Themes: All themes now BuddyPress friendly
What is the use of having all this spiffy new BuddyPress functionality if your theme doesn’t display the admin bar? Or won’t properly display the content from the BuddyPress widgets, like the list of recently updated blogs?
Answer: Not much use at all.
So, I spent four hours pouring over all the themes, eliminating the ones that didn’t work with BuddyPress. And frankly, some of these themes were so ugly, I had to question why I ever added them in the first place.
As a result, I am now displaying only themes that:
1. Display the admin bar.
2. Display the recent site-wide blog update.
3. Displays them both without breaking the theme.
Of course, I discovered that some themes that did not work are currently in use. I didn’t delete them, but I did make them unavailable for anyone else to use. I’ll the bloggers themselves decide whether to change.
These themes include Vistered Little, Kinky, FastTrack and Librio. Others’ like the popular NoteBook Chaos broke completely and had to be put out of their misery.
I’ve set up this site’s Test Blog with a theme switcher to let users see that these themes look like like in use. Unfortunately, the switcher will continue to let users test out themese that aren’t really available for permanent theme selection, like the ones mentioned above, plus a handfull of specially hacked up sites, like Justice Blog of America, Heinleinblog, Riceblogger, [Not] So Serious and NTPL. Just be aware of this and don’t be surprised if you can’t permanently switch to a particular theme that you tested. And if you get locked up using the Theme Switcher and change the theme any more, click here.
And here’s a big plus for Blog Peoria members: If ANY member finds a theme they are lusting over, contact me and I’ll try to add it to the line-up. But be warned: I’ll check it out for WordPress and BuddyPress compatibility before I’ll make it available. Here’s the place to look.
