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).
Narrowed this down to the thesis child theme. A change to the default theme allows the stream to show and groups to be created – however – the “home” link is wrong and tries to go to /news.
*bump* since I edited the topic a bit. Translation still doesn’t work. I already deactiveted all plugins, activated BuddyPress with the default theme. Result: Not working!
WP 3.0.1 would be the best install with BuddyPress 1.2.6 (released this coming weekend).
But before walking through too much detail, is there a reason you want BuddyPress on a subdomain? Is WordPress installed on the main domain?
Now, it is possible to install BP and have members create blogs using subdomains .. but maybe you have a different purpose for putting the whole community on the subdomain .. which is also possible.
There are a growing number of great themes for BuddyPress:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/buddypress-magazine-theme
http://bp-tricks.com/
Also, you can take any WP theme and modify it to match the community by using the template pack.
@boonebgorges: Thanks!
@cryptidresearch: Thanks for your feedback!
1) as Sven mentioned above, the next version comes with variable header height.
2) good idea, there’ll be an option for this in the next version!
3) I will also have a closer look on the title..
You can play around with style.php and both .css-files, but all changes will be gone with the next update.
Thanks much for the suggestions. But I tried them and get the same results.
I deleted the plugin, reverted back to the WordPress Twenty Ten theme, and am working with the initial wordpress installation, that is, I have never posted or created any pages. The problem persists. When I go to edit the About page without actually editing it, just clicking on the “View Page” button. I get this message:
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /about/ on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at neighborsconnect.us Port 80
Same thing if I am on the home page and click on the About in the horizontal menu beneath the header.
That happens with any permalinks other than the default including the custom /%category%/%postname%/ .
And the browser window reads” url/About.
I don’t get any messages when I change the permalinks.
@hnla – installed the branch the other day and pagination still doesn’t work on the activity stream. Decided to look at the way I had it done in the child theme but am not done.
Yes I ran only the Buddypress plugin & the BuddyPress Default 1.2.5.2 by BuddyPress.org theme
Any ideas on what we could look at in the default theme/plugin?
If its posting to MY wall, why wouldnt it post to the Activity Stream then when I’m actually replyin ON the Activity Stream page?
Thank you for this. Is there any chance I can do the setting in my theme so it is not overwritten when an update comes?
@johnnyscience – sounds like a javascript / CSS problem to me – are you definitely running with the vanilla BuddyPress install AND the BuddyPress default theme.
No CSS or HTML changes at all?
The default theme uses javascript routines to display a lot of the reply code – if you are using a different theme, you need to also modify your javascripts to ensure they still work
Yes, enabling zlib compression by placing code in the header.php of a child theme will improve performance.
`<?php
ini_set(’zlib.output_compression’, ‘On’);
ini_set(’zlib.output_compression_level’, ‘1?);
?>`
Source: WPMU.org
Additionally, you could enable W3-Total Cache as a plugin and gain other benefits, ie. CDN, Minify, database caching, object caching, browser caching, and user agent groups.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/
You cannot do both the plugin and the enabling of zlib compression in the header
Right, its private.
I have to login as admin, and then go to My Account, My Groups, then I see the link to the Students group, click that I then I can finally click the Forum link. I also can use the WP main menu Groups link, and find the Students group. Our members are lazy, they want to hit the main page, one click and they are in the forum (assuming they are logged in).
I tried the link you provided above and it keeps redirecting me to what I belive is the WP general blog/comment diaglogue. The buddypress install went OK as I can tell. In the WP admin backend I still have the msg:
“BuddyPress is ready. You’ll need to activate a BuddyPress compatible theme to take advantage of all of the features. We’ve bundled a default theme, but you can always install some other compatible themes or upgrade your existing WordPress theme.”
Even though I activated the default BP template several times. Possibly something to do with the issue here?
