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You should extend the deadline Daniel. With the downtime and people only really finding out about this in the last week, it’s not long enough to think about, design and build a decent theme. Just my 2 cents.

You should think of a home theme as just a standard WordPress blog theme. It is no different other than a few new files to handle directories.

A member theme is a “BuddyPress” theme, and should probably be called that.

You should treat them as two entirely different themes, your WordPress theme should have the styles and images for just the WordPress parts and your BuddyPress theme should have the styles and images for just the BuddyPress parts.

You could of course still provide the two themes in one download package, but they should still work independently. It’s not a good idea at all to make the themes dependent on one another. Someone may want to use your member theme but keep their own blog theme.

I’ll be writing more docs on this soon.

This is a theme problem. You seem to have solved that issue. You have another fatal error when viewing the blogs directory:

Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /home/ladsmy/public_html/community/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core.php on line 930

If you temporarily switch to the standard bp home theme does this happen? If your problems go away by switching to the bp home theme then you need to contact your theme’s author.

if it’s only a css you could make it as a plugin

I’m posting from my blackberry so someone can confirm, but I think Andy is saying that the functions.php in the BuddyPress Home theme is what hijacks the url and makes this happen? If I remember correctly? Sorry don’t have the source in front of me at the moment…

This is a server or config issue. Not a bp issue.

People let me say this clearly: BP DOES NOT CHANGE THE PERMALINK STRUCTURE OF ANY BLOG!

There is no instance of the global object $wp_rewrite in any bp code or any call to $wp_rewrite->set_permalink_structure()

Not in the member theme, not in the home theme and not in any bp plugin.

bp is not changing the permalink structure. The only thing bp does is hijack the word ‘blog’ and load the index.php template. That’s it.

@pietro28, what version of bp and wpmu are you using? Did you install wpmu in the directory mysite.com/blog ?

I hope I Make the deadline..

Just a sneak peak

http://web20bizz.com/membertheme.gif

Anyone else?

Mike

OH and to separate it from your “pages” list, just add an exclusion of that page on the widget for pages.

You’re in luck I just had to do this myself, and here is how I did it.

I created a new php file that I wanted to use for the page and added this to the top of the file:

<?php

/*

Template Name: MY_TEMPLATE_NAME

*/

?>

you can make, MY_TEMPLATE_NAME, whatever, but be careful there are some reserved template names.

Save this file in the root directory of your home theme (i.e. wp-content/themes/buddypress-home) now under your admin blog write a new page (NOT POST), make the title relevant to what you want, but don’t put anything in the actual page.

Scroll down to the “Page Template” menu and when expanded you should see a drop down box with the “MY_TEMPLATE_NAME” as an option. choose that and now just copy down your permalink, and that is the direct link to your newly created page. SIMPLE! I also added in my side_bar to the page I created so that the navigation menu stayed put as I move through all of my pages.

This is only if you install the BuddyPress home theme. It should not do this if you just use your existing theme.

How can I hook bp_show_blog_signup_form() or bp_create_blog_link or other related function?

I want it not to show registration blog content. I mean when user “has limited his numbers of blogs per member” there is no link to create a blog.

Or even better: There is a link, but without blog signup form, but with the message: ‘Limit nine blogs per member. If you would like another, please contact an Admin for assistance.’

I do not want to hard coding in member-themes’ files. I’m creating a plugin with Admin page to configure this.

Free licensing is kind of crucial I’d say. Why not use GPL, like BuddyPress does?

Wow that’s neat.

Any demos? I couldn’t find one after 2 seconds so I got lazy and figured I’d ask.

Hi all,

Are these instructions still applicable to the latest SVN version of BP.

I downloaded the latest trunk last night and replaced the mu-plugins with the SVN one. I left the themes as they were as the theme works with RC1 components.

However, after replacing all the components with the latest SVN copies i got a blank screen.

A PHP error probably, i shall turn on logging when i get back and have another look.

Just wondered if there was a new way to upgrade now?

Your posts should still be at http://mydomain.com/whatever/post. The url http://mydomain.com uses the home.php template in bp. That overrides index.php that is used if home.php doesn’t exist. If home.php exists in the theme directory the only way to run index.php is to trap something like ‘blog’ and then load that index.php template.

This is normal behavior for any wp theme that uses home.php. bp doesn’t change the permalink structure of your blog.

You can not use home.php if you like by deleting it from the theme directory or renaming it to something like home.php.off

That will get you index.php being used.

I’d like to see:

1. better taxonomy with separate vocabularies (think Drupal). For example if there’s a profile field called “home town” and the user enters New York, NY, that would link to a list of other people who’s hometown is New York, NY (instead of doing a sitewide search for everything containing “New York”)

2. some type of user role system with different permissions for each role, and different profile fields per role (business, typical user, whatever)

3. ability to comment on Activity posts (like Facebook, though I assume this is already in the pipeline)

4. total integration with Picassa and Flickr ( check out what this guy’s been doing with the 6.x version of this: http://drupal.org/project/picasa . It’s the best sort of photo management for a CMS I’ve come across )

@ sgrunt..good attempt keep up the work.

@nicolagreco, Regarding cbook theme,any update on mine or email reply ?

http://vgfan.net

The only thing that’s finished now is some of the blogs. Would like to customize the theme a little and I still need to figure out how to get the forums working