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Andrea_r, this works really well to start off with. Two things I have noticed off the bat. #1) my custom component doesn\’t show up under this theme for some reason. I am on skeleton component v1.1 and not v1.2. Could that be the cause? #2) The links at the top (Blog, Members, Groups, Blogs) don\’t work properly. They are all formatted as username.domain.com/members instead of domain.com/members etc…

For #2, is my beta site messed up? Is it supposed to rewrite those to the proper URL or is that behaving normally? If that is the case, I will need to redo those links, correct?

just remove them in your theme if you don’t like them. Or – you could use the author’s avatar instead.

As per Andy’s comment, http://www.beerandblog.com/wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/css/loader.php is returning 404. Usually if it’s a permission on the file system, you get a different error code sometimes.

Does that file exist in that path when you look in your FTP?

which user and which groups have permissions ?

permissions should be 755 and the users should be no root

Check permissions on this file:

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

it is returning a 404.

You need to move the home theme to wp-content/themes/ and keep the member theme in wp-content/bp-themes/ (bpmember)

Justin-

I assume you’re running BuddyPress v1.0. If so, please carefully read the section entitled “Upgrading the Theme files” on this BuddyPress Codex page.

Actually, I just did this on a test bed. Took maybe ten minutes.

make a copy of the home theme and move it somewhere.

rename the folder to something obvious, like bp-blog-theme.

Edit style.css and change the theme name to be Blogs instead of Home.

Delete home.php.

move the new theme back into wp-content/themes/. Activate it under Site Admin -> Themes. Go to a member blog (you have a test blog, right?), under Appearance and activate the new BLOG theme.

Give it a whirl and let me know how you make out. There’s other regular WPMU plugins to enable the theme by default on a new blog. My fave: http://wpmudev.org/project/wpmu-blog-defaults. That way the blog creation part is seamless and looks well-integrated.

A few questions:

1. Are you using the public release of BuddyPress–version 1.0?
2. Are you using a custom theme?
3. Did you read the section entitled “Upgrading the Theme files” in this BuddyPress Codex link?

Currently it is not.

@andrea_r: I’m surprised no one has done that yet. Should be quite easy.

Andrea is right.

You can either take the current BP home and member themes and customize them to integrate blogs as you wish, or you can use the BuddyPress Skeleton Template Theme files to build your own blog-centric custom BP themes.

Why not take a copy of the bp home theme and do the edits to make it a blog theme? Has anyone tried yet?

Assuming that you’ve upgraded your site to WPMU 2.7.1 and the newly released BuddyPress v1.0, then carefully read the section entitled “Upgrading the Theme files” in this BuddyPress Codex link.

Is the height parameter a must, or can you leave it like (800, )?

No. You cannot leave the parameter blank. You could pass a variable into the space if you wanted, but it must have something.

When I tried to remove one WPMU folder I got the error message

“500 Can’t Remove Directory. Permission denied”.

A few questions:

1. Have you checked the files / folder permission on your WPMU install? You should be able to delete everything that you personally upload to your public_html. Although, with shard hosting, there could be issues with apache owning certain files and folders.
2. Are you using an automatic WordPress Mu install option from your hosting company? I’m not sure if any hosting companies offer that option for WPMU, but it’s worth asking.

The answer I got was WPMU does something at the Apache level and that I can’t do much about it unless mine is a dedicated hosting service.

1. Have you contacted tech support for your hosting service provider and asked for their help? This WPMU forum post may prove useful in talking with tech support: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3173&replies=3#post-19388
2. Have you considered changing hosting companies or upgrading to a more robust hosting plan? A VPS perhaps?

WPMU really does not do too well on a cheap hosting plan. Here is sage advice from andrea_r, a WPMU guru: http://wpmututorials.com/news/choosing-a-host/

I have a new installation now.

I think the width problem is to be fixed elsewhere.

Please consider these:

As far as figuring out what’s going on with your CSS, this is where the Firebug tool comes in very handy! It takes awhile to learn how to use it. But once you do, you can determine where a given div or class is pulling its instructions from and then temporarily override those selector parameters within Firebug and see how that affects the overall layout. It is a very powerful and useful tool!

Concerning CSS issues with IE6: my personal opinion is to not worry about supporting that browser anymore. It is just a big pain and too much work for too little return–less than 20% usage ( http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp ). Again, that is just my opinion.

The ‘home’ theme only affects the very front page of your Buddypress site, as well as that main site’s blog.

Members, Groups and all the other pages are controlled by the ‘member’ theme, so you need to make your changes there.

I have found a fix for the problem. To fix this issue, navigate to your BuddyPress Settings page and under the option “Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages:” select the skelton theme and save the settings.

Now return and select the default theme and click Save Settings. It should work now.

For some reason it was not finding the theme originally but after the switch it found the theme right away.