BuddyPress.org

You might want to try the BuddyBoss theme at http://www.buddyboss.com. It has a built in Wall on user profiles. Images and video can be added via oEmbed for BuddyPress, and the wall functions like a true Facebook wall in terms of how the conversation flows. It converts @mentions into wall posts so the BP Gallery plugin could potentially be integrated if you know what you’re doing.

You can easily change the default avatar in your dashboard under BuddyPress > General Settings. The reason it doesn’t use the WordPress avatar setting is because BuddyPress is designed to be it’s own site with it’s own settings. If you want to disable gravatar support completely you can set no_grav to true in your theme’s bp_core_fetch_avatar function calls. This will be made even easier when 1.3 is released.

R-a-y – that doesn’t work for me unfortunately.

I am using the:
– latest version of WordPress 3.1.2
– Child theme of Suffusion

And the latest plugins for Suffusion BP Pack (1.02), BuddyPress (1.2., and s2Member (3.5.7).

Using the s2Member plugin settings, I have set my site to redirect users to a “Member Home” page upon logging in. This function used to work before I added BuddyPress + Suffusion BP Pack. However, since adding those plugins, I initially could not figure out why it no longer worked upon logging in. Currently, when a user logs in, the site just directs them to the main page (the default WordPress & site address). I disabled the other plugins and determined that it was BuddyPress handling the redirection.

So I made a bp-custom.php and added that code just to see if I can test the redirection function itself and it didn’t work. I even tweaked his code as well to try add_filter(“login_redirect”,”bpdev_redirect_to_profile”,100,3); Did I need to do anything else to activate the plugin or did it automatically run and link to BuddyPress?

Ultimately, it seems like I may have to implement a technique that onyx mentioned or something like http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/12/tweak-your-buddypress-login-to-redirect-to-the-page-user-was-viewing-while-login/

Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks!

for the record I have just done this with your page and it works as expected!

`
/*
WOO CUSTOM STYLESHEET

Add your custom styles here instead of style.css so it
is easier to update the theme. Simply copy an existing
style from style.css to this file, and modify it to
your liking.

*/
#activity-stream .activity-content .activity-inner {background: red;}
`
Use this stylesheet they provide for most of your customisations rather than squirting them into the head.

There’s a `do_action` hook you can use:
`xprofile_updated_profile` (located in /buddypress/bp-xprofile.php.)

You could potentially use the wp_mail() function to send an email to the admin with this hook.

Don’t know what a `do_action` is and how to make use of it?

If you’re familiar with a tiny bit of PHP, here’s some articles that will help:
http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/an-introduction-to-wordpress-action-hooks/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Actions

Here’s something quick you can try:

`function my_update_profile_send( $id ) {
$text = bp_core_get_user_domain( $id );
wp_mail( ‘YOUR ADMIN EMAIL ADDRESS’, ‘Profile Updated’, $text );
}
add_action( ‘xprofile_updated_profile’, ‘my_update_profile_send’ );`

Put the code snippet in your theme’s functions.php.

I’ll list the dirty hack method.

You have to modify /bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/global.js.

Look for the following line and delete it:
`jq.scrollTo( form, 500, { offset:-100, easing:’easeout’ } );`

When you upgrade BP, you’ll have to remember to reapply this change though.

Here is one way:
—-
Register a widget on a template page of your theme. Set that page to the front.

http://www.techtipsgeek.com/how-to-add-extra-widget-section-wordpress-blog/781/

Next, use the RSS widget (or another plugin) to show the blog post.

—

Here is more information:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/widgets-on-main-home-page/#post-77292

Child themes don’t restrict anything. You can have a child theme that completely overwrites the parent theme’s code. The idea behind a child theme is that it allows uniformity, and something for plugin authors to count on when it comes to hooks and such.

Also, most of the changes you’d like to see are changes that would need to happen in core, with minimal code changes to the theme, and a few of them would be doable as plugins.

You can do what you, but I think there’s not much scope other than post formats for any more changes to the theme on the upcoming release cycle. If you want to prove me wrong, I suggest making some mockups before you start writing code.

You will find that currently as things stand all themes for BP are in effect child themes, themeing for BP is not quite the same as themeing for WP. I am presently working through a new theme or at least framework it replaces all theme files , referencing only the JS files in essence, yet many of the files will remain structurally pretty similar, but that is the framework for then tweaking the UX and UI to something that one prefers, then you start to have to get involved in filtering actions and playing around with template tags where you are able.

This is as different as one is able to take a BP theme I tend not to think of it as a child theme or a re-skining but in truth it is technically a child theme if one was to be accurate about it.

The bp default theme is probably past it’s sell by date somewhat and there has been vague talk about setting to and developing the next generation theme so give it a go.

just another BP child theme?
no man all those child themes look the same,can’t believe people waste their time on developing that kind of things.

The default theme needs improvements as well,lot’s of things makes no sense to me and it’s kinda messy.
Especially activity stream.

The over-ride works only for the php files, not the CSS files, actually. To remove the css file in an upgrade-proof way, dequeue events.dev.css: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/08/06/how-to-disable-scripts-and-styles. Or you might just want to add the css with an !important added to child theme’s style css, for example `.ep-event-details { background-color: #fff !important; color: #000 !important }`.

There’s a ticket on Trac that would make this a filter, and would mean that one line of code in your themes function.php could clear everything up (https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1150).

Regarding the theme: if you want to make your own version, do as hnla suggests. Otherwise, how about mocking up some designs for post formats support and see how things go?

On my end, I’ve seen this happen with an outdated BP theme (including bp-template pack) which still use bp_member_add_friend_button. Seriously needs updating.

Do it then but not the default theme, create a child theme which is essentially re-modeling the default. Themes are in short supply so if you have the ability then I’m sure many will be grateful for an addition to the theme library for BP.

i’d like to contribute by remodeling the default theme

@kunalb Thanks for this great plugin. I want to override the orange color for .ep-event-details specified in events.dev.css. First I put the class in my child theme style.css. This didn’t work until I disabled events.dev.css by renaming it to xevents.dev.css. I’m now trying what you are saying above, and I want to make sure that I understand you correctly. I put /assets/css/events.dev.css in my child theme folder and it does not override the events press style. I also tried putting my own version of events.dev.css in my child theme root and that also doesn’t work. Then I tried putting /mytheme/assets/css/events.dev.css in the buddypress theme folder – no luck there either. I’m going to resort to the rename hack for now, but I’d like to find a more permanent solution. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

It’s most likely not because you’ve called a file more than once,

Seen many times with many installs is they put existing BP on top of what they already have. Investigated this myself, came up with the template pack with already called stuff from the BP default theme.

Could be many, as he hasn’t written back, which must mean he solved the issue?

It’s most likely not because you’ve called a file more than once, but more likely because you’re using a custom theme of some sort. Friend buttons are now added through a do_action/add_action combo, which is why a lot of people with custom theme files ended up with duplicate buttons.

Yeah removing “ will do it, but the real reason this is happening is because you have called a template twice, or, for example, double CSS in your theme by accident, (calling default.css+template pack)