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Help with making ”udesign” theme BP compatible ( help with step three ) !

Don_X
Member

@don_x

12 years, 9 months ago

I just completed the setup of a WP site with the udesign theme and I have installed BP ! – All on my home local server. Certain things like the menus items are not aligned properly ! and this obviously needs some tweaking ! .. I activated the BuddyPress Template Pack and followed the step by step instructions. On Step Three: Tweaking your layout, it is said :
” …. to change the HTML structure in the BuddyPress templates that you copied into your theme to match the structure in your page.php…. “

What exactly to they mean by change the HTML structure ??? … does it mean I have to put in the same arguments shown in the div tags and put them in the BP template files copied into my u-design directory ( going by method 1 ) ??? .. please help … I need some cues .. I don’t want to mess it up !

Can someone provide me with an example ??? … the u-design is based on the 960 grid css system to theme WP.

please help ..

thank u in advance

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@mercime
Participant

@mercime

12 years, 9 months ago

There are two methods to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress, what you choose will depend on the current HTML structure of your WP theme:

A. First method – changing 16 BP template files transferred to your WP theme folder during the BP compatibility process
— Example using Motion theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

B. Second method – creating header-buddypress.php, sidebar-buddypress.php and/or footer-buddypress.php and adding to your WP theme folder which already contains the BP template folders after compatibility process.
— Example using Twenty Ten: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/
— Example using Twenty Eleven: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-eleven-bp-1-5/

All themes can use First Method but only some themes can use Second Method. If you need assistance in analyzing if you can use the Second Method for your theme, please post codes of your theme’s header.php, sidebar.php, index.php, page.php, and footer.php in respective pastebin.com pages.

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