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Create a child theme, you have a lot more control and your theme will update when the parent updates. Ignore the skeleton theme it no longer takes advantage of the new things in 1.1

Your other option is to duplicate bp-sn-parent, but this should only be done if you are changing most of the template files and your design cannot be achieved by CSS changes alone.

@Andy thanks, I have begun hacking the parent theme since I might need to make changes to more than just CSS.

@realistdreamer I am wanting to do exactly that, I am looking at Theme Hybrid modified to work with Buddypress. Then that can be the parent theme, from which the children can be spawned.

What are the advantages of doing this.

“you can add a custom.css file to _inc/css/ in the default theme and add your custom styles if you like.”

I am currently messing around with my own theme but if doing this can accomplish what I need then I might trying it.

I want to change some of the colors and some of the images.

I need feedback/help from folks trying out new themes.

I’m implementing buddypress into arthemina theme. I’ve so far managed to make all the buddypress pages work fine, except settings which it returns 404.

For other buddypress pages, it was just a matter of copying, for example copy profile folder from bp-sn-parent to arthemina theme to make it work. But there’s no theme for settings, so I now have no idea how I’m going to solve this 404 thing.

Please post your ideas/solution to this post.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/settings-gets-404

I’m having an issue with child themes. I created a new one as my default for all new blogs. When I enable it on a new blog the directories for members.. groups.. etc.. are all blank pages. What gives?! I didn’t change any of that, Its not a style issue either because it just doesn’t return any html. The buddy press bar on the top is working?

I’m at a loss. Is this by design?

..update.. I just changed the links back to the home theme manual in a revised header.php. Seems a little weird that the parent theme has links that are relative to the current blog for the directories. Wouldn’t it make more sense for those to be relative to the default domain so that they continue to work when a child is created? Or is there a circumstance when an added blog will have separate members groups and forums?

@Jeff Sayre

I’m using the child them that came with it, and modifying it only slightly. It doesn’t work out of the box on a users blog. The members section, groups, forums, and blogs directories show blank pages under the new blog. Like so http://www.domain.com/newblog/members ..

It shows nothing. So I’m currently trying to copy over the subfolders from the parent theme to see if that helps. I thought that you only had to replicate the files that you wanted to change so I’ll be pretty disappointed if that works.

Everything else works fine, and all of the things on the link you sent appear to be included.

I am trying to get an old theme called darkpress theme to work without any success. The home page goes blankm, however the members areas are fine. How can I go back to buddypress 1.1. Where can I download the old buddypress 1.1? The new default theme works fine on the homepage.