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@Gpo1

I have a modified member page working with my P2 theme. See:

http://blogpei.com/members/admin/

@Scotm, Have you got P2 theme as a member theme ,it would look good or home page?

This is probably the 3rd post asking about buddypress.org theme. People should search carefully before posting.

There’re millions of css resources and samples on the net, and one can easily create or at least change a part of the theme to what they want. bp has custom.css and site-wide.css system which you can add/override css.

I like the default member theme and appreciate all of Andy’s hard work. I’m sure there are many more excellent updates to come!

My $.02

I have the same question. I’d like to add a bit to the standard template then have that template be the default template for people who create a blog. So, they will be able to make posts but not change the template.

I’ve one really important question – Can we use certain CSS code pieces of buddypress.org theme in our themes?

Erich73-

just wondering: is it possible to show only groups at the “home”-page ?

Yes. You can add or remove whatever widgets you want to the bphome theme page.

Log into WPMU and go to “Appearance > Widgets”. On the right side of the screen, select which theme column you want to place a given widget, then click the “Add” button for that widget. Click on “Edit” for each widget to set certain parameters.

You can also remove any widget from any column by clicking a given widget’s “Edit” button and then clicking the “Remove” button. Just make sure to click the “Save Changes” button whenever making widget changes.

is it possible having “group-wide-activity” showing for each group also at the start-page ?

As far as I know, there currently is not a group-wide-activity widget. You can either make your own, or if you do not have coding experience, create a new thread in the “Requests & Feedback” forum asking for such a widget. Perhaps someone will make one!

I also realized why I hated the default member theme so much. For some reason in Firefox 3.5b4 on mac all the font on the member theme is huge. I don’t know if anyone else has had this problem, but it is fine in Safari. It actually looks really nice in Safari.

Thanks for the links.

I have seen the horizontal design as well, and I don’t especially care for that either. I have determined for my purposes that I don’t need that navigation at all.

That is an awesome facebook theme, but I don’t literally mean that I want it to look like facebook, I just want it to function more like facebook. Facebook has a very minimal amount of navigation by putting everything into “apps.” I don’t want to do that, but I also don’t think I need navigation just to see each of my friends’ events, groups etc. I am just interested in seeing who is attending each individual event, or who is a member of each individual group.

My ideal design is this: The front page lists upcoming events, new groups and recent activity including blog entries, which is already possible. The top navigation remains the way it is with links to each component. I can see my own profile and friends’ profiles. I can see a list of all events, all groups, and within those events and groups I can see who is attending. Finally, each group has events and a blog. Each blog is primarily used to talk about and link to the group’s events. I guess that is exactly what we already have, but I feel like the default design is almost too much functionality for my needs.

I think I am going to take apart the default member theme and show you what I mean. Then we can go from there, because I think a lot of people might like a more simple member theme.

Philpeter-

This clearly looks like a permissions-based issue. A couple of questions:

1. What are the permissions for blog.dir?
2. What, if any, errors are showing up in your log files?
3. Have you tried disabling all plugins except BuddyPress and switching to the default themes?

@Fi3ryfalc0nz-

Do you have any member themes installed? At a minimum you should have the bpmember theme installed in /wp-content/bp-themes/.

Assuming you have followed instructions correctly and moved the two themes to their appropiate folders, you just need to enable and activate the bphome theme on the main blog, just as though you would for any other theme.

I agree with DJPaul, but you could get a developer to create theme you want.

However, check this guy out:Nazieb

http://wp-project.nazieb.com/themes/smells-like-facebook/

Might look into it?

Is it for the home or member theme, because for home theme just add the BP widgets to it?

You need to get integrate twitter to the theme.

the Shouty Theme has a profile page with horizontal bars: http://www.buddydress.com/2009/04/shouty-theme/

i haven’t tested it with the 1.0 release, but it worked fine with the Rc2.

You can see some profile examples here:

http://hub.sharetips.co.za/members/dreamboy/

http://community.lads.my/members/ziqah/

It definitely looks awesome and moving the nav bars to the top makes a lot of sense in terms of utilizing space a little bit better… the default theme is awesome as well though, Andy and whomever was involved with that did a great job…. which isn’t always the case with default themes….

Actually I’m just surprised that no one has yet. I am somewhat reluctant to do so at the moment because things are still changing fast, but now it seems a little more stable. I think I want a much more simple design than most people would, so I can understand why you made it that way. My users are college students, so it needs to function just like Facebook. I am using it for campus groups to post their events, form online groups and start blogging. The main focus in on the events. BuddyPress is exactly what I have always dreamed of because I don’t like Ning.

For what it’s worth – the customization of this theme was done in 2 days and based on the original default theme. If you are competent with CSS then it should not a be problem for you.

I don’t understand why they didn’t just model it from their own awesome member theme. Even the skeleton member theme is more or less the same as the default.

It’s because the awesome member theme was a customization of the default theme. The default themes have been around since BuddyPress was first made available as a release candidate.

So, as Nicola and DJPaul suggest, if you want to create your own custom themes, by using either the skeleton theme or the default themes you have a solid foundation from which to work!

The skeleton is built to allow theme developers a base to start from. That’s all.

The default member theme sucks, and I haven’t seen anyone significantly modify it. I plan to do so at some point, but I don’t understand why they didn’t just model it from their own awesome member theme. Even the skeleton member theme is more or less the same as the default. You would have to make significant modifications to the skeleton theme itself for it to be anything like the buddypress.org member theme.

Specific issues:

Profile fields are way too spaced out.

The navigation design isn’t really necessary.

The wire should be on top, and profile fields in a small table below. Everything else is mostly unnecessary.