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I’m not sure I understand. Let me say what I think you are saying.

You installed mu and bp. Created some user accounts and then created blogs for each user. You wrote some posts on each of those blogs. The posts are showing up on those blogs as expected.

(I’m back) I just signed up for a blog and posted to my new blog. The new post shows up in the ‘recent’ area on your home theme. When you setup mu those ‘hello world’ posts just show up as part of the install process.

Then you install bp. After bp is installed and working, then your blog posts show up. It doesn’t pick up pre-bp install posts.

Everything seems to be working ok there. You are farther along than others are. Now the real fun begins.

Oh, I bookmarked your site. Let me keep the blog. I’ll be back. I just want to know what the heck you are doing. I have no idea what that welcome msg implies.

I had also made mine a two column theme… extending the left column stretching across to the right one. Getting rid of the middle one. Got a few issues in IE with the top margin, should be an easy fix…but i’ll let you know.

@ottochen you are having these problems using the home theme on what blog? The root mu blog id 1? Or are you activating the home theme on a subdomain blog. That’s ok but the ‘news’ not working is indicative of running home on a subdomain.

I just looked at the code. The home theme should get the latest blog posts on the blog it’s activated on now. There was a restriction in there that caused it to fail on subdomains with 404. Andy made it go away.

@belogical things fail 404 if:

they aren’t there

apache/.htaccess rewrites things and they aren’t where we tell apache they are

bp snags those urls (which it does) and things aren’t where they should be

What do your error logs say when you hit: news, members, …

The mysite.org/blogs, mysite.org/news … urls for bp directories are just virtual urls. bp hooks them and goes out happily trying to run the appropriate code. It might be a permissions problem. Not found can also mean Not accessable.

Error logs?

Howdy, the area I think you are talking about is the default form when you view a member’s profile right? ‘me’ > profile > public. The template that generates that screen is in /member-themes/buddypress-member/profile/index.php

You’ll see the calls to generate all the sections on that page. One of them is the wire. Line 47:

<?php bp_wire_get_post_list( bp_current_user_id()… and so on …

You were gonna make a copy of the theme, make whatever changes you need to run a custom bp member theme and edit that one right? I think it’s in the bp rules and code of conduct. I’ll have to check.

There are 2 things you need to change, 1 in custom.css, 1 in home.php in the buddypress-home theme folder (and /css folder)

remove lines 14 to 25 (or comment out) of home.php

`<div id=”center-column”>

<?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’)

|| !dynamic_sidebar(‘center-column’) ) : ?>

<div class=”widget-error”>

Please log in and /wp-admin/widgets.php?s=&show=&sidebar=sidebar-2″>add widgets to this column.

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>`

This will remove the center column from the layout.

Next you need to adjust the css right margin of #left-column

#left-column {

margin-right: 280px;

}

Also you could adjust the body width, with this addition to your custom.css

body {

max-width: 1100px;

}

Hope That Helps,

Brad

http://www.gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

if i were you, i wont use widget in this case. i would create a loop to show last post

(i use prologue theme too on one of my buddypress installation, and i highly hacked that theme!!)

The directories should work on any theme when you browse to the URL.

The ‘welcome message’ they are talking about is a widget that you can place anywhere in your theme that is widget enabled. Sidebars. You can find it under ‘Widgets’ in the backend. Open it up and you can put whatever text you want in there.

Nicola, what is it you are looking for? A personal blog for each user? I think this is a good idea also. Actually I’d like to extend that concept to group blogs also. Blogs need to be more integrated into the bp framework.

Every member needs a blog and every group needs a blog all integrated into the theme like the wire and forums. My next little project, when I get time, will be to create a ‘Group Blog’ plugin that allows a blog admin to configure their blog as a ‘Group Blog’. This will allow instant author/contributor status to specific Groups.

Then I need to modify the member theme to integrate Blogs into it like the Forums are integrated. Not going to have time til after the 1st of the year though.

Mike: if you are gonna mod the adminbar may I suggest this? A plugin that does the work for you without modifying the admin bar code. Andy made some changes to the adminbar to make it possible to replace menu entries easily and add new menu items between existing menu options. I use a plugin to do this. Used to modify it every time a change came thru SVN and got tired of that.

Here’s what I use:

http://pastie.org/344208

That’s a link to the code for a little plugin I use. What that does is it adds a new top level menu item ‘Community’ with the News, Members and all the other items that are available in the home and member themes as buttons.

You’ll need to modify this for your needs but it’s an example of how to add a new top level menu item and all the drop downs. The function oci_get_community_blog_url() goes out and gets some site options I have installed in my root blog theme. I don’t run the home theme on the mu root blog. I run it on community.ourcommoninterest.org. That menu gives access to the ‘community’ directories and recent activity. All the bp home theme stuff.

More on the adminbar in this ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/174

What a great idea. Never thought of that. That message about ‘you have no friends’ (something like that) is kinda bleak. We could have the system send them a ‘friendship request’ from admin. That way they learn a little about the adminbar and the member theme right away. That glaring (1) next to notifications would be hard to resist. Click Me.

Mike, I just looked at your buglenotes.com theme and it looks really good!

I’ll probably be chiming in on this soon enough. I’m working on a messaging issue then I’m planning on moving on to some theme tweaks.

Awesome, Trent…simple and quick! I had wondered about this, as I want more sign-ups for my site and thought this might would work…

I used “/wp-signup.php?redirect_to=” so people would more than likely sign-up.

thanks!

I see what’s happening. The directories (member,group and blog) all have their own css files. When you access a directory it loads your theme css and then it loads the directory css. You’d have to ask Andy for sure but my guess would be that the reason is that the directories can be launched from any theme. Not just the bp themes.

If I’m running the bp home theme on a blog. The bp home theme loads the bp home theme css. If I’m running a normal wp theme on a blog then that theme loads it’s css.

The directories don’t know or care what theme they are running in. They have to be able to run in any theme.

I’d post in trac and ask for a mod that loads the directory css as part of the standard style.css/loader.php sequence. Everything else is getting loaded except that. Then your custom.css stuff will override the directory css.

People that are running a theme other than the bp themes will have to seek a different solution.

Ah!!! I didn’t know there was css in there.

Burt, I can’t speak for Mike, but as for me…

I am skinning buddypress-home and buddypress-member themes, by using the custom.css in each themes’ css folder. Neither of which affect that alphabet.

Thanks

This is the members directory you are talking about? The css for that is in:

/wp-content/mu-plugins/bp-core/css/directory-members.css

Exactly what are you two doing? Creating a new home or member theme skin or skinning the css so that it works within a standard wp theme?

I’m confused. We got 2 themes to work with here. The members theme and the home theme. Both have the ability to be skinned through the use of a custom.css file that overrides all css in bp for that theme. That theme only.

Each theme has a seperate custom.css file. One in the member theme area and one in the home theme area.

Everyone agree on that? This is what we’re working with right? Which theme are you two working on?