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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’); ?>

@jimi ~ http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/

you won’t have multiple/duplicate userdata in the db, buddypress will plugin just fine and you’ll be able to enable it on a per site basis for multi-site.

i’d imagine that simplescripts is using WordPress MU version 2.9 so you need to navigate here yoursite.com/wp-admin/wpmu-options.php and you’ll see the option under Allow new registrations.

http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/03/limit-number-of-blogs-per-user-for-wordpress-mu-and-buddypress-websiteblog-network/

Two things

1) If they have released this as a plugin, it will work on any WordPress site. I do not have to remind you that BP runs on WP.

2) Do not put Andy’s name or anyone else’s in the subject of a forum post. If you really must have his attention, sed a message to him and see if you get a reply. We will be locking or deleting any such threads in future.

Same trouble when i want to create a topic: “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare checked() in /home/vhosts/siteurl/wp-admin/includes/template.php on line 380”

WordPress-MU 2.9.1.1 + BuddyPress 1.1.3 (new installation)

Install WP/MU as a directory.

Directory install, is it in root.

BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in

Active plugins: “rus-to-lat”

Using the standard BuddyPress theme.

I didn’t modify the core files.

I think this is a wordpress bug. What versions of BP and WP are you using?

thekmen and I have done this with Hybrid as the parent theme and our own child theme built on a Hybrid Child theme and Buddypress. Have a look at http://themehybrid.com/community/topic/hybrid-and-buddypress for the functions that need to move over at least for Hybrid. It was actually quite easy. My post at http://themehybrid.com/community/topic/hybrid-and-buddypress#post-2506 is as close to a step by step as I’ve seen. However, there are still more CSS tweaks needed after following those steps.

Woops, wasn’t reading correctly. Well work the other way around then.

Add the files that your theme doesn’t have and start using bp functions.

Email login plugin. Lose the username field by making it type=”hidden” on register.php and autogenerating a username value using a trick like this one.

That’s the exact opposite of what he needs though.