you should copy the code directly from header.php:
Here’s the div with the code
[snip]
That should work fine if you’re using it for a theme which is buddypress ready/compatbile (which I presume it is 
). If you’re copying it into a normal WP theme without BP installed you get errors
Oh I will have this question and it was very helpful for me to see it, so thank you both!!
I’m using a theme modified with the BuddyPress Template Pack.
I added the code you pasted above… thanks for that.
I got this error message.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_dtheme_page_on_front()
The above code is out of date, you can find the latest in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php
Andy, I still get the same error….
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_dtheme_page_on_front()
@armandmorin: if you’re still having this issue, i think the problem may be in the theme heading. If you are creating a new theme from the buddypress theme pack, then adding ‘Template: bp-default’ to your theme header *should* resolve this issue. Hope this helps!
/*
Theme Name: Minimal-BP (BuddyPress BuddyPack)
Theme URI: http://www.goldratio.org
Description: A theme from Gold Ratio Designs
Version: 1.2
Author: J.Y.
Author URI: http://goldratio.org
Template: bp-default
Tags: buddypress, ,two-columns, minimal
*/
I don’t know if you’ve resolved this on your own, but I think the problem is that if you are using the BP template pack, Buddypress’s functions.php is not loading. I don’t know where the function is that loads it but I just added an include in bp-custom.php to load it before any of the other scripts.
Like this:
$bp_functions_file = ABSPATH . ‘wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/functions.php’;
include $bp_functions_file;
There’s probably a better way but that was a quick fix I used to fix that error.
PS. adding “Template: bp-default” to my style.css didn’t work for me either.
PPS. I am using the freshnews theme by woothemes.
