After Themeforest opened up its market for BuddyPress themes, there has been a flood of successful themes released. Buddies is the latest to be added. It’s a responsive, minimalist BuddyPress theme with bbPress styles integrated for a seamless design.
The Buddies theme uses the same framework as Gratitude, a previous release from ZenThemes, and it’s been hailed as one of the easiest frameworks to use. The theme also includes a unique widgetized homepage that changes when a user is logged in:
Besides being fully responsive to mobile devices, the Buddies theme features:
- Customisable accent color options via the options panel
- Custom Background Support
- Full localization (.po/.mo files include)
- WordPress 3.0+ Ready ( Featured Images & Custom Menus)
- White Label Theme Options
- Custom Widgets (Facebook Like Box, Flickr, Recent Activity, Recent Posts, Register, Twitter, Video)
- Shortcode generator with preview function
- Page Templates (Home, Contact, Full Width, etc.)
Find out more about the Buddies theme on Themeforest and check out the live demo.
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thank you for recommending this theme, I like it a lot, but the only problem is I use wpmu and I can’t pay $2,200!
Extended License Examples
The Extended License could be used for any of the following:
Template for a web service such as WPMU.
Part of a software package for sale.
http://themeforest.net/licenses/usage_examples
That’s a very good point, Andrea. Would you really need to use the theme on sub-sites though? Being built for BuddyPress, it would seem it’d best be used only on the main site in a Multisite setup, which wouldn’t violate the license if the theme is not accessible to sub-sites.
On that note, I’m really anxious to see how WPMU DEV addresses the whole responsive, BuddyPress theme/theme-framework topic. Bar none, they’ve got the most attractive license for users and they’re just uber-awesome. :)
Thanks Sarah for recommending the theme! I really appreciate it!
I have purchased this theme a while ago. Suddenly all my jQuery plugins stopped working without anybody doing anything to the site. I have contacted Zen Factory but there is no response. Where do I go to resolve this issue? I need help urgently. My site is not working.