Do you already have all the widgets added to the columns that you want? The theme won’t add recent blogs, newest online, ect. Those are all widgets that need to be added. I believe it is currently suggested that you use all of them to maximize compatibility.
Thanks for the response. I do see that there is a ‘home’ theme and I have now changed to that theme but, beyond the buddypress look in the header, it looks nothing like the testbp home page – i.e. no recent blogs, who’s online, newest members, groups – widgets(hopefully that is the correct term). Sorry if I sound so ignorant on this – I assume I’m just missing something pretty obvious so any – patient – help would be appreciated.
I am not 100% sure that the download offers the home theme – yet.
Go to the Site Admin menu, pick Themes and make sure the BP theme is the only one enabled. Then users can’t change themes.
Any plugin you put in the mu-plugins folder does NOT show up on the Plugins menu. That is for plugins that are in the plugins folder. So no, you won’t see any BP related plugins there to to turn them off and on, because in the mu-plugins folder, plugins are always ON.
If you really want to understand how WPMU works, to take full advantge of what it can do and get a feel for what you’re in for, check out http://wpmututorials.com , or sign up at wordpress.com to check out the user’s perspective & compare it to testbp.org.
Andy has tossed around a few ideas about having the solution you are looking at as an option. There is a thread in these forums that is pretty recent.
I have my site set to a regular home page, however I set my profile page under http://mysite.com/members
I do not want to use my homepage as the (buddypress homepage) member page, I want to use the member page, however, it is set as a buddypress profile page. I want that page to be the buddypress home page. However, there is not an option to change it under the profile admin somehow the design function is disabled. What are my solutions??? Thanks
Set the main blog to use the ‘home’ theme and don’t assign or have or have available the ‘buddypress’ theme for anyone.. it’ll automatically be used for profiles.
“I was hoping for a main page similar to wordpress.com and then have the social features presented to each person who signs up.”
The BP theme is for each person who signs up. To have all the nifty front page features means you’ll have to wait for Andy to make one, or cobble together on your own.
Hint: it will be a different theme than the BP *user* theme. 
Will the home base database remain empty all the time and in future development? I plan to use the username.example.com as the default blog for each user, like the normal WPMU does, instead of using it as the home base. The social networking stuff will reside under the main domain. It will avoid confusing of having the blog & the user profile in the same level. I’ll examine budypress theme and look for some way to integrate it to the ‘home’ theme.
All I concern about now is, will it create conflict? I don’t really understand what those empty database are used for.
Neither…
username.example.com gets the profile
blog.example.com gets the blog
Since the home base is an empty blog each url has to be one or the other. Bear in mind, I created my theme pretty much from scratch and am not using the BP theme.
My theme would work just as well on example.com/username/ & example.com/blog/
@ron_r
Are you using
username.example.com/profile or
example.com/profile/username for the URL structure?
Anybody is working with the latter one?
Yep. I check in the header to see if it’s a home base or blog and render accordingly.
@ron_r. Do you mean you’re using the same theme to handle the main domain & the profile?
Can you tell me from where I can get this widgets who is in home screen of the Mockup theme?
The /profile/ wouldn’t be that difficult to do…
page template that’s part of the theme that looks up the owner & displays the profile +
hook the activation to create the page using the template.
There is only one theme going to be used on the site I’m working on so the loop code and profile code can coexist in the same template.
Yep. Should work. Not retroactively, but on all news ones created after that.
Ron and I were also thinking on the public side, you could do a check at the top of the theme profile page for is_logged_in, than if not, display something else.
That is kind of a pain isn’t it. I was a little lucky since most of my blogs on one of my installs were using domain mapping, so I just changed their blog names to something else if they were using their main username and then created the homebase for them with their username. That is why it is easier to start from scratch and import blogs if you don’t have many rather than transforming a huge install over. I am not sure what the solution is, but it would be nice to have the option to put the homebase into an extension URL like username.bloghost.com/profile/ rather than having to have its own blog, but still have the dashboard created for the blog at that extension. All and all it really is a slippery slope either way though…
Trent
But you’re forgetting that most people use usernames across many sites as an online persona. To use myself as an example, I use nolageek everywhere. If I already had a blog as nolageek.dcgeek.com and now had to come up with a profile name… I’d want it be under nolageek – I dont have any other usenames/profiles/identities that I use on social networks. I’m just saying it’s confusing. (At least, for me!)
Ah i see where you are coming from now.
It would be really confusing if their username was displayed or used anywhere in BuddyPress, but users are displayed using their full name. Once the tie to the username is removed from the messaging component, their username is basically irrelevant aside from logging in.
The problem though, as I understand it, is that existing users already have a blog associated with their username… not their profile/home base. That’s kind of confusing, no?
I’m working on this right now. It’ll arrive as soon as it’s ready and useable.
You can actually use any of the content that you see on the home theme in any WordPress theme. Everything on the home screen is a widget, and you can drop the functionality into any existing widget-enabled theme.
You will need to add some basic styles to the CSS file, but the IDs and classes are very generic.
BuddyPress should work on existing installations, but the “buddypress” theme should not be used for regular blogs or enabled for people to use as their blog theme.
Basically the BuddyPress theme stays hidden, and is only used for home bases. Existing members can log in and follow the instructions on the “Create Home Base” tab that they will see once BuddyPress is installed.
As long as you have the “buddypress” theme in the /wp-content/themes/ directory, it should work ok.
Mr. Andy if the new theme will hold up, I want to ask you for code of Members and Groups who is show in first page of http://testbp.org/ because I need only them for the project who I want to start.
I have and another question (or suggestion). Is there possibility tho show all Members and Groups with 1-2-3… pages.
Thanks very much and I admire from your job.
P.S.
Exuse my bad english
No, I was trying to figure out why the buddypress theme wasn’t working for his blog. I was confused about the whole homebase/profile/blog distinction. The problem is that some of the blogs were already created using their usernames.. so the homebases were all screwed up. Good to know.
Mental note: install BP on a clean install. (I know it’s been said before, but this is a good resaon why)
Still not really clear on what’s not working correctly, though that blog you linked to has a different theme than the rest of the site. Is that what you were trying to do?
It’s just not working like that though. http://columbiahizzle.geekdc.com/
Is that just because he hasn’t logged into to create his home page?
