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How can we turn this into a brainstorming session, where at the end of it, all of us get what we need and we can release it to the community?

Dainismichel-

Since this thread was started by another person and it seems like several solutions have already been presented, your best option to turn this topic into a brainstorming session will be to start a new thread. Just make sure you give it a different name!

Also, clearly explain your initial ideas and what you would like to accomplish in the thread–your thread goals.

I look forward to the discussion!

Also have the error message when I click on “Blogs” (but not “Blog”)

Saraswati11-

So the standard, default bpmember theme works fine. So, you are only having this issue when using a custom theme, correct?

By custom, I mean any theme that is not the standard BP themes. This means that if you took one of the standard BP themes (home, member) and made any changes to it, it would be a custom theme.

I have the same problem.

The error message come up when I click on “Members” and “Groups”.

Arghagain-

Adding to what jjj and TheEasyButton are saying, if you are still having issues then it is important to start from scratch. You must get WPMU functioning properly before installing BuddyPress. Then make sure BuddyPress is functioning properly before installing and integrating bbPress.

From what you are saying, it is not clear if you are upgrading WPMU from 2.6 or 2.7? Did you already have a working copy of WPMU installed? If so, what version?

If you are upgrading from 2.7 to 2.7.1 following these upgrading instructions, then make sure you finish the upgrading process by logging into WPMU’s backend as site admin and going to “Site Admin -> Upgrade”. Also, make sure you use the wp-config-sample.php file that comes with WPMU 2.7.1 and modify that version as needed. Do not use an older version of the wp-config.php file.

If you do not have an active site with real members and you are only in testing mode, then you can safely delete everything and perform a clean install. This means that you do not have any data in the MySQL DB that is worth saving.

If that is the case,save to a separate file any custom themes you may have created or installed. Also, save any 3rd-party plugins you may have installed for WPMU. Then, start from scratch. Delete everything including your MySQL DB. Once you have reinstalled WPMU succesfully, you can copy back your custom themes and 3rd-party plugins into their proper locations.

Finally, if you are still using BP RC2, it is time to switch to BuddyPress 1.0, the public release version of BP.

Thanks for the response.

I bought the themes from StudioPress and see they have made a Grunge Buddypress theme for another client. I will try and contract them to do the same for myself.

Unfortunately since we will be using a purchased theme, I would not be able to make it open to everyone, however I will ask StudioPress to consider adding it to their product list for sale.

I will also look at the coding myself as I am generally good with be able to follow systems that are well documented. If this is the case I will look into creating themes using free/gpl wordpress themes. What my clients have been after is more of a wordpress modular feel than buddypress.

I am also looking into integrating phpMotion and will report back to this forum as my clients all want locally hosted/owned video/images site wide and on user profiles.

Regards

Mark

My “solution” if you can call it that, works, but none of the widgets are pre-set. Member blogs come up, but each new member would have to configure their own widgets.

I’d like members to be able to join and have everything set up for them.

How can we turn this into a brainstorming session, where at the end of it, all of us get what we need and we can release it to the community?

Hey, Actually I did find it after I posted the last message. Thanks. All this time, I thought the member theme was for individual blogs.

Did you read this document?

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/using-the-buddypress-themes/

It looks like the options bar is showing up on the directory pages when it shouldn’t – most likely because I forgot to add a hide function. All the other pages are working fine. I will update this.

Closing this as the first post is now out of date.

Maybe, naming the member themes into ‘member profile theme ‘and the other into ‘blogs theme’ profile themes would make things clear.

Kitwit, that worked thanks. However, I am still confused about where the bpmember theme is used and where the bphome theme is used. Right now, I just changed the base.css files for both themes.

Thanks Kitwit, Ill try this out. I guess you have to change this for both the member and home theme?

If no one else looks at this by tomorrow, I’ll check it out and see if I can figure out what’s wrong.

Can we take a step back and make sure that the included bpmember theme works the way that it should?

The documentation/codex area provides a ton of documentation that can help you with all of these things, but there is no magic button you can press to make this happen.

There are dozens of functions and loops that need to be installed and addressed on several files and themes to make all of BuddyPress work the way it does. All we can do is document them for you, and let you give it a try yourself. It’s up to the growing audience of BP developers to start creating themes for 1.0, and that will eventually happen, I guarantee it.

If you’re in over your head and desperate for a theme asap, it may be time to hire someone to help you out. If you’re not looking for custom functionality and simply want a revamped BP theme, I might suggest joining the WordPress developers mailing lists and asking some WP professionals for assistance. Otherwise right now we’re pretty lenient about users asking for specific requests here (meaning we will lock the topic but we won’t delete it or spam it.)

Hi

I have bought some great premium wordpress themes and I want to upgrade one to use for Buddypress 1.0 post RC2 release. I can use the skeleton for the members profile.

What I need are the hooks to turn a wordpress theme into a Buddypress theme.

I think this was available for RC1 but with the changes to RC2+ we will need the updated hooks.

I have searched for this but can’t seem to find it.

Any suggestions.

Regards

Mark

Saraswati11, are you saying that when viewing the member theme area, looking at the directory listings, the userbar and optionsbar are showing?

The image is located in two places:

/wp-content/themes/bphome/images/logo.gif

/wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/images/logo.gif

There shouldn’t be any clipping if you create the new image with the same dimensions as the existing image: 214×29 pixels.

As the first step in helping you solve this issue, please go back and read the section entitled “Upgrading the Theme files” in the first post of this thread and verify that you have taken the proper steps.

WillPCG-

Okay a few additional questions:

1. Are you logging into WPMU’s backend as the site administrator, and not just as a user with administrator privileges?
2. You’ve mentioned 404 erros in your other thread. Are there any errors in your log files? If so, what are they?
3. Did you go to “BuddyPress > General Settings”, re-select the member theme, and then hit save? Do this even if the theme is already selected.

I swear that you\’re talking about 2 separate things.

When activating the home theme, you will first use \”Themes\” to enable it. Then, you go to Appearance, click the theme and you get the big popup where you click activate.

When activating the profile (member) theme, there is no screen shot. Only a pull down menu.

So your statement of \”whenever I try to load the BP theme itself after activating it the large screenshot that comes up just says \”You do not have any BuddyPress themes installed.\” seriously confuses me.

That error should only be coming up on the profile page. i.e. nacdb.com/members/members/admin

Also, could you enable registration of username & blogs so that anyone attempting to help can sign up for an account if need be.