[@aces Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I would guess it probably could be done but I don’t know what skill level would be required. I don’t know of any plugins and I haven’t looked into it myself.

Either way, it is a different topic.

[@aces Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-clear-the-previous-registration-form-data-1/ ?

[@aces Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Sometimes emails end up filed as spam or junk….

Some web-hosting providers might need you to install a wordpress plugin such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ and/or https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

wp-mail-smtp also has a useful debug feature and more settings…

[@aces Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-clear-the-previous-registration-form-data-1/ ?

[@aces Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-clear-the-previous-registration-form-data-1/ ?

[@aces Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Some web-hosting providers might need you to install a wordpress plugin such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ and/or https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

wp-mail-smtp also has a useful debug feature and more settings…

[@aces Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

You might need to install a wordpress plugin such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ and/or https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

wp-mail-smtp also has a useful debug feature and more settings…

[@aces Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

The latest buddypress ( with bp-default theme ) can use the default wordpress menu, which is under appearance section of admin.

Some web hosting requires an extra plugin for email. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ has a useful feature that displays debugging information when sending a test email. Another plugin is suggested in https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/

[@aces Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I’m not sure what the question is but it seems to be about one or more different new topics that are not specific to buddypress…

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

If it’s the same problem, r-a-y suggested a different fix in https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-clear-the-previous-registration-form-data-1/

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

If you want to see how an extra column is added then look at bp-columns, which is a child of bp-default with just an added column…

To find out what needs to be changed to just move the menu bar, one can experiment with the firefox addon from http://getfirebug.com/ ( for developer tools in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 & 9 – press F12. )

From that can be seen that all the following should individually move the menu bar out of the way….
`
#header {
padding-top: 80px;
}

#header #search-bar {
margin-top: 60px;
}

#header #search-bar .padder {
padding-top: 65px;
}

#navigation {
padding-top: 55px;
}
`
When placed (only 1) in the child theme’s style.css

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

That is a whole different question and it’s very late here (UK) already……

Maybe a new topic would be better….

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

should be!

For reference, my bp-default child theme header.php would look the same as the one here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php?rev=5003

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

It is in bp-default theme. But that was not the point ( I was trying to be helpful…. ) .

What I was suggesting is that in your child theme style.css in the `#footer-widgets` section that you should already have, you could also add those (edited!) lines – between the `{` and `}`

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

I think there may be cleverer ways – but a quick fix would be to open the child theme’s header.php and replace the blank line 28 with
“
Then replace the blank line 43 with:
“
This will ‘comment out’ the relevant lines so they could easily be re-enabled later if required.

Otherwise just delete the lines between – you could always copy header.php to your child theme again if needed…

NB: I just upgraded to buddypress v1.5.3 on the site so that is where the line numbers come from…..

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

I added something to your other topic about bp search: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/remove-the-default-search-in-bp-default/

I had a look at your site and wonder if the border colour could better match the main widget footer area.

In /bp default/ default.css there is the following in `#footer-widgets`
`
border-bottom: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
border-right: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
`
`#e0e0e0` was to go with a white area… It could be overridden, in the child theme, to better match your new colour for that area

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

A backtick is a “` symbol, which is normally below the Esc key and above the Tab key on a standard querty english keyboard

Did you put the text (including `Template: bp-default` and `Theme Name: Whatever` on different lines ) at the top of the style.css file?

Did you Activate the child theme (or even preview) on the wordpres themes page?

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

The file should be called exactly style.css and the name is important . What is put at the top of the file is also important – see previous link to codex…..

It needs to go in it’s own directory, such as in wp-content/themes/my-theme/

NB: Please use backticks in this forum to make sure any code you quote is precise…..

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

I think the search you are looking for is in header.php

You should not edit or delete anything in the bp-default directory/folder. Place a copy of header.php in your child theme and edit that…..

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

All it needs at this stage is a new folder under /wp-content/themes/ with a style.css simple text file in it. Then replace #666 (see above) with #778899 ….

You should be able to preview any changes in the themes section, before activating…

If the file being looked for isn’t in your child theme, wordpress will look for it in the parent theme so you don’t need to worry about anything else for this task.

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

It is possible but it would be much better if you create a child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

In this situation, you just create a new directory (via ftp or cpanel etc) and a new style.css file See here for what to put at the top of the file.

To find out what needs changing most people use firefox with firebug addon ( then press f12 ) , or developer tools in internet explorer 8 or 9 ( press f12 ) or similar in other browsers. You should also be able to test different colours etc using these tools…..

So, having looked at your site, in your style.css you would put something like
`#container {
background-color:#666;
}

#footer-widgets {
background-color:#666;
}`
for a grey background – if that’s what you wanted…

That should overwrite the bp-default colour but leave the orginal file intact so your edits are not lost on buddypress / bp-default updates…

Then you activate your new theme….

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

I just did it on my test site and it worked….

My default language in wp-config.php is defined as
`define (‘WPLANG’, ‘en_GB’);`
( see Language codes: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language )

So I placed the buddypress-en_GB.mo and buddypress-en_GB.po in /wp-content/languages

Then logged out and the new message was there in the default sidebar….

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

Note.

Searching through the buddypress .pot file, it seems like you need to ‘translate’ `Please create an account to get started.`

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

what’s on line 4 of bp-custom.php?
What happens if you put just
`define( ‘BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR’, true );`
on it’s own..

[@aces Participant 14 years, 10 months ago]

I put it in bp-custom-php – actually it also worked in functions.php…

I’m not sure if you want the same functionality. Wrapping in `is_admin` was so that the following lines only worked on the admin pages. `remove_action` shouldn’t be necessary.

The `define` line tells buddypress to use the wp adminbar. This adds the personal menu under your name like on this page and gets rid of some blank space under the menu bar. It also stops the buddybar being rendered (behind the WP admin bar – see WP bug mentioned above). I can not find a simple way to use the buddybar instead of the wp adminbar on the admin page – but I think that’s the way WordPress wants it to work…

For the public facing side I have selected Hide admin bar for logged out users? so you only see the buddybar when logged in.

What are you trying to achieve?