BuddyPress.org

for one site, i just used bp-default directly because i figured it would always be there and would always work.

but i did find this:

If you are already using bp-default, either directly or as a parent theme, don’t worry.

at the link you recommended…

right now, i am less interested in making buddypress look and feel the way i want it to — than in just using wordpress community software that actually works.

with BuddyPress, over the years, i noticed that the best strategy is just to leave it alone and not try to do anything with it, because then it’s just going to break in unforseen ways — and not even “configuration,” but just implementation can and will be riddled with errors and problems and headaches.

so, for one site, yes, i used a child theme, but for the site in question, i didn’t. i just figured some form of “buddypress default” would always be there — and it would always work.

if “it” changed, i would just configure it — but i would not need to dig around and search for errors and fix things and ask at the forum and have peoples’ emotions flare just cuz i am interested in having the software work — etc.

i also figured it would be a theme buddypress would always maintain and upgrade — and improve. for example, have you ever seen the activity stream in twentytwelve? while there may be classier activity streams around — for 2012 — it was easily one of the nicest looking activity streams available. so — i figured buddypress would notice that — and just continuously improve whatever the “buddypress default” theme was…

i “might” make a child theme now — but i have now looked around at some commercial themes — so maybe i’ll buy one of those.

really — it is about immediate functionality and convenience. it needs to work, first and foremost, and it needs to “look good” as well (but it needs to actually work — first).

anyway — what this development at BuddyPress did — is it sent me searching for a commercial theme to upgrade to. not sure if that was the intended result, but it’s what it did in my case.

best and blessings and thanks for all the work you do, let us know if you ever plan on releasing a kind of “default theme” in the future ok?

sincerely,
dainis

here is the activity stream in bp-default
http://screencast.com/t/nfwn03Jc
neat and clean and functional and it works.

now i bought a commercial theme and it’s broken:
http://screencast.com/t/KFL1Ywwu4M

oh well

i:

purchased a commercial theme for $60 hoping it would work out the box. it didn’t.

i created a child theme and it works with the old version of buddypress

i added all the memory stuff to files like .haccess that folks recommend when you get the WSOD w buddypress

i updated buddypress and got a success message:

http://screencast.com/t/2bpHT6m6NZr

now i have the WSOD and back i go to the backup i created at the start of the day…

ps @mercime, i added the line

add_filter( 'bp_do_register_theme_directory', '__return_true' );

to functions.php of the child theme

(it’s the only line)

and well — upon activating the child theme — i get a blank page with just that line displayed — did i do that wrong?

thnks for your help

thanks u rock!

ps: why does twenty twelve’s buddypress activity stream comment submission look so good?

is it a separate stylesheet someone made at some point?