Better a child theme and to start, read here first:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
and once you understood how it works, you can read again
https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
and search on the forum for topics related to theme. 😉
I already have an childtheme(blank and useless) of my own parent theme, but my question is for the buddypress theme. How can I connect him with the BP plugin? What the BP updates means to this childtheme? o.O
I’m feeling so noob ‘-‘
Anyways, let me know if I get it…So I knew childtheme had the purpose of “protecting” the theme updates. But I don’t understand how BuddyPress understand that. I mean if I paste a new pages.php in childtheme it will just change all templates of both themes or just the theme of the BP community?
If this last its right. I have just to create a subfolder /buddypress/ in my CHILDtheme and copy all the content of /plugins/buddypress to that subfolder?
*Of course, considering that already have a functions.php and style.css for the childtheme.
But I don’t understand how BuddyPress understand that
It does because it’s written to understand that. WP knows what type of theme is in operation, a main parent ‘ template’ or a theme acknowledging another theme as the template source thus labelling it a child theme; WP provides that information to anything that cares to ask. BP performs a series of simple checks, it looks to see what type of theme in operatio, it checks various hardcoded directory names to see if they exist either in a parent theme or in a child theme and if they contain BP template files, if they exist and do have BP templates then those are used in preference to the original BP ones. It’s not that complex a process but you do need to understand the basic principles of template hierarchy which is a WP construct.
You can only ever have two themes max a parent and one containing ‘some’ copied files or additional files coded. WP always loads the child theme up checks anything in functions.php then looks at the parent theme and loads that themes templates and functions.php unless it has found a necessary template already in the child.
Right, but we have a lot of files about the BP. To edit the profile CSS, did you think it’s recommended copy all the plugin/buddypress/ folder or just the buddypress.css in /themes/parent-theme/buddypress?
