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BP Default Theme – moving forward with BP 1.9

As of BuddyPress 1.9, bp-default has been retired, so it won’t show up in your themes. However, you can create a file called “bp-custom.php” in your plugins folder which will force WP to load it. Add these lines to it:

<?php

add_filter( 'bp_do_register_theme_directory', '__return_true' );

?>

That should fix it for you.

*follow up*

– does this mean that the default theme now for BP is twenty-fourteen ?
– I wonder if plugins that for BP will work as well as it does for BP-Default?
– Should we start making BP childthemes for Twenty-Fourteen ?

If you have bp-default active it will still show when upgrading. If you deactivate bp-default it will not show.

Please consider moving your site to a new theme. There may not be fixes for any new features in the future.

The define listed above is for sites that do not want to upgrade theme right away. It was created as a fix to give sites time to move away from bp-default. Contact the theme developer and have them remove BuddyPress from your theme so it can use theme compatibility.

I created a version without BuddyPress that you can try
https://github.com/modemlooper/Buddy-Default

Thanks for joining in the conversation.

Though I’m still pretty confused with the semantics used —

That it is not being abandoned and will live on as a “legacy theme” BUT at the same time, when I search for buddypress theme – it is is not showing up as a download option…

I mean, take for example – I am currently running the “bp-default,” if I were to experiment with a new theme “Theme-X” – would I have any way to revert back to “bp-default” with a simple activation?

Not providing further update for bp-default is one thing, but Why not leave “bp-default” in the theme repository with that note that it is no longer being update?
To provide another option, if nothing else.

> Why not leave “bp-default” in the theme repository with that note that it is no longer being update?

Yup, we’re going to do this as soon as we figure out how to do it technically without breaking people’s sites 🙂 When it’s in the theme repo, it’ll have the added bonus that it’ll no longer necessarily be the BP core team who’s taking care of it – other community members may step up and officially take charge of maintenance.

But, as Hugo says, don’t worry too much about it for the moment – bp-default will continue to work.

> I am currently running the “bp-default,” if I were to experiment with a new theme “Theme-X” – would I have any way to revert back to “bp-default” with a simple activation?

You’ll have to do this https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp-default-parent-theme-missing/#post-176376 to make sure you’re able to reactivate it.

Thanks for addressing our/my concerns.

Another issue, I am running BP 1.9 and having the notification tab mess up the page when it is clicked on. As users suggested, I have tried adding

elseif ( bp_is_user_notifications() ) :
bp_get_template_part( ‘members/single/notifications’ );

to my themes’s /members/single/home.php file.

However, the problem still persist.

I’ve read that updating to BP 1.9.1 will fix this problem. My question is – if I update to 1.9.1, will anything else change such as the bp-default theme or my current layout?

@modemlooper the reference was to the theme being looked for in WP repo or at least in general searches and in that sense an official standalone theme release which is what it will need and ought to be eventually. Well done though for getting that out there; we can link people to it who are worried and want to get ahead of the game.

I managed to figure out that once you’ve used the bp-custom.php code above once, to re-establish the legacy setup for bp-default, then you have to remove the code so as to avoid the ‘headers already loaded’ error.

Another post I saw by one of your team didn’t include the <?php ?> part of the code.
To do such a drastic change, it would have been appreciated by thousands, to have solid support documents, as well as steps to easily alter child themes to the newest WP standard. And also to have a button to downgrade BP in case of a mess like I had.

I added a profile field to the members header.php, it was overwritten when I updated to the latest bp because I forgot to add it to my child theme.

it became the default:
<?php
/***
* If you’d like to show specific profile fields here use:
* bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=About Me’ ); — Pass the name of the field
*/
do_action( ‘bp_profile_header_meta’ );

?>

But the field still appears in the members header! how is this possible?

My problem is, I’m trying to recreate the same site again, but I can’t duplicate it, I don’t know how to edit the members header anymore, or why it still works on my demo, but not when I use the same copy of bp as my demo?

Im getting this error in the members header

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home/palosverdes1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-template.php on line 662

What’s going on? Please help!