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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.

Another? Yes, you can change the default theme in the admin settings. A specific BuddyPress theme? No.

Dainismichel, I’ve been that route for the past year and a half. Nothing compares to buddypress that is out there. I’m hoping to find a skeleton theme that integrates the blogs nicely. I have one now from wildrot, but it will take a lot of work to get it production ready. I’ll keep you posted.

Anyone have a decent “community theme” set up that works for member blogs? Willing to share?

Similar thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1632&replies=18#post-13349

Show stopper for me too. Looking into http://wpmu.org/an-alternative-to-buddypress-three-new-wordpress-mu-plugins-communities-messaging-and-friends/

Best,

Dainis

Hi there,

when following the upgrading instructions I forgot to activate the new plugins after uploading them manually. Instead I continued with all the theme changes right away [edit: on the ftp-server].

After all, I can not log into my MU installation at all – there is just a blank screen. I tried to bring the old files back in place – without success.

Is there any way that I do not have to re-install all of WordPress MU in order to get back my admin panel??? *argh*

very interesting thread. i just started something similar here. https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2434

i totally thought the blogs were integrated into the home theme. i had no idea they weren’t. i was going to launch my site this weekend, now it’s looking pretty bad. i would have to hack a theme together, which stinks. i was really excited about the all in one integrated themes, especially at upgrade time. get the new features and no hacks on my theme!

i do like the look of that JPG, but wouldn’t care if it was identical. i would just love the integration of blogs into the home theme. any help or info I can provide to the community, I will post here. please do the same with regular updates.

this is a show stopper for me.

So, basically, I’d really like to launch my community. It is an alternative health site that basically tops the list for advanced raw-foodist supernutrition practices. Anyone interested in helping, please get in touch.

I’m sure there are templates and structures out there that I could use and tweak, I just need to find the right person to work with me and supply the missing information I simply don’t know.

I got a very kind response from Andy to search for some blog theme setting plugins. I have plugin commander and new blog defaults installed, but neither allow me to create a standard member theme with the widget settings all in place.

I don’t feel right about launching my community until I can give users a standard blog template, and I don’t know how to continue.

Best,

Dainis

No, it’s not designed to be used other than in a single instance on whatever blog you define to be the ‘home’ blog.

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?

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