Andy Peatling
Boone B. Gorges
Paul Gibbs
John James Jacoby
Tammie Lister
Andrew Nacin
UI wireframe updates
We’ve been working hard on building template parts from the wireframes. It’s still very early, and the templates that might be distributed with BuddyPress might end up very different, but with that disclaimer here’s some screenshots.
The screenshots were taken from a site running the twentytwelve theme. The templates are not complete and continue to change daily.
For those who want to get involved with building or testing the templates, you can find the project on Github; please try to make it to a BuddyPress dev meeting on a Wednesday and introduce yourself. If you’re keen to contribute further wireframe designs or give feedback, keep coming back to this site, and we’ll link out to relevant discussions on the forum.
We currently need wireframe ideas and suggestions for the following screens:
- Activity comments (current wireframe, discussion)
- Member > Settings (discussion)
- Member > Profile (discussion)
- Group > Admin screens (discussion)
- Private messages (current wireframe, discussion)
Discussion for other existing templates/wireframes:
Paul Hockley, 
Paul Gibbs 7:27 pm on October 22, 2012 Permalink |
Please excuse the lack of gravatars (these were taken from a private dev environment), and the placeholder “profile.php” text.
Mercime 8:48 pm on October 22, 2012 Permalink |
Test these all against WP 3.5 beta 2 or 3.5 trunk?
Paul Gibbs 9:40 pm on October 22, 2012 Permalink
I always use both projects’ trunks, especially at this stage of the dev cycle.
WPAustralia.org 8 weeks in! | WordPress Australia 4:27 pm on November 7, 2012 Permalink |
[...] I have talked to some of the members of our community and they’ve agreed with me that we need to fix a few more bugs then we can actually start on the design of the site! The plan of attack for the design of the site will be firstly starting a thread in the forums about it and asking for people to contribute ideas and wire frames for the site. Once we’ve reached a common consensus of the layout of the main pages then we can all start work on the design the site. Ideally I’d love us to be able to contribute back to BuddyPress core because the BuddyPress core team are currently working on wire frames for the new default theme: http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/ui-wireframe-updates/ [...]
Paul Hockley 9:02 am on December 19, 2012 Permalink |
Hello there! Thanks for your amazing work. I have tested the latest version of the template from github, and am just wondering: Will the final version be responsive? If not it seems a bit like a waste of time, since the whole web is going in that direction?
Paul Gibbs 2:48 pm on December 21, 2012 Permalink |
So, these templates have to live inside a theme. Literally nested inside the theme template’s HTML. Last time @karmatosed and I spoke about this, we weren’t sure whether having responsive templates inside a potentially un-responsive theme would be a good idea; would it even work reliably? Would it bloat the amount of CSS? Shouldn’t we let themes decide about responsiveness?
This also assumes that the individual template parts have enough content to make them usefully responsive.
The BuddyPress team recently decided that these templates (or something like it) will go into BuddyPress 1.8. This gives us a few more months to finish and iterate on these templates, and I’m sure we’ll revisit the responsiveness question.
Revonorway 3:19 pm on January 3, 2013 Permalink
Thanks for the answer
I tested it within a responsive theme, but it’s not adapting to the screen size right now. IMHO this would be a future proof feature, so I hope you will consider it in your decision 
Thanks again for everything!
Paul Gibbs 3:20 pm on January 3, 2013 Permalink
We’re releasing BP 1.7 Beta 1 soon, and if you could try that once it’s out and feedback and suggestions what we can do to increase compatibility with responsive themes, that’d be awesome.