BuddyPress Child Themes

BuddyPress Child Themes

Ron Rennick

WordPress Contributing Developer

@wpmuguru

WordCamp Chicago 2010

June 5-6th

A brief history

WordPress 1.5

A brief history

WordPress 1.5 Copy existing theme, edit CSS & tweak PHP/HTML

WordPress 2.0

A brief history

WordPress 1.5 Copy existing theme, edit CSS & tweak PHP/HTML

WordPress 2.0 Theme Function files

WordPress 2.7

???? In WordPress 3.0

WordPress Pages

/about-us/ (a page)

Page template

page-36.php

page-about-us.php

page.php

index.php

Taxonomy Templates

/subject/history/

taxonomy-subject-history.php

taxonomy.php

taxonomy-subject.php

index.php

A brief history

WordPress 1.5 Copy existing theme, edit CSS & tweak PHP/HTML

WordPress 2.0 Theme Function files

WordPress 2.7

???? Template handling In WordPress 3.0

A brief history

WordPress 1.5 Copy existing theme, edit CSS & tweak PHP/HTML

WordPress 2.0 Theme Function files

WordPress 2.7

Child themes In WordPress 3.0

Template handling

/about-us/ (a page)

Page template

page-36.php

page-about-us.php

page.php

index.php

Page template

page-36.php

page-about-us.php

page.php

index.php

Child Parent

Taxonomy Templates

/subject/history/

taxonomy-subject-history.php

taxonomy.php

taxonomy-subject.php

index.php

taxonomy-subject-history.php

taxonomy.php

taxonomy-subject.php

index.php

Main BuddyPress Templates I

Activity stream – activity/index.php

Member directory – members/index.php

Group directory – groups/index.php

Forum directory – forums/index.php

Blog directory - blogs/index.php

Main BuddyPress Templates II

Create group – groups/create.php

Group profile – groups/single/home.php

Member profile – members/single/home.php

Group forum – groups/single/home.php

Registration – register/registration.php

Activation – register/activation.php

Ron Rennick

@wpmuguru

WordPress.org: wpmuguru

http://wpmututorials.com

http://ronandandrea.com