Salutation: A New HTML5 WordPress and BuddyPress Theme

by Sarah Gooding September 19^th, 2011 19 Responses

Salutation caught my attention this weekend. It’s a new HTML5 BuddyPress theme available from Themeforest. The BuddyPress theme market is still very small, and we’re always getting questions on Twitter about where to find themes. This one looks like a decent option.

Salutation uses HTML5 and CSS3, which allows you to make use of all the latest technologies. It also comes with a drag-and-drop layout manager for creating custom layouts for any page or post. You can attach custom headers and footers to your layouts.

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Headway Themes Makes a Move to Support BuddyPress

by Sarah Gooding August 3^rd, 2011 2 Responses

Exciting news from Headway Themes this week is that they have released their much-anticipated BuddyPress add-on. This add-on allows Headway theme license holders to customize their own BuddyPress themes and layout using drag-and-drop functionality.

This new BuddyPress add-on lets you:

Easily add a new Leaf with any BuddyPress feature
Includes Integrated BuddyPress Navigation

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Introducing Xi: A Responsive BuddyPress Theme – Plus Exclusive Discount Code

by Sarah Gooding July 25^th, 2011 Leave a comment

Theme Loom is a smaller theme shop with just a handful of themes, but their latest one has gotten our attention. They have added BuddyPress support to the Xi theme, which runs on HTML5 and CSS3 and is built to respond to your browser’s size and capabilities.

Responsive Web Design is an answer to the ever growing variety of devices and screen resolutions. If you want to make sure your WordPress site looks good on different devices, then you need to be using a responsive theme.

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Introducing Visual: A New BuddyPress Theme on the Market from DevPress

by Sarah Gooding June 10^th, 2011 1 Response

The market for BuddyPress themes is increasing, but there are still very few theme providers out there. We’d like to introduce our readers to DevPress, a new place to find a theme for your BuddyPress site. Devpress is a collaboration between Patrick Daly, Tung Do, Ptah Dunbar, and Justin Tadlock.

The DevPress team has created Visual, a unique photoblog theme with support for BuddyPress.

Here’s a quick screenshot of the group forums page:

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Make Your WordPress Theme Compatible with BuddyPress Using the Updated BP Template Pack

by Sarah Gooding May 30^th, 2011 7 Responses

The BuddyPress Template Pack plugin has been downloaded over 85,000 times since its release in February of 2010. In case you’ve never used it before, the BP Template Pack plugin guides you through the process of using your existing WordPress theme in order to display BuddyPress pages and content. Boone Gorges announced an update to this plugin this week:
The plugin now provides templates that are 100% up-to-date with the latest stable release of BuddyPress, which means that users will get all of the features and AJAX niceties enjoyed by sites that use the bp-default theme.

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WooThemes Breaks Into the BuddyPress Theme Market

by Sarah Gooding February 18^th, 2011 3 Responses

The BuddyPress theme market has a new player: WooThemes has jumped in with the release of Canvas BuddyPress beta. It’s a child theme of their very popular Canvas theme. Here’s a screenshot of the member directory:

If you currently own a copy of Canvas or are a Standard / Developer Club Subscriber, you can log in and download Canvas BuddyPress from there. The Canvas BuddyPress child theme is not sold separately at this time so you’ll need to own Canvas or be a member of the WooClub to have access to it.

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How to Add a Custom Background Image to BuddyPress Avatars

by Sarah Gooding January 27^th, 2011 3 Responses

Let’s do something fun with BuddyPress! We had someone on Twitter request a tutorial on how to give BuddyPress avatars a custom background, specifically a Polaroid image, so that’s what we’re going to use as an example today.

The only thing you’ll need to do for this tutorial is edit the CSS of your child theme and upload the background image to your theme’s images folder.

Step 1: Select a background image for your avatars.

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Featured BuddyPress Theme: Studio

by Siobhan McKeown November 12^th, 2010 2 Responses

To end our week of BuddyPress Themes and Plugins let’s take a look at a Premium theme from BuddyDress. Studio was released back in September. It has an attractive slider, beautiful design and is packed full of options for customization. It has built in theme options, built in Google fonts directory, and comes SEO ready.
Features

Content buckets – choose the content you want and let StudioPress worry about the layouts
Google Font Directory
Preset styles and custom styling menus
SEO options built in
Branding options
Built in Google Analytics
Global Call to Action header
Custom header image
Sign up box
W3 Validation
Multiple Sidebars
Default child theme

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Did you know… BuddyDress has a demo site?

by Tammie Lister November 9^th, 2010 Leave a comment

Each day a new fact you may not know about BuddyDress.

Number Eight: BuddyDress has a demo site
Want to try before you buy the theme from BuddyDress?

Look no further than Themetastic the demo site for BuddyDress.

You can try all the BuddyPress themes right here featured on BuddyDress.

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Introducing BuddyBase: A New Free BuddyPress Theme Framework

by Sarah Gooding November 9^th, 2010 7 Responses

BuddyBoss has just made a splash in the BuddyPress world with its new free theme framework called BuddyBase. Given that free BuddyPress themes are still few and far between, we always want to make sure that our readers are the first to know what’s available. BuddyBase is a high quality theme that will make an excellent starting point for any BuddyPress design customization. Let’s take a closer look…

BuddyBase has 6 main features that set it apart from other free themes:

Cross-browser compatible: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Chrome, and even ancient IE 6!
Multi-level dropdowns: Out-of-the-box support for dropdown menus