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Buddypress Legacy Files – Up-to-date?


  • centerfold
    Participant

    @centerfold

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hello there,

    during the last couple of days I started working with Buddypress and I think I got the basics by now. Right now I am working on a custom theme and wanted to edit the look and feel of buddypress aswell.

    I read a few things and I am not sure if I am doing it right. Don’t get me wrong here – It’s no problem to use the legacy files, as described. But what I asking myself is – Are those legacy files do have the same features as the “normal” Buddypress, and are they updated regularly, whenever buddypress gets an update? Somewhere I read, that legacy files are based on 1.7 of Buddypress. Is that true?

    If not – Is it better to go another way with a custom theme?

    Thank you for your help. Oh, and I am using the newest versions of Buddypress and WordPress.

    Best regards!

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  • shanebp
    Moderator

    @shanebp

    8 years, 2 months ago

    The current files re themes are here:
    buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\

    You should always use those when overloading to a theme or child theme.

    The use of ‘legacy’ in the dir name is unfortunate and confusing, imo.


    centerfold
    Participant

    @centerfold

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for your quick answer shanebp!

    But as I read different statements, the thing that really interests me is, if the legacy-files do present the same features as the core buddypress. Or will I lose any feature or functionality if I overwrite the core with those them files?

    Thanks again!


    shanebp
    Moderator

    @shanebp

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Basically, the core uses these files for display:
    buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\

    If you want to change the display, you can overload those files and thereby avoid changing anything in the BP plugin folder.


    centerfold
    Participant

    @centerfold

    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hey shanebp,

    just wanted to thank you for your help! 🙂


    Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    @djpaul

    8 years, 2 months ago

    They’re legacy in the optimistic hope that we’ll build new templates sometime this year (2016). I think it’ll happen.

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