Customised Template for Registration Form

Looking for a little advice; I am using s2member with a buddypress installation and I have created my own registration form, for which I have saved in my theme. I have added the required ‘template’ shortcode to my form so that it should now default to my new template. Unfortunately this does not work? However if I save the new template to bp-default theme in the buddypress plugin folder, it finds it no problems.

How can I get s2member to look for the new template in my theme rather than the bp-default.

I’m reluctant to save template files into my bp-default as I would prefer to keep all in my theme folder.

Any guidance on this would be much appreciated!-)

Hi Tony.

I’m not sure how the custom template works with BuddyPress. I know that the custom template can be place in either the theme’s folder, or the wp-content one.

Jason Caldwell said:

Pro Form templates can appear in the following locations represented by WordPress PHP Constants.

TEMPLATEPATH
WP_CONTENT_DIR

If a template exists in both locations, the template inside WP_CONTENT_DIR will be used, as it has the highest precedence.

Example: /wp-content/themes/my-theme/paypal-checkout-form.php
Example: /wp-content/paypal-checkout-form.php

I’m not sure how BP affects those constants, but those are the ones s2Member users for the custom template.

I hope it helps. :)

Many thanks for you swift reply Cristián – your guidance is much appreciated!

I think I will create a new folder in WP_CONTENT_DIR to store all my adapted form templates. I wasn’t to too keen to keep them in the bp-default folder as these form part of the Buddypress plugin and could quite easily disappear with any future plugin updates I implement.

Thanks Again!