Thx for ur quicky answers and support sgrunt !
Perhaps some clues in the trunk :
“removed blogs, groups and members directory from the home theme into the BuddyPress member theme. The directories now have their own templates and theme based CSS and provide much easier editing.
Moved the $bp global setup to a higher priority action – from the ‘wp’ action to the ‘plugins_loaded’ action. This stops occurrences where the $bp global was not defined yet.”
I\\\\\\\’m kinda confused by what you want and what you have done.
If you want both the member theme and the theme that you use on your wp blog to be similar then the two themes that are distributed with bp will work. If you install a different wp blog theme then you\\\\\\\’ll either have to modify the wp blog theme or the member theme to match.
The two themes are completely independent of each other.
It sounds like you are allowing your users to create their own blogs and you\’ve allowed the bp home theme to be available to them. You can, but don\’t have to do that. If you install more wp themes and make them available then they can choose any theme they want. If you don\’t want blog admins to have access to the bp home theme then disable it in Site Admin > Themes.
If you change the member theme then, yes, it applies to all users on your site. Users don\\\’t get to select their own member theme. It will be whatever you set it to.
Hi Guys,
freebpthemes.com is down AGAIN but you can find the contest details at
http://wpmu.org/first-ever-buddypress-theme-contest/
freebpthemes.com should be up mid week – currently moving servers
I concur with Burtadsit’s statement. I wonder why Automattic does not take on SimpleForum and make it the default WP forum… It integrate WP seamlessly, no need to be themed and is rich featured.
OK, well, the theme itself works, however, it prompts the member to add their own widgets and stuff. Basically, how can I create a pre-set member theme that all members just \”get,\” with widget settings and all?
Is that possible?
Best,
Dainis
PS: Also, when I switched the theme in the main admin area, my testmember blog theme stayed the same. I logged into testmember and changed the theme there. It would be cool, if all changes to the member theme would apply to all uses of the member theme. Is that the case, or are copies made and “hidden” somewhere?
no, there are some changes in themes structure, and so this will not solve problems with members and groups directory pages.
i’m looking for an emergency solution: keep only the images and css folder and the footer files both of facebuddy home and member, and upgrade all the other files with the latest trunk. I’m trying and i’ll let you know if it works completely
thx for the support… i stay tuned on BD !
Edit : it doesn’t work.. must i modify bp-themes,home-theme or twice ?
i\\\’m looking at the latest trunk, and there is some issue. I correctly see themes but there are issues with the main links: Groups and Members pages that was previously ruled from the home theme, now seem ruled from the bp-theme. I\\\’ll try to understand what happens, but i think that it will be a problem to release new themes until the stable BP version, because users cannot modify their themes to suit every new trunk version.
updated: as first you can change the <body> in your header.php file in the theme, with: <body<?php if ( bp_is_directory() ) : ?> class=\”directory\”<?php endif; ?>>. this solves the header link problems.
in the “home theme” too there are link changes: for example <?php if ( bp_is_page( MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) {?> becomes <?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) {?> and so on.
i’ve just installed the latest trunk, and the facebuddy (member) theme works perfectly. Are u sure to have activated the member theme from here: site admin > buddypress >facebuddy?
THANKS – that was it, I guess… You are a genius (or I am dumm 
)
<title><?php bp_page_title() ?></title>
That?
Thanks, Lance
but it didn’t solve my problem. I did like you said. But still there is only my site name in my case: young-people.ch
in the default theme it shows per example a member-profile like Michael >Profile >Public
What do I miss in my custom theme?
The profile component has nothing to do with the menu bar. It probably has to do with your theme. I didn’t see any evidence of the menu bar at all on your site when I registered. You must have it turned off somehow.
Your theme must be calling get_footer() twice since that is how the menu bar is triggered.
Hi Sgrunt Thanks for your reply. I had already changed the folders before I installed facebuddy but the members theme still would not work for some reason.
Regards
It makes sense to me to give sub-blog owners a few templates, or just one. Really, I feel like too many templates will confuse the community, creating a lack of cohesiveness. Maybe I can have a few color schemes of the same template. Can my users upload templates? Should they be able to?
No, only you can. You’ll need to upload them to /wp-content/themes/.
I would like all activity to be presented on the main blog page. Basically, if anyone creates a sub-blog post, I would like that to be presented on the main page. Is that what the “all activity” widget does?
Yes.
I set things so that “blog owners” or “sub-blog owners” can’t install plugins, and I would like a nice, safe set of plugins and widgets that they can use without causing any damage. What about that WP plugin installer feature? Will someone gain access to it and break things?
You (as the admin) can upload plugins and widgets either via FTP (or similar) or via the Browser/Installer feature. You can also make plugins run on every site by putting them into the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder. The end user can activate or deactivate the plugins, but with the default user permissions, they don’t have access to the Browser/Installer page (I have just tested this).
bbPress is an absolute pain to work with. Its themeing process is unlike the rest of the Automatic family, very idiosyncratic and frustrating if you try to tackle it from scratch.
But…
I discovered that Refueled.Net makes a \\\”blank\\\” bbPress theme that is a snap to customize. Head over to: http://www.refueled.net/free-bbpress-themes/ and install one of those, then go in and make your custom mods there.
Easypeazy.
Hi Halfpint i’ve replied to your mail: the latest trunk of BP requires a change in the folder name, you can follow instructions in the sticky post of Andy Peatling.
I’ll wait the release of the first official version of BP for renaming theme folders in my themes, in order to be sure that they will be stable.
Are you using the standard bp home theme? What version of bp? Works for me with IE7. I don’t think this is a bp issue.
Thanks for your reply…Ya for first one after searching forum I have already by using donncha’s sidewide tags..
But FOr the second one..I think you didnt get my point… By using term “member blogs page” I am trying to From buddy press member profile page if you go to Member Profile-> Blogs-> Member’s Recent Posts…. There is no Page Navigation for Buddypress Default Theme… Sorry For my weak english that I could not make you understand in the first time..More over I am very new to wordpress and Buddypress… Please help how I can bring pagination on that page…thanks in advance… for better understanding I am talking about the page
http://mysite.com/members/member_name/blogs/recent-posts
http://www.cssbasics.com/chapter_7_css_margins.html
http://www.cssbasics.com/chapter_8_css_padding.html
Margin or padding the left edge of the containing div for whatever widget you are interested in is the way to go probably. First install firebug to figure out what to alter and what the current settings are: http://getfirebug.com/
That will tell you what you need to change and even allow you to interactively change css to try before you buy. You need to override the css in your theme\\\’s site-wide.css file. Create one in your theme\\\’s /theme/css directory. Create the \\\’css\\\’ directory if it doesn\\\’t exist.
Example: move the site wide activity widget 3px to the right in the bp home theme if it\\\’s activated in the left-column.
1) Create: /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/css/site-wide.css
2) Firebug says that the containing div is: \\\’buddypress-activity\\\’ and has the classes: \\\’widget\\\’ and \\\’bp_activity_widget_sitewide_activity\\\’
3) In site-wide.css we override the default setting for class bp_activity_widget_sitewide_activity which is specific to this widget and firebug tells me that nothing is modifying this class yet. So we do:
.bp_activity_widget_sitewide_activity{
margin-left: 3px;
}
I should stick to programming. I really suck at css so that may cause your server to have a meltdown and your children to talk back to you.
If you want all blog posts to show up on the main blog then you are looking for donncha’s sitewide tags plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/
Your member’s individual blog pagination depends on the theme they are using. It’s the theme’s responsibility. Am I understanding you correctly about ‘member blogs page’? Maybe not.
Hi Im still getting the same problem as mentioned above and I downloaded the zip about 1 hour ago. The home theme works fine but the members theme does not work I also have the latest trunk and BP.
I know where that constant (which has actually been renamed since) is defined, but I think it’s a much better approach if you install the SVN trunk.
I don’t know of any database/table changes since RC1. If I were you I might consider just copying out your .htaccess and wp-config.php to a safe location (and any theme changes etc you’ve made – you’ll have to reimplement these afterwards). Get the trunk with svn co https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk and put it into your mu-plugins, and put the .htaccess and wp-config.php files back in place. And crossing my fingers.
