[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress] #4869: BP Theme Compat & BuddyPress Widgets styles

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#4869: BP Theme Compat & BuddyPress Widgets styles
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 Reporter:  imath        |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  1.7
Component:  Theme        |     Version:  1.7
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch    |
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Comment (by r-a-y):

 >  I worry about running this kind of locate_template() call on every
 single page load (which is what will happen in cases where theme compat
 actually ends up running).

 Yeah, I understand that it's an unnecessary check, but the performance
 should be miniscule as `is_file()` / `file_exists()` calls are cached in
 the stat cache.

 We could add this temporarily and look to remove the `locate_template()`
 check in 1.8 when hopefully all theme devs are aware of
 `add_theme_support( 'buddypress' )`.

 If you think that's inefficient, check out `BP_Component::includes()` and
 BP's own `bp_locate_template()`, which both use a ton of `is_file()` and
 `file_exists()` checks when a file doesn't exist! :)

 > styles need to be loaded where the members/groups widgets are loaded -
 which is possible on non-root blogs.

 We could add a separate method - `enqueue_sitewide_styles()` - above the
 multiblog check and add a sitewide stylesheet that would include the
 widget styles?  Or BP core could handle this much like it does the widget
 JS.

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Ticket URL: <https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4869#comment:6>
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