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I disagree. Using the BP Template Pack and building as a child theme of BP-Default have their respective advantages and disadvantages.

An advantage of using the Template Pack which I feel you’re overlooking is that it allows theme designers to quickly get the required template/css/js files into their custom theme. This is a lot quicker for a non-BP-expert than figuring out which files are required. The designer then has two options; add, possibly duplicate, your CSS to style the BuddyPress templates to match the rest of the site, or use the Template Pack files as a skeleton, which the designer can then use to rebuild those templates to their own HTML/CSS specifications (perhaps to use a theme framework).

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-goodreads-bookshelf/

Don’t use template pack. That’s a quick fix to get WP users without theming skills using BP. For the long run you are better using a child theme as a start. Upgrades are easy this way too.

Hi, we always create a child theme derived from the BuddyPress default theme (we are on our 5th commercial BP project at the moment).

We customise heavily, change an awful lot of the CSS, and tear our hair out at the masses of unnecessary divs and classes. But, on the other hand it does give us a huge head start – BuddyPress needs a lot of template files and loops that aren’t in standard WordPress themes.

If you are happy with the default structures and functionality, you can get a long way quickly with this approach. Styling the layouts to your needs.

If you want to add new functionality, seriously enhance the loops, and so on – you are in for a bigger challenge – it’s not as easy as WordPress theming, you quickly end up in hooks, filters and plugins (which you can usually avoid in standard WP theming), and a fairly restricted API (which is due to get better, and better documented). The joys of building on the sands of a still relatively early stage project.

Good luck – I’m sure you’ll create a great site.

Roger

p.s. setting up a child theme is straightforward – a few lines in your style.css. We typically mimic the folder structure of the default theme, copy over just the files we are specialising (most of them!), and work from there. Only strange thing is functions.php – a functions.php in your child theme doesn’t override the one in the parent theme, both are used.

p.p.s. I can’t comment on the theme pack plugin… I haven’t used it

Yes it’s a pretty fair post, but note it’s not a conclusive treatise on the subject. It remains a damned awkward subject in many areas, good that he pointed out the possibility of split license to cover CSS / graphics if I create a graphic it remains mine unless I sign over the copyright on it same with photographers you may hire them to take a picture for you but they will retain copyright on that image for all eternity.

I’d just create a custom page template and create a RSS feed from a filtered, BuddyPress activity loop that only outputs blog posts.

Here’s a guide that will help you create the custom RSS page template:
http://yoast.com/custom-rss-feeds-wordpress/

Here’s the activity loop codex page:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

*Set the action to “new_blog_post”

I liked this follow up post about the GPL from the WP lead developer: http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/why-wordpress-themes-are-derivative-of-wordpress/ I learned a lot about the license as well.

@antonrsaopencirclecoza, this plugin doesn’t work with WordPress 3.0 (with network). Does anybody know analogs?

“the function where by if your are member it just displays the group or if you are the admin of the group it displays the group setting and so on”
That’s how it is already set up actually. If I didn’t get what you meant though, you can also use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/ or check source code for more info.

edit – too slow mercime

Hope he doesn’t say that. I’ve no love for them but the whole nature of the GPL as applied to projects is a contentious and far from clear area, and debates rumble on for ever and a day over the letter of the license.

@afritech, No problemo WPTouch improves teh look over the other plugin, but still not 100% solution: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/

Hi guys,

Did you manage to figure things out? I just lost my wordpress admin bar and my BuddyPress Sliding Login Panel ( a plugin) after rebooting my computer.

Jimmy

@joamos the best thing is to isolate the image upload problem first. Deactivate BuddyPress and other BP plugins. If image upload process does not work in WordPress, it won’t work in BuddyPress.

So upload images to posts in main blog and sub-blogs with BP deactivated and see if media appears in main blog and in sub-blogs. If it doesn’t work, check out this thread – https://wordpress.org/support/topic/164999?replies=1 or find resolution in https://wordpress.org/support/

All you need is a SSL cert and then you can secure your entire WordPress install. BuddyPress should inherit the SSL settings from WordPress.

There is no bbPress admin panel when using bbPress for BuddyPress.

First of all, I should let you know that BuddyPress is not a forum script, it’s a social networking plugin. If you’re expecting a forum, then you might want to use something else like Simple:Press.

Forums in BuddyPress follows a concept called “Groups“. You need to create a group to create a discussion forum. This is similar to how Facebook’s fan pages operate. Administration settings for forums are handled by group administrators and moderators.

The second thing you need to do is login to the WordPress dashboard, navigate to “BuddyPress > Forums setup” and setup forums.

Now you can create a group and enable a discussion forum.

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The BP team here needs to write a codex article for people new to BuddyPress, so thanks for reminding us.