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I don’t know what rev of bp you were using before but things have changed in that rev. The member theme are now located in /wp-content/bp-themes. See the readme in the bp-themes dir in that zip. Make sure you update the themes also.

works great!

Hey Moonviper,

In just a brief look at your site, it looks like you are missing some of the CSS rules that help clear floats and such, including div.clear {clear: both;} from the “base.css” file in your home theme.

I’d recommend not removing that base.css file since it resets elements across the board to help with browser inconsistencies.

Hi Jane_135,

You can add the messages, activity, and wire areas as Widgets to any page you want. Look at the file called “home.php” in your home theme to see an example of how BuddyPress does this by default on the home page.

If you don’t have a home theme, read up on the installation process at https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-individual-components/ — look for the “Installing the default home theme” and follow the directions there.

Also, the explanation of how the themes work (and how the Widgets within the home page file work) see https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/using-the-buddypress-themes/.

Michael,

Getting a custom slug into the page title involves adding something like this into the theme header template:

<?php wp_title('&raquo;', true, 'right'); ?>

You can see my notes / comments in https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/126 for a better example — that was in the home theme, though.

The reason I suggested the translation route is that modifying the theme causes people to hesitate when upgrading. They don’t want to lose any custom they have. If I’m operating off a working copy of the svn trunk I can take my chances on an svn merge going ok. That it will skip my custom. However if my upgrade process is to replace the old code with the new code, just upload to the server, then I’m less likely to upgrade bp.

If it’s possible to achieve a solution without touching *any* code, I’m all for it.

BuddyPress trunk, make sure you update again.

Put them anywhere in wp-config.php above the “stop editing” part.

No, just the template files in the /themes/ or /bp-themes/ directories.

It should take no time at all to edit the template files and add those two lines. It’s only a suggestion though, if you want to translate that is fine too.

@jtbailey, I agree wp-classifieds might not have all the bells & whistles, but when I talked to the developer he was extremely responsive. I was thinking to get him more involved with bp if possible.

A photo gallery that pulled featured pics to the frontpage like some of the magazine themes do would be nice. Would that be possible?

If you’re using the trunk it’s much easier – take a look at the member theme and the file:

/directories/members/members-loop.php

That has the template loop you need to render recently active members.

Make sure you have done the following:

Changed your member theme folder to /bp-themes/ from /member-themes/

Copied the /directories/ directory from the default member theme to your currently active member theme.

It seems that the directories have been removed from the home theme and they are now part of the member theme. That’s all I know at the moment from looking at the svn logs.

Oh no, @Enrico, classifieds are THE core function of every local newspaper, which is essentially what Buddypress is, when you think about it.

But if you want to do a photo gallery, take a look at this guy’s Drupal module: http://drupal.org/project/picasa

I was impressed at how seamless it was. Personally I’m nervous about being responsible for people’s personal photos, especially when Flickr and Picasa do such a nice job of it for free. That module made me realize It’s better to have a good “glue” module than an excellent standalone “gallery”.

@Zenseeker, I tried wp-classifieds and Classipress and both left much to be desired. No worries, I have a nice jQuery/ajaxy theme I may be able to ransom off to get what I need.

You can use any theme you’d like as a home theme. Are you talking about using the new prologue P2? That looks very cool.

Yep makes more sense and working great now

You’re better off using the new users template tags. Check out the members directory template loop in the member theme in the latest trunk.

bp-themes/buddypress-member/directories/members/members-loop.php

You can set specific ways to order members:

bp_has_site_members( 'type=alphabetical&per_page=10' ) )

type can be: active ( default ) | random | newest | popular | online | alphabetical

This is only in the latest trunk, not RC1.

Hi Guys

I am having the same problem and im totally new to this. To Matto: Thanks for the advice but il be honest-im still lost. How do i do what you just wrote…creating php etc? I would really appreciate the help. Regards Stef

A new user gets the blog they signed up with or the main wp blog. The member theme is not a normal wp theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/using-the-buddypress-themes/

If you’ve BPDEV plugins installed go in WP-ADMIN => BPDEV-ADMIN => PLUGINS => BPDEV Theme and change the logo link

Howdy, We\\\’ve got several ways of referring to a user:

In code:

1) The user id from the wp_users table.

2) The users *login* username

Pretty stuff that gets displayed:

3) The user name that wp has for the user (Display name publicly as: in wp profile)

4) The bp user\\\’s full name

bp uses the user id in most cases to refer to a user. Most of the core template tags take a user id as a parameter. The var $bp->loggedin_user->username doesn\\\’t exist. Nor does the var $bp->displayed_user->username. They aren\\\’t currently being set to anything.

I\\\’m kinda guessing you were shooting for the login username there. The global wp var $userdata->user_login and $current_user->user_login have what you want there.

One thing you have to be aware of is that the $bp->loggedin_user is available throughout bp no matter where you are. The var $bp->displayed_user is only available when the user is in the member theme.

Instead of using the vars directly it might be best to use the template tags in bp-core.php that are like bp_get_user<somthing>() or the template tags in bp-core-templatetags.php for some other user related items: bp_loggedinuser_<somthing>() functions. If things change in bp and the vars change then the wrapper functions just mentioned should shield you from rewriting code.

You can always as site admin disable all themes except the theme you want for your users. If you put that theme in the /themes/default folder it will be the default theme when new blogs are created.