[Jay]

If i’m using a child theme of BP Default, and i activated it, should I still be receiving the following message?

“BuddyPress is ready. You’ll need to activate a BuddyPress compatible theme to take advantage of all of the features. We’ve bundled a default theme, but you can always install some other compatible themes or upgrade your existing WordPress theme.”

[Steve]

Make sure you have BOTH in the child theme’s style.css file:
Template: bp-default
Tags: BuddyPress

“Template” is obviously for the child theme. The “BuddyPress” Tag will get rid of the notice.

[Jay]

thanks steve.. adding the tag “buddypress” in lowercase seems to have done the trick.

[Joly MacFie]

BTW @Jake, just out of interest, are you using 1.2.9 or 1.5?

[Jay]

1.2.9, why?

[Joly MacFie]

Just wondered, cos I’m just about to attempt the same thing, but on 1.5. 1.5 does have the 3.0 style menu flexibility – and, as Boone suggests in the Aug meetup video (See WPNYC TV). if one is developing it might be a better idea to develop for that..

[Jay]

how do we get 1.5? the buddypress.org site only offer 1.2.9.

[Steve]

BP 1.5 beta 3: http://buddypress.org/2011/08/buddypress-1-5-beta-3/

[Joly MacFie]

See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags?order=name – seems like beta3 is the latest. As Boone says, there’s a lot of work gone into it so it’s pretty stable. I recommend watching the video.

[Jay]

thanks guys. so i have 1.5 installed now.

but the weird thing is, in order to get my child theme styles to be applied, i have to use !important after every single element. very annoying. how come they styles won’t just normally override the parent theme styles like they did when i was running 1.2.9?

[Steve]

BP 1.5 uses wp_enqueue_style to load the CSS files, not style.css. Check the page source and the load order of your CSS files. Your child theme style.css may be loading BEFORE the BP Parent theme.

If that happens, I suggest using wp_enqueue_style in your functions.php file to load your child theme css file AFTER BP’s style.

[Jay]

how do i use wp_enqueue_style in my functions.php file?

thanks for bearing with me here. the functions.php file and php in general is definitely NOT my strong suit.

[Steve]

From WP Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_style

Also, look at the BP 1.5 default theme:
buddypressbp-themesbp-defaultfunctions.php

Copy the function at line 168, bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles(), paste it into your child functions.php file, and make the necessary modifications.

[Jay]

so if I understand correctly, this code (http://pastebin.com/z5bJb6uy) is what should be in the functions.php file that I place in my child theme?

I get an error when i do that “…./html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-child/functions.php on line 35”

also, should the style sheet that’s sitting in my bp-child/ folder still be called style.css or something else? and do i still need this info at the top of the style file or something else?
Template: bp-default
Tags: buddypress
@import url(‘../bp-default/style.css’);

[Steve]

-copy style.css and place it in a subfolder (/styles/my-style.css)
-Leave all the header info in the original style.css, and remove all the actual css.
-Place this in functions.php: http://pastebin.com/UnXuBGsa

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