Hi Jeff,
I once designed a theme for wordpress yes. Been a while thou. I know CSS pretty well. 
Anyways, ill probably figure it out once ive played around with the skeleton theme for a week or two. I guess its like designing a wordpress theme just that now you have buddypress tags to play with as well.
Do you know why the 3 sections Members, Groups and Blogs looks like they arnt connected to any css file in the skeleton theme?
Ezd-
Have you worked much with CSS before? Have you designed a custom WordPress theme before?
If not, here are some resources I recommend for starters:
- First, if you’re not using the Firefox browser, do so. Also, install the FireBug Add-on.
- Second, the WordPress Codex is a great resource for theme designers
- Finally, BuddyPress themes are unique themes in the WP family. Andy has written a great BuddyPress Codex on BP theme loops
Ah, that could be causing an issue. Do you have a FTP client? If so, you should be able to delete any file and folder in any of your domains.
BEfore deleting and reinstalling, just make sure you’ve backed up any data that you want to save and any custom theme changes. Also, make a note of which plugins you’re using just in case you accidentally delete them out of the wp-content folder.
I think I must have another clean install.
The only problem is WPMU folders are undeletable from c-panel.
Several of them with the wp-content already exist
@Squashroby & @Tyviris-
It appears that both of you are using WordPress single user version. BuddyPress must be used with WordPress Multi-User version (WPMU).
You can download it here: https://mu.wordpress.org/download/
Start over from scratch. First, delete all the files (except any custom themes you may have created or downloaded). Create a new MySQL database. Them go though the install process again:
- Install WPMU — the multi-user version! Follow these instructions
- Next, install BuddyPress following these instructions
Maythil-
Hum? That is strange since that directly addresses the admin bar styling. What browser are you using? Is it FireFox?
When go into FIreFox and make those changes, I see your site’s admin bar set to 800 px. Did you use the !important declaration?
I’m not sure what the taxonomy tables have to do with anything but you can upgrade to 1.0 now. There are many new theme author friendly templates, templatetags that can do what you want alot easier than sql queries.
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/
In the header.php of your themes (home or member) do you see MEMBERS_SLUG or BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ?
Make sure you have copied/merged the functions.php file too.
Have a loot at the default home theme template that comes with BP. I am not sure where BP hooks this into, but check in header.php in <head> for a func call that you might have missed.
Threaded comments were introduced in wordpress 2.7 and is an option in the admin settings. A theme has to have been written to support that version of wordpress due to changes in how themes were done.
And for all you theme designers out there, remember that Andy recently updated the BuddyPress Skeleton Theme to version 1.0 standards. It is bundled into the 1.0 download package. But, if you need a new copy, you can get it here:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1575
Erich73-
He doesn’t have a threaded forum, it’s a threaded comment system. Better yet, it’s available to you if you use the P2 theme!
Well, that was completely confusing (didn’t realize I had to move themes around and such and then I couldn’t find them). But sadly, nope still get a blank page/404/whatever you want to call it.
I contacted my host’s Support and I think I have them stumped too!
cyndy, go to the wpmu back end BuddyPress > General Settings and just Save Settings on that page after selecting the bp 1.0 member theme. bp might not be detecting the new member theme location. Upgrading to 1.0 means that the member theme is now located in /wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember
Give that a save there and see if the problem goes away.
Well, put it this way, the default buddypress home theme is really just a widget framework accomodating the BP widgets for activity, members, groups, who’s online, welcome etc.
You need to decide where you want to show what and look for themes that fulfill your requirements. There are dozens of mag style themes out there… As long as you have a good range of widget positions in the theme you should be able to put your home page together the way you want to. Besides, it’s easy to create custom widget positions if you need to.
In any case, some php / theming skills may be needed to get stuff exactly how you want it.
Did you notice the theme folder name changes?
Coding through loops is a little too much beyond my skills. Which magazine style theme is a good example?
Arturo: the link works okay for me? Edit: nevermind, fixed.
please Andy fix the link for the Skeleton Theme download
You can always use a blog or magazine style theme for your home theme instead of the bphome theme and then drop the BP widgets into that.
This is no longer an issue with the BuddyPress 1.0 Release, however the bug remains in WPMU.
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@Lifemore – Thanks for the link. That’s the same guy who makes the eCommerce theme right? I was aware of that Wiki for WP but haven’t tried it with BP. I’ll have to try it out. I’m not super keen on Elgg (it looks really good feature-wise… but just not quote as polished and user-friendly… and perhaps a little more tricky to theme). And the idea of trying to mash up a dozen plugins with Drupal makes me nauseous. LOL
@Nicola – Good stuff!!!
One quick update to the comment immediately above this one.
I just did a fresh install of WPMU, did not even log in as admin and did not install BuddyPress. The default WPMU shows the same behavior as the above, so this can’t possibly be a BuddyPress problem.
Not that I wouldn’t appreciate your help on this, but I’m going to continue to try and solve this at the WPMU level, and move on to BP when/if I solve it…
@Enlightenmental1
The plugin works mostly off the post and media library architecture. The database interaction is principally adding entries to wp_postmeta. It saves the post as a slideshow post by a boolean _jqss_is_showing, and, if desired you can add a special slideshow image with a meta field called jqss_image to contain the URL of the image. If you are lazy like me, you can just insert an image in the body of a post, and the plugin will sniff that out (hopefully) and use it as the slideshow image.
It saves widget options in wp_options. Pretty standard stuff I would guess.
@Hyrxx
My intention was that the widget would appear on the main page of the site, where the admin would select pages from the main blog to feature. I am working on a few CSS themes to make the presentation a little snazzier. A regular blog could use it in any sidebar. I guess that I could hook it into TinyMCE so you could put a slideshow of posts in a post, but that might get ugly if the person accidentally slideshow-selected the post that had the slideshow in it.
