BuddyPress Test Drive

@mercime … thanks for the nice words on Hello Eco Living… that theme went through 2 incarnations: first the old old style for 1.0.x, and then completely reworked for the bp-sn-parent approach (we couldn’t get the ‘simple’ upgrade to work). I’m looking forward to working with 1.2 over the next week or two. Is the wp [...]

@christopherclayton – thanks for the input. This post wasn’t really intended to be how to theme BP (we’ve re-themed a few BuddyPress e.g. Hello Eco Living ), more a discussion on what direction that re-theming should take, i.e. end user site usability. e.g. What should be on the menus? What’s the experience the site user wants, and how [...]

@andy I put the post up as a quick test of 1.2; had I known it’d go all the way to the top, I’d have spent longer on it! Thanks for the feedback. We’ve got one client site out there (on 1.1.3) that is essentially a ‘nice re-skinning’ with a few functional changes and magazine content. [...]

Yes, you can. The challenge is doing it well… How do you address those needs, how do you best focus user attention where you need it? There are a lot of bp sites out there that just use the standard theme with very minimal re-skinning. So, from that point of view it is a reasonable [...]