Blogs MU

A stunning teams, groups and networking oriented theme. Control the site appearance and allow members to customize their profile pages too – works great with BuddyPress, WordPress and Multisite!

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blogsmu theme options
custom page template members login
profile page
home no widget for non logged in users
activity stream
homepage
Detail

The Blogs MU WordPress, Multisite
and BuddyPress theme is suitable for anyone wanting to build a social networking and groups oriented site.

The theme features a stack of extra new features such as allowing members to customize their own profile page by adding video, Flickr, profile headers, profile blog feeds and integrating their own social network feeds such as twitter, Facebook, MySpace among others.

The theme includes extensive options allowing site admin to control privacy on members profiles or directories and customize site details such as featured services and featured section and also featured text.

Here’s a complete list of the features of the Blogs MU theme:

  • 3 page templates – blog, full width and new page login template
  • CSS elements like fonts, button color, link color are editable via theme option
  • Custom admin bar colours
  • Customizable welcome intro message and sub intro message
  • Homepage intro feature block
  • Homepage team/group features…controllable via theme options (random or by site admin group id choice).
  • Homepage sub intro feature block
  • Homepage 3 section message feature block
  • Homepage 6 custom post block where you can choose to use custom upload crop with editable text or post mode which grabs your latest category post according to your featured category in theme option
  • Custom image field support
  • Custom header ability
  • Advert code or image placement
  • Built in widgets: most commented and BuddyPress search directory widget
  • 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 required to configure any feature on this theme
  • Profile option allows member to customize their own profile page
  • Profile social media option where member can set their network links
  • Profile video and Flickr options
  • New random group and friend suggestions in sidebar
  • New Facebook ‘like’ button for stream and blog post – can be turn off via theme option

Blogs MU ensures posting and streams are as clean as possible with lot of white space, here are some of pages screenshots:

Blog Posts

Activity Stream

Check out the demo over at BuddyPress Themes in Action and you can also see more screenshots of BlogsMU WPMU/BuddyPress 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:

Usage

Installing a theme from WPMU DEV

  1. Download the theme file
  2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
  3. 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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