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perhaps I posted wrong the line:

<?php bp_friend_last_content_update() ?>

doesn’t do much, you’ll need to decide what material you want to display there.. I assume this is going to be the “home” theme of the wordpress mu right?

Thanks, John! I was lost until you mentioned removing home.php. Thanks to you, too, Burt.

I installed the ‘New Blog Defaults’ plugin and got a load of ‘headers already sent’ and other errors.

So … in plain English, can you explain the above please?

Do we follow the instructions as johnjames stated or simply adjust home.php?

TIA

EDIT – Actually, scrub that as I found the correct 2.7 version of the plugin and it works perfectly!

I’m not sure in what context the function is being called. You are saying this works in bp for you but not outside of bp? The call might be failing because the bp globals might not be fired up. bp’s plugins get loaded but bp relies on the ‘wp’ action to init the $bp global object which has all the table names and other goodies bp needs to operate.

You are making the fn call from inside query.php inside of a wp theme context? Is this from an ajax context? If it’s ajax then bp doesn’t have any plugins loaded or global vars instantiated.

Try doing this in an ajax context:

wp-load.php like you are then

wp();

See Andy’s /bp-core/bp-core-ajax-handler.php for how he does this.

chiscarter, John is exactly right. What a wonderful, brilliant idea John. If home.php exists in a theme directory it gets preference over index.php which is the ‘theme’ you are talking about Chris. It’s really a wp template. I tried it out and it works like a charm. Just disable the file home.php by renaming it home.php.off and voila! Instant bp blog theme instead of 3-column home theme.

Bloody stroke of genius John.

(still working on my international slang)

Thanks for the tip. I’m sure others will find it useful.

Oh no, I’m following you out the door and to the grocery store.

They are the same theme, hosted in the same directory. It is only the home.php file that is in the way.

Follow the exact steps above, and delete the home.php file from your new theme. I called mine buddypress-sub, for example. I renamed the theme in style.css, did exactly as I mentioned above, and tada.

@johnjamesjacoby Sorry, you’re not following. I don’t want the BP theme (http://testbp.org/) active on user blogs, I want the admin’s news blog theme (http://http://testbp.org/blog/) as the active theme on user blogs.

Same rules apply as above except keep the BuddyPress Home theme active and deactivate all others.

Keep in mind that widget layout will never follow, meaning that each new blog will need to configure its own widgets.

I recommend copying all of the contents of BuddyPress Home to a new directory, modifying the style.css to a new name, comparing your existing WP header.php/footer.php files to the ones in your new directory, taking out all the WordPress specific PHP function references and replacing them WordPress MU/BuddyPress ones. Tedious, but effective.

I found that the main hurdle when doing this kind of migration (for me) was letting go of my old WordPress ways of doing things. I.E. no longer using the page widget as my main navigation menu, etc… Which you can still do if you want to, there’s nothing stopping you. The functions are still the same, but you’ll still want to use the BuddyPress home theme as your starting point, as it gives you the building blocks towards integrating your existing theme with the new platform.

@johnjamesjacoby The News theme I am referring to is not a separate theme. It is the News/Blog theme that is embedded within BuddyPress that is the default theme for the admin on the News/Blog page.

To be clear: How can I make this theme: http://testbp.org/blog an available theme choice for member blogs?

1. Activate BuddyPress Home theme for main blog.

2. Site Admin -> Themes – Deactivate all themes including BuddyPress Home theme.

3. Site Admin -> Themes – Make sure News theme is enabled.

4. Find and activate the “New Blog Defaults” plug in. (Help ensure new blogs get the default theme you want.)

5. Configure “New Blog Defaults” and set default theme to your News one.

6. Create a new blog yourself, and you’ll be forced to use the only active theme, and cannot change to any other.

I’m wondering this same thing.

@burt If you activate the BP home theme for your personal blog, you get the three column/widget theme. What ekine and I want is the admin’s News (now Blog) blog theme to be the mandatory user blog theme. I’ve seen this done but don’t know how. Any help?

Thanks for this. Will be a good patch until the real privacy settings come about.

I just registered and uploaded an avatar just fine.

I do get this error when trying to view my own profile though…

Warning: require_once(/home2/felix/public_html/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/activity/activity-list.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/felix/public_html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 472



Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home2/felix/public_html/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/activity/activity-list.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home2/felix/public_html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 472

http://yourdomain.tld/members/you/activity/my-friends

Where yourdomain.tld is of course your domain, and you is of course you. That will get you to your friends’ activity.

I like your idea about wigetizing the profile/home page, but I think that’s probably a ways away yet. It would involve splitting the member theme up into two specific themes; a public theme, and a back-end theme. One for yourself, and one for others basically. Most of the code could be snipped from the existing blog wigets, but it would mean that all of the current member areas would need to be turned into widgets themselves, which would be no small undertaking.

More member themes maybe feel of Facebook old style and on-line chat & video plugin?

Photo albums and status updates are going to be integrated into the core, so anything on those lines would be redundant. Privacy, even though I would love some plugins in the short term to handle it better, is also going to be in the core, so that is a bit redundant as well.

I guess my only wishlist up and above some of the ideas here would be BP running with the multi-DB plugin (Maybe getting replication working as well *cough*)

As a premium supporter, we appreciate what you guys do James for the entire suite of communities.

Trent

Any news about this?