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I tried to use a third party theme and added some code as per the instructions in the member-themes-readme.txt in the memberthemes folder. I had many problems but then soon realised that my theme was only compatible with wp 2.7.

I think that if there were to be a template club it may start with BP.

Now doubt, like anything else wp related, there WILL be a plethora of BP template sites popping up soon.

Fatal error could be anything. No access to error logs? What host?

If you are getting a blank page, the first place to look is what your apache logs are saying about trying to access it. What is the error, since it is giving you a fatal error if you are getting a white page. It could be a plugin conflict or something as basic as still looking for an older theme from the database.

cristiano, i barely think right there are any serious “BuddyPress templates” besides the default and maybe 1 or 2 that have been recently put together.

However, I have no doubt that in 2009 we will see this and might be one of the factors that drives BP into mainstream. However, it has been said that you can adapt almost any theme to BuddyPress. You just have to do some work, maybe get a little dirty. Not an environment for the lazy crowd yet, but hopefully we’ll get there.

And feel free anyone to prove the above wrong.

Don’t fear. Just change the register.php form in your bbPress template to not have the registration form in it and replace it with a link to your register form on your WPMU install. There are quite a few threads on the bbPress forums about this. If you use the default theme, copy folder to /my-plugins/ and then adjust the theme. That way it won’t break when you upgrade.

Trent

Look at MobilePress and WPTouch for ways to show different looks of a WP site to mobile users (the latter is especially for the iPhone). There are at least a few other stylesheets and templates as well. I have an iPhone, and these have been decently successful on standard WP sites. The iPhone browser uses MobileSafari.

What I would really like to see is an iPhone app that would allow you to browse almost ANY Buddypress site with a standard look-and-feel.

Look for YUI

I’m building a theme for the iphone for my installation. It runs safari. m.digg.com is a nice iPhone site if you want to look at their code.

To be quite honest I have never touched any iPhone, but anyway I want to ask what kind of web-browser the iPhone is using? All the time I see iPhone-plugins for WP and MU, but don’t quite understand that people actually make a plugin just for that ugly phone…

Wouldt a plugin making the main blog and member theme aviable to all smartphones be an option? It’s not like the whole world is using iPhone…. ?

Update your home and member themes.

If you’re using a custom theme – take the search form out of the header and replace it with <?php bp_search_form() ?>

Hi Matt,

Did you get this resolved? I seem to be getting the same error soon after I installed and tried to activate the theme from the admin console. Any feedback will be great!

Regards,

Karthik

When I enabled Thesis, I had to manually add pages for News, Blogs, Members & Groups. Everything appears to work until you click on one of the created Pages. (Blogs, Members & Groups mainly)

I’m not sure what ‘manually add pages for…’ means. You don’t need to add anything except the files plugin-template.php and plugin-sidebar.php which come with the bp home theme. Look in the home theme dir for those two. Just drop them into your theme’s directory.

Those files have action triggers in them that display whatever directory your user chose. Members, Groups…

If you are not running the bp home theme then within your theme you provide links to all the directories you want to be available. The urls would be:

yoursite.org/members

yoursite.org/groups

yoursite.org/blogs

You don’t have to create pages for these. bp hooks those urls and tries to display the appropriate directory using the plugin-template.php file.

What you’ve done is create mu pages with slugs that mimic the bp urls for the directories. Clicking on what you expect to be a page in your theme, fires off one of those urls. bp sees that it’s a bp internal reserved name for one of the directories and tries to oblige by displaying the directory. It can’t find that template file plugin-template.php and complains loudly.

Ya just can’t have pages named those things.

What you will have to do is override/skin the css for the directories if you want them to display in accordance with your theme.

Trent, I don’t think it is the first reason, as I am using the buddypress-member theme, just not the home theme.

Could be the second. I’ll try what you said later and let you know. Thanks!

@wardeh – I haven’t actually tried that plugin with a custom member theme, but it might not be working for 2 reasons.

First might be because the plugin is calling $is_member_page, it might not work unless you have all the functions included with the normal buddypress-member theme.

Second reason might be because the header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/register'); is calling the register page on the main theme that doesn’t exist? Maybe change that line to header('Location: ' . get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-signup.php'); and see if that works?

The bbPress plugin should work if you are calling it out of /my-plugins/ but I am pretty sure you have to have the <?php bb_head(); ?> in your template header as well as <?php do_action('bb_foot'); ?> in your template footer.php.

Let me know, as the bbPress plugin is just a “redesign” of the force login plugin found in the bbPress forums.

Trent

I’ll look into this, I’ve actually not tried it. Having a widget sidebar for all member themes would be very handy though.

I played with the widgets in the member theme for a couple of hours. I couldn’t get it to work. The problem seems to stem from the fact that the member theme code can’t register a sidebar or then call it again.

I tried registering a sidebar in my theme. Shows up fine. I can add widgets all day long. However when you call dynamic_sidebar(), dynamic_sidebar doesn’t think there are any sidebars to give to the call. The var $wp_registered_sidebars is empty and it just returns.

I didn’t have a chance to track down $wp_registered_sidebars and find out why it’s confused. The sidebars are associated with a particular blog id. So I tried just using switch_to_blog(1) before dynamic_sidebar() and that didn’t work. Evidently that isn’t enough to populate the $wp_registered_sidebars var during the call.

Trent,

I’ve been meaning to ask you about those.

On the first: force-member-login. Since I’ve been using my own theme, it doesn’t work. This is the error I get:

Not Found

You tried going to http://my-site.net/register, and it doesn't exist. All is not lost! You can search for what you're looking for.

And with the second: force-login. My forums are still accessible. Well, hang on. I am not using the group forums anymore. So it is my actual forums installation that is still accessible. Perhaps your plugin won’t work for this application?

I take it you don’t have time right now to help me, so I can wait until you have time. This is not urgent.

I have edited a couple themes and added widget support, I did not try with the member-theme, but it should behave just like any other theme in which you define sidebars. However, I don’t know if each user will be able to add his own widgets to it. It seems as though you are able to add a widget to the theme, but it should be the same for all users.

The thing is that the member theme is not treated like any other theme on the WP-Backend, but rather it is a different kind of setup, like a standalone. Am I right on this?

Mike, have you created a page called “Members”? Try that and see if your Page Not Found error goes away. I had to do this when using my own theme instead of the BP home theme. I had to do it for Groups and Blogs, too.

Those links you see are hard coded in the home theme. You can check out my beta site where I have started to play around with adding more links and doing some fun stuff with the standard theme.

http://gorgeousgamers.com/beta/

I’m a little confused about the widget part? If you are thinking about building your own …. (shopping cart, arcade, radio station), then you should be able to follow any of the standard examples floating around about how to build custom pieces, and add a link to that custom piece in the home theme.

Brad