[gregfielding]

I’m not sure where the culprit lies here. I’m creating a child theme of bp-default, using BP 1.5 beta 2, and my child theme style.css isn’t being recognized. I’ve copied and pasted everything from the docs (http://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/). I’ve built a dozen or so of these before so it’s probably not a rookie mistake.

The unusual things that are here are that I’m using the 1.5, I’m using JJJ’s Mult-Network plugin, and when I look at the code with firebug, it shows it’s importing a version number of the default.css. Maybe that’s fine…not sure.

http://townswell.com

Any wild ideas?

[gregfielding]

Found it: https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/1-5-developer-and-designer-information/

But is the proper answer just to call the enqueuing empty?

[@mercime]

@gregfielding I know what you mean

As DJPaul mentioned here, child themes can declare and empty function to override parent theme’s function. Check out Boone’s solution – a proposed patch which works of course and is better IMHO.

You might have noticed that the link to stylesheet is no longer in bp-default theme’s header.php. Hence, you could either add the link to stylesheet in child theme’s header.php or enqueue main stylesheet ala bp-default theme.

Cheers.

[gregfielding]

Thanks mercime. Was there a solution in there for the adminbar css? I read through it all and it looks like that part is still up in the air…

This is going to be a nightmare when I go to upgrade my main existing community…

[@mercime]

You can deregister adminbar.css and adminbar-rtl.css by adding this to functions.php

`//Deregister enqueued admin styles
function greg_deregister_admin_styles() {
wp_deregister_style( ‘bp-admin-bar’ );
wp_deregister_style( ‘bp-admin-bar-rtl’ );
}
add_action( ‘wp_print_styles’, ‘greg_deregister_admin_styles’, 20 );`

[@mercime]

@gregfielding disregard previous post … to disable BP’s Admin Bar aka buddybar, just add this to functions.php

`remove_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘bp_core_load_buddybar_css’ );`

[gregfielding]

@mercime

The first option removed the buddybar. The second resulted in an error message:

Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ‘bp_core_load_buddybar_css’ was given in /home/housings/public_html/townswell.com/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 405

To clarify, I don’t want to remove it, I just want to be able to restyle it with my own child theme css.

[@mercime]

@gregfielding my bad, that code above was for BP 1.5 beta 3 and this only prevents the adminbar.css from being enqueued via wp_head. So you can definitely use your own adminbar.css by @import in style.css of child theme or enqueueing it, whichever you prefer.

[Quint]

@gregfielding: Could you let me know what step I’m missing or applying incorrectly? I have the same issue that you mentioned in your original post. So, after reading all of the recommended material regarding creating a child theme for BP 1.5 Beta 1 thru 3, the styling in my child’s style.css file still won’t be recognized (And I’m still in a slowly clearing fog. Too slow.). Here’s what I did:

1. Created my child theme folder,
2. In that I created a blank functions.php file and then added to it:

`<?php
if ( !function_exists( ‘bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles’ ) ) :
function bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles() {}
endif;
?>`

3. I reloaded my browser, and the default styling isn’t there. Great.
4. Now, to my child’s style.css file, I do what I’ve done before and add the @import code:
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css );
5. I did Step 4 because I want to load and override the default styling, not start from scratch.

Could you point me in the right direction? Thanks.

[Quint]

So the code in my previous post doesn’t show. Since then, this is what I’ve included in my child theme’s functions.php file (and I have NOT done an @import within my style.css file):

http://chopapp.com/#2s3gjzs6

This seems to work. Is the syntax for enqueuing the style.css file correct? Is this the right way to do it? Thanks.

By the way, I see that other folks are able to paste code into the comments/replies. I don’t know how to do that, hence the link. Could someone enlighten me?

[@mercime]

@qrahaman – to post code here, you have to wrap it with backticks as seen within the parentheses ( ` )

We have initial docs on styling for BP 1.5 https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/1-5-developer-and-designer-information/

[Quint]

@mercime. Thanks!

Okay, that referenced information is what I stared at for a long time (I’m really new at this…) and the following is what I came up with:

`function bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles() {
// Bump this when changes are made to bust cache
$version = ‘20110804’;

// Default CSS
wp_enqueue_style( ‘bp-default-main’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/_inc/css/default.css’, array(), $version );

wp_enqueue_style( ‘bp-child-style’, get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, array(), $version );

// Right to left CSS
if ( is_rtl() )
wp_enqueue_style( ‘bp-default-main-rtl’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/_inc/css/default-rtl.css’, array( ‘bp-default-main’ ), $version );
}
add_action( ‘wp_print_styles’, ‘bp_dtheme_enqueue_styles’ );`

You may notice that in the second enqueue statement, I used `get_stylesheet_directory_uri()` to pull the child’s directory. Is that correct? No where in the referenced information does it use that function, only `get_template_directory_uri()` which presumably pulls the parent directory. Given that the directory function I used was not in the referenced information, I wonder if there is alternative, straightforward way that a seasoned developer would use.

[Tammie Lister]

If you want to use the child style yes that’s what you need to do