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no it has nothing to do with the theme but with the bp-core plugin itself… its calling up wrong paths as far as im concerned.. wait ill update with today’s svn and check..

o and i think i have found the cause of the problem.. the member-theme selection in the buddy press options(sitewide admin) shows themes from my themese directory(the buddypresshome and other standard wpmu themes) instead of showing the buddypress-members theme. iv been checking the code and well i cant really place my finger on it..

$themes = get_themes();

if ( $themes ) {

foreach ( $themes as $name => $values ) {

$member_themes[] = array(

'name' => $name,

'template' => $values

);

}

}

return $member_themes;

}

function bp_core_set_member_theme_root() {

return WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/member-themes';

}

function bp_core_set_member_theme_root_uri() {

return WP_CONTENT_URL . '/member-themes';

}

It should work in a subdirectory just fine, I tested this again today.

What version are you running of WPMU? Are you using the trunk of BP?

Any plugins? Using default themes?

I’d like to know this also.

The forum line was removed because it was not implemented, it may reappear if theme support for a global forum is added.

You can easily add this back into a plugin:

function add_forum_link() {

echo '<a href="' . site_url('forums') . '">Forums</a>';

}

add_action( 'bp_nav_items', 'add_forum_link' );

I’ll investigate the settings not showing, the changes made should not affect that.

Defiantly,

I have already skinned up a members theme, home theme and a host of blog themes for my users.

Its not hard at all, infact just like normal wordpress themes so expect to see a load available soon.

One thing i wish was easier was controlling the page names / urls buddy press assigns as default.

I have manually changed all references but when i upgrade my changes will be reversed

I would use my custom home theme and it would be nice to have more member themes for BP?

custom themes sure! for home theme,

for member theme.. customize that too!

and make sure you upload it to http://www.freebuddypressthemes.com!

I personally feel that sooner or later, we’ll be seeing a slew of themes that are BP-ready. They could be either mods of current WP themes or completely custom themes. I would imagine theme designers will start making them available to the public, as well as designing them for their own use. Not many people are going to be happy using the same theme as everybody else, which you can see because lots of people are skinning the theme and others are making BP work with standard WP themes. I’m working with the Hybrid template (http://themehybrid.com) to make a custom bp-home theme for BP.

Edit mu-plugins/bp-friends.php, mu-plugins/bp-friends/bp-friends-notifications.php, mu-plugins/bp-friends/bp-friends-templatetags.php,mu-plugins/bp-friends/bp-friends-widgets.php and the files in the member-themes/buddypress-member/friends…it may take a little while, but you have to look for places where it says “Friends” and change it to “Contacts”. There is also one more place you have to change my friends for the activity navigation, look in mu-plugins/bp-activity.php. I did it all manually. I am building a site for business usage as well. The great thing about buddypress is the files are easily customizable. I hope this helps.

I’m not sure what you mean. It’s possible for users to choose traditional WordPress themes for their blogs, while using BuddyPress themes for the BuddyPress-related stuff. I struggled with this too, but if you read the instructions for the individual theme downloads, it makes more sense. The instructions for the package download don’t exactly make it clear.

So, I’ve got a BuddyPress home theme with its own name, a BuddyPress member theme (which is required), and then a traditional WP theme I’ve set to “default” (by changing its directory name to “default”), which is the default things for user blogs. And I will also have a selection of traditional themes that users can switch their blogs to.

Good luck!

Mark

I’m hoping BP will be released with themes that do work in all major browsers.

See also here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=95

I get the same error when updating to 1.0/

Installed BuddyPress theme in “wp-content/themes/default”

How do I Update my home theme as suggested?

The install docs tell us that we need to follow the directions in:

/mu-plugins/buddypress-theme/readme.txt

to get the themes in the right spots.

The widget titles are hardcoded at the moment. Which one do you want to change? Here’s the pattern for each:

Members widget – /mu-plugins/bp-core/bp-core-widgets.php

Lines 12/13 :

register_sidebar_widget( __('Members', 'buddypress'), 'bp_core_widget_members');

register_widget_control( __('Members', 'buddypress'), 'bp_core_widget_members_control' );

Change ‘Members’ to ‘Whatever’

If you have them running already they will disappear from the backend and your theme. Just put put them back again.

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/buddypress-theme/member-themes/member-themes-readme.txt

I’d start with the readme document

but everything should be uploaded to mu-plugins and then make sure you put the themes in the correct places. you won’t see anything regarding bp in your plugins, but you will see a buddypress option under “site admin”

you need the core and xprofiles folders to get it running and then install any extras you want

but read the readme!