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Latest trunk, issue with using any theme other than budypress theme

@marine5942

Participant

15 years, 4 months ago

I have the latest version of the trunk installed, rev 1680, with the latest WP MU.

So, I followed the directions, and moved the two theme folders, both…

bp-default

bp-sn-framework

to the new location, which is /wp-content/themes/…

Then, I activate just the bp-default.

Here’s where I start getting issues, If i use the default MU theme, or any other theme that I upload, when I go to the landing page, the Buddy Press top nav, is not there, and all the links from the plugin, are shown in the footer.

Also, if I try to go to /members, or /groups, it just re-directs back to the root of my site.

Lastly, if I set the bp-default as the default theme, everything works lovely.

I know you guys are still in dev, but is this going to be the case moving forward, where you have to skin the bp-default? In the current prod version, we can upload any new theme, and use that as the main blog theme, and then just customize the budypress member theme, to match it.

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@jeffsayre

Participant

15 years, 4 months ago

The fact that, as you say, “everything works lovely” when you switch to the bp-default theme, indicates that BuddyPress is functioning properly. So, you have an issue with your custom theme.

Any WP theme will work as a BP home theme as long as some additional files are included. With v1.1 of BP, basically the version you downloaded from trunk, BP switches to a parent/child theme architecture. So, you need to make sure the custom theme you are using can function as a parent theme.

Look at the various files in the BP parent theme — bp-sn-framework. My guess is that your custom theme is missing many of those files.

More information of the new parent/child theme architecture: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/details-about-the-new-theme-architecture

@marine5942

Participant

15 years, 4 months ago

Okay, gotcha.

Going to take a look at the bp-sn-framework, see what I can get working.

@marine5942

Participant

15 years, 4 months ago

Not having any luck getting this parent/theme working. Is there any documentation on what files need to be moved to my parent theme, from the bp-sn-framework theme?

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