So, I’ve been checking Thesis 2.1.2, bbPress and BuddyPress. It looks to me like it’s all working; no boxes needed.
The important things for forums is that you must have the content displaying on the right archive pages; see my latest tutorial. For BuddyPress you should show have the Post Title displaying because it may show important links (such as Create a Group). I believe all the BuddyPress pages use the Page template… you could create a BuddyPress custom page template, but as far as I can tell so far you would only be able to apply it to some of the pages because the rest are dynamically generated.
Kristerella; I have had several issues with buddypress and thesis 2. My website is http://www.maddleadership.com whenever you visit any buddypress pages, (for example http://www.maddleadership.com/members/ ) it looks like it tries to load a buddypress theme and in return makes my site look unpolished. How do I make buddypress draw from my thesis theme? Thanks in advance! –Wil
Hi Wil,
Make sure you have all the most up to date versions of Thesis & BuddyPress and then follow the instructions; it should work fine.
NB you have some coding errors in your site. When I look at the HTML I see this near the top:
That is not right!
Kristarella,
I checked your lead and tried to delete every mislead I could find. Between that and all the update from Thesis it seems everything was smoothed out. I look forward to some more of your work!
Wil
Hi Kristarella, I’m trying to have a different custom template for the group pages than the rest of the buddypress pages. I tried making a “buddypress” named template in the thesis editor, but it doesn’t work on changing the templates on any of the buddypress pages. Seems like all the buddypress pages are glued to the “page.php” template for some reason?
What’s the best/simplest way to do this?
Hey Brandon, I haven’t used Thesis for a long time, so I don’t know off the top of my head if there’s a solution. What you’re saying tracks with what I said in the post: I think group pages would be dynamically generated, so they’d use the Page template.
Can you assign certain parent pages to govern a page type (such as groups) in BuddyPress? I can’t remember and don’t have a BP install to test right now. If you can then the solution would be to create a page with a custom template and assign it to group pages.
Failing that you might need to use custom hooks on your Page template and add/remove items as needed via PHP.
Thank you so much for the reply Kristarella! Unfortunately your 1st suggestion didn’t work (but thank for responding). Looks like you have to dig into the php to get it to work.
Thanks again! 🙂