Your users’ blogs will get whatever template you have set as “default”, which is probably the BuddyPress Home Theme. So do this:
1) Rename the BuddyPress Home Theme something other than “default”.
2) In the dashboard for your main blog (admin), assign the BuddyPress theme to your blog. That’s what users will see when they visit your site, as your “blog” is the site.
3) Choose the theme you want your users to have as their default blog theme.
4) Name your chosen default blog theme “default”.
If you need additional info, let me know.
Mark
Just the member pages, groups, etc should get the buddypress theme. The actual blogs themselves will use whatever the “default” theme is setup for the WPMU installation that you have put buddypress on.
Trent
Hey had the same problem but here’s how to fix it.
1. Under wp-content create a folder called member-themes
2. Upload the required member theme there (not to the folder labled themes).
3. Enjoy
Leo S.
Burtadsit et al
“In /mu-plugins/bp-blogs/bp-blogs-widgets.php line 47 is: <?php $counter++; ?>
Comment that out and you’ll get the excerpt for all the posts instead of just the first one.”
I’ve tried this in the latest release and it doesn’t work anymore. I’m trying to have more than one recent blog post listed in the Recent Blog Posts widget using BP Home Theme.
Any ideas?
lol I found it
It’s under settings/reading/ front page display…
Somehow I must have changed that at some point.
I’m sure someone may find this helpful as it was a bugger to track down
From the readme.txt in /buddypress-themes:
2. Move the /member-themes/ directory into /wp-content/member-themes/
If you look at your member page as well, the letters and placement of things on the page are not the same as the default theme, so I would start comparing the CSS of your theme versus that of the original. That is all I can recommend.
Trent
Trent
That is Buddypress Home theme (modified)…but even so, the drop down menu, verification and about me box is missing on my page. Hmmmmm….
Not a widget as you are using your own theme. You might just be missing the CSS that would be required to make it look nice in your theme 
The fun of running a custom theme I guess
Trent
should I have the theme installed somewhere else?
Pretty simple really:
1) Make a backup of your DB just in case you change your mind.
2) Remove anything that has prefix of bp in your /mu-plugins/ folder
3) Delete the folder /wp-content/member-themes/
4) Delete the folder /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/
5) Delete any tables in your DB that start with the prefix bp
6) Delete the tables that are in format of wp_user_X_activity ….. Not wp_users, just those specific to BP
7) Change your main WPMU blog to use a different theme
Be prepared for hits to non-existent information if you have been hit by search engines
Really, it is just reversing what you did in the installation process. Making backups before and after are really important as you don’t want to make a mistake. It is also good practice to tell your members that you are doing it since they might have issue with the changes, or at least need to be notified.
Hope that helps.
Trent
I DID it but still have stuff in my DB and the template in wp_content/themes. Now everytime i add a new blog it shows a blank page because no template is choosen. When i switch de BP Template off in the admin the other Templates disapear too!
The buddypress member theme is located in:
/wp-content/themes/member-themes/buddypress-member/
It isn’t finding the member theme. Do you have the it installed in wp-content/ and not in wp-content/themes/ for the actual member-themes folder?
Trent
Sorry, only added half the information.
Both installations are the standard installations with no mods and the BP home is the default theme.
The link to the site (very early stages) is
http://www.tatmag.co.uk
Thanks!
bp version? wpmu version? Any custom mods to bp or wpmu code? What blog is the home theme running on? Link to your site? Some details would be helpful.
What templates? The blog themes on testbp.org? If so then you can get them at: http://svn.automattic.com/wpcom-themes
I think they come from there.
The ‘news’ button in the home theme displays the blog posts of whatever blog it’s installed on.
Can you add this to http://trac.buddypress.org as an enhancement?
There is probably a filter on the_author_posts_link() that you can use to replace the link.
I’ve been working on https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/290
No luck so far. I thought I found the offending location, but I’m not sure now. Can you verify?
wp-content/themes/buddpress-home/css/base.css
wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/activity/activity-list.php
Lets try and see what’s common here. You both have:
– Subdirectory installs of mu.
– You both are running the bp home theme on blog id 1.
– Attempts to run ‘members’, ‘news’, ‘groups’ or ‘blogs’ in the member or home theme results in a redirect to wp-signup.php.
– You have the latest trunk versions of wpmu 2.7 and bp.
Is this correct?
How about some links to your sites that we can look at and reproduce the problem.
