[buddypress-dev] Buddypress themes

Andy Peatling andypeatling at automattic.com
Wed Apr 2 17:36:41 GMT 2008


>> Seagyn is absolutely right, normal MU themes will work as long as you
>> can add the extra bits needed to handle new Buddypress features such
>> as groups etc. There will be a complete theme provided with  
>> BuddyPress
>> that theme developers can work from.
On 2-Apr-08, at 5:55 AM, Andrea wrote:

> Read over the index.php and note all the profile goodies there, then  
> have a look at blog.php and see the loop. Then check out  
> sidebar.php. It shows how to add the profile picture and how it is  
> outside the widget loop.

We'll be creating new template tags that will render the BuddyPress  
functionality, similar to the template tags you use in WordPress themes.

Right now the default theme is for testing features so the tags are  
basically php code. These will be replaced with more friendly template  
tags.

Andy


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