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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=paul@byotos.com
href="mailto:paul@byotos.com">Paul Gibbs</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 10, 2012 3:06 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [theme-reviewers] BuddyPress
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: helvetica; FONT-SIZE: 13px">Do you mean in the "tags"
part of the style.css header?<BR></DIV>
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<P style="COLOR: #a0a0a8">On Friday, 10 August 2012 at 22:32, Philip M. Hofer
(Frumph) wrote:</P>
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<DIV>You already have a buddypress tag, why not check if the tag exists and
use that instead of creating yet another entity ?</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=paul@byotos.com
href="mailto:paul@byotos.com">Paul Gibbs</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, August 10, 2012 2:29 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [theme-reviewers] BuddyPress
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<DIV>Let me explain a bit more, I think your advice would be appreciated.
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<DIV>Right now, BP's default theme does add_theme_support('buddypress'), but
we don't use it for anything. At a point in the future -- most probably 1.7,
our next major release -- we'll be implementing called a "theme compatibility
layer". If anyone knows how the templating in bbPress 2 works, it'll be almost
identical. For those who don't, in a nutshell, BP will ship with a very
lightweight very minimal set of templates. This is NOT a real theme. With some
voodoo magic, those template parts will allow BP to work on any WordPress
theme out of the box (just like bbPress).</DIV>
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<DIV>This is a pretty drastic change, so we will need to maintain backwards
compatibility with existing themes. There are nuances and edge-cases about how
we think we will do this, but excluding those for the sake of brevity, the
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<LI>If the theme or its parent does current_theme_supports('buddypress'), BP
will assume the theme has ALL of the templates -- and so won't load the
theme compatibility. <I>The theme is saying to BP, "don't worry, I've got
this covered".</I>
<LI>Otherwise, if certain BP-specific template files exist in the theme, we
will not load the theme compatibility. (for old/existing BP themes that
don't do add_theme_support).
<LI>Otherwise, the theme compatibility layer will be loaded.</LI></UL></DIV>
<DIV>Checking current_theme_supports is a nicer approach rather than checking
for the presences of template files in a theme, even if we cache the result of
the file_exists() call. This is my motivation for reaching out and seeing if
this could be added as a recommendation for BP theme reviews.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>-- <BR>Paul Gibbs
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<P style="COLOR: #a0a0a8">On Monday, 6 August 2012 at 16:57, George
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<DIV>I think BuddyPress theme changes are going to be implemented in 1.7,
here's more infor from Paul - <A
href="http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/group-templates-in-buddypress-1-7/">http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/group-templates-in-buddypress-1-7/</A><BR><BR>
<DIV>On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Chip Bennett <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
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<DIV>Absolutely.
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<DIV>When do you anticipate this change? Is this something that can be
added to the WordPress 3.5-related guidelines revisions, or will we need
to implement sooner than that?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm one of the core developers on the BuddyPress plugin. Some
changes we have planned in the pipeline for BuddyPress will affect the
way BuddyPress interacts with themes. To help this, it would be ideal if
all BuddyPress themes on <A
href="http://WordPress.org">WordPress.org</A> had to have
add_theme_support( 'buddypress' ) in its functions.php. Please could
this be added as a theme review mandatory requirement for BuddyPress
themes? </DIV><SPAN><FONT color=#888888>
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<DIV>-- <BR>Paul Gibbs
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