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  • eable
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    @eable

    Big cheer, verrry sheepish – it was a case of not thinking it was working, because no files were visible in the WP editor.

    I added a bit of lovely, old school inline css to mytheme/buddypress/activity/single/home.php:
    <div id="buddypress" style="background-color: pink;">

    Worked like a charm. The background of the single activity update view is now pink.

    ……………..

    > Did try and write it as noob friendly as possible ๐Ÿ™‚
    – Ohhh, but there was that caped noob crusader detail I was blind to at the moment! LOL

    > The editor im WP wonโ€™t show subfolders or used not to
    – Actually, the WP editor can show subfolders – they look like (dirname/filename.php)
    AND now I know that not all files show.

    > itโ€™s not a great idea to edit files this way or indeed have it running from a security point of view.
    – Yup. I never use the wp theme editor on an active or remotely hosted site. I don’t even like to sign in as Admin unless I need Admin rights that day.

    Thank you for your patience, everybody. Hopefully the way I tagged and titled this post will help the next wanderer with related confusions find their answer in Search.


    eable
    Participant

    @eable

    Will I mess up WordPress’s ability to see them all, if I drag them all over?

    Also, I’m assuming I need to retain the dir structure? For instance, if I just need home.php from buddypress/activity/single, I have to put it here mytheme/buddypress/activity/single/home.php?

    I know I don’t need to overwrite anything with an exact copy of itself. ๐Ÿ™‚

    Thanks again for your time.


    eable
    Participant

    @eable

    @danbp – Yeah! Thank you! Saw that earlier. Lots of useful stuff in there. I’m looking forward to seeing how much I can do with the groups views, especially.


    @henrywright
    – No problem! I appreciate any help.

    I want to figure out why these files aren’t showing up, so I can start to learn from breaking things on purpose.

    I’ll check back later, after I try copying the buddypress template dir into the full version of TwentyThirteen. If the files show up in the full TwentyThirteen, I did something odd in my child theme. If they don’t show up, the problem is that I don’t understand how to get any theme to see those bp template files that I want to play with.

    Gotta be something noob-worthy. When I get this figured out I may be qualified to write a dummies-friendly tutorial – LOL


    eable
    Participant

    @eable

    A child theme does not have to have more than style.css, correct? This is a child theme of 2013.
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

    I can add an index.php, but I don’t have a reason to customize it yet. Are you saying that a child theme has to have an index.php in order for files in a buddypress dir to show up?


    eable
    Participant

    @eable

    @danbp Before I started this thread I read that thread, and the two files you link to in that thread.

    I’m sorry, but I don’t understand.


    eable
    Participant

    @eable

    I’ve uploaded them to a working child theme installed on a working installation of WP multisite. Both WP & BP are the most recent versions.

    mytheme is a child of 2013 that contains
    style.css
    404.php
    and the buddypress folder I copied from within the bp-legacy dir
    no functions.php yet

    BuddyPress is installed and working.
    I’ve made child WP themes before, but never with BP.


    eable
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    @eable

    Thankyou, @henrywright.

    Copying the whole plugin would be much more than what I did.

    I copied the buddypress folder that is contained in bp-legacy. Is that not was what the directions meant?

    If I did this right, why are the files not visible in the WordPress back end at Themes > Editor > mytheme?

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