The update buddypress link in plugins section in hinting me. Can I upgrade just by hitting that link? 
Worked fine for me. You’ll still need to move the themse folders to the proper places, activate the new home theme, and go into the BuddyPress > General Settings and Save the member theme. Or at least, I did.
You are using the new bp home theme for *all* blogs?
All blogs are using /themes/bphome
All blogs used to be using /themes/buddypress-home
You have manually gone in to each blog’s Appearance > Theme menu and selected the bp home theme. Now the nav links return 404 on anything other than blog id 1.
Correct?
dear jeff, u r my only saviour 
i have only dummy data.
i have not launched my site yet. so no problem there.
but i am not sure ftp will override the wpmu moorings.
btw, as i mentioned in a note above, ie6 only displays 800px screens.
is there a way to trick firefox or chrome into behaving like that?
wishful thinking?
the main thing is to just work through the header then throught he content and then through the footer..
just take it slow..
you will need to know css and be able to identify the tags and then right the corresponding styles
This is what i have in my main blog theme that works nicely.. in the wordpress header..
http://buddypress.pastebin.com/m63552cf1
I just want to do the same thing on the buddy press side of things..
the above code doesnt work on the buddy press side.
I have been trying things like..
<?php echo bp_the_site_member_name(); ?>
The idea is to just alow for a quick create group button that takes dynamically adds the users username based on this url..
http://spotskenya.com/spotters/!!!!!username!!!!!/spots/create/
does that make sense??
Hi Jeff,
I once designed a theme for wordpress yes. Been a while thou. I know CSS pretty well.
Anyways, ill probably figure it out once ive played around with the skeleton theme for a week or two. I guess its like designing a wordpress theme just that now you have buddypress tags to play with as well.
Do you know why the 3 sections Members, Groups and Blogs looks like they arnt connected to any css file in the skeleton theme?
Ezd-
Have you worked much with CSS before? Have you designed a custom WordPress theme before?
If not, here are some resources I recommend for starters:
- First, if you’re not using the Firefox browser, do so. Also, install the FireBug Add-on.
- Second, the WordPress Codex is a great resource for theme designers
- Finally, BuddyPress themes are unique themes in the WP family. Andy has written a great BuddyPress Codex on BP theme loops
Ah, that could be causing an issue. Do you have a FTP client? If so, you should be able to delete any file and folder in any of your domains.
BEfore deleting and reinstalling, just make sure you’ve backed up any data that you want to save and any custom theme changes. Also, make a note of which plugins you’re using just in case you accidentally delete them out of the wp-content folder.
I think I must have another clean install.
The only problem is WPMU folders are undeletable from c-panel.
Several of them with the wp-content already exist
@Squashroby & @Tyviris-
It appears that both of you are using WordPress single user version. BuddyPress must be used with WordPress Multi-User version (WPMU).
You can download it here: https://mu.wordpress.org/download/
Start over from scratch. First, delete all the files (except any custom themes you may have created or downloaded). Create a new MySQL database. Them go though the install process again:
- Install WPMU — the multi-user version! Follow these instructions
- Next, install BuddyPress following these instructions
Maythil-
Hum? That is strange since that directly addresses the admin bar styling. What browser are you using? Is it FireFox?
When go into FIreFox and make those changes, I see your site’s admin bar set to 800 px. Did you use the !important declaration?
I’m not sure what the taxonomy tables have to do with anything but you can upgrade to 1.0 now. There are many new theme author friendly templates, templatetags that can do what you want alot easier than sql queries.
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/
In the header.php of your themes (home or member) do you see MEMBERS_SLUG or BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ?
Make sure you have copied/merged the functions.php file too.
Have a loot at the default home theme template that comes with BP. I am not sure where BP hooks this into, but check in header.php in <head> for a func call that you might have missed.
Threaded comments were introduced in wordpress 2.7 and is an option in the admin settings. A theme has to have been written to support that version of wordpress due to changes in how themes were done.
And for all you theme designers out there, remember that Andy recently updated the BuddyPress Skeleton Theme to version 1.0 standards. It is bundled into the 1.0 download package. But, if you need a new copy, you can get it here:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1575
Erich73-
He doesn’t have a threaded forum, it’s a threaded comment system. Better yet, it’s available to you if you use the P2 theme!
Well, that was completely confusing (didn’t realize I had to move themes around and such and then I couldn’t find them). But sadly, nope still get a blank page/404/whatever you want to call it.
I contacted my host’s Support and I think I have them stumped too!
cyndy, go to the wpmu back end BuddyPress > General Settings and just Save Settings on that page after selecting the bp 1.0 member theme. bp might not be detecting the new member theme location. Upgrading to 1.0 means that the member theme is now located in /wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember
Give that a save there and see if the problem goes away.
Well, put it this way, the default buddypress home theme is really just a widget framework accomodating the BP widgets for activity, members, groups, who’s online, welcome etc.
You need to decide where you want to show what and look for themes that fulfill your requirements. There are dozens of mag style themes out there… As long as you have a good range of widget positions in the theme you should be able to put your home page together the way you want to. Besides, it’s easy to create custom widget positions if you need to.
In any case, some php / theming skills may be needed to get stuff exactly how you want it.
Did you notice the theme folder name changes?
Coding through loops is a little too much beyond my skills. Which magazine style theme is a good example?
Arturo: the link works okay for me? Edit: nevermind, fixed.
please Andy fix the link for the Skeleton Theme download
