[buddypress-dev] Data Portability and Microformats

[chris at stillbreathing.co.uk]

Themes are a complex area in BuddyPress. For one thing the layout for
site-wide lists of groups might need to be different than a users
groups. Therefore there is a difference between site and user themes.

Checking if themes are BuddyPress compliant can be handled on two
levels. Firstly we could require a special line in their style.css to
indicate whether it is a site or user theme.

The system could then check for the presence of required files (such
as groups.php).

Some more thinking needed on this. Plus I'm posting from a phone!

Chris

On 4/5/08, Andy Peatling <andypeatling at automattic.com> wrote:
> On 5-Apr-08, at 3:40 AM, Jed Barish wrote:
> > Great! Did anyone notice that when u install trunk9 files then it
> > disabled Presentation option under admin or user?
> >
> > Jed
> >
>
> When I first started developing BuddyPress I approached it like a
> Facebook-style mentality. All users would have the same theme and
> wouldn't be able to change this. My thoughts and opinions on this are
> changing now, having talked more to the community, and seen the
> potential to make something different from the norm.
>
> The presentation tab will return, but we need to have more than one
> possible theme before this can happen. If a user switches to a theme
> that is not set up for BuddyPress then things are going to break.
>
> Site wide administrators should still see the presentation tab.
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Wiley <david.wiley at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 11:03 PM
> > To: buddypress-dev at lists.automattic.com
> > Subject: Re: [buddypress-dev] Data Portability and Microformats
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Chris Taylor - stillbreathing.co.uk
> > <chris at stillbreathing.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> David: thanks for that, excellent stuff. I've added a quick comment.
> >>
> >
> > Chris, thanks for the compliment. Appreciated the comment on the post.
> >
> > I think the thing Justin and I are interested in doing is implementing
> > a "distributed BuddyPress" where folks don't have to belong to the
> > same WPMU install in order to be friends, message each other, etc. Of
> > course, our first priority is to help BuddyPress as currently
> > conceptualized succeed. And immediately after that we would like to
> > try to more fully distribute so that folks can add friends across WPMU
> > installs, etc. So I think we're sort of in sync on that...
> >
> > D
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