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  • thehighplainsdrifter
    Member

    @thehighplainsdrifter

    13 years, 2 months ago

    Say i have a normal wordpress site

    it already has a menu – home, about, contact us, etc etc

    by installing buddypress am i simply adding the ‘community’ tab onto that menu which will then open up the social networking side for the site

    users can create profiles
    users can create groups
    users can communicate with one another
    etc
    etc

    im just a little confused when i see buddypress themes etc, im right to believe that by installing buddypress i wont have to change my design of my blog right?

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  • Tammie Lister
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    @karmatosed

    13 years, 2 months ago

    It opens up social networking and other things besides yes. Where the menu item is though is down to the theme and also up to you if you edit files.

    You do not have to change the look of your blog you’d use the template pack to allow your theme to work for BuddyPress. There are some files you’d need in your theme but the template pack solves that.

    https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/


    thehighplainsdrifter
    Member

    @thehighplainsdrifter

    13 years, 2 months ago

    ah i see its starting to make more sense now
    i am in the process of converting a large php social site into wordpress and just came across buddypress and it looks like the answer to my problems.

    So when a user signs up to my site in wordpress are they signing up through wordpress and then buddypress takes this information and allows more social things to be done with it?

    I have to pick a new theme for the site so i guess it wil make sense to pick a wordpress/buddypress theme to make sure i get the most out of it all.


    Tammie Lister
    Moderator

    @karmatosed

    13 years, 1 month ago

    BuddyPress has it’s own integrated with WordPress users – you can add profile fields and have other control things. In theory they are the same but with additions.

    Yes, if you want to maximise what the site does getting a theme designed from the start for BuddyPress is a good step. But, with the template pack as said you don’t have to do that.


    Ratspeed
    Member

    @ratspeed

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Apparently the pack is currently broken with the current WordPress version (3.2.1).. Until it’s fixed, anything we should do in the meantime?


    @mercime
    Participant

    @mercime

    13 years, 1 month ago

    What “pack” are you referring to?

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