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Good call, I never considered doing it the other way around.

load_template() calls should be replaced with locate_template() calls that support child theme lookups.

I prefer the other way around:

– The parent theme will be the original WP theme without modifications (or with light modifications in headers to add the BP navigation).

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

Why? Because some complex WP themes (specially frameworks) have a complex file structure, including internal PHP files with code that is loaded with something like:

load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . '/lib/theme_functions.php' );

TEMPLATEPATH points to the parent theme folder, which means that the included file won’t be found if the theme is a child theme.

If you use this setup, you won’t need to hack the WP theme.

Of course your BP theme will need to be modified to work, because it probably contains some load_template calls.

I tried this with the Thesis theme and it works really good.

The best option is to set “Template: bp-sn-parent” in the WP theme’s style.css header. That will allow it to inherit all of the BuddyPress templates.

If that isn’t an option (perhaps the theme is already a child theme) then you will need to copy over the template files from bp-sn-parent into the wp theme. Just make sure you don’t replace any existing theme files.

You’ll will probably want to add the user navigation into the theme also, you can add the following lines to the bottom of header.php:

<?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; ?>

Once you’ve done that, BuddyPress pages will inherit all of the theme’s styles and its header and footer. You will of course need to add extra styles since WP themes only handle blog pages.

You can also try importing the bp-sn-parent screen styles into the WP theme’s style.css file. Depending on the theme, this may help to add layout to BuddyPress pages, but also stay within the WP theme’s look and feel.

Even still, it gives an easy to understand overview of the new themes.

Same here, the crop tool doesn’t appear for the first thumb.

Wp Mu 2.8.4

BuddyPress Version 1.0.3

Firefox3.5.2

Default budypress community theme

Worked fine with Bp 1.02

So, will there be some blog post on how to create a dashboard in our themes? Are there any further plans to include this in buddypress 1.1 or 1.2? I think it’s a great improvement compared to the actual situation where profile page shows up when a user is logged in.

PS: By the way, why is the profile page at position 2 in the userbar and activity on position 1? Shouldn’t it be vice versa because the profile page is the first page that shows up?

If you’re keeping the same theme setup then upgrading from 1.0 to 1.1 is easy enough. If you plan on having a custom theme I’d say at least get familiar with 1.1 right away so you’re comfortable developing for it sooner than later.

The style.css file in your child theme should override the bp-sn-default style.css so the screen.css should never be loaded.

Check out this theme as an example:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-avenue-k9-bp-11-theme-released

You are my favorite person right now. I was looking for a theme on the new framework, and HERE IT IS!

What are the advantages of doing this.

“you can add a custom.css file to _inc/css/ in the default theme and add your custom styles if you like.”

I am currently messing around with my own theme but if doing this can accomplish what I need then I might trying it.

I want to change some of the colors and some of the images.

Thanks Andy….however, I’m not sure how to make my forum look like your forum which is more intuitive. For example, your forum has a Main theme (which is similar to the groups concept) as is easy to browse through the main themes, but with 1.1 to do that, you first need to understand you have to go to the groups tab (very non-intuitive). Also, many of the groups could be formed for reasons quite different from posting topics and discussions.

Anyway, I don’t mean to complicate things, but just raise some issues of usability and how to make this most intuitive for new visitors.

If you don’t like the free support for the free software, then you can always pay someone to trouble shoot your issues for you on a schedule more suited to your needs.

The reason it wasn’t working before was because you originally activated the skeleton theme instead of the real members theme. Now that you’ve fixed that and have bpmember active, can you verify for me that the contents of your…

http://myezsoulmate.com/wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/css/loader.php

…match…

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.0.3/bp-themes/bpmember/css/loader.php

all the post with the same problem says you need to delete the folder called bp-themes so it will stop looking for them.

You could use the following setup:

– Leave Atahualpa without modifications, or with subtle modifications like the code from Andy.

– Modify the bp-sn-parent style.css to make it a child of Atahualpa. Remove files present in Atahualpa from bp-sn-parent ( in particular header.php and footer.php, you decide if you want to remove single.php, index.php, etc ).

Now choose the bp-sn-parent as your theme. This should let you have a very basic integration of both themes.

Probably you will have problems with some pages, specially group pages. Applythe patch in this page to solve the problem: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/997

In the current theme setup, no… So you’re not missing anything. There is no general “New Topic” page mostly because the number of forums that people can create by being able to create their own groups can grow to be pretty enormous.

It’s the difference between http://testbp.org/forums and http://testbp.org/bbpress/

The first link is obviously the familiar look of forums in BP1.1, the second link is what the TestBP sites’ bbPress looks like without any taming or control. There are 11,100 groups on that site alone, most of which have test forums. If there was a general “New Topic” page (like http://testbp.org/bbpress/?new=1) you’ll see you just have a select drop down list of 10,000 forums to place your topic in, which isn’t really an effective way to categorize the discussions when displayed in that way.

I think when people adapt to this method of user/group/topic centric forums versus a top-down categorical list of forums, we’ll see some unique and interesting setups.

I’ll be writing up a “how-to” on using WordPress themes with BuddyPress very soon. What you have described is one way of doing it if the “template: bp-sn-parent” does not work.

To get the user menus you can add these lines to the bottom of your header.php:

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

<?php locate_template( array( 'userbar.php' ), true ) ?>

<?php locate_template( array( 'optionsbar.php' ), true ) ?>

<?php endif; ?>

I am using Atahualpa also, I tried the Template: bp-sn-parent thing in the style.css of Atahulpa but no go.

I was able to get it to work by adding all of the directories (folders) from the bp-sn-parent theme to the Atahualpa theme. Also I could not @import the style sheets for the adminbar.css, but if you paste the css from both adminbar.css (parent and default) into the css section of Atahualpa’s ‘Add HTML/CSS Inserts’ then the theme works.

I have not yet figured out how to get the user menus for MEMBERS GROUPS BLOG ect.. to show. Any help with that would be appreciated.

You would need to add a line to the style.css of your Atahualpa theme, cross your fingers, and hope for the best.

In style.css for Atahualpa, somewhere in the comments section where the theme name, author, and uri are, put…

Template: bp-sn-parent

That will tell WordPress to fall back on bp-sn-parent when Atahualpa doesn’t have files of its own to use. It’s still not a 100% fluid process, because the parent theme has its own CSS that it needs and uses to function and look the part. You can @import the style.css for bp-sn-parent and see if that helps at all too.

taking the hint from Jeff, I created a separate topic

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/upgrading-to-11-beta-breaks-atahualpa-blog-theme?replies=1#post-24070

I like the child theme, pls send a copy

Okay, let’s go back to the basics. Just so that we have all the initial information required, please answer these questions.