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Did you do this step?

“You can try including the components.css file from the BuddyPress parent theme to add layout styles to BuddyPress pages. Open up your WordPress theme’s style.css file. Add the following line below the comment header:

@import url( ../bp-sn-parent/_inc/css/components.css ) “

From the guide:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/

That will get you a bit further to styling perfection. The rest is up to you. I’m sitting and styling my website right now. Lots of fun and frustration.

Hi again!

Read this:

“I’ve used a WordPress theme for my blog with the default BuddyPress member theme”

Over at:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/

You’ll have to edit things and if you’re not comfortable with that you’ll probably need more help than you can get here.

I don’t know your level of knowledge. Search around the forums and read up on the topics you need. I haven’t had answers to all my questions here in the BP-forums. You’ll have to search for some of them on your own.

May I ask a possible dumb question? I’ve upgraded to 1.1.1 on 2.8.4a and am using a premium theme for my main blog. I’ve currently reverted back to the old BuddyPress theme system for now.

Here’s my question, can I leave my Premium WordPress theme as the Parent theme, create a child, and place the bp-sn-parent folders and the “optionsbar.php”, “userbar.php” and “plugin-template.php” in the child theme? Also place header.php in the child with the appropriate code for the usernav bar? And then edit the appropriate css?

Is that a workable and effective approach?

Many thanks.

@Jeff Sayre and others.

May I ask a possible dumb question? I’ve upgraded to 1.1.1 on 2.8.4a and am using a premium theme for my main blog. I’ve currently reverted back to the old BuddyPress theme system for now.

Here’s my question, can I leave my Premium WordPress theme as the Parent theme, create a child, and place the bp-sn-parent folders and the “optionsbar.php”, “userbar.php” and “plugin-template.php” in the child theme? Also place header.php in the child with the appropriate code for the usernav bar? And then edit the appropriate css?

Is that a workable and effective approach?

Many thanks.

Think of something like Usenet, which was basically just a group of people talking back and forth inside their own little forum. Since BuddyPress is a community centric, user centric plugin for WordPress, the focus is on the interaction between people inside their respective groups. Forums are currently a feature of groups, but forums could be a feature of other things later too if plugins choose to support them, since bbPress is included and a great example of an API exists within BuddyPress.

Events could have their own discussion forums, blogs, users, activity feed items could be topics, etc…

Give me the weekend to test a theory. This should be possible by setting the BP_ROOT_BLOG to be the ID of the blog you want it to be, but if it’s not working that way I need to take a look at why.

You’ll want bp_enable_multiblog set to false. Setting it to true allows all subdomains to have access to the directories and profiles areas. This is mostly useful if you’re trying to use specific subdomains for specific pieces of BP, or if you want all blogs/subdomains/sites to have access to the directories from within themselves.

If you take a look at profiles.wordpress.org, you’ll see how they have BP used there within a subdomain.

I also think the better answer to your question would be to create a custom theme that only shows BP elements in the domain/subdomain that you want to show them. But, that takes a little more work I suppose.

Yes, this is a WPMU question. Use what Mohit suggested or search the WordPress plugin repository.

From a quick Google search it appears that, yes, WordPress slug titles need to be improved to support i18n efforts. All the WordPress slugs – including the BuddyPress group threads – go through sanitize_title().

A patch for sanitize_title() to support i18n slug names for the WordPress core is the way to go. I don’t understand what’s required as I do not know much about i18n, so I’m leaving this alone.

@wordpressfan I think you might be right for some kinds of communities, but as the groups functionality of BP becomes richer (as it does with, for example, Andy’s new External Group Blogs plugin), the groups/forums distinction won’t seem so arbitrary. Forums then become just one of the ways that group members (ie people who share a common interest or purpose) can collaborate and communicate. But you’re right that right now there is little difference between a group and a forum, at least functionally speaking.

Try this plugin (works with 1.1)

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-latest-discussion/

number of post and forums can be set in plugin option

Hello

I have buddypress 1.1.1 with WordPress Mu 2.8.4a.

When I try to add a friend says to me: ” The friendship cannot be tried ”

That I do?

@david lewis

it’s not hard: the plugin still exist.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-latest-discussion/

And works with 1.1 new forum integration. Even if not necessary because latest post appearing in the side wide activity. So the plugin is only interesting if you don’t use SWA or if you use a custom homepage or an external bbpress install…

If you use it, don’t forget to set the right DB table prefix in the plugin option (default is bb_, but now it’s wp_bb_)

select the forum you want to exclude, enter connection infos and that’s it !

Have fun !

Why don’t you try it youself?

Because I know it’s on the roadmap, I think for version 1.3 – and I’m not really a programmer.

Maybe taking feedwordpress as starting point could save Andy and others some time?

I’ll look into this myself when I upgrade to 1.1, which is going to be a mess with all the amateurish hacking I’ve done…

Ya. Haven’t played with them but it’s a cool idea. I assume it allows you to do “stuff” at those points in the code… i.e… run / insert something at those locations in the templates using a functions.php file. Pretty cool. WordPress has them as well.

I found the upgrade instructions to be incorrect for older versions of BP to be upgraded. Not exactly sure which version I was running, pre1.0 I guess.. buddypress was in “mu-plugins” (that’s where we were supposed to put it back in the day right??)

Anyways, I could not find anyway to “deactivate buddypress” – maybe I’m losing my mind.

So I got stuck on that part.

I decided to backup my install, then delete all the buddypress files / folders I had in “mu-plugins”, then upgraded wordpressmu to 2.8.4a – then uploaded newer buddypress into “plugins” – so far seems to work, not sure if I lost anything, or if I would lose anything doing this on my other buddypress site.

Any suggestions?

I suggest a not in the upgrade instructions for anyone attempting and older bpress version upgrade.