Buddymatic Theme Framework
(Original publish date: Nov 23, 2009)
The definitive WordPress theme for 2010. Buddymatic is a highly extensible Theme Framework for WordPress & WordPress MU blogs including BuddyPress enabled home and member blogs.
This framework features 13 widget-ready areas, drop-down menus, grid-based layout samples, plugin integration, shortcodes for your footer, & a whole lot more. BuddyPress functionality is integrated into the framework and activated when BuddyPress is detected. Perfect for any blog or WordPress MU site, Buddymatic is based on Thematic by Ian Stewart and works with Thematic child themes. Buddymatic includes 2 BuddyPress ready child themes: Coffee with Friends by Daisy Olsen and a Buddymatic Sample Child Theme ready for customization.
Update Dec 7, 2009
- Fixed missing jQuery scripts on a couple sections
- Added user bar & option bar on all profile pages
- A few CSS tweaks on content I missed earlier
- Added external forum link if enabled
Good work, very close to what I was looking for, just having problems getting the integrated bbpress in buddypress to show up. Any advice?
Excelente themes ! Felicitaciones.
Nosotros estamos usándolo en:
http://dev.b2.cl/culturizarte
Saludos cordiales
Ya estamos en http://www.culturizarte.com !
You have a Guide To Customizing The Buddymatic Theme Framework?
Best Regards
Brian – Are you referring to the Forum link that is on BuddyPress.org. That link goes to a bbpress install that is separate from BP.
Fantastic. It would be great if you can have a walk through or a screen share footage on how this can be used…
On this site we will be featuring free themes that are available. We are planning a companion site where we might be able to do that. Can you be more specific as to what you are looking for?
Also, we will be featuring child themes for Buddymatic as we have time to create and/or tweak them.
look like thesis to me..
thanks for sharing
Thank you very much for your work over the past week or two. I’m testing out the new version as I type and it is looking good.
Hi Ron & Andrea,
Thanks for this theme. My problem is that, i am not a programmer, and I have no clue how to configure the theme background, and all the details (except the widgets area), so can you make an option page for the theme? or a FAQ how to configure it? (I am using WPMU and introducing myself to buddypress)
I think an easy options layout would be great!
thanks for all the info!
There are a lot of plugins for WordPress that allow you to add these options to any theme, like theme tweaker.
Or this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fitr-theme-options/
Thanks for creating this theme. The URL I provided is my first foray into WordPress/WPMU/BuddyPress development, and your theme framework was more helpful to me in customizing BuddyPress than I can express with words.
I do have one question – in the members and groups listing templates, are the alphabetical buttons in the index at the top just a stub, or are they supposed to work somehow with jQuery?
Thanks!
Tom
Can you tell me what file to edit to remove the forum link ? It shows up when the forum is integrated (via buddypress) and not external and creates 404 error. The newer version of bbpress with buddypress appears to only be useable via “groups” pages.
I am enjoying your theme quite a bit, it says any child theme of thematic are there any links to child themes of thematic, secondly I am hacking away at the css code and getting to a happy place, but i cannot seem to get a banner image in the header, it has a branding div i can see but I cannot get an image to show? I do have a background imageencompasing the entire screen but i thought it should sit ontop of the background, anyways if anyone has gotten an image banner working maybe you could enlighten me thank you in advance for your help
Gooch
Try looking at the Early Morning child theme (http://freebpthemes.com/themes/early-morning/). It adds images to the header area. Otherwise, look at the CSS of any WP theme that has a header image.
Hi. Great theme.
How can I put the NavBar on the left?
Thanks for the help!
In style.css change
@import url(’library/layouts/2c-r-fixed.css’);
to
@import url(’library/layouts/2c-l-fixed.css’);
Awesome theme!
We’re gonna build on this
Cheers,
zipyourmix.com
Ron,
fabulous work — thanks! — but if would be nice to have a snapshot of where the various widget areas are. (like in Joomla — too bad wordpress doesn’t have that). Any thoughts on how to get that (other than filling text widgets into all the available areas)?
thanks
Hello Ron,
Your template has rocked my world. I am a student, so I can’t afford premium template. Thankfully I’ve found this.
If I may ask you some questions.
1. I am dying to put:
img {
padding:2px;
border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
}
I tried everywhere on Stylesheet (style.css) but nothing has changed on the image.
2. Why should I do to move date and time position to the left side of the post?
Thank you and thank you so much again.
If you wanted that CSS to apply to images in the post entries, then you would change the CSS in /library/style/images.css. This is what’s there now (line #7):
.entry-content img {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
margin:0 0 18px;
padding:5px;
}
Hello,
first of all thanks for the fantastic buddymatic-theme, i like it very much.
I have a question about implementing the new post-thumb funktion in wp2.9.
Especially about the php-hirarchy of buddymatic-theme. It seems to be different from other themes?
I cant find the loop for the categories, where i have to place the get-thumbnails code.
Can you tell me in which php.-file an at which place i have to place the code ?
thanks a lot for help
thomas
I’ll be looking at updating buddymatic to WP 2.9 in the next couple weeks.
Thanks for the theme contribution. I am just starting to play with WPMU & BP … and ran across a bug. This affected my install of WPMU into a subdirectory of my document_root. Clicking on the ‘Log In’ button produces a 404.
library/extensions/buddypress_extensions.php
Line: 39
The PHP code should be changed from :
root_domain . ‘/wp-login.php’ ?>
to
- Jeff
Oops. Of course my PHP tags scewed up that post.
The fix is in library/extensions/buddypress_extensions.php
Line: 39
The PHP code should be changed from :
$bp->root_domain
to
bp_root_domain()
- Jeff
Thank you!
Ran into this problem, started investigating a bit but I’m not enough of a coder to be able to troubleshoot this. This change worked for me.
What version of BP & MU are you using?
Hi Ron,
I am using WPMU 2.8.6 & BP 1.1.3
Is your install in a subdirectory of the site?
Yes, it is in a subdirectory. I’m fixed and running. Just wanted to point out the change that I needed to make.
great theme, very helpful for those who don’t like to spend hours stripping out other themes’ HTML and CSS to replace it with their own.
I ran into a small problem you can hopefully help me with: I added WP-Cycle plugin to display an animated set of images just under the drop-down menu.
Now unfortunately the cycle hides the drop-downs. Where would I go to fix this or should I look for another cycle plugin?
You should look at the z-index of the conflicting elements. A smaller number makes the element show in front.
thanks, Ron, I now have it working…
you’re right about the z-index although finding the places to fix was a little tricky…might as well post this for everyone’s benefit:
The wp-cycle plugin writes its own style element into your page where the image rotation is going to go, and because it didn’t have its own z-index value it was basically overriding my z-index values for the drop-down menu, which I defined in the CSS files earlier in the document.
To fix, hit it from both sides: add a z-index value of 1 for the wp-cycle style (which I had to write in the plugin file itself, it’s the last section of code on the plugin PHP file) and a z-index of 10000 for the menu style.
happy new year!
Hello,
This is a great theme! Thank you and congratulations
I get this error message on the homepage : Warning: constant() [function.constant]: Couldn’t find constant BP_GROUPS_SLUG in /homez.307/platinah/www/wp-content/themes/buddymatic/library/extensions/buddypress-extensions.php on line 109
Would you know the reason? Thank you again
Kind regards,
SPFK
I can’t seem to get my installation of Buddymatic to show comments on static pages. Am I missing something? I have comments on static pages set to show in all the right places from the admin area. Help? Comments? Advice?
on the pages you want comments add a
commentscustom field to the page. Give the custom field a value oftrue.Is there any reason to do it this way? Or can we change a line in the static pages template to use the Allow Comments checkbox?
Have a look at the comments area on single.php. Find the same area on page.php.
Hey Andrea I see your avatar everywhere I go to read up in info! This theme is awesome. However, I had to ask just so I’m prepared, will you be upgrading this to fit 1.2?? THANKS!!! keeup up the good work.
Yes, I will be updating it to BP 1.2.
Hi Ron
First of all I wan’t to say that Buddymatic is simply beautiful. I was looking trough nearly all templates for Wordpress and this is the ONE.
Maybe my question is a laugh but i’m a absolute newbie on wordpress. I would like to put a image in the header above the menu. Which one of the many files included do I have to put the URL to the image in?
Thanks and keep on with your great work.
okay, i found a way! thanks anyway.
can you tell me how you did it please?
link header to homepage and add home tab HELP!
First of all congratulations for this great theme, it’s gorgeous!
I am not a coder but know html, I can work out certain things but cannot find a way to make my header background graphic link to homepage
(I managed to make it clickable using WordPress documentation, but ony linked to an error page)
and
cannot make a home tab without creating a separate page.
I found some clues of how to do this but the sample code doesn’t look anything like my template (buddymatic http://freebpthemes.com/themes/buddymatic/)
for now I just did the title header clickable but that’s not great
this is me http://www.speedofreaction.com/wordpress/
please help!
thanks a lot
yolanda
If you want to make an entire image clickable add the
imgtag inside thea.Hi,
Thank you for creating the buddymatic theme. I am trying to find out if it is possible to increase the width of different parts of the page and I have not been successful.
Is it possible to increase the width of the page and the widht of the text widget???
Thank you,
Christie
Yes, you can do that. I suggest you look at using FireFox and an extension called Firebug. It will only take you a few minutes to find the places you need to tweak the CSS.
Hi there
Great theme, its the first WP theme i have used and i think its great!
I want to add out logo at the top of the website, was hoping to drop it in a widget and find the right box for it but no look yet, if anyone has an idea please give me a shout
http://www.thebrightoncollective.co.uk/blog
thanks
If I were going to do that I would use CSS. Use a search engine to look for tutorials on setting an element’s background to an image.