Hi,
I am not aware of any free theme currently but it is going to change in 2020.
We are looking forward to change this completely from 15th January onward. We will provide you with multiple free themes(1st releasing on 15th January). I am looking forward to help make BuddyPress experience pleasant and smooth.
Regards
Brajesh
Definitely looking forward to that.
You can use BuddyPress with any theme.
@sbrajesh
I think it would be an amazing achievement!
*Ironically – even – though BP “works” with any theme. 🙂
Seriously, its a bit of a holy grail to find an official WP theme from WP.org/com that works beautifully with CP.
Most of the themes out there have a “blog first” approach — which isnt bad — BUT I would love to see a free theme that does the basics of BP extremely well.
For now.. I typically tend to use Twenty Seventeen Theme.. or try to use @buddyboss if i have cash to spare..
im deeply bummed that twenty twenty theme doesnt look great using BP
@ripulkr
although BP works with any theme.. i often find myself add too much BP specific CSS tweaks in the customizer
Im trying to keep things as simple as possible and even with twenty seventeen theme – there are some css tweaks that need to happen.
it makes sense — simply because WP is “blog first” so most content is goofy on how it renders and presents BP pages.
As far as I can tell buddyboss is the only game in town that does a great job of having clean design and straighforward code.
my BP-Theme-wish list
1) BP first *which focuses on great Activity page presentation, Members Directory Presentation & Great Member profiles.
2) Mobile First approach would be super awesome. Most people view profiles and not necessarily doing actual “activity” post. So if someone can figure out a great way to render fast and beautiful activity/members-directory/member-profiles that is very readable on mobile it would be super awesoome.
3) Great use of Menus/Accordions — The way BP works right now on members pages is TERRIBLE on mobile. You have scroll past the cover photo -> then pass the Avatar –> then pass 4 menu items to see any content of the users in the Members Profiles page.
4) Great use of Member Profile Fields — I think by default as a “2 column table layout” to render the profile fields is not great.
**I totally understand that the newest release of BP has interesting pre-built options but even with the default twenty-twenty theme it doesnt look great.
Some thoughts..
— The username in the profile page when too long looks weird and awkward — using CSS to ‘breakword’ is OK.
— The Profile Field Name should be studied on how to render that well..
— The Profile Field entries like (text fields, radial buttos, list, etc..) should have a better readable standard implementation like.. *This one is hard because you dont know the exact uses of each unique BP installs..
— The Menus should be “slidable” on mobile so that the user doesnt have to scroll all the way down to start reading whats on that persons profile.
*** It would be great if someone (some BP expert) post an Ultimate BP/CSS guide that shows how to target each of the BP specific elements… without doing theme surgery.. like a cut&paste into the CSS customizer –BONUS if it can include media queries 🙂
anyway.. rant over..
@sbrajesh
I’m so excited to check your new theme
hi @coolhunt
Thank you for checking. The theme is a bit delayed. Will be available on 27th now.
We are still working on certain pain points which are normal for site admins(like how to make it easy to reorder buttons/tabs, setting default directory tabs/filters and a lot more on that line) and a few things.
We are taking a little longer and hoping that our efforts will save site admins a lot of time.
I will post back after settings up a demo/release page.
Thank you
Brajesh
Please in need your help, I want to display my comments form like Facebook or is there a plugin
Hi @coolhunt,
Hope you are doing well.
we released the first theme a week ago(I did not post here as our demo was not setup properly. We have a basic demo for now).
Please give it a try. It is a framework with all the essential features to let you design your theme(using cusotmizer).
Community Builder
I Hope it will be useful.
Regards
Brajesh
@sbrajesh
WOW!!!
I just installed it.. and IT LOOKS amazing!!!!
Im trying to get the styling down..
a few goofy things here and there on the customizer
For example.. Font on site-title doesnt look like its working properly when its on mobile
anyway.. im loving it so far! *Its almost exactly what im looking for.
WOW!!!
heres my link to my project in which im testing it out https://filmschool.network/
Thank you.
I am glad you liked it.
Please do let me know if you need any assistance 🙂
Regards
Brajesh
@sbrajesh
@buddydev
Im a few weeks in to diving in Community Builder theme by BuddyDev and Its pretty sophisticated.
SOOO MUCH customization!!!!
Anyway..
Im loading it up on one of my sites https://throttle.network and the site when viewed on mobile moves side-to-side .. as if theres content to the right or left .. that overflows…
how do i configure it so that i remove the side-to-side movement … so that users can only go up and down
is it a media-screen size thing? or is a “BOXED/FLUID” layout percentage thing.. Ive tried changing the percentages .. nothing works
Hi @coolhunt
Thank you.
It seems that pages having item tabs is showing this behaviour(slight extra space on mobile)
I checked registration page on your site which is not showing this behaviour. We haven’t updated the Community Builder with recent changes from Pro. I will release an update next week with the fixes for this.
Thank you
Brajesh
