I’ve tried this, but can’t seem to get it to work. I put the function, defined above, in the functions.php page in the BP theme directory I’m using (which is the default bpmember) and put the help.php page (that’s what my page is called) into the same folder (is this correct). I think my problem is that I’m not sure when people say “home theme’s functions.php file” if they mean the bpmember folder (since that is my home theme) and if the “home theme directory” is again the bpmember folder (again, since that’s my home theme). Am I just getting this all confused?
thanks
So as the screenshots on the BP homepage show, will it be possible for every member to have their blog integrated into the main site? I don’t like how when they register a blog it kicks them to what looks like Kubrick or w/e the default MU theme is.
I don’t want members to even have the ability to pick another theme, just have it created within the BP home theme/blog.
To have a BP theme that matches my current WP theme.
This also makes it easier (if you do it right 
) to use any other WP theme as a parent theme with little work.
@Detective
Sounds like a great idea, what would be the main benefits of something like this?
I will be using the following schema:
– parent theme: Thesis
– child theme: my own bp framework
Thesis has no support for BP, so all BP work is done in the child theme. However, the current trunk version is not friendly with this kind of setup 
testbp and this site seem the same as before… wonder if any other bp user has implemented on their site.
@dwpers – Actually I want it the other way around. I don’t want my users blogs integrated into the bp site, but want bp integrated into my user blogs. While it sounds like a ‘trivial’ difference it is not.
I’m trying to figure out how to give each blog owner their own buddypress sub-community. With the new theme system for bp coming out, it should be much easier to integrate bp into my current website themes. Then I would like to only display members/groups/forums/etc that ‘belong’ to that particular blog.
Think of it from ‘how would wordpress.com integrate buddypress?’
If they simply just had a ‘huge’ community that everyone was a member of, kind of how ning did it on their ‘home’ site, then no one would ever really be interested. I’m more suspecting that buddypress would become a plugin that each blog would activate on their own to build their own ‘sub-community’. Though I am pretty sure that wordpress.com would follow the ning example and automatically have all members of all blogs become part of a larger community behind the scenes. Whether they know it or not.
Am I off base here?
If you’re asking if anyone’s released any child themes then no, I’m not aware of any yet.
If you’re asking for BuddyPress installs running the new parent/child theme system, look at this site and testbp.org.
or use userthemes plugin to make copy of system theme available only to specific blog(s).
The good news is that you will be able to override all of these in BP 1.1/trunk easily if you are using a child theme, without changing the default files!
These were also uploaded in bphome/bpmember before, but were not generated. Therefore, I had to overwrite the following images in /buddypress/bp-core/images:
view_button_side
remove_friend_button
add_friend_button
admin_bar_logo
There was another file called something like info_icon… I had to edit this in some other core folder but I don’t remember which one.
pxlgirl.
This sort of thing should be overridable by the theme, especially in 1.1. Do you have an example of an image that you have this problem with?
This was fixed recently in the trunk version. https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/1756/ & https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/1757/
however that is applied to the new theme in BP 1.1/trunk and won’t apply directly against the theme of BP 1.0.3.
Much like Anointed, I would like my members to have their blogs integrated into the BP site. Right now a new member blog is created using the plain default WP theme and does not keep the look and feel of the site.
On the BP website, I’ve seen screenshots where it looks like the blogs are integrated/have the same theme. Why is my install doing it differently? I want my users to create blogs, but have them actually look like they are a part of the site, not a separate entity altogether.
I posed this question in another thread I believe, but then my original handle went MIA in these forums, so I’ve had to create a new one and have since lost the thread.
At the moment the pages have to be moved into the theme folder.
If you’re trying to get it so a user doesn’t have to move your page files into their theme when they’ve installed your plugin, have a look at https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/954.
The function which tells BuddyPress to load a particular theme file is like this:
bp_core_load_template( 'achievements-member-theme/summary' );
Well, actually. No… haha
Its good info and it will definitely be used but my actual question here was how to make that main page without having to add it to the themes folder.
Like how the events plugin adds all its files to the bp-themes folder.
I guess it doesn’t matter which directory we add the files to but all the plugins I have seen are adding the files to the bp-themes directory so I guess I am just wanting to be a sheeple on this topic.
After reading your last post, it seems like I am looking for something like this:
bp_member_load_template( ‘fun’, true );
does anything like that exist? I am looking thru the event code but there is quite a lot of it so its slow going.
For me, it would be more than two languages. 
But how about something like a theme switcher? At least for blogs you could edit your template files in the preferred language and let ppl choose.
pxlgirl.
Sounds great, can’t wait John! Althought the release will mean to rework my entire theme structure.
Is there a good guide already on how to migrate the old bphome/bpmember structure to the new child theme framework?
Imagine the P2 theme will less flashiness.
No, it’s not on the TestBP site yet.
It’s on the 1.1 roadmap and will probably make its way in if Andy stops calling me names.
@Robert, edited the post to reflect this little typo. Thanks for the catch!
@Toly, you’re correct, but my post was still a little off. Thanks for helping clarify!
@Matt Kern, that is correct. You can also do something like…
bp_core_load_template( 'fun/chubacabra', true );
…if you want to put all your chubacabra files in a directory in your themes root.
@JasonG, we’ve got an awful lot of stickies. I’m going to add it to the Wiki instead :cough:
@everyone, this method shouldn’t change much by the time BP1.1 comes around, but keep an eye out just in case.
r-a-y, I did what you said. And I found out that it’s, Albertus MT Light. But that one costs 45$. Is there any other way to edit it?
Friends component is on… I can access the button and friend count on the member page (via the default member theme)…
BP 1.1 will probably be released within a month; I’m not sure of the timescale.
DJPaul,
How do I optain this 1.1 version? As I can only find the 1.0.3 version.
Regards,
Martijn Kouwenhoven
The original file has not been released. Also in BP 1.1, this area has been replaced with a text heading rather than a graphic.
