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Yeah, it may need some further tweaking to grab the right URL.

Yeah Jeff, I understand. I\’m trying to figure out why my component is showing up on the home page but not on the same exact theme, but under a users sub-domain. I guess the only thing I can do is convert it to v1.2.

Hello Andrea_r

I just installed BuddyPress v 1.0 2 days ago to a new WordPress MU install. Got it running fine except for the member blog theme thing where members have the default WordPress MU theme. I followed your instructions above and copied the bphome theme, changed the theme name, changed the style.css file header name from home to blogs and deleated the home.php file. I moved this new theme to /wp-content/themes folder and activated the theme. But when I go to a members dashboard and click on the theme to activate it, it comes up blank in the preview window.

Any ideas what went wrong?

Thanks Mark

http://photomark.ca/boozoo

My “solution” if you can call it that, works, but none of the widgets are pre-set. Member blogs come up, but each new member would have to configure their own widgets.

I’d like members to be able to join and have everything set up for them.

How can we turn this into a brainstorming session, where at the end of it, all of us get what we need and we can release it to the community?

Did someone establish a new thread for this topic? I want to do the same thing. Can’t understand why BuddyPress can’t make the same theme available for anyone who signs on and creates a blog … I’ve modified my BuddyPress files and logo to show the colors and style I want–very simple adjustment to the standard BuddyPress theme–and I want that theme to be the same theme that everyone else uses no matter who they are … and for all pages to show up the same way.

http://buddypress.mountainprideconnections.com

This is a test site. Very basic.

Jeff–

Not sure we’re talking apples to apples, but I’ve created this thread to ask how I can make my theme consistent site-wide.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2538

I know there must be an answer to this, because the BuddyPress site we’re on is doing what I want to do!

“Member blogs come up, but each new member would have to configure their own widgets.

I’d like members to be able to join and have everything set up for them. “

this comes up under basic WPMU blog defaults, and is covered extensively over in that forum. there’s even 2 plugins available to set blog defaults.

with widgets it’s a little different – if you don’t want them to change anything, don’t use widgets. hardcode it in the theme sidebar.

Andrea, I am using the blog defaults plugin but I don’t see the option to set a default user theme. Can you point me to a resource? Thanks.

Andrea,

No I think I am using the other older one. (I came across DeannaS’ but for some reason forum discussions convinced me that it was still a work in progress.) Ill switch over and try it out now. Thanks.

Still not there yet, put my whole project on hold b/c of this…I think the latest releases may have resolved this issue and I will check into it…

” but none of the widgets are pre-set. Member blogs come up, but each new member would have to configure their own widgets.

I’d like members to be able to join and have everything set up for them. “

Asked, answered and beat to death over in the MU forums. If it’s on the user *blogs* then it has nothing to do with Buddypress.

Do you really want widgets set up for the users (a little more work), or do you want a specific sidebar that they can’t fiddle with (dead easy). Or really, sheesh, just set up the sidebar for them buy hardcoding it consistently in the themes (if there’s only one theme for users, well, piece of cake here) and then let them add widgets if you want them to.

Which, really, is how the blogs work by default.

Tip: go over to the MU forums, explain what you want in detail in a new thread.

Dear Andrea, I’m certain we could make this work, and I’d like to organize a quick skype session with you to get it done. How much would 30 min with you cost?

Here’s where I’m at:

http://community.urine-therapy.org/testing/

Uses my modification of “BuddyPress Social Network Parent Theme Members”

and

http://community.urine-therapy.org/testing2/

usese my modification of “BuddyPress Default Members 1.1”

as described here

http://www.bp-tricks.com/design/member-blog-themes-to-match-your-buddypress-theme/comment-page-1/#comment-133

Now, “testing2” is partially working, but

1) I don’t want the users adding widgets or changing themes…frankly, if they didn’t have access to the dashboard and just had access to a Post editor, I’d be fine with that. Register, Make a blog, start posting, uploading PDF’s, audios, videos, etc.

Regarding the standard navigation, here’s how I see things:

Home should take you to the main site

http://community.urine-therapy.org/

not to the home of the member-blog. And it should have a running ticker of all activity (basically all blog posts).

Blog should take you to your own blog (if you are a member)

Members should take you to a sitewide list of members, not a list of the “members” of the member blog.

Groups should show the groups created by members sitewide

Forums (I think this can be removed for now).

Blogs (this should be the same as members, since each member should only be able to create one blog).

Can you see how I just want to enable a community, but I don’t want to complicate things with blogs and sub blogs and members of sub blogs etc. etc. Basically a member gets a blog, everyone sees what that member does at that blog, we all comment.

Does that make sense?

Best,

Dainis