BuddyPress.org

Origionally, BuddyPress was designed so the user profiles was one of the blogs…. user.domain.tld.

and so that would go to todays equivalent of domain.tld/members/user. since that was the case, the theme for those blogs would be the member theme, and to access that users blog the url would be: user.domain.tld/blog. because of this, the users blog would be incorporated into their profile.

Now, buddypress users profiles are completly unrelated to blogs and reside at a different URL. Therefore, for a user to create a blog, they would make one just like they would on a normal wpmu installation and choose from any installed (and enabled) theme.

if you want the blogs to be incorperated into the theme, maybe you could modify the member theme into a standard blog theme, name the folder default and don’t enable any other blog templates for the site.

this way, when a user creates a new blog, your theme (default) will be set for it. and it will load more seamlessly.

BTW: i don’t think there is a way for u to get the exact theme from the picture and have it work but maybe you can ask someone about that.

Does anyone know what would be the best way to get this level of integration of blogs and buddy press?

https://apeatling.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/blog.jpg

I found that screenshot here: http://apeatling.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/new-buddypress-theme/

Thanks,

Sebastian

Ok I got mine working by moving the member-themes folder from wp-content/themes to wp/content as tekkie said above

I am geting the exact same error. I will be trying all that has been suggested on here

I would do this by going into /member-themes/buddypress-member/blogs/create.php and doing…

<?php if ( bp_blog_signup_enabled() ) : ?>

<?php

global $bp;

$blogs = bp_blogs_get_blogs_for_user($bp->loggedin_user->id);

if ($blogs['count'] != 9)

{

bp_show_blog_signup_form();

}

else

{

?>

<div id="message" class="info">

<?php _e( 'Limit nine blogs per member. If you would like another, please contact an Admin for assistance.', 'buddypress' ); ?>



</div>

<?php

}

?>



<?php else: ?>



<div id="message" class="info">

<?php _e( 'Blog registration is currently disabled', 'buddypress' ); ?>



</div>



<?php endif; ?>

Just remember not to overwrite the member theme if you do a BuddyPress update.

Hey kennibc-

I’m glad jjj got you down the path.

I assume you’re placing this code in the header.php file. The reason that you need to set $bp as global is that without it, a call to the $bp object is out of scope–it has no way to reference the object’s fields.

Here’s another way to accomplish your clickable image links. This way pulls in the user’s name and not the user’s id.

<?php global $bp; ?>

<a href="<?php echo bp_core_get_userurl($bp->loggedin_user->id); ?>blogs/create-a-blog" title="hi" ><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/createblog.png" alt="Create a Blog" /></a>

Two final notes:

First, I removed the hspace=”4″ align=”right” attributes from the image tag. You don’t need them. Instead, position the images using CSS.

Second, I included the title tag within the anchor tag. Replace the text with whatever you want it to say. Although it is a matter of choice among coders, in my opinion it is wise to make a practice of using the title tag. It is an accessibility aid on links and it allows browsers to pop up a nice tooltip when a user positions their browser over an image.

Awesome! Good job! Gonna green light this one.

You’re welcome.

Lets try this? Might be a step backward but I’ll cross my fingers…

<a href="<?php echo $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->blogs->slug . '/create-a-blog">

<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/createblog.png" alt="Create a Blog" hspace="4" align="right" />

</a>

Try…

<a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo MEMBERS_SLUG ?>/<?php echo $bp->loggedin_user->id; ?>/blogs/create-a-blog">

<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/createblog.png" alt="Create a Blog" hspace="4" align="right" />

</a>

if you don’t know what you’re doing…you could always go into bp-core-adminbar.php and take the code from there and just apply it where you want it.

bp-core-adminbar.php (in bp-core) has all three of those links already.

I’ve found that customized themes tend to be where the issues with avatar cropping start, and am guilty of this myself.

It usually comes from one of two things.

1. A JavaScript error in something you’ve tried to add is causing the JavaScript for the crop tool not to function.

2. Applying a CSS style to your theme that also ends up encompasing the crop tools position, so that it is out of the visible area of the photo container.

hi!

@ezd

here are some referenzes:

http://bp-dev.org/phpxref/nav.html?index.html

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/creating-a-custom-buddypress-component/

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/create-a-buddypress-member-theme/

if i understand you corectly your aim is make a simplified buddypress-home theme or a replacement for the standard home theme. right!? you may be want to take a look here: http://kommune.ngcorp.de – it is my own simplified home theme. i took the orginal home theme and striped it down. only for an example what is possible

I think this using this as the default theme might confuse the purpose of the wire.

It’s a good idea to have something similar to this, but I think new users would relate more to a photo gallery type of layout than a twitter layout. Anyone familiar with Twitter doesn’t need help becoming comfortable with what’s going on.

Again, just my opinion.

I had this problem too when i attempted to adjust the buddypress-member theme. http://sportsblognet.com/members/rich

It’s caused by the base.css in the the buddypress-member theme calling

input, select, textarea {

width: 100%

}

you can either adjust that in the base.css (not recommended)

or you can place

#wp-admin-bar input {

width: auto;

}

below the previous call in the base.css, that way it will call the 100% width for other inputs, except for the wp-admin-bar.