bp-custom.php is often compared to your theme’s functions.php file.
However, there are two primary differences between bp-custom.php and your theme’s functions.php.
independent from your theme
If you are packaging a BuddyPress theme, then you might want to consider using your theme’s functions.php instead. However, for the most part, you should use bp-custom.php
The latest BuddyPress 1.5 default theme now includes the standard WordPress menus that you can easily set with drag-and-drop capabilities. You also have quite a bit more control over where your BuddyPress components are now displayed. Here are the basic steps to setting up your main site navigation after BuddyPress is installed. (*Please note that this only applies to BP 1.5+)
The intuitively designed, lightweight, finely coded and error-free Deeds premium WordPress theme is aimed at building a powerful and progressing website on multiple niches, such as Church, Charity, Religious Propagation, and Non-profit Organization. It is cleaner, quicker and easier to customize, and is perfect for the newbies. Three uniquely built Homepage Layouts, two innovative Header Styles, and a number of built-in pages of varied utility are bound to be of special appeal for the professional web designer.
"One of main reasons that BuddyPress communities fail is because members don't connect and interact with each other. One way to improve that is through design that keeps members interested."
"Do you want to change various labels and messages in BuddyPress, but don't want to hack the core files to do so? This page explains how to use a language translation file to customize BuddyPress labels, messages, and URL slugs.
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This post is all about making unifiead search work with BuddyPress 1.5+. It is a long post, so please have a cup of coffee and let us get started.
List of things we will cover below:-
Installing Global Unified search Plugin
Basic setup for the theme
Showing search results for:-
Members search
Groups search
Activity search
Blog Posts search
Blog search
Group Forum search(BBPress 1.0 which you use for group forums)
BBPress 2.0 based forums topic search
There are 12 shortcodes available in order
to display a specific member, a group, a list of members, the friends of the displayed or loggedin user, the groups of the displayed or loggedin user,
the messages and the notifications of a loggedin user, blogs of the network, posts from the blogs of the network.