Skip to:
Content
Pages
Categories
Search
Top
Bottom

Other blogs just like the default blog

  • @nrfive

    Participant

    13 years, 11 months ago

    I currently have BuddyPress installed on a MultiSite install of WordPress. (www.gameshrine.org)

    Now when you click on “blogs” and click on Visit Blog from “GameShrine” it puts it nicely within the same theme.

    When you click on Visit Blog from NrFive, it goes off to “another site”.

    Is it possible to make it act just like the default blog and show in in the same lay-out / menu structure / etc.

    And if so, how can I achive this?

    Many thanks in advance

    // Nr|Five

Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)

  • @mercime

    Participant

    13 years, 11 months ago

    You have to “tell” your install to use a default theme for all new blogs. In your case, I’d create a child theme then set it as default. http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/change-the-default-theme-for-sites-without-a-plugin/

    @nrfive

    Participant

    13 years, 11 months ago

    Getting some errors trying to achive this

    `define(‘WP_DEFAULT_THEME’, ‘twentyten’);
    define( ‘TEMPLATEPATH’, ‘/customers/gameshrine.org/gameshrine.org/httpd.www/wp-content/themes/fishbook-buddypress-buddypack’); `

    This however does not work and gives me a blank screen, asked andrea hope she knows something.
    I’m guessing it’s a PHP error, but my webhost isn’t showing it… quite annoying trying to figure out the error….

    @andrea_r

    Participant

    13 years, 11 months ago

    “define(‘WP_DEFAULT_THEME’, ‘twentyten’);”

    This line says “use twenty ten on new blogs”.

    Put the theme’s folder name in there.

    @nrfive

    Participant

    13 years, 11 months ago

    yup done that, then:

    1) Deleted blog
    2) Created new blog

    Getting blank page of death now, so guessing that the php of the template is b0rked.
    Really need to get the php error logs to fix that…

    @nrfive

    Participant

    13 years, 11 months ago

    Extra note:

    Trying to achieve this look & feel:
    http://ayudawordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/blog-buddypress.jpg

    With pretty much every user created blog to be part of the main site…

    @mercime

    Participant

    13 years, 11 months ago

    @NrFive That was the layout of the BuddyPress parent theme pre-BP 1.2. It’s do-able but not easy as A-B-C.

    == every user created blog to be part of the main site ==
    It can be as simple as making your blog a multi-author blog in a single WP install. But even if you go multisite, you can achieve the same look and feel by creating the child theme and just changing main navigation in header.php to get navigation of main site with BP.

    @nrfive

    Participant

    13 years, 11 months ago

    yup fixed some menus atm.

    Currently trying to figure out what to do with pages I’ve created and the about page. Those aren’t linking properly yet, but progress is being made! :)

    Too bad that old theme of BuddyPress isn’t available anymore. The look of it was what attracted me to install BP. Will see how far I can modify things to make it look like the old theme.

    So far thanks everyone with the advice and help, I’ll let you all know how things go.

    @andrea_r

    Participant

    13 years, 11 months ago

    “Too bad that old theme of BuddyPress isn’t available anymore. “

    Sure it is. All old code is held in trac. you;d have to update it for the latest verison.

    like I said in another email, you’re setting a buddypress theme on a subsite – where buddypress is not used. THAT is the issue. you have to strip the BP parts out of a copy fo the theme.

    @mercime

    Participant

    13 years, 11 months ago

    == Too bad that old theme of BuddyPress isn’t available anymore. ==
    Actually, there’s a new child theme of the premium BP framework, BP Mag theme, which has the vertical navbars
    Demo: http://bpthemes.buddydev.com/bpmag/classic/members/sbrajesh/

    @nrfive

    Participant

    13 years, 11 months ago

    @mercime

    Layout looks a bit b0rked? http://bpthemes.buddydev.com/bpmag/classic/members/sbrajesh/blogs/
    Other then that… yeah looks pretty good, will look into it :)

Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)
  • The topic ‘Other blogs just like the default blog’ is closed to new replies.

Topic Info

Skip to toolbar