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@diesellaws: Are you running WordPress 2.9? The bp-default theme will only be picked up in 2.9+, I’ve just tested and it worked fine for me.

Mostly what I mean by not copying over the stylesheet is that you should just override the bits you need to change (colors in your case)…

So in bp-default’s css you might have:

body {

background: #fff;

color: #000;

padding: 25px;

margin: 0;

}

Instead of copying that entire declaration, all you need to do in your child theme is:

body {

background: #000;

color: #fff;

}

That way you are not duplicating anything, and only overriding and changing what you need.

Looks great! Happy to see people starting to build child themes.

A couple of things I noticed – you probably didn’t need to copy all of the default theme css into your theme. This will be loaded when you call the @import() call to the default theme CSS. At the moment you are basically loading the CSS twice. You actually only need to override the bits you need. By doing that you will gain CSS updates from the default theme when it updates. So if anything new was added to the default in the future, you would inherit the new styles.

Also, in your instructions you mentioned you needed to move the default theme to the themes folder. You definitely shouldn’t do this, WordPress will automatically detect it is in the BuddyPress folder. If you move the default then you will never get any updates when BuddyPress updates – it sort of defeats the purpose.

Could you add this to the WP theme repository? That will allow you to keep track of stats, let people download from within their BP installation, and allow you to provide automatic updates to your theme.

Nice work!

This is a wpmu problem who happened also with the first 2.8.x version if i remember well…

so put it in the wpmu trac

https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/

Guess it depends on a couple things:

– what you want on the front page (activity stream vs posts)

– if there’s any javascript/ajax conflicts between bp & p2.

man I wish I had time to play.

Yeah, the command line conversion is a barrier for a lot of people, as they either don’t have command line access, or if they do, gettext is not installed on the server.

You can find some alternate ways to generate .mo files here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

Also, there is no bp-custom.php file by default. You just create it as a new file, and put it directly in the plugins folder. BuddyPress will automatically check there for it.

Yeah, it’s a bit of work to change strings, but anything simpler would likely not be upgrade-proof, or would be much slower.

WordPress-MU 2.9.1.1 + BuddyPress 1.2rc (upgrade from 1.1.3) = same problem.

@MrMaz :

could you check at my Classifieds plugin and see how to do this in it ?

I did try but there’s always templates which do not load…

Thanks a lot !

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-classifieds

Your functions

-bp_classifieds_locate_template

-bp_classifieds_filter_template

-bp_classifieds_load_template

are at the bottom of the -templates.php page

@ScotM – Although converting a WordPress theme to a BuddyPress child theme is a bit more challenging than converting an HTML template to a WordPress theme is, the basic concepts are the same – knowing at the very least, HTML and CSS plus basic PHP and JS, and adapting it to the required environment.

The level of difficulty and required skills for conversion of a WordPress theme to a BuddyPress theme depends on what aspects of that WordPress theme you want incorporated into your BuddyPress theme.

– If it’s the styling or layout, then level of difficulty and required skills = Medium.

– If it’s incorporating/combining functionality and design of a WordPress theme framework like what @designodyssey and @Windhamdavid are discussing above, then level of difficulty and required skills = High.

– If it’s incorporating/combining functionality of truly advanced layout designs and functions like what you would see in say, Headway theme or ithemes’ Builder Theme, then the level of difficulty and required skills = Superduper.

So to better address your question, my question is what WordPress theme were you thinking of porting over as a BuddyPress child theme?

Hi Grosbouff, thank you for all the update. As nexia mentioned above, the classifieds theme folder, css folder and js folder are not in the buddypress-classifieds 1.002 download. So does this mean we use the classifieds theme, css and js from buddypress-classifieds 1.0 beta download?

Those are tags you have to create in your data-blog and then put their “ids” in (eg:7,4)

My bad, read too fast and missed the last phrase Thank you.

The roles are retrieven from your blog. I don’t understand your question very well but you should find the usual wordpress roules there

Thank you. Strange thing really, when I checked the roles for classified ads in my test install this morning – there was no Keymaster role, and I could have sworn it was there in the classified roles list last night

Looking at the Roles & Capabilities panel of Classifieds (cool tool), almost all capabilities are self-explanatory except that I am not familiar with “Republish my Classifieds” – what does this mean and how can this be done? I haven’t explored the plugin that thoroughly yet so may be missing something.

Kudos Grosbouff for getting this plugin up and running with the bp 1.2 default theme.

Thanks again.

Um. We’ve seen lots of issues on the forum here about corrupt installs via simplescripts or other weird options. I’d suggest you install WordPress and BuddyPress manually.

@odyssey ~ thanks for the nice writeup – one other step that I’ve found helpful in a merge is to call a custom – bp-header.php in the bp dependent files to reduce a bit of weight on the non bp pages, reduce any instances of javascript conflicts, increase the design and flexibility of the BuddyPress pages, and use bp specific functions(<?php bp_page_title() ?> in the alternate header.php ~ so I swapped out the get_header’s, sidebar’s, footers on the default theme with these ~<?php locate_template( array( ‘bp-header.php’ ), true ) ?> or <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/bp_header.php’); ?>