How do I change the logo and can I use custom menus?
The theme looks very nicely organized. I have just two questions: will it support custom menus and when will it be available to purchase?
Ough!! I didn’t see that!!
Thank You!!!
Closing this thread. Please move all discussions on this plugin here. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-mobile/forum/
Well the first thing that must be done when troubleshooting is to take your installation back to the bare minimum required, that means no plugins other than BP and using the default BP theme then test whether the issue still arises; this way we know if the issue is theme or plugin related and of couirse we first have ensured that the actual plain WP install all works correctly – which it sounds as though it does in this case.
The ‘New Site’ is not! a buddypress site it’s a WP blog which will carry the BP adminbar. These blogs effectively work just as a standard WP blog their theme is defined from their own admin backend.
I would have a good read of all the docs you can find on the BP codex and WP codex.
Yes, you are right with your second assumption – they would typically click back to the main site through the little icon in the wp admin bar top right, or through a custom nav menu that you put in the secondary blogs.
It is better to use 2010 or other theme for the secondary blogs. Bp-default is intended for the maim site where bp is installed
@amattajm directions are in the readme file.
******How to set up featured posts*****
To show a featured post place it into a category ‘featured’
To show an post in the midbar column place it into a category ‘breaking’
******How to set up custom front page*****
Create a page called home and choose ‘Widget Home Page’ as the page template. Then in admin >> reading choose your created home page as the static front page.
The custom front page shows one featured post and four thumbs of the latest posts. The midbar shows two ‘breaking’ posts. The rest of the front page is made up from widgets.
To show a thumbnail on the front page posts just set an image as a featured image. Thumbnails are automatically cropped. To create exact thumbnails use the sizes listed below
Thumbnail sizes:
featured 405×175
midbar: 150×150
sub content: 190×100
******How to set up custom front page widgets*****
Widget areas include the sidebar that is a site wide column. The midbar, only on the front page. The bottom left column under the latest posts.
******How to set up sidebar ad space*****
Add your 300×250 ad code to sidebar.php file.
Could you post a link to your theme?
Really nice theme! I like it 
Thanks, LPH.
I currently have WP 3.0.1 installed and I am using the default Buddypress Theme. I also have Buddypress version 1.2.5.2 installed.
It is weird because it shows my avatar when I make a comment on one of my other blogs on the site network, but it won’t show that avatar on the main site (where I have BP installed) in the “recently online” list or anywhere on the main site/buddpress install.
Here is what I mean:
5 Art of Ancient Greece
@whitbyglennk
There are very few premium themes built specifically for BuddyPress – although you can enhance existing WordPress themes. I’ve seen some great looking bespoke BuddyPress sites, but I haven’t seen a generic BuddyPress theme with a design and layout that blows you away.
The difference between BuddyPress and WordPress is the number of options available to you. BuddyPress allows you to build much more complex sites.
Out of the box, BuddyPress attempts to be a generic social network that is all things to all men. Of course, this is not what real world sites tend to need – you’ll find that most of the best commercial developments only use the portions of BuddyPress they need, and bend the core product considerably to meet real world needs.
Whilst it’s useful to have an all encompassing platform, it doesn’t make it particularly suited to premium theme designers – sure, you can make it look nice, but with so many options, and so much tailoring to deliver real world needs, themers face an uphill challenge to produce something that breaks away from the out of box generic set of functions.
A further problem is the make up of the code – BP embeds an awful lot of presentation decisions in the core of the product (activity stream contents, default menu structures) instead of in the templates (where you’d expect them to be). So, again, producing any significantly different can be a real chore.
No I was not logged in and
yes I am now trying thr default theme and it seems okay so far.
I notice with the default theme that if I enter an already used email address or username I get an error message.
I dont think that was happening in my other theme so I guess thats a clue.
Not being a programmer I think I will go with modifying the default theme rather than trying to make something else work.
And did you try it with the BP default theme?
You’re not logged in to the site and trying to activate a registration using the same browser are you?
Thanks Roger, is there no-where you can buy similar premium themes ? The ones at link above are good but not brilliant.
Wow, that looks great… organized and clean.
Each blog can have it’s own theme. Site admin can determine which themes are installed and available to the bloggers.
Sites like h-mag, hello eco living and alike are bespoke developments.. They are not ‘off the shelf’ themes
wITH regards to people setting up their own blogs in subfolders. Will they have the choice of different themes etc or does every sub blog follow the sites main theme.
Thanks for your advice guys. Im sure Ill be back for more help soon. Ive seen a few themes I like but not sure how to get hold of them :
http://www.h-mag.com/
would love to get my hands on this theme
Edit// too slow
Yes WPMU is now defunct; you have WP 3.0 so already have the capability of running it as a MS install, you just have to do a little manual configuration to enable it which is explained over on the WP Codex.
I think a sub domain is the easiest approach, hardest aspect is working existing theme into BP.
Don’t dismiss writing HTML / CSS completely especially from a hand coding point of view, I would say there are a few of us around that would probably express the sentiment that they hoped WP and other cms’s didn’t become the defacto standard for web sites, as much as I like WP
Thanks for your help. Pleased to know you remembered me, its a small world even on line. After a lot of hard work I eventually switched the sea angling site to wordpress along with a magazine theme from gabfire. whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/
Ive never looked back since. The ease of adding posts and displaying them on a homepage is amazing and saves one hell of a lot of time. Looking back to those days of trying to write html and css I wonder how I kept my sanity.
Anyway, thanks for your advice. I would tend to agree that a subdomain named community would be the way forward. Im quite looking forward to getting it running. I love tinkering with these things and it will make a good project for the coming winter months.
Just clarify, wordpress mu is now non existent ?
All the best – Glenn
@jamigre – we built the theme at http://21inspired.com
@perrij3 – thanks for the feedback – good luck with your site
As for favouriting – I think you’ll have to use your browser bookmarks; I don’t think you can like / favourite posts on buddypress.org
I’m moving this discussion to the original DIYthemes forum thread for this child theme in order to keep all the bug reports and updates in one place. However, if there are folks on the BuddyPress forum who’d like to help with development of the Thesis BuddyPress child theme and would rather discuss it here, let me know and we can… heaven knows I need help to keep it going (because of time constraints and because I don’t use BuddyPress on any sites except the test site for this theme).
