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@Socialpreneur, I didn’t design it — Tim Bowen of Creative Slice did the visual theme modifications. But thanks! It’s a strong community and BuddyPress has been the perfect fit for us.

At this point in development, will i need to develop one theme for my buddypress and one theme for my bbpress? so that there will be no difference between the two?

In short, yes.

If you want your site-wide forum theme to look like your BuddyPress theme, you’ll have to customize both themes.

Scotm-

Did you follow the instructions for custom themes at the very end of Andy’s first post here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994#post-10557 ?

As others started the upgrade process, and had certain issues, he made changes to the instructions. Depending on when you upgraded, you may have missed this.

Read this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1661#post-8547

Great job on schmink-tipps!

You know, there’s got to be some file somewhere that gets written to (or multiple files), when you configure widgets. Basically, all I need to do is automatically put that file into each new member’s blog, and I should be done. The way things are right now, the home theme works fine for user blogs, but the widgets aren’t configured.

So these are the steps I’m thinking would be easiest to follow:

1) Figure out where the widget configuration gets stored

2) Configure the widgets

3) Figure out how to get a pre-configured theme for new members (by copying certain files or writing a script or I don’t know what)

Answers? Helpful? Goofy?

Best,

Dainis

@Socialpreneur

I my self is new to buddypress and its template, I have however found out that side-wide.css REALLY means side wide, meaning, all members pages are affected aswell,

As an example, if you add the css \”widht:900px;border 1px solid #000000;\” to you body through side-wide.css all members pages will be 900 px wide and have a 1 px border around them.

If you just want to tweek the buddypress template and not change it completely, put the extra css in custom.css. This well give you the same effect but not effecting you member blogs.

You do need to upload the custom.css to both the home theme and member theme for the changes to work in both templates.

Hope it helps.

Erwin, first of all, thanks for all of your hard work on the plugin!

I uploaded events version .55 into a fresh install of MU with the latest BP trunk.

I was able to save the events correctly. I’m also able to see the events in the widgets.

But I have 2 Issues:

1) Directory – There is no ‘events’ folder under /bp-themes/buddypress-member/directories. So, when I select Events on the navigation tab to display the events directory, it defaults to ‘members’ and doesn’t display anything but the sidebar.

2) When I go to the events detail page (by selecting from the widget), It has the correct url and displays the blog sidebar, however… no details show. I have reread your instructions about 23 times and think I have everything correctly. Does this sound familiar? I thought it was with member themes, but everything looks good.

Thanks

If you just downloaded it from bp.org then it’s RC1. If you are not using svn then you can by getting a client app like TortiseSVN for Windows. http://tortoisesvn.net/

The url to get the latest source is: https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk

Running the trunk version of bp requires you to be running wpmu 2.7.1 which is only available by svn at: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/branches/2.7

There have been changes in the member theme directory and bp’s move from the /mu-plugins dir to the /plugins dir in wpmu.

Not a stupid question at all.

Hey Guys,

interesting discussion you’re having here. I’ve done something quite similar on http://schmink-tipps.net — It’s a pure hack solution based on a custom blog theme, though. So: Really looking forward to your plugin, Sebastianmacias!

Hi John,

Thanks, I don\’t know how to do what you are suggesting. The theme seems to work, it\’s just that it asks blog owners to configure their widgets. Is there any way to pre-configure the widgets?

Best,

Dainis

PS: Or to do it automatically?

That function relies on being in a group template object context. It isn’t in one in the header yet. That function only works in the theme content area after this: <?php if ( bp_has_groups() ) : while ( bp_groups() ) : bp_the_group(); ?>

If this has indeed reverted, and it’s not because of any plugin or custom theme you may have installed, please report this as a bug on trac.buddypress.org.

Where do I find the heading in the code base?

Seobrien, the widget content is stored in the database, not in any of the plugin or theme files.

Log in to your admin site, click Appearance -> Widgets, and look for a Welcome widget there.

Once you enable the widget, click “Edit” next to the Welcome title. That should open up the widget for editing, and you can enter any title and text you wish.

See a sample screenshot.

If for some reason you can’t edit the widget as normal, you can also access the content of the Welcome widget directly in the database, by looking in the “wp_1_options” table for an field with an “option_name” of “bp_core_widget_welcome”.

See this post in the thread Robert linked to: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994#post-10563.

You need to be using the WPMU branch.

However, you can use it on WPMU hosted blogs. You just have to change the login link on your hosted blog to go to the main site\’s login page. Essentially you would have to do something similar for the BP login bar on the default theme. Offhand I am not sure if you need to use a redirect but I think you could just copy the special login form from the main site\’s login.

I decided against using this plugin on y site as the code is immature and doesn\’t santize variables properly. Doable for any half way competent programmer, or you can pay me some money.

(sorry for two posts, writing this on iPhone and didn’t want to loose any.)

Check this post:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1994#post-10705

It may be related and hopefully you’ll find some answers there.

Also make sure you have the theme in the right directory. member-theme directory should now be called bp-themes

BeLogical – do you have a link to view your site? It could be as simple as a missing CSS rule for the “selected” class, meaning the PHP code is working fine in the theme but the selected element isn’t getting any specific styles.