BuddyPress.org

I’m working on an educational blogging/community/elearning service (a bit like edublogs) for the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam.

Have a look @ http://teachr.nl/ There’s not much content online yet, still playing with themes, sql caching and apache tuning (eventually we envision about +10K blogs on the server.

Should be fully translatable in the latest.

MartinNr5: need help with the Swedish translation? I was about to start doing that next week, but I see no need to re-do finished work.

It is theme based, if you look in the functions.php of the latest home theme you will see the fix.

don’t use /blog for your directory, it will conflict.

These are the tickets left.

I will be posting an announcement on the blog today regarding the release and more information about the plans going forward.

you need to modify your theme in order to display one name for each user which is the BP full name, here is the function that do the job:

bp_core_get_userlink($post->post_author)

BR

SDQ

Sorry to continue in a seperate post but:

This could be argued that it is something a blog theme would have to implement. We have to remember that BP is a set of plugins and conceptually we wouldn’t want anything in WPMU to break if BP was removed (or trash left behind). Unless Andy could enlighten us, I’m not sure why BP couldn’t use the user identifer from WPMU. Any extra fields I think should have to be stored in BP tables, as-is atm.

We should put this suggestion into a trac ticket.

There is one PO as far as I know. I’m 92% done translating BP to Swedish for instance.

sportstwit.com is a really cool combination of prologue and BP. I would love to have access to themes like this and be a part of its development.

Also looking forward to Nicole’s theme. Genius stuff! I will be watching this thread.

Thank you.

Vida

Hi Steve:

This is how I did it:

As hyrxx above mentioned, go to: buddypress-home -> css -> base.css

Look for Header section in base.css. The fist part looks like this:

/*** HEADER **********/

#header {

padding: 25px 20px;

}

#header h1 {

width: 214px;

height: 29px;

overflow: hidden;

text-indent: -999px;

background: url(../images/logo.png) top left no-repeat;

float: left;

Just change the width and height to what your logo size is. You need to do the same on base.css in your member themes as well. I had to go into file management on my server to edit this, due to MU not having a theme editor option.

ib0189, what you describe is possible. You can use a wp theme for the main blog and the bp home theme for all other blogs in mu. You just need to restrict your user’s selection to the bp home theme only and somehow make it the default. The plugin that awarner20 mentioned works. Also in Site Admin > Themes just disable everything except the home theme.

Hi,

I have the exact same error with the latest release of buddypress and wp 2.7, and just as jfcarter explained my templates are also in the correct directories with the correct permissions. The system looks for “buddypress-home” instead of “member-themes”

wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/index.php) [function.load-template]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /wp-includes/theme.php on line 822

I see I’m not the only one thinking in this direction. Basically a uniform default pre-widgeted blog layout for new users to use, that matches the existing site, creating a “facebook” like experience for lack of a better term, where everything fits nicely in its box.

I think the next step would be once you’ve got that done, to remove the “Appearance” area from the user admin entirely, that way they don’t go breaking it, or seeing a menu that they can’t use.

I’ve thought about making a default theme that wasn’t widgetized, with a hard coded sidebar.php; that would work, but it’s more of a work-around than a resolution.

If you don’t want to use widgets, I believe you can find what you’re looking for here… https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/action-reference/

…but you should be using widgets as it’s much easier to make changes in the future instead of keeping track of hard coded function calls in your theme;)

speaking from previous wpmu experience

Hey IB,

I think you’re current setup should work for what you need to do. You may need to add a couple plugins though.

You said these were the trouble items…

site.com > WPRemix theme.

user.site.com > BuddyPress Home theme – but no widgets setup (I thought that that should have gone to either the user’s profile or the user’s blog?).

My set up is similar.

site.com > Using main BP theme

user.site.com > Using a default theme I specified using a plugin called “New Blog Defaults” that allows me to set the default theme for any blog that’s created.

Now, the difference might be that my version of user.site.com is actually a user blog address, not just a user name. Does the user your trying access have a blog domain as well? Or just a user (profile) name?

If it’s just a profile name, then the url would be http://site.com/members/membername/

disable all the themes in the themes admin section under site admin

Exactly the same when I test using the search box (top left of the home theme). The problem is that there’s no code written to handle it yet – all the existing code does is to call the bp_search_form_action action which isn’t implemented anywhere.