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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.

hah. i was also looking for this same thing. i would have also liked to have the buddypress theme activated for all individual blogs.

I am having this same problem while upgrading from beta2 to 1.0. My home theme and the default home theme work fine, but the member theme still says it is missing.

I have deleted the old directories and moved /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ to /wp-content/bp-themes/

so my result is mysite.com/wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/

According to the instructions that is all that is needed. I am also seeing BP_MEMBERS_SLUG in the member theme. This one is puzzling me

Erich73-

I’m sure it could be worked to get it to play well with BuddyPress!

At the bare minimum, there are some important changes/additions to certain theme files and folders that would need to be made as detailed here in the section entitled “Upgrading the Theme files”.

Are you running BP version 1.0? Is your old theme a custom theme?

Assuming that you upgraded to v1.0, carefully read the section entitled “Upgrading the Theme files” in this BuddyPress Codex link.

Hadar-

Thanks for sharing your issue and, even better, the solution!

OK, responding to my own questions, just not to create work for anyone else who ends up here in the future.

I had a bug in my NginX conf file. For all CSS files that were in subdirectories off the root, I was sending those files through PHP rather than just returning them. That caused the Content-Type to be set to “text/html”, rather than “text/css”.

That’s why it worked without a Doctype (quirks mode kicked in), and failed in Firefox and Chrome with the Doctype in.

Maythil-

You’re welcome–although I don’t know how helpful I’ve been.

With FTP, you should be able to go into your web root and do pretty much anything you want–that is assuming your hosting firm gives you FTP access privileges.

ie6 only displays 800px screens. is there a way to trick firefox or chrome into behaving like that?

Well, it seems that you are trying to do just that via the CSS. I’m not sure what the issue is though?

I suppose you could use JavaScript to force a resize of the browser window but this would only work for users you have javascript enable (most do) and have not set the Firefox Option that prevents a script from moving or resizing a window. Look here: http://schleichermann.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/javascript-resize-window/

Another great FireFox Add-on is the Web Developer Tools. It may help you gain more insight into what is going on!

The home theme is not designed to be activated on every members blog. You could create your own theme that brings in some BuddyPress features for each blog though. Users can actually add still add BuddyPress widgets to their blogs.

Ezd-

You can customize the home theme to accomplish that goal. To make sure that no one can enter the community until they’ve registered and logged in, you could try implementing some of these suggestions.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=39

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1651

The community pages would be your customized member theme.