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Sounds like you can do pretty much everything you want to do with 2 themes. One theme would be for the main site. The second theme would apply to all the subsites. With the theme you’ll be able to add links for users on the subsite to go to the main sites forum. In fact, with the theme on the subsite you can do incorporate whichever BuddyPress features you want them to have visible. You can either modify an existing theme or create a child theme from the default one: https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Depending on if you want the forums to be part of groups or not, you may want to investigate doing a stand alone install of bbpress or some of the global forum plugins I’ve seen mentioned.

@adiljaved – yes, each individual having their own blog is a standard BuddyPress setup.

You’ll need to install WordPress 3.0 and configure it for multisite: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Then install the BuddyPress plugin (from the plugins menu), and it’s as simple as that. You’ll have a default installation, default theme, and the ability for each individual to have their own blog.

Ask the hosting question separately – there are lots of possibilities (we use hostnine – a US company with servers in a few countries). Type of server you need will depend on the amount of traffic you get to your site.

How about just adding the activity, group, and forums folder to your mobile theme…. wouldn’t that work?

You can simply adjust via CSS. e.g. using bp-default theme, avatars have this styling:
div#sidebar div.item-avatar img {
height:40px;
margin:1px;
width:40px;
}
change according to taste

@lazyym create a file remove-login.php and then open in text editor and paste in code PerS, save the file and upload to wp-content/plugins/ folder.
OR

open your active theme’s functions.php file and add the code from the “add action” part to just before the ? and the ‘>’

<?php
/* Plugin Name: remove buddypress login form
* Description: remove buddypress login form
* Author: PerS
* Version: 1.0
* Author URI: http://soderlind.no/
* Plugin URI: http://soderlind.no/
*/

add_action(‘bp_before_sidebar_login_form’, ‘ps_before_sidebar_login_form’);
function ps_before_sidebar_login_form() { ob_start(); }

add_action(‘bp_after_sidebar_login_form’, ‘ps_after_sidebar_login_form’);
function ps_after_sidebar_login_form() { ob_end_clean(); }
?>

I’m unable to find a plugin by this name, anything new here, that login on the right sidebar takes up way too much real estate and the nav bar has login in it already.

This is probably something that should be considered for change in the default theme… it’s not intuitive just having the reply in the last page of pages…

@geekoftodd is that really all you have in the header.php file in bp-default? If you site looks ok with the default install, that can’t be the case.
If the default install isn’t displaying correctly, try deleting and then reinstalling the theme.
As the guys point out – just type the basic URL of your pastebin snippet in your message here, don’t embed as an iframe

Your example to use is your theme’s page.php file.
An example of a BP file is your theme’s /members/index.php file.

Compare the two files and make the necessary adjustments to /members/index.php. This will fix your member directory page. Then you’ll have to apply this to all your other BP templates.

You’re using the BP Template Pack plugin, which is a quick fix.

You need to modify the BP templates that got moved into your theme so they match the structure of your theme’s page.php file.

@kunalb @hnla I was getting the same 294 error as @markhahnel with the 0.1 from the website.

@kunalb the bleeding version you sent me took down my site and gave me an error: “Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in /wp-content/plugins/bp_custom_posts/themes/tags.php on line 9” …So I uninstalled it. I can hang out til the new update this weekend. I’m excited to help out in any way or use it with my test users. Keep up the great work.

@geekoftodd > ?
btw, https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

@ericreynolds007

My suggestion is 1, 2, 3, 6 — make sure everything works using default theme — then 5, 4

On this site the only filter that looks to have change is that they’ve added @ mentions to the default profile stream. Do you want a wall where people can post to? Maybe this is what you are looking for http://buddydev.com/buddypress/using-activity-as-wire-in-buddypress-1-2-themes/

We reviewed the theme and added some extra functionality:
– community navigation as a widget
– custom menu possibility from WP 3.0 is integrated
and also some overall tweaking

here’s the new download link:
http://sven-lehnert.de/themes/simple-wp-community-theme.zip

Your suggestions and bug reports are welcome.
Thanks and have fun!

@geekoftodd: Post your code using pastebin (pastebin.com) as it’s not showing in the forum

The header.php file for the default BuddyPress theme is in /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default

Keep that theme where it is, and develop your child theme (derived from bp-default) in the standard themes directory

@modemlooper it’s just from scratch, canvas theme, but as I’m modifying…i’m seeing less and less need for the forums even as a plugin…since the QA theme would just be one big plugin anyway that’s much easier to manipulate and add other plugins to like voting, popularity, etc. It would be tough to get that with a plugin I would think. (in multisite of course..would need the plugin for single I guess.)

To be fair, this is a third-party theme, I’d recommend contacting the authors of that Buddymatic child theme:
http://freebpthemes.com/themes/early-morning/

Also follow the instructions listed in the post.

Per WordPress licensing, plugins and themes really should be free and people should charge for support and customization. If someone is selling ‘support’ under the guise to sell themes or plugins and not giving support it’s their own fault if somebody releases the paid plugins to everyone.

The best way to go about it, in my opinion, is to release themes or plugins as a free version and then have some with paid support and more options.

@PJ: Just eliminated the called — that debug fn slipped through the cracks — had used it while modifying the posts query for sorting thru eventpress. That would probably also explain the issue with the theme, I guess.

I’ve removed that call — can you check if that stops breaking the theme: http://kunal-b.in/0.1/debug/EventPress.tar.gz . (This is a bleeding edge version of EventPress, so it might be better if you wait till this weekend is over before going live).