Topic: Theme compatibility?

Theme compatibility?

Sergio De Falco
Participant

@sgr33n

12 years, 2 months ago

Hi,

I’m just seeing that the team came back to work to the 1.7. Speaking of that I see in the svn log that is working on a “theme compatibility”, what is that?

Thanks

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@mercime
Participant

@mercime

12 years, 2 months ago

Basically, you will no longer need to install the BP Template Pack plugin to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress as this new feature serves as a fallback for any WP theme which does not have BuddyPress templates in it. The feature is the same way bbPress plugin templates are served up in WP themes.

Sergio De Falco
Participant

@sgr33n

12 years, 2 months ago

Cool so a more deep integration into the wordpress core… Speaking of This, i’m just wondering why buddypress doesn’t use user_metadata and have a proprietary xprofile table.

@mercime
Participant

@mercime

12 years, 2 months ago

== why buddypress doesn’t use user_metadata and have a proprietary xprofile table. ==

I believe one reason would be that WP doesn’t have an API for BuddyPress’ more sophisticated profile fields/groups, or something of that nature. At least that’s what I recall a core dev answering the last time that question was asked

Sergio De Falco
Participant

@sgr33n

12 years, 2 months ago

Sorry if I asked something already answered

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

12 years, 2 months ago

Mercime’s pretty much right. There might be ways to use a custom post type with user meta, but revising the structure of the profile fields database tables isn’t a current priority.

Sergio De Falco
Participant

@sgr33n

12 years, 2 months ago

Paul, anyway it’s pretty simple to use both methods. We know that default wp_users support first_name, last_name, nickname and description (bio). Maybe you could make possibile to modify each of that from buddypress (i made it in my theme) and make a base group with these fields. Then if administrators want to add more fields and groups you could populate xprofile table. In this way you could have a more deep integration into WordPress.