back. https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/
Check my error logs and don’t see anything amiss — just an error when I first install the upgrade and was getting it integrated into my theme.
`[04-Oct-2009 16:50:48] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_is_blog_page() in /home5/threeshe/public_html/threesheetsnw/wp-content/themes/newsport/header.php on line 43′
@Jamesatwholelifewholeworld — thanks for the kind words.
Marty
