Free BuddyPress Themes

Ice BuddyPress Sports theme

milo — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:16:34 +0000

Sports style for a BuddyPress community with the Ice BuddyPress Theme.

Clean grid design, sliders, grey/yellow color scheme, options panel and fully compatible,
enhanced profile page, adserver etc.

TwentyTen for BuddyPress

andrea — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:30:44 +0000

WordPress 3.0 is out and with it a new default theme. If you’re running BuddyPress, you already know it needs a bit of love when you pick a standard theme. Sure, you can also add the BP Template pack plugin, but why reproduce the workload on the tweaks?

Here’s a zip of a BuddyPress child theme for TwentyTen. TwentyTen BP (1397)
I’ve filed a trac ticket to get it included with BP itself, so if we can get as many people testing it and providing feedback, that’d be great.

Note: Please make sure you are running WordPress 3.0 and you have BuddyPress enabled. Do NOT activate the BP template pack plugin as there will be function collisions and you’ll white screen.

EDIT: The theme has been updated and the menu bar is in the right spot. Please test again if you had issues.

Buddymatic Theme Framework

Ron — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:49:19 +0000

(Original publish date: Nov 23, 2009)

The definitive WordPress theme for 2010. Buddymatic is a highly extensible Theme Framework for WordPress & WordPress MU blogs including BuddyPress enabled home and member blogs.

This framework features 13 widget-ready areas, drop-down menus, grid-based layout samples, plugin integration, shortcodes for your footer, & a whole lot more. BuddyPress functionality is integrated into the framework and activated when BuddyPress is detected. Perfect for any blog or WordPress MU site, Buddymatic is based on Thematic by Ian Stewart and works with Thematic child themes. Buddymatic includes 2 BuddyPress ready child themes: Coffee with Friends by Daisy Olsen and a Buddymatic Sample Child Theme ready for customization.

Update Dec 7, 2009

Fixed missing jQuery scripts on a couple sections
Added user bar & option bar on all profile pages
A few CSS tweaks on content I missed earlier
Added external forum link if enabled

Update March 7, 2010

Beta support for BuddyPress 1.2

Update March 8, 2010

remove warning when adminbar disabled
tweak CSS on login wdiget at top of sidebar
make the adminbar 100% width in the admin area
Beta support for BuddyPress 1.2.0.2 BuddyMatic (730)

Belarussian language translation by Marcis G..

Sense & Sensibility

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:17:12 +0000

This is a basic theme for BuddyPress that will be very easy to customize. The front page shows the latest post from the main blog, has a widgetized sidebar, and three widget areas in the footer.

Download version 1.5 of the theme for BuddyPress 1.2 here Sense and Sensibility with styles (715)

I’ve just updated this theme for BuddyPress 1.2. While I was at it, I added a theme options page with a font size & style selector, and extra color schemes. The blue is default and you now have gray, green, red and orange to choose from. I had originally designed this theme with more color blocking and borders, but decided to leave it out to be more versatile. I can’t wait to see what you guys do with it!

There’s also an added bonus – if you’re not running BuddyPress and just plain WordPressMU or even single WordPress, the theme also works. The BP features just smoothly go away. Turn on the BP plugin and they come back. One note about setup: to get the “Blog” menu item to show the latest entires from the main blog, create a new Page on the main blog called Blog, and save. Go to Settings -> Reading, and select the option to show the blog entires on the Blog page. Do not select a page for the home.

Download version 1.5 of the theme for BuddyPress 1.2 here Sense and Sensibility with styles (715)

BuddyPress 1.2

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:46:10 +0000

All hail a brand new day: BuddyPress 1.2 has just been released, and with it an new theme structure. This is the very last time major structural changes will happen, as with this release, BP now works on single WordPress installs.

We’ll be working away at updating the themes hosted here as well.

Bruce BuddyPress theme

milo — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:36:06 +0000

Updated for BuddyPress 1.3.

New styles for a BuddyPress install with the Bruce BuddyPress Theme.

Clean grid design, sliders, white/orange color scheme, options panel and fully compatible.

View demo →

Theme post →

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Detox BuddyPress theme

milo — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:35:43 +0000

Detox BuddyPress Theme with a fluid three column outfit, all sidebars as well as the footer are fully widgetized, so it’s easy to update the frontpage.

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Speed BuddyPress theme

milo — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:33:44 +0000

TopGear style for a BuddyPress powered site with the Speed WordPress Theme theme, featuring a three column fluid layout with a magazine style, header changer is built in and shows on each page load a different background in the header area.

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Cosmic Buddy

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:01:30 +0000

Inspired by Orkut (hey, I remember that… wonder if I can still login…) we have the Cosmic Buddy theme available from BuddyDev. Light blue with an icy wintry feel, get it from here.

Teatro Magico

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:59:34 +0000

A nice looking custom theme for BuddyPress found over at DeviantArt. The original dev made it for a local band, and kindly offered it for download. Swap out the graphics and you have a whole new theme.

Download link is here, as it’s tiny & hard to find on the DA site.