=== Buddypress UX ===
Author: Charl Kruger

== Description ==

Description: Focused on enhancing the user experience - 3 column layout: multiple sidebars allowing for relative context to context, zebra activity styling, an enhanced logged-in widget and more.. The theme serves to be a base to work and learn from whilst offering an alternative to the buddypress default theme. Do not use the theme on a live site as it is a beta version

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== What’s been changed in the theme? ==

The theme has been customised for a better user experience there are a lot of small changes and I will try to list them all.

-added multiple sidebars: home/index, activities, members, groups, forums, blog.
-added a smaller header and content padder for the following pages; so users can focus on the task at hand, also removed the sidebars: registration page, create groups page.
-added zebra styled activity streams for better readability*
	note there is an issue with IE
-customised the logged-in widget, previously located in the buddypress default sidebar ( sidebar.php ). This was done to improve 'user navigation'.
-customised the activity form ( what's new *user* ).
-added a 'change avatar' link to a members profile, ( ../members/single/member-header.php ). This is only visable by the 'profile owner'.

== Themes intended purpose according to the author ==

This theme has been created to allow 'new comers' to Buddypress to have a bit more of a variety and a base to work from ( being a child theme of the buddypress default theme ) whilst maybe learning a thing or two - as the theme is well documented.
Along with the above, I have tried to create a theme where by the user experience is better enhances, alowing for better usability and readability.

== To do ==

-fix the issue with the zebra styled activity streams not showing in IE.
-fix a issue where by if the content area is 'shorter' than the sidebars ( being 'taller' from widgets ), the content boarder breaks.
-remove unnecessary 'pages' and clean up the css.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= What happened to the buddypress admin bar? =

The buddypress admin bar has been removed from the theme using the a custom function, you may remove the function but note that the admin bar does not scale with 'registration page' and 'create groups page'.
This has been achieved using a custom function in functions.php. Search for:

/*remove buddypress admin bar */

= Where’s the code for the modified log-in/log-out widget? =
You can find the 'widget' in the static sidebar ( static-sidebar.php ) from line 7 to line 72.

= What sidebar is used for 'pages'? =

The index sidebar ( index-sidebar.php ). So the widget that you use in the right hand side sidebar on your home page, these widget will display on new/existing 'pages' ( page.php ).

= Why are there so many sidebars? =

There is a sidebar relative to each 'element' of buddypress - example: members page and members single can now have content that is relative to the context.

= What happened to the default buddypress sidebar =

The default buddypress sidebar has been removed, using a custom function in functions.php. Search for:

/* Function to remove the Buddypress default sidebar
note for every side bar added or removed the 'sidebar count' will have to be adjusted
example: removing the blogs sidebar will result in 'sidebar-7' in the below function */

= There’s a widget in the forums sidebar 'I' didn’t add =

The forums sidebar ( forums-sidebar.php ) has an existing widget included. The 'Show forum tags on the forums directory' is what is used in the default buddypress sidebar ( sidebar.php ).
If you would like to remove it, remover the code from line 6 to 15 from forums-sidebar.php