Using our BuddyPress themes on a sub blog just got easier...
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Using our BuddyPress themes on a sub blog just got easier...
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Tammie
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28th September 2010 (1 year ago)
Thanks to Aaron we now have a great new function in our themes many of you have asked for before that means if you have BuddyPress but want to use our themes on sub blogs you won't have BuddyPress navigation or elements show. We've kept the BuddyPress top admin bar showing so you've got a consistent interaction throughout the sites but you will no longer have other components showing that used to as a result of having BuddyPress on the main blog. Hows that for a great addition to our themes? Currently the following themes are updated:
- Business
- Magazine
- Business Blog, Business Portfolio, Business Services, Business Feature
- Product
- Studio
- Daily
- Scholar
We'd encourage you to try them out for yourself and find out just how great this new addition to bp_exists works. One of the issues with the normal BuddyPress bp_exists was it only looked for if BuddyPress was on the server now with this modification it checks if it's a root blog or not - how good is that!
This only effects sub blogs on sites using BuddyPress but for those we hope it's a great improvement we know you've said you wanted.
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Theme Designer
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28th September 2010 (1 year ago)
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Thanks to Aaron we now have a great new function in our themes many of you have asked for before that means if you have BuddyPress but want to use our themes on sub blogs you won't have BuddyPress navigation or elements show. We've kept the BuddyPress top admin bar showing so you've got a consistent interaction throughout the sites but you will no longer have other components showing that used to as a result of having BuddyPress on the main blog. Hows that for a great addition to our themes? Currently the following themes are updated:
- Business
- Magazine
- Business Blog, Business Portfolio, Business Services, Business Feature
- Product
- Studio
- Daily
- Scholar
We'd encourage you to try them out for yourself and find out just how great this new addition to bp_exists works. One of the issues with the normal BuddyPress bp_exists was it only looked for if BuddyPress was on the server now with this modification it checks if it's a root blog or not - how good is that!
This only effects sub blogs on sites using BuddyPress but for those we hope it's a great improvement we know you've said you wanted.
@Aphrodite: I think you may want to try these themes before assuming they have the edit_theme issue - not all our themes do for many months now these ones all have not. Just do a simple search you'll see all have edit_theme_options just like it has been in those for many months now.
I see the list of themes in this post that are updated but no "updates" are showing as available on my site for the automatic update. Am I doing something wrong? ...as an alternative, can I just upload the updated version of the parent theme and overwrite the old version in my files while leaving the child theme alone?
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Sales & Support Lead
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3rd October 2010 (1 year ago)
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Hiya guys!
@Dale Hazlett
can I just upload the updated version of the parent theme and overwrite the old version in my files while leaving the child theme alone?
Yep. That's exactly what you want to do. The auto-update for themes is only available for themes in the WordPress repository. You'll want to download from here and just overwrite the parent theme folder on your install.
@ptsupport
bp magazine will be updated as soon as possible to allow for this as well. You may attempt to modify it yourself by checking out how it's done in the newer themes, but as there's some rather drastic differences for bp magazine specifically, it may be best to wait until we can get it updated. Thanks for your patience!
ok, no my updater does not have this update, and actually none of the items that I am paying for to be a member here update, and that is frustrating. esspecially considering , I am paying a monthly fee to ahve support, yet, seems like not much works the way it should. So, if I purchase something , and it doesnt work properly, and I am paying for support and updters, and the updater doesnt work, that is not OK.
I realize that the magazine theme has been updated. I also realize taht I should not have to come to this forum for 3 times a week to figure out how to make things work that are suppose to be bought and paid for.
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Sales & Support Lead
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3rd October 2010 (1 year ago)
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Hiya,
We don't have an "updater" for any of our plugins or themes here so I'm honestly not sure what you're looking for.
As I mentioned to Dale above:
The auto-update for themes is only available for themes in the WordPress repository. You'll want to download from here and just overwrite the parent theme folder on your install.
This holds true for all WPMU DEV themes and plugins and has always been this way.
We do have an issue with our Update Notifications plugin. This was never designed to actually update your plugins/themes for you, but it is meant to provide a notification when one becomes available. We've noted in several areas on the forum that we're working to get this fixed up and appreciate your patience as we do so.
It wasn't a priority before as we were more concerned with putting out top quality plugins. Rest assured, however, we're working on getting it up and running smoothly!
If you have other questions or issues about our themes/plugins please start a new thread as to the specific issue. We'll walk you through any of it as best we're able.
We appreciate your frustration but at the same time I don't think that it's that reasonable to get that upset about a simple aspect of the system - which we're working to improve.
Alongside the CAPS and alike I'm also not that keen on you using tags on your posts like 'f*cking' etc. We're equal opportunity service providers but that's just lame SEO and won't help anyone assist you.
If you're going to continue to misuse the forum services here in that way, or be abusive to staff here, then I will cancel your forum account - it's for the good of the community as a whole so please consider this a first and lst warning.
Hi... I just saw this, I'm committed to BP Social now, is it likely to be updated in a similar manner sometime? Just wondering as I would really like to have a blog theme that matches the home page theme (BP social). Thank you :)
@JohnR: As we said we will at a point in the future (hopefully soon) update Social but we currently have no time estimate for this so can't provide one.
Hi Tammie, no worries. I'm almost done with a Bp Social child theme for blogs, is it OK for me to post it somewhere in case others would be interested? (Or is that a no-no.) Thx :)
We'd rather you didn't as we're updating the code on all our themes and it will get confusing with different versions I reckon? Particularly in light of 1.2.6 / 1.2.7 BP changes.
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Sales & Support Lead
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6th November 2010 (1 year ago)
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Hiya John,
Awesome that you've got it working in your case and we're glad for that! Right now, we would prefer not to have it published as we'll be doing this ourselves and it might create some confusion for less-savvy users when they update and lose the functions you've built in.
We are talking about child themes and wpmu dev showcases though so perhaps we can feature something like this there in the future.
Anyway, thank you for the feedback and again, glad you were able to develop a solution. BP Social is a pretty great theme! :D
Responses (24)
Lifetime member! — 28th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya !
Great !!
Well stupid question ^^
Did you thought to change the "edite_themes" by the "edit_theme_options" though ?
Sales & Support Lead — 28th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya Aphrodite,
Was this an issue on any of the themes Tammie referred to above?
Lifetime member! — 28th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
well its an issue with all themes by anyone since WP 3.0 :)
just in case though ;)
Member — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Nice touch. Any chance on this being added to other wpmudev themes? The bp_community theme in particular, but this would be a nice touch for 'em all.
Sales & Support Lead — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya dubya,
That's the plan!
Member — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Sweet. Thanks for the reply.
Member — 1st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
I could kiss you right about now.
Lifetime Member — 2nd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
do you have an ETA on blogs mu?
thanks!
Theme Designer — 2nd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@jodyw1: Hehe cool glad it's helped you.
@gina: No sorry we do not.
@Aphrodite: I think you may want to try these themes before assuming they have the edit_theme issue - not all our themes do for many months now these ones all have not. Just do a simple search you'll see all have edit_theme_options just like it has been in those for many months now.
Member — 2nd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
I see the list of themes in this post that are updated but no "updates" are showing as available on my site for the automatic update. Am I doing something wrong? ...as an alternative, can I just upload the updated version of the parent theme and overwrite the old version in my files while leaving the child theme alone?
Member — 2nd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
i have no update in the updater either, how do we make this work? for bp magazine theme
Sales & Support Lead — 3rd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya guys!
@Dale Hazlett
Yep. That's exactly what you want to do. The auto-update for themes is only available for themes in the WordPress repository. You'll want to download from here and just overwrite the parent theme folder on your install.
@ptsupport
bp magazine will be updated as soon as possible to allow for this as well. You may attempt to modify it yourself by checking out how it's done in the newer themes, but as there's some rather drastic differences for bp magazine specifically, it may be best to wait until we can get it updated. Thanks for your patience!
Thanks!
Theme Designer — 3rd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@ptsupport: Magazine already has this update :) To repeat the list:
Member — 3rd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
ok, no my updater does not have this update, and actually none of the items that I am paying for to be a member here update, and that is frustrating. esspecially considering , I am paying a monthly fee to ahve support, yet, seems like not much works the way it should. So, if I purchase something , and it doesnt work properly, and I am paying for support and updters, and the updater doesnt work, that is not OK.
I realize that the magazine theme has been updated. I also realize taht I should not have to come to this forum for 3 times a week to figure out how to make things work that are suppose to be bought and paid for.
My question was WHY DOESNT THE UPDATER WORK.
Sales & Support Lead — 3rd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya,
We don't have an "updater" for any of our plugins or themes here so I'm honestly not sure what you're looking for.
As I mentioned to Dale above:
This holds true for all WPMU DEV themes and plugins and has always been this way.
We do have an issue with our Update Notifications plugin. This was never designed to actually update your plugins/themes for you, but it is meant to provide a notification when one becomes available. We've noted in several areas on the forum that we're working to get this fixed up and appreciate your patience as we do so.
It wasn't a priority before as we were more concerned with putting out top quality plugins. Rest assured, however, we're working on getting it up and running smoothly!
If you have other questions or issues about our themes/plugins please start a new thread as to the specific issue. We'll walk you through any of it as best we're able.
Thanks!
Founder & CEO — 3rd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hi ptsupport,
We appreciate your frustration but at the same time I don't think that it's that reasonable to get that upset about a simple aspect of the system - which we're working to improve.
Alongside the CAPS and alike I'm also not that keen on you using tags on your posts like 'f*cking' etc. We're equal opportunity service providers but that's just lame SEO and won't help anyone assist you.
If you're going to continue to misuse the forum services here in that way, or be abusive to staff here, then I will cancel your forum account - it's for the good of the community as a whole so please consider this a first and lst warning.
Cheers, James
Member — 31st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Simple question. How do we enable it?
Theme Designer — 31st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@jodyw1: On the themes listed you don't have to enable it - it's built in.
Member — 31st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hi... I just saw this, I'm committed to BP Social now, is it likely to be updated in a similar manner sometime? Just wondering as I would really like to have a blog theme that matches the home page theme (BP social). Thank you :)
Theme Designer — 31st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@JohnR: As we said we will at a point in the future (hopefully soon) update Social but we currently have no time estimate for this so can't provide one.
Member — 4th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hi Tammie, no worries. I'm almost done with a Bp Social child theme for blogs, is it OK for me to post it somewhere in case others would be interested? (Or is that a no-no.) Thx :)
Theme Designer — 5th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
We'd rather you didn't as we're updating the code on all our themes and it will get confusing with different versions I reckon? Particularly in light of 1.2.6 / 1.2.7 BP changes.
Member — 5th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
I don't understand. You're updating the code but there's no time estimate for when it will be updated - ?
:(
Anyway, I wrote a child theme. It works great. Social is a nice theme - thanks.
Sales & Support Lead — 6th November 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya John,
Awesome that you've got it working in your case and we're glad for that! Right now, we would prefer not to have it published as we'll be doing this ourselves and it might create some confusion for less-savvy users when they update and lose the functions you've built in.
We are talking about child themes and wpmu dev showcases though so perhaps we can feature something like this there in the future.
Anyway, thank you for the feedback and again, glad you were able to develop a solution. BP Social is a pretty great theme! :D
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