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Well, we got a couple of options here.

1) hack the theme and git rid of the content div in the header.php. That means changing all existing templates that rely on that content div being gen’ed before it gets to them

2) hack the directories and all other code that just assumes that they are responsible for gen’ing their own content divs and leave the theme header.php alone

3) get a different theme

Yep. Thanks for the tip. This is goofy though. We gotta get Andy to solve the 404 problem. I shouldn’t have to create a dummy page and have to deal with that as well as the 404 problem. Some themes are hardcoded to display the pages that exist. What if I don’t want to have any pages? (I don’t)

Is there a ticket for this?

(he asks too lazy to go look)

@liljohn I’m not certain what you mean by creating custom page templates.

This existing blog is a normal wp 2.7 blog? Not mu. If that’s the case then I had a normal 2.7 blog in a subdirectory of a mu 2.6.2 and now a mu 2.7 install. mu was installed in the root and the single user 2.7 was in a subdir under that.

Both seemed happy to coexist. Never had any problems but didn’t really play that much with the 2.7 normal install. I was just fooling in the backend and testing themes under 2.7.

The buddypress-member theme is what styles the users’ profile pages (with profile, activity, groups, messaging, etc.).

It is what you see at testbp.org for your own profile, or if you click on any other member’s avatar.

It is not for the members blogs. It is not for the home site. It is just for the profile “member” area.

Howdy, can I jump in for a sec? Go to Plesk > Domains > ‘yourdomain’ > log manager

There’s an option there in the middle ‘Lines of log file to be displayed (from the end of the file)’. Put in 100 or something resonable. Then select error_log.

I honestly don’t know where all the instances for this is (plus “wire” appears in the urls, etc.). First start would be checking out the bp_wire_setup_nav function in bp-wire.php file in mu-plugins.php. That at least would change the menu names. Then I would imagine you would have change text in the BuddyPress user themes…

It is only a matter of time!

I have hacked the member theme to suit my site, but it is nothing outragous!

explorewithme.com

I tried to use a third party theme and added some code as per the instructions in the member-themes-readme.txt in the memberthemes folder. I had many problems but then soon realised that my theme was only compatible with wp 2.7.

I think that if there were to be a template club it may start with BP.

Now doubt, like anything else wp related, there WILL be a plethora of BP template sites popping up soon.

Fatal error could be anything. No access to error logs? What host?

If you are getting a blank page, the first place to look is what your apache logs are saying about trying to access it. What is the error, since it is giving you a fatal error if you are getting a white page. It could be a plugin conflict or something as basic as still looking for an older theme from the database.

cristiano, i barely think right there are any serious “BuddyPress templates” besides the default and maybe 1 or 2 that have been recently put together.

However, I have no doubt that in 2009 we will see this and might be one of the factors that drives BP into mainstream. However, it has been said that you can adapt almost any theme to BuddyPress. You just have to do some work, maybe get a little dirty. Not an environment for the lazy crowd yet, but hopefully we’ll get there.

And feel free anyone to prove the above wrong.

Don’t fear. Just change the register.php form in your bbPress template to not have the registration form in it and replace it with a link to your register form on your WPMU install. There are quite a few threads on the bbPress forums about this. If you use the default theme, copy folder to /my-plugins/ and then adjust the theme. That way it won’t break when you upgrade.

Trent

Look at MobilePress and WPTouch for ways to show different looks of a WP site to mobile users (the latter is especially for the iPhone). There are at least a few other stylesheets and templates as well. I have an iPhone, and these have been decently successful on standard WP sites. The iPhone browser uses MobileSafari.

What I would really like to see is an iPhone app that would allow you to browse almost ANY Buddypress site with a standard look-and-feel.

Look for YUI

I’m building a theme for the iphone for my installation. It runs safari. m.digg.com is a nice iPhone site if you want to look at their code.

To be quite honest I have never touched any iPhone, but anyway I want to ask what kind of web-browser the iPhone is using? All the time I see iPhone-plugins for WP and MU, but don’t quite understand that people actually make a plugin just for that ugly phone…

Wouldt a plugin making the main blog and member theme aviable to all smartphones be an option? It’s not like the whole world is using iPhone…. ?

Update your home and member themes.

If you’re using a custom theme – take the search form out of the header and replace it with <?php bp_search_form() ?>

Hi Matt,

Did you get this resolved? I seem to be getting the same error soon after I installed and tried to activate the theme from the admin console. Any feedback will be great!

Regards,

Karthik

When I enabled Thesis, I had to manually add pages for News, Blogs, Members & Groups. Everything appears to work until you click on one of the created Pages. (Blogs, Members & Groups mainly)

I’m not sure what ‘manually add pages for…’ means. You don’t need to add anything except the files plugin-template.php and plugin-sidebar.php which come with the bp home theme. Look in the home theme dir for those two. Just drop them into your theme’s directory.

Those files have action triggers in them that display whatever directory your user chose. Members, Groups…

If you are not running the bp home theme then within your theme you provide links to all the directories you want to be available. The urls would be:

yoursite.org/members

yoursite.org/groups

yoursite.org/blogs

You don’t have to create pages for these. bp hooks those urls and tries to display the appropriate directory using the plugin-template.php file.

What you’ve done is create mu pages with slugs that mimic the bp urls for the directories. Clicking on what you expect to be a page in your theme, fires off one of those urls. bp sees that it’s a bp internal reserved name for one of the directories and tries to oblige by displaying the directory. It can’t find that template file plugin-template.php and complains loudly.

Ya just can’t have pages named those things.

What you will have to do is override/skin the css for the directories if you want them to display in accordance with your theme.