Trent, I don’t think it is the first reason, as I am using the buddypress-member theme, just not the home theme.
Could be the second. I’ll try what you said later and let you know. Thanks!
@wardeh – I haven’t actually tried that plugin with a custom member theme, but it might not be working for 2 reasons.
First might be because the plugin is calling $is_member_page, it might not work unless you have all the functions included with the normal buddypress-member theme.
Second reason might be because the header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/register'); is calling the register page on the main theme that doesn’t exist? Maybe change that line to header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-signup.php'); and see if that works?
The bbPress plugin should work if you are calling it out of /my-plugins/ but I am pretty sure you have to have the <?php bb_head(); ?> in your template header as well as <?php do_action('bb_foot'); ?> in your template footer.php.
Let me know, as the bbPress plugin is just a “redesign” of the force login plugin found in the bbPress forums.
Trent
I’ll look into this, I’ve actually not tried it. Having a widget sidebar for all member themes would be very handy though.
I played with the widgets in the member theme for a couple of hours. I couldn’t get it to work. The problem seems to stem from the fact that the member theme code can’t register a sidebar or then call it again.
I tried registering a sidebar in my theme. Shows up fine. I can add widgets all day long. However when you call dynamic_sidebar(), dynamic_sidebar doesn’t think there are any sidebars to give to the call. The var $wp_registered_sidebars is empty and it just returns.
I didn’t have a chance to track down $wp_registered_sidebars and find out why it’s confused. The sidebars are associated with a particular blog id. So I tried just using switch_to_blog(1) before dynamic_sidebar() and that didn’t work. Evidently that isn’t enough to populate the $wp_registered_sidebars var during the call.
Trent,
I’ve been meaning to ask you about those.
On the first: force-member-login. Since I’ve been using my own theme, it doesn’t work. This is the error I get:
Not Found
You tried going to http://my-site.net/register, and it doesn't exist. All is not lost! You can search for what you're looking for.
And with the second: force-login. My forums are still accessible. Well, hang on. I am not using the group forums anymore. So it is my actual forums installation that is still accessible. Perhaps your plugin won’t work for this application?
I take it you don’t have time right now to help me, so I can wait until you have time. This is not urgent.
I have edited a couple themes and added widget support, I did not try with the member-theme, but it should behave just like any other theme in which you define sidebars. However, I don’t know if each user will be able to add his own widgets to it. It seems as though you are able to add a widget to the theme, but it should be the same for all users.
The thing is that the member theme is not treated like any other theme on the WP-Backend, but rather it is a different kind of setup, like a standalone. Am I right on this?
Mike, have you created a page called “Members”? Try that and see if your Page Not Found error goes away. I had to do this when using my own theme instead of the BP home theme. I had to do it for Groups and Blogs, too.
yuParticipant
yeap yeap yeap.. i’m stupid ) just uploaded theme folder to wrong server folder )
Those links you see are hard coded in the home theme. You can check out my beta site where I have started to play around with adding more links and doing some fun stuff with the standard theme.
http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/
I’m a little confused about the widget part? If you are thinking about building your own …. (shopping cart, arcade, radio station), then you should be able to follow any of the standard examples floating around about how to build custom pieces, and add a link to that custom piece in the home theme.
Brad
I’m gonna have to get back to you later with the two issues you have. I have to do 6 hrs of work on my site and theme before tomorrow morn.
Thanks burta for the help.
Simply put your theme in the themes folder and activate it.
for example if I want to get my activity I’m using:
<?php bp_activity_get_list( bp_current_user_id(), bp_word_or_name( __( “My Activity”, ‘buddypress’ ), __( “%s’s Activity”, ‘buddypress’ ), true, false ), __( “You haven’t done anything yet.”, ‘buddypress’ ) ) ?>
this function works with member theme only, when I try to add the same function to the home theme (i.e: index) it wont work, it gives me the above custom message (You haven’t done …..)!! thanks for your cooperation!
Burt, this is the first time you yelled at me. 
At least I know I’m doing the only option available to me at this point.
But… I was looking at Simple:Press the other day. http://simplepressforum.com/ It loads in a WP page and has more permissions/admin capabilities. Because it works as a WP plugin, the BuddyBar is in use there. In addition, because it is a plugin, you retain your regular sidebar/theme without having to do any tweaks — no making a separate forum installation “look” like it is the same.
I don’t know, looks pretty good. I set it up and everything and it worked fine in WPMU. Then I went back to bbPress. Was that stupid? The reason being that I’m worried that BP will support a general forum with bbPress one day and I want to stay in the loop if so, not wander off on another trail.
Any thoughts?
Howdy. That little logo lives in the directory /wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/images
admin_bar_logo.gif
You can point bp to something more to your liking if you are comfortable with code.
Since long lines of code don’t paste well here see: http://pastie.org/347661
I have that running in a little plugin that does a bunch of utility bp mods I need done. You could put a modification of that in your theme’s functions.php file if you like.
If you change the dimensions of the image at all you’ll have to skin the css for the admin bar also. It lives at: /wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/css/admin-bar.css
I don’t think that the admin bar css can be overridden in bp’s custom.css yet. I may be wrong though.
Probably way more than you cared to know about changing a little smidgen of an image ‘eh? 
Wardeh! I keep yelling your name don’t I? Not sure why. Must be because you are far away. My girlfriend thinks that the farther away she is, the louder she has to be on the phone. Perhaps it’s related to that.
The bbpress theme integration issue is one we all face. I have to do it too. I just haven’t had the time yet. I agree that the group forums aren’t the easiest place to get to if I wanna talk or listen to what is going on there in my groups. I view the group forums at the moment to be a convenience.
A convenience to me in that I don’t have to create a forum for each group that wants one. Or forget to do that. Or don’t get around to doing that in a timely fashion.
You didn’t leave your contact info ehegwer.
Nice integration of bp into your theme. Then there is the evil bbpress side of look and feel that I haven’t had time to face either. Just make it go away please Santa.
I’m using the BP home theme (same as used on testbp.com) and it is pulling jquery ver=1.2.6. I’m thinking it is something that got changed in the last code release?
I saw this problem before. It wasn’t a bp issue, it was an issue with a purchased theme from woothemes.com it was using an older version of jquery and not properly using wp_enque_script. Look at your outputted HTML and check what version of jquery is being used. I believe this function is in a newer version of jquery. Your problem may be your theme or other plugin referencing an older version
@seanzyville, you got a nice clean site, a nice change from the BP home page.
How did you use the custom theme to replace the BP home theme.
Because I’ve got a custom theme I want to use?
Hmmm, dimensionmedia, you might be on to something. Yes, I want to offer each user a blog and a store front. The people at instinct who wrote wp e-commerce have already developed something like what I have in mind for my niche. It’s http://getshopped.com. However, from posts I’ve read, I guess they had to rework the plugin to get it to work with wpmu and they’re not giving up on those little secrets. But back to your idea. Can we chat? I’m not sure I’m getting it. I’ll have to research some ecommerce themes. Just never thought of it that way. Thought I’d need a shopping cart like wp ecommerce or eshop (tried it, didn’t get it with the pages setup). Thanks for stirring up the grey matter.
Danf, let me know how you do with your testing. I just can’t fork over 55 bucks unless I’m absolutely sure it’s going to work. It looks pretty slick though.
I’m at a loss how you would work a shopping cart into BuddyPress (from a conceptual, not technical standpoint). Are you trying to create an environment where everyone has their own store? If that’s the case, you could easily adapt a standard ecommerce theme into a Buddypress compatible one and make that the one and only blog theme for users. Just curious.
Thanks for the reply,
I do not have access to server and my host is a friend of mine he is away.
I can access cpanel logs and get the last 300 errors. 300 like this.
6:14 2008] [error] [client **.**.**] File does not exist: /home/blogfred/public_html/wp-content/themes/structure/images/create_account_button.gif, referer: http://blogfred.com/
I can actually create new accounts and login as normal but not able to login to admin or accounts pre WSOD.
You can bite, thanks for asking
I wanted a domain that would some how give the site some sort of identity. For me, Fred is the opposite to John Doe and the “keyword” blog fred had something to do with it.
Thanks David. I thought it might be useful to let people know that the bp core and all the lovely components can be accessed from any theme, any time. It ain’t rocket science, it’s programming.
I’m not too familiar with pastie. I’ve just used it a couple of times. It’s browsable? I just though it was a net wide scratch pad.
Nicola! I posted the same stuff over at buddypressdev.org too.
Hi wardeh. I was checking the ‘topics with no replies’ and saw you here. All by your lonesome self. How goes the battle this week?
You don’t want to turn off groups but you just don’t want the option to create more groups to be available. Well, you want group creation to be a site admin thing only. Hmmm…
I went and looked at the member theme code and finally arrived in the core code and lo and behold Andy was thinking of you! There is an unused option for the menu items. ‘site admin’ only. You’ll have to modify one line to turn off the group creation option for everyone except you.
In the file /mu-plugins/bp-groups.php at line 205. This currently reads:
bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp, 'create', __('Create a Group', 'buddypress'), $groups_link, 'groups_screen_create_group', false, bp_is_home() );
Change that line to read:
bp_core_add_subnav_item( $bp, 'create', __('Create a Group', 'buddypress'), $groups_link, 'groups_screen_create_group', false, bp_is_home(), true );
That change adds the ‘true’ parameter at the end which normally defaults to ‘false’. It’s the ‘site admin only’ sees this menu item flag.
Merry Christmas.
UPDATED, i wrote an example plugin that works without adding files in member-theme 
You can find a small post here http://buddypressdev.org/forums/topic.php?id=7
That explain a bit about this example extending component that i called bpdev-example
I forgot, here you can download bpdev-example : http://buddypressdev.org/plugins/bpdev-example
