Buddypress and a wordpress child theme?

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Ok I’m lost I’ve read lot’s of threads concerning how to to apply a buddypress child theme and now I’ve just read: http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/the-future-of-the-bp-default-theme/ which seems to say that buddypress no longer supports child themes…. I’m really lost how do i go about apply changes to buddypress’s default pages in a manner that will hold up for future updates and not screw with my parent theme… I currently have /wp-content/themes/child-theme/buddypress/COPY FROM buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/ in my child theme but it fails to recognize the theme files unless i move them up to the child theme folder… and when i do it then rips out the css and js for the buddypress pages…. How do i go about setting up buddypress’s theme files in my child theme. Kind reagrds Chris. P.S I’ve also read :

http://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/

http://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

which just confused me further… Do i copy over the bp-legacy folder if i do won’t this be discontinued…

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BuddyPress now utilises a template hierarchy in the same way as WordPress does.

If you do nothing to a standard WordPress theme, BuddyPress will use the page.php template to display BuddyPress content. However, you can style BuddyPress differently to page.php and that's where the template hierarchy comes in.

To introduce your own custom BuddyPress templates, start by creating a new folder called 'buddypress' inside your WordPress theme. So your folder structure will look like this: /wp-content/themes/your-theme/buddypress/. All BuddyPress templates that you create from now on are contained within the /buddypress/ folder.

EXAMPLE: Use a custom template to display the example.com/members/username/activity/mentions/ page.

If at any point you need more info, you can refer to the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy article for an in-depth explanation.

Step 1: Create the folders:

/buddypress/members/single/

Step 2: Create the file:

/buddypress/members/single/index-action-{action}.php

Note: In this example, {action} will be mentions. If you were creating a template to style the favorites page then {action} will be favorites.

So you should have:

/buddypress/members/single/index-action-mentions.php

That's all there is to it. Whatever you put in your index-action-mentions.php file will display on the example.com/members/username/activity/mentions/ page.