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Oh that, you’ll need to modify index.php and do the same thing mentioned three posts above.

Is there a BP default theme folder in your themes directory as well? I’ve been using my child theme for so long that I can’t remember how a vanilla install is situated.

bump.
This should be possible using just a child theme to create a page that pulls those in and to fix references throughout the site & adminbar, right? But still, anybody have thoughts and which/how many files would have to be modified? I still haven’t delved in too deep with the activity loop and such.

That said, having used this site more & more, maybe the divisions are a little useful–it’s already hard to find the type of activity I’m looking for sometimes.

@biteweather maybe try add a login/log out some where in your theme like header to try log in?

http://pastebin.com/dnH7DEwc

@modemlooper contextual sidebars a definite must when working towards the perfect bp theme, as mentioned by nit3watch. I hate having to create them and loading up the sidebar.php with if statements to know what page you are on. Also a blog network focused theme combining the groups/blog components to work together. as mentioned here. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/why-couldnt-the-groups-component-structure-work-for-blogs/
Custom field and post tags,cats, recognition by the activity stream with index file that can be manipulated to function like a site wide tags replacement.
Tagging and categorization for blogs. widgets and page templates for each.
Bring more individual blog info out front(posts, comment_counts, ) so that member blogs content can be categorized, highlighted and maneuvered more easily.
Pull in user blog info into their profiles, posts count, draft counts, quick links to their blog admin, widgets. Blog management options or panel.
Include follow blog streams feature, similar to follow people, but instead it pulls in new_blog_post activity into Blogs I follow activity tab.
The perfect blog network bptheme, basically.

I’m not sure it’s the activity updates. See the homepage here: http://nextnewsroom.com. The time at the top of each posts just shows the time, not the date. If you click on the title of post, it displays time and date. Wondering why that change wouldn’t appear on the homepage as well as on the invidividual post?

A mobile theme would be great. The coding is done in PHP, so I know it would be easy to create sliding thumbnails, etc. It would be similar to youtube. My pages seem too stagnant and inactive.

A mobile theme would be nice
How is the http://buddiphone.com/ progressing?

If you’re talking about activity updates, you’ll need to apply a filter to “bp_activity_time_since” (located in bp-activity/bp-activity-templatetags.php).

Something like this in your theme’s functions.php:

function my_bp_activity_time_since($relative_time, $activity) {
// use date parameters – http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
return date(‘FORMAT YOUR TIME’, $activity->date_recorded );
}
add_filter( ‘bp_activity_time_since’, ‘my_bp_activity_time_since’, 1, 2 );

Abit of topic but just some input.

One thing I find really useful in my current theme is indevidual sidebars for the different pages. Like sidebar-members and sidebar-members-single, on the members one you can display stuff about the entire network and when on members-single, you can display stuff related to the member, such as friend, points ( cubepoints ) and so on.

Ive done this with groups, blogs, members.. just about all my ‘sections’ have their own sidebar which shows related data.

One thing I hate though is when ppl go overboard with a themes options, trying to dig into messy code isn’t fun so I would say keep it simple and clean.

i solved this with a child theme by copying activity.php from the default theme to my child theme in the same folder structure (group/single/activity.php) then totally redoing the whole thing. This is using wordpress built in template replacement. good o’l wordpress.

Now I’ve got recent forum posts on the left with activity feed on the right. and the post update box at the bottom. I put them at the bottom because I wanted people to use the discussion forum more than posting updates.

here is the new improved group home page: http://shambhalanetwork.org/groups/beta-phase-discussion-group/

There’s a plug-in that displays the user’d id for each member but in the back-end, under ‘users’. Maybe the code will be useful to you.. havn’t had a look.

http://www.primothemes.com/post/wp-show-ids-plugin/

Thanks @r-a-y . That worked for me on the individual blog posts. How do I get the change to also appear on the homepage? That is, when people are on the homepage, they still see the old time-only format. When they click on the post, the time and date appear on the post page.

@amahesh –

You shouldn’t be modifying any files in /plugins/buddypress.

If you’re modifying the bp-default theme, build a child theme. That way, when you upgrade BP, your changes will not be wiped out!

Once you build your child theme, follow the instructions I outlined above.

And yes, you make a duplicate of bp-activity-group-feed.php and put it in your theme’s folder because we don’t want to modify any core files!

Mine seems to be displaying — without css — below the footer. Anyone have a hint as to the cause of that? (Working on WP 3.0 nightly builds, using the Twentyten theme.)

That’s actually an old theme. It’s the default theme from the 1.1 branch of BP code. Straight out of the box it doesn’t exactly match all of the features of the BP 1.2 branch. That’s why the current BP default theme was created. But I imagine if you Google around you might be able to find someone who ported it over to 1.2.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/member-access/

requires theme editing.