Still no updates and improvements for BuddyPress?

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Just a polite reminder/question, how come there are still no improvements for the BuddyPress support of the theme?

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I don’t think the theme expressly is advertised as having any special/advanced support for BuddyPress … however, is believed to work with BuddyPress as you know from your prior posts on this topic. Remember that updates/upgrades are being done based on those most requested items, and this is a “newspaper” theme, and not expressly a theme designed for forums and social communities, which might be found in a theme specifically tailored for BuddyPress. Compatibility is more often the responsibility of BuddyPress devs and not the theme devs as noted on the BuddyPress site here:

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Themes

The concept of what makes a “BuddyPress Theme” can be a bit confusing. Since BuddyPress 1.7, your WordPress site is no longer required to have a theme that explicitly supports BuddyPress. Instead, BuddyPress comes with support for just about any modern and standard WordPress theme (especially the default ones.)

Back in 2010, bbPress popularized the concept of “Theme Compatibility.” This is a way of saying that even if your theme doesn’t directly support a specific feature, that feature will still function, look, and feel as it was originally intended to.

It’s a way to shift responsibility of code interoperability off of individual themes and onto feature developers to consider a wider audience.

Fun fact: WordPress has come with theme compatibility for comments for years — if your theme doesn’t directly support comments, WordPress fills in that gap and your visitors would never notice the difference. Neat, eh?

Savvy theme authors can still build beautiful and amazing WordPress themes that exclusively target BuddyPress and bbPress; theme compatibility just simplifies the process for them by giving them a set of conventions to work within.

We’ll be adding some screenshots of popular themes with BuddyPress integration soon. In the meantime check out some WordPress themes that include BuddyPress support in the WordPress theme repository.

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That likely didn’t help, but thought I’d share based on my own experience with BuddyPress and various WP themes the past couple of years.

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