Topic: BP default theme – can it be made to be fixed width very easily please?

BP default theme – can it be made to be fixed width very easily please?

nzde
Participant

@nzde

14 years, 2 months ago

Hi there

BuddyPress is fantastic. Really fantastic. Thanks to Andy and the crew.

I’ve a question please regarding the default theme. Obviously it’s a flexible width theme, adjusting up to a maximum width of (I don’t know what) when you’re using a large monitor.

I’m wondering how easy it would be to select a fixed width for the theme please. The reason is that I’m keen on doing a modified home page but the flexible width may play a bit of havoc with the posting of images, videos etc when one moves from one monitor size to another.

Does anyone know whether this’d be an easy fix please?

Many thanks

Richard

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Bowe
Participant

@bowromir

14 years, 2 months ago

Making it fixed is really easy..

1: Open up default.css (_inc/css/default.css) and right at the first few lines under the “body” selector change this:

min-width: 960px;

max-width: 1250px;

to this

min-width: 960px;

max-width: 960px;

Now open up adminbar.css and do the same.. done!

Andy Peatling
Keymaster

@apeatling

14 years, 2 months ago

Don’t do that, create a new child theme and override the default css by adding the above into your child themes style.css. Otherwise you will lose the changes on upgrade.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Bowe
Participant

@bowromir

14 years, 2 months ago

Woops.. forgot to mention that.. forgive me I was still hungover

Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)
Participant

@ashfame

14 years, 2 months ago

If its the only change, its better to do it in the default css only and again do it at every upgrade. It would be better in terms of performance but if you are using lots of CSS stylers then better go for a child theme

r-a-y
Keymaster

@r-a-y

14 years, 2 months ago

@ashfame

I wouldn’t recommend that. Andy’s method is the preferred method.

I think the performance hit in using child themes is minimal.

Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)
Participant

@ashfame

14 years, 2 months ago

@r-a-y

@import for CSS is expensive

Using a child theme for small modification adds two of them

David Lewis
Participant

@takeo

14 years, 2 months ago

First I’ve hear of that. I’ll have to do some searching. I’ve never considered @import to be “expensive”.
r-a-y
Keymaster

@r-a-y

14 years, 2 months ago
@ashfame, it only adds one @import request if you do your overrides in the same CSS file.

eg.
```
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/style.css );



#content {WHATEVER;}



...

more overrides here
```
nzde
Participant

@nzde

14 years, 2 months ago

Cool. Thanks so much for this tweak. Very much appreciated.

Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)
Participant

@ashfame

14 years, 2 months ago

@David

I belive you will come up with something which is more informative

@ray

what about the adminbar.css ?

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