BuddyPress.org

I’m sure that within the next few years there will be a ton of BuddyPress themes out there. It’s just too new right now. 1.1 just came out last week. But it’ll happen. Just look at the millions of WordPress themes out there. And all those theme developers can “hit the ground running” with BuddyPress. Especially with 1.1… which is much simpler to theme than 1.0. Doing a BuddyPress theme is basically the same as doing a WordPress theme… just with more templates (Profile, Directories, Site Activity, etc.).

Also, it’s only natural that the first few themes available will be pretty simple re-workings of the default. Again… I think it’s just a matter of time before we start seeing really different high quality themes… like with WordPress. Elgg on the other hand will probably never had any good themes because it’s next to impossible to theme. Every Elgg theme I’ve ever seen is just a simple (ugly) re-work of the ugly default. That won’t be the case with BuddyPress.

There is only one official site for BuddyPress discussion and that is this site.

bp-dev.org is a private site run by one of our moderators–Nicola Greco. He started it after he personally created several, early plugins for BuddyPress. I believe it served as an early plugin repository before BuddyPress plugins were hosted on WordPress.org.

There are already good themes for buddypress. I guess you haven’t searched enough. Core teams should focus on development, not themes. Since 1.1 theme design got much easier than before, so any wordpress theme designers can design.

Ha

BTW… 2 seconds of searching on Google and I found a plugin to allow users to use their email address to login. I’m going to be plugging that in for sure. One less thing for users to have to remember and bug me about.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email-login/

I find it all somewhat confusing as well… First Name, Last Name, Nice Name, Username, Email… too many options. I think it’s much better from a usability point of view to sign in using your email address… because users don’t remember usernames. But that has nothing to do with BuddyPress. The way login works is a WordPress thing I presume.

Dashboard is part of WordPress. Ask on their forums.

We have the same problem. I think, it’s a problems with the nice-names in the profil of WordPress MU. If the username (for example:timschmi) and the nice-name are the same, there is no problem. If the nice-name is different (for example:timschmidt) buddypress will link to timschmidt and not to timschmi. You can see it if you roll over the links.

Read the instructions around using a WordPress theme:

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

Try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extended-user-profile/

Hey Guys, I still can’t get this to work? I am on bp ver 1.1

Maybe things got changed in the update that would effect the way this works? I really need to have custom pages for this to work for my site. Again, to recap, here is what I have done:

put the below code into : (wordpress mu and buddy press are installed into subfolder)

mysite/subfolder/wp-content/themes/bp-sn-parent/functions.php and created a page in the same directory called dashboard.php

CODE:

// creates custom page

define('BP_DASHBOARD_SLUG', 'dashboard');



function bp_show_dashboard_page() {

global $bp, $current_blog;



if ( $bp->current_component == BP_DASHBOARD_SLUG && $bp->current_action == '' ){



// The first variable here must match the name of your template file below

bp_core_load_template( 'dashboard', true );

} }

add_action( 'wp', 'bp_show_dashboard_page', 2 );

//

end custom page

URGENT: Need to figure this out!!!!

As much as I can tell, being one of those English-speaking imperialists to which you refer, WordPress has a good range of i18n stuff if developers use the right functions. If you think WordPress and BuddyPress seriously lack in these areas, then please by all means start a specific discussion thread on each product’s forums or file trac tickets/bug reports/patches.

Back on topic, I think socialpreneur’s on the money with this.