[buddypress-dev] BuddyPress theme development

[Ponara]

very much appreciated -
you may want to look at http://kineda.com to see the full power of wp as
social cms (including integration with bbpress)


On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Chris Taylor - stillbreathing.co.uk <
mrwiblog at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've coded the beginnings of a new theme for BuddyPress:
> http://buddypress.stillbreathing.co.uk/wp-content/themes/dark/profile.html
> .
> Obviously there's quite a bit to do with blogs, groups etc, but I'm
> quite pleased so far.
>
> However I think quite a lot could be done to make the theme code
> better, so the use of HTML and CSS is easier and more intuitive - and
> so it lends itself to increasing levels of complexity. I've had to
> change a couple of bits in the HTML of the profile page as I didn't
> want to spend hours hacking CSS! So it was obvious to me that the end
> HTML could be more flexible.
>
> I'd be happy to spend a bit of time with the theme making sure that
> the class names and IDs are put together in such a way to make style
> writing a bit easier. I'll almost certainly base the revised theme on
> the Blueprint CSS framework (http://www.blueprintcss.org/) as it gives
> lots of flexibility with layout. I guess that many users of BP won't
> want to write a full theme, just amend the CSS for the default one (as
> the theme is a lot more complex than a standard WP one). I'd also
> build in a load of microformat goodness, in the same way that Sandbox
> (http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/) have.
>
> The idea is that if the default theme has all the flexibility and
> power built in that people could want, they'll be much more likely to
> feel able to try out BuddyPress. Lowering the barrier of entry is a
> Good Thing.
>
> So, any thoughts?
>
> Chris
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