BuddyPress Default Blog Theme Issue Solved
May 3, 2009 in General Information by Photo Mark
When a user of BuddyPress created a blog it used the WordPress MU default theme and no BuddyPress user them came with the plug-in. This was no good as the user was left with a stand alone blog not integrated with BuddyPress and no link back. I did some searching and found this solution by Andrea_r:
At at the BuddyPress .org site here.
Make a copy of the home theme and move it somewhere.
rename the folder to something obvious, like bp-blog-theme.
Edit style.css and change the theme name to be Blogs instead of Home.
Delete home.php.
move the new theme back into wp-content/themes/. Activate it under Site Admin -> Themes. Go to a member blog (you have a test blog, right?), under Appearance and activate the new BLOG theme.
Give it a whirl and let me know how you make out. There’s other regular WPMU plugins to enable the theme by default on a new blog. My fave: http://wpmudev.org/project/wpmu-blog-defaults. That way the blog creation part is seamless and looks well-integrated.
I found a way better WordPress default plug-in here it is a neat plug-in that gives a lot of default settings.
The Blog, Home, Members, Groups and Blogs links did not work as it is a modified home theme page. You have to hard code the links in the header.php file.
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