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sportstwit.com is a really cool combination of prologue and BP. I would love to have access to themes like this and be a part of its development.

Also looking forward to Nicole’s theme. Genius stuff! I will be watching this thread.

Thank you.

Vida

Hi Steve:

This is how I did it:

As hyrxx above mentioned, go to: buddypress-home -> css -> base.css

Look for Header section in base.css. The fist part looks like this:

/*** HEADER **********/

#header {

padding: 25px 20px;

}

#header h1 {

width: 214px;

height: 29px;

overflow: hidden;

text-indent: -999px;

background: url(../images/logo.png) top left no-repeat;

float: left;

Just change the width and height to what your logo size is. You need to do the same on base.css in your member themes as well. I had to go into file management on my server to edit this, due to MU not having a theme editor option.

ib0189, what you describe is possible. You can use a wp theme for the main blog and the bp home theme for all other blogs in mu. You just need to restrict your user’s selection to the bp home theme only and somehow make it the default. The plugin that awarner20 mentioned works. Also in Site Admin > Themes just disable everything except the home theme.

Hi,

I have the exact same error with the latest release of buddypress and wp 2.7, and just as jfcarter explained my templates are also in the correct directories with the correct permissions. The system looks for “buddypress-home” instead of “member-themes”

wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/index.php) [function.load-template]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /wp-includes/theme.php on line 822

I see I’m not the only one thinking in this direction. Basically a uniform default pre-widgeted blog layout for new users to use, that matches the existing site, creating a “facebook” like experience for lack of a better term, where everything fits nicely in its box.

I think the next step would be once you’ve got that done, to remove the “Appearance” area from the user admin entirely, that way they don’t go breaking it, or seeing a menu that they can’t use.

I’ve thought about making a default theme that wasn’t widgetized, with a hard coded sidebar.php; that would work, but it’s more of a work-around than a resolution.

If you don’t want to use widgets, I believe you can find what you’re looking for here… https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/action-reference/

…but you should be using widgets as it’s much easier to make changes in the future instead of keeping track of hard coded function calls in your theme;)

speaking from previous wpmu experience

Hey IB,

I think you’re current setup should work for what you need to do. You may need to add a couple plugins though.

You said these were the trouble items…

site.com > WPRemix theme.

user.site.com > BuddyPress Home theme – but no widgets setup (I thought that that should have gone to either the user’s profile or the user’s blog?).

My set up is similar.

site.com > Using main BP theme

user.site.com > Using a default theme I specified using a plugin called “New Blog Defaults” that allows me to set the default theme for any blog that’s created.

Now, the difference might be that my version of user.site.com is actually a user blog address, not just a user name. Does the user your trying access have a blog domain as well? Or just a user (profile) name?

If it’s just a profile name, then the url would be http://site.com/members/membername/

disable all the themes in the themes admin section under site admin

Exactly the same when I test using the search box (top left of the home theme). The problem is that there’s no code written to handle it yet – all the existing code does is to call the bp_search_form_action action which isn’t implemented anywhere.

From what I can gather this thread is about a configuration problem. This is how to install the two themes.

1) From the distribution zip or trunk move the folder /buddypress-theme/buddypress-home to the folder /wp-content/themes. You wind up with the structure /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home

2) Move the folder /buddypress-theme/member-themes to the folder /wp-content. Ending up with the structure /wp-content/member-themes.

If you want to use the bp home theme then you need to activate that in wpmu backend. You will never see the member theme as a possible candidate to activate.

Do a clean install, no custom plugins, use the default themes. Report back if you still get an error.

http://www.sportsblognet.com. Tell anyone that likes sports to check it out. Finally up and running after about a month. We may be looking for someone that can code the member theme to match our overall site theme so please respond to this if you are interested.

Go into the Dashboard logged in as the “WPMU admin” into -> Site-Admin => Themes and then disable the theme from there. You can always go to Site-Admin -> Blogs and edit your main blog to enable the them only for the main blog.

Trent

You could try and create a hidden blog and change the theme for just that to see if you can manage the widgets. Alternatively post a link to the theme you’re using and I’ll give it a spin on my setup.

As for the avatars… Do you have the “blog.dir” folder in your “wp-content” folder?

Looking at the path you’re posting above (/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/index.php) it seems as if you’ve selected the BuddyPress home theme as the default theme for your member pages and not the actual member theme.

I’m not sure how you’d be able to do that though.

What are the contents in your “member-themes” folder?

Buddypress is not unusable software. I suggest being a bit more polite if you come looking for help, especially to the official Buddypress forums.

It’s because you’re trying to shoehorn a PHP script into your theme. Either one of the PHP variables you use in the snippet in bold is used elsewhere by Buddypress – thus getting weird conflicts – or it’s to do with one of your mysql_ function calls, possibly mysql_select_db().

i think you should modify both the buddypress home and the member theme: the base.css file or the custom.css file for both themes. Change the body, the left, right, center column width, and the narrow and wide column.

(You don’t need to insert code, just copy and paste the text straight into the post.)

It seems as if I’m not skilled enough to help you further as I have no idea what this could be.

I see that you have a custom theme though. Can you try and revert to the default BuddyPress theme and see if that works?