BuddyPress, BuddyPress Development, BuddyPress Themes

Important Notice For BuddyPress Theme Developers

by Sarah Gooding February 26^th, 2013 2 Responses

BuddyPress 1.7 is very soon on its way to a dashboard near you. Theme compatibility is one of the most exciting features of the upcoming 1.7 release. But how will this affect existing BuddyPress themes?

If you’re a BuddyPress theme author and your theme supplies its own BuddyPress templates, you will need to prevent BuddyPress from running its theme compatibility when your theme is active. Boone Gorges outlined how to do this in the latest post on the BuddyPress Development blog. You’ll want to add this line to your theme’s functions.php file:

1	add_theme_support( 'buddypress' );

BuddyPress 1.7 will be compatible with all WordPress themes

BuddyPress, BuddyPress Themes, News

Commons in a Box: A Free, Easy-To-Install Community Based On WordPress and BuddyPress

by Sarah Gooding November 29^th, 2012 3 Responses

The City University of New York has been offering its CUNY Academic Commons since 2009, providing faculty and staff with a way to share insights, ideas and passions with their peers. Since its inception, this platform has grown into a vibrant community of members who use blogs, groups, member profiles, discussion forums and wiki pages to contribute to an active community over 3,000 strong.

Now, the wiz kids behind the inception and development of this project have harnessed its power and released it in a new, extremely well-documented and packaged project, Commons in a Box, aka CBOX.

BuddyPress, BuddyPress Themes, BuddyPress Tutorials

Tutorial: Integrating Thesis and BuddyPress – Part 3

by Craig Grella September 28^th, 2012 2 Responses

This is the final part of the 3 part series, Integrating Thesis and BuddyPress, in which we will perform some basic styling, edit our custom.css file, and create a unique BuddyPress experience using the Thesis Theme Framework for WordPress multisite.

As a quick recap, In Part 1 of Integrating Thesis and BuddyPress - we covered installing WordPress Multisite (briefly), reviewed the network and site dashboards, and then moved on to a detailed video installation of BuddyPress.

In Part 2 of Integrating Thesis and BuddyPress, we focus on the installation of the Thesis Theme Framework and the Thesis BuddyPress Child Theme.

BuddyPress, BuddyPress Themes, BuddyPress Tutorials

Tutorial: Integrating Thesis and BuddyPress – Part 1

by Craig Grella September 24^th, 2012 5 Responses

In this three-part tutorial you’ll learn how to install the BuddyPress Child Theme for Thesis on a live WordPress multisite installation, and make a few custom code edits that turn a standard thesis install into a unique BuddyPress network site.

If you were not aware that BuddyPress had been integrated with the Thesis premium framework you can read the precursor to this article: BuddyPress and Thesis Together at Last.

Marrying these two frameworks makes great sense. You get the speed and customizability of Thesis with all the cool functionality of BuddyPress – like forums, groups, users profiles, and activity streams.

BuddyPress, BuddyPress Themes

BuddyPress and Thesis Together At Last

by Craig Grella September 20^th, 2012 5 Responses

If you are a fanatic for the Thesis framework and have been looking for a way to integrate all the coolness of BuddyPress without having to do a mountain of custom code – you’re going to love this article.

For several years Thesis has been one of the most popular WordPress frameworks. It features lean code, nearly unlimited customization options, and top-notch support.

BuddyPress Themes, Community, WPMU DEV

PSA: WPMU DEV will NOT support the Salutation Theme

by Mason September 18^th, 2012 28 Responses

Update: To clarify for future generations, this post is in regard to Salutation Theme versions up to 1.5. We’ll update again when/if this issue is resolved by the theme developers.

Update #2: As of Salutation 2.0 this theme is remarkably more compatible with custom post types and WPMU DEV plugins. We’re stoked to see the developers respond for the betterment of all customers. The article and instructions below are no longer relevant and we’re seeing folks have positive results with this theme. Thanks.

BuddyPress, BuddyPress Themes

Status: A New Responsive Child Theme for the BuddyPress Default Theme

by Sarah Gooding September 12^th, 2012 1 Response

The most exciting news in the BuddyPress world this week is the release of a new child theme for the BP-Default theme. Status is theme that puts the activity stream in the spotlight. It was designed and developed by several talented members of the BuddyPress community with a focus on twitter-like activity streams.

The Status theme has some powerful and unique features that go beyond your average BuddyPress theme:

Per-user profile customization: Under Profile, there is a new navigation element called Design, where users can set custom backgrounds and link colours for their profiles.

BuddyPress, BuddyPress Themes

10 Responsive BuddyPress Themes

by Sarah Gooding August 9^th, 2012 2 Responses

With more internet searches happening today among tablet and smartphone users than traditional desktop computer users, it is important that your website be ready to handle traffic from any number of devices. This is especially true of online communities, where millions of people constantly search, share and inspire communication. Responsive WordPress themes have become more common as a result but what about your BuddyPress community? Since we’re often asked on Twitter where to find themes for BuddyPress, today we have put together a list of 10 themes that maximize your audience across numerous platforms and screen sizes. Here are 10 responsive BuddyPress themes. Enjoy!

BuddyPress, BuddyPress Themes

Balance BuddyPress Theme Now Available

by Sarah Gooding July 31^st, 2012 Leave a comment

A few months ago the team at PressCrew started selling pre-orders of their highly anticipated Balance theme for BuddyPress. Balance has finally launched and is ready for purchase. This BuddyPress theme has a responsive design and is built on the Infinity Anti-Framework.

Balance has several unique features that make it stand out from other BuddyPress themes, including:

Works with all BuddyPress 1.5 compatible plugins
Activity Stream Tour: Provides your new members a guided tour
BP Component Introductions: Easily insert a introduction text, advertisements or notifications on all the BuddyPress directory pages

BuddyPress Themes, Themes

Launch a Campaign Website with the BuddyPress Politic Theme

by Sarah Gooding June 28^th, 2012 1 Response

With search engines now trumping newspapers in popularity, readers now get most of their information from the internet. Word of mouth via social networks is more valuable than ever. That’s why I’m excited about Politic. It’s a new political WordPress and BuddyPress theme that combines a clean government-friendly WordPress design with the power of BuddyPress community features like members, forums and groups. Having a social network of supporters can help your favorite campaign or cause expand, educate, and grow your supporters.

The Politic theme features:

Awesome design
Strong focus on user-experience, usability, and beautiful typography
Easily change colors via Theme Options