BuddyPress.org

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

wordpress and buddypress are not proprietary scripts, you do not have to pay to delete the copyright or the product name, there is no license related to the product name.

the reason why you see the names and links to the original projects is what we call respect and credits… nothing more. you can still respect the authors and give credits to them if someone ask… so yes, you can delete everything you need to.

that is the answer to the OP.

Hi, I just installed buddypress on my wordpress blog that is currently running bbpress. I guess I am missing something. I thought buddy press could run along side my blog and not take it over. I was hoping to create a community with buddypress and keep the template and look of my current blog. Is that possible? I installed it as a plugin through wp.

Index and search are important related issues. A few points:

1) Database content search throughout needs serious thinking. How to include (and how to distinguish in results) blogposts, comments, activity updates, forums…

2) Indexing for search engines needs thought. What serious website doesn’t want to show up in Google?

3) A Google custom search is an option but shows up the problems of appearing in Google results; namely that scrolling activity lists result in indexes pointing to pages that no longer hold that content.

@nexia I see that at wordpress.com there is “search wordpress.com blogs” so MU can and does somehow allow for this.

As Open Source projects, anyone is free to fork any of the WordPress family of products as long as they adhere to the GPL licensing. In fact, WordPress itself started as a fork of another blogging platform.

However, Automattic will not fork its own products. With Andy as the only full-time Automattic employee working on BuddyPress, there is already too much for him to do with the current BuddyPress product, not to mention that forking your own product is basically creating a competitor.

Forking is not a task that should be taken lightly. Successful Open Source projects require a lot of supporting infrastructure: from a project repository; to an up-to-date and maintained project website; to a core team of developers; to a community that springs up and supports the project fork; to a support forum to offer help to users. These are just a few of the many requirements of creating and growing a healthy OS project.

But that should not stop you or anyone else who feels they have a different vision for the future of the platform to fork it and take it in a different direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)

Get the New Blog Defaults plugin.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/

That will set whatever theme you pick as the default for new blogs.

To change the theme that’s already on exisiting blogs, it depends on what theme they have selected already.

for that, you need to suggest this in a ticket to the WordPress.org system…

Does anyone know if a child theme of bp-default placed in the themes folder and called default can replace an original default theme by mu.wordpress. I tried it and all blogs are broken. The only thing that shows is a white page.

There is potentially a way of doing this without having to get your hands wet in code.

If the posts are in different categories, then you could grab the “WP Post Columns” plugin (http://www.samburdge.co.uk/plugins/wp-post-columns-plugin-2) and the “Show Post Shortcode” plugin (on the WordPress.org plugin repository). You can then add shortcodes for three columns within a page (through the backend editor for the page) and, within each column, use the shortcode for showing posts in each of the relevant three categories. I’ve tried this for testing purposes, in a test BP1.2 install, and have had it working perfectly. The column code widths are expressed as percentages so they expand and contract along with the flexible theme.

Cheers

Richard

You can have a look at a theme called Feed me, Seymour, https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/feed-me-seymour

It is not for BuddyPress, but maybe you can find some code to copy and paste…

or try to make WP theme compatible with BP https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

@mkels – have you tried https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

The WordPress theme system loads all template files from either STYLESHEETPATH or TEMPLATEPATH locations.

I am currently suffering from this problem (a) had intensedebate on a non-MU blog, (b) have removed it, (c) have installed buddypress, (d) neither wordpress admin notifications nor buddypress member notifications are being sent.

@peterverkooijen what exactly did you do when you say “Copying an earlier version of an entire template folder solved the problem”?

WordPress & MU are merging, so I doubt they’d want to make a special version. Really, the only hurdle here is posting to the blog area from the front end. Most everything else is about to be discovered I think.

@modemlooper

I was using Posthaste on my 1.1.3 install and had it working perfectly for my groupblogs. I took my buddypress theme and removed home.php and used that for the group blog theme and I did what was in this link to remove it from automatically adding itself to the loop and instead I just placed the code to place the form at the top of my theme right inside the content container and it worked perfectly. You were able to post articles to that blog from the top of the page and using viper’s video quicktags, you could embed videos in there as well. Here’s the link that gave me the code to manually place the posthaste form instead of having it auto placed.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/262879

Looking for something like P2 theme?

There’s already a plugin for this purpose.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posthaste/

+1

minimizing the backend usage is great… but is more into WordPress … a quickpost page could be great, someone released a version for 1.1…