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@thekmen I’m just one of the people that think themes should be completely separated from the plugin the same way they are separated from WordPress. Trying to reduce everything to one theme with a bunch of child themes is only going to slow down development and discourage people from appreciating Buddypress. I mean look how few themes there are, one theme with with a couple color alteration child themes and now people are excited just to be able to use the generic WordPress default.

I actually prefer this not being a child theme because I’m not a programmer and don’t know enough to write a theme completely from scratch, and this WordPress default is the most basic sandbox like template to start with.

I think it is an inherent difference between front end and back end developers. You guys don’t care what it looks like as long as the programming is constantly up to date and I don’t mind if I miss some updates as long as its designed well. You guys try to plan for every possible scenario and I design to make things as customized as possible. I have a million ideas of things I want to do designing a theme for a non-profit I work with, but I’m not always certain about writing the php to get the functionality on track so I post on here about it. Instead I get front end advice, suggesting I write an entire plugin for something that can be accomplished with a line or two of html and css, just to keep the plugin pure. Neither extreme is the answer, I’m just saying it is a bit lop sided right now.

@alanchrishughes, @djpaul is dead right, it should have been a child theme. I started looking at it before WP 3 was out & figured most wouldn’t have Twenty Ten installed so started it as a stand alone theme. It only took 10 mins to turn it into a child theme, should have done it sooner….
All others will be done as child themes where possible.

There are themes and plugins.

couple examples
http://ericulous.com/2008/08/10/wp-theme-jobpress-for-job-boards/

Demo

@djpaul so you want there to be only one buddypress theme?

The bp-default theme is missing the comments_template(); function call in page.php.

You can add this yourself!

Copy over /bp-themes/bp-default/page.php to your child theme and add:

comments_template();

just before the endwhile line.

By default, you are allowed to use a limited set of HTML tags like [img]and [a]. What type of tags are you wanting to use but can’t?

You could write a small plugin to either remove these restricting filters or expand the whitelist of allowed tags, but you have to have trust in your group admins!

I’m using the former in the following example (put this snippet in your theme’s functions.php):
http://pastebin.com/CWryrkDT

Like I said, only do this if you trust your user base!

Welcome to BuddyPress!

First of all, are you installing a fresh WordPress install with no prebuilt theme? If so, make sure you have BuddyPress activated, then in the WP admin area, navigate to “Appearance > Themes” and enable the “BuddyPress Default” theme.

Thanks @hnla
I commented out your suggestion in my child theme so it is not possible to reply anymore. Now all I have to do is edit out the “what´s new?” form and it´s done.

Also I replaced

with

in the /activity/index.php template

Just have to edit the template for group activity and I´ll be done

Line 16 of adminbar.css in /budypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/

You could simply add #000 to the background shorthand declaration as it’s using a trans png graphic so adding a flat colour will darken the background down.

In doing this the general advice is to do so in a child theme otherwise your changes will be overwritten on upgrades.

Child theme of Twenty Ten now added…

Guys if you want to set exclude category ID from your theme option page. here is a working code.
‘category__not_in’ => array(get_option(‘gangmei_blog_cat’)),
Where gangmei is your theme shortname.

Per my comment on that guy’s blog, it’s not been built as a child theme, which is mad.

http://bp-theme-converts.com/twentyten-for-buddypress/

“Why don’t you use the perfect add_custom_background(); for wp 3.0, just translate it to work from the frontend?”

Because the function, when you add it to themes, is one line. then is uses core code to do the rest.

He’d have to rewrite it entirely anyway.

Have a read through of this page:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Which explains how to proceed and it’s actually a lot simpler than might at first be thought.
If it’s still not clear post back and someone can walk you through the steps you don’t understand.

@thosch @alierkurt @k33n

I have just tried another (different) theme: Gradient 1.0.1 by Sandeep Hegde
and I still cannot Create a Group and cannot do any other function which requires groups.

@thosch @alierkurt @k33n

Is there any resolution to this?

I have a WP 3.0 installation with BP Version 1.2.5.2
I’m using BP Columns 1.2 by modemlooper theme
The only other Plugin is Akismet.

I just tried BuddyPress Default 1.2.5.2 and I got the same problem . . .

I just tried BuddyPress Widget Theme 1.2.1 by modemlooper and I got the same problem . . .

Any Help Out There? Anyone?

it’s better if you were to set up a basic child theme folder rather than edit the theme files that live in ‘default’ this way you do not overwrite your mods when upgrading.

Essentially that section of PHP does still parse it simply has no means of rendering or returning browser output, but you can examine the source and note that the slugs and site_url are returned.

The simplest way would be to edit the header.php in a child theme copy of the file and remove the li item entry for activity.

In your theme’s CSS file, you need to declare this:


#wp-admin-bar ul.main-nav li.align-right:hover{
background: none !important;
}

That should do it, as long as you have not modified the code above at all.

@lincme

great job on your theme, exactly what I was looking for !
works like a charm and easy to customize !