Social

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Complete BuddyPress Social Theme Options

BuddyPress Social Drop Down Navigation Menu

BuddyPress Social Home Page (not logged in)

BuddyPress Social takes inspiration from the king of social networks, Facebook.

The theme not only looks good but has a huge list of features all easy configured using the theme options.

Even more importantly for any community BuddyPress Social offers a different home page depending on if you are logged in or not and has privacy options.

BuddyPress Social

3 page templates
Custom admin bar colours
Customisable welcome message
Choose your home page layout (3 column or 2 column)
Choose your blog page layout (3 column or 2 column)
Home and blog page templates
Home pages feature block
Home page featured block styles (gallery or article)
Custom image field support
Custom header ability
Advert code or image placement
Built in widgets: most commented and recent comments
Privacy options: Allow only logged in users to view members profiles
along with members directory and switch to stop normal users creating
groups or joining ones unless created by admin or editors
Create your own theme styles using the easy styling system
Parent and child themes allowing for easy updates
Theme options that mean no code editing to configure any feature on this theme

BuddyPress Social has a subtle but strong branding out of the box, but we know how important customising your theme is to suit your site so BuddyPress Social allows you to set your own colours both for the site and admin bar.

The home page in BuddyPress Social is the heart of your site. You can select the format along with various feature blocks, widgets and even a gallery. BuddyPress Social also comes with built in advert placement of an image or advert code so you can also make money from your community or advertise a service.

Unlike many other BuddyPress themes at WPMU DEV we make sure our themes give your site a total consistent look. We even theme the default BuddyPress pages.

BuddyPress Social activity

A WPMU DEV theme also ensures your blog posts look great with a range of text styles for your posts. Take a look at a sample blog post with the BuddyPress Social theme.

BuddyPress Social post

Check out the demo over at BuddyPress Themes in Action and you can also see more screenshots of BuddyPress Social here.

Not only do you get a great theme but at WPMU DEV you also get great support in our forums, documentation, videos and live chat. Twice a week you can even talk directly to our theme designers so you can talk about anything relating to any of our themes. WPMU DEV really is the place to go to get a great theme and feel safe in the knowledge no matter what you want to do with your site you’ve got the support to do it.

As with all the WPMU DEV themes BuddyPress Social is not only a BuddyPress theme it works with WordPress, Multisite
and BuddyPress. All WPMU DEV themes also have child and parent themes, we don’t make you use one core parent or have to buy a framework like other companies, we let you create your own child themes with everyone of our themes. A WPMU DEV theme really is the only complete solution you need to theme your site.

Discover our other BuddyPress themes:

Installing a theme from WPMU DEV

Download the theme file
Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
Upload the folder to /wp-content/themes/ folder on your site

If you’re using multi-site you’ll need to visit Network Admin -> Themes and Activate it there.

4.
Make sure your install path is correct for example:
/www/var/site/wp-content/themes/thethemename not
/www/var/site/wp-content/themes/themes/thethemename

5. You’ll see several files and folders depending on the theme
package. Most themes contain a folder for the parent and child theme
within the folder called themes.

6. Launch FileZilla or your FTP client – read more about using FTP and FTP clients here.

7. Enter your domain name, your username and password. NOTE: the
same username and password that you use to log into your cPanel.

8. Click Quickconnect

9. Upload both the parent theme folder and child theme folder to wp-content/themes/

For example, with BuddyPress Daily theme you need to upload bp-daily and bp-daily-child to wp-content/themes/ (bp-daily folder is the parent theme folder)
With Gallery you need to upload gallery and gallery-child
to wp-content/themes/ (gallery folder is the parent theme folder)
We provide child themes with themes to enable you to customize your own files without having those changes
overwritten when we update a theme.
To find out more about parent and
children themes please visit our guide to parent and child themes.

Uploading parent and child themes to your theme folder on your site

10. Dragging the theme folders from your computer into theme folder in
your WordPress directory uploads these new themes to your WordPress
install however they aren’t enabled on a WordPress Multisite install.

11. As Super Admin user on WordPress Multisite you have the choice to enable:

a) The theme network wide so that all users can use the theme
b) Enable access to the theme on a per site basis
c) Use Supporter plugin via supporter-themes.php to make it available as a premium theme for supporter sites only

Enabling The Theme network wide

Here’s how to enable Sleek Photo network wide so that all your users can use the theme:

1. On your Network Admin dashboard click on the Themes menu
2. Select Network Enable underneath the theme name to enable its access network wide.

To enable more than one theme at once:

Enabling themes on a per site basis

Any theme that has not been activated for the entire network can be activated on a site as follows:

1. Locate the site you want to enable specific themes on by searching for the specific site by clicking on Sites > All Sites

2. Once you have located the site click on Edit (hovering your mouse over the domain name brings up the action menu)

3. Click the Themes tab

Only themes that haven’t been enabled network wide appear on the site theme list

You can also enable more than one theme at the same time:

Using Supporter Plugin for Premium Themes

The supporter plugin allows you to select premium themes for supporter sites only.

The idea is you make the best and nicest themes available on
supporter sites so users will want to sign up to access the themes.

To install:

1. Install the Supporter plugin as per the installation instructions.
2. Upload supporter-themes.php to wp-content/mu-plugins

How it works is:

1. A Premium Themes page is added to Settings > Supporter in the Network Admin dashboard, where you can select the themes that you want to enable for Supporter sites only.

Only themes that haven’t been enabled network wide on Network Admin >Themes will be listed on this page

2. A Premium Themes sub-menu item is added to the dashboard of all
sites under both Supporter and Appearance – but only users using
supporter site can activate a Premium theme.

3. Whereas users on non-supporter sites can see all the Premium
themes but can’t activate them – instead they see a message saying
‘This feature is limited to supporters only’

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