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got the answer in another thread.

we have a theme and buddypress is an add-on to that theme so there wasn’t a need to have buddypress as our theme or to create a buddypress child theme.

what we needed to do was to make changes to the css elements that controlled the elements of buddypress that were active in our theme.

it was pointed out to me to simply copy the css lines from buddypress.min.css (as displayed in View Element, a firefox feature) into the Style.CSS file in our existing child theme style.css file.

after a few tries to get the syntax correct I’m now making changes to the buddypress elements that we have active with our existing wordpress theme.

thanks for the help Hugo.

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don’t know, i refresh after every css file update so not sure why it wouldn’t take but it’s good now and we’re making progress again!
our buddypress pages are finally starting to look like the rest of the site.
thank you very much
bart

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typing the code in directly finally worked!
you have no idea how grateful i am for you making yourself so available to help me see this through.
everyone at giantscalenews.com says thank you!
Bart

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I added the code to the bottom of the classipress child theme, saved it, refreshed my screen and nothing happened. maybe because i used cut-paste instead of typing it in.
i’ll try again.
when i inspect the elements buddypress is using the buddypress.min.css file and i’m tempted to edit that file for the heck of it just to see if it changes anything but so far i can’t get changes to show on the screen.
thanks for all of the help, i really appreciate it.
one more try
bart

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this goes back to my original question, we already have a theme and are running a child-theme of that. buddypress isn’t our theme, it’s an add-on to our theme.
so when you say I have to activate our child theme in the Admin panel, I’ve seen this and have tried the preview and it takes over our real theme which is ClassiPress.
Does that make sense? we don’t want BuddyPress to be our theme, it’s running as an Add-on and I’m trying to only make some minor color/layout changes.
Thanks!
Bart

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i’ve made a few changes but still nothing
/*
Theme Name: BuddyPress_GSN
Theme URI: http://www.giantscalenews.com/wp-content/themes/BuddyPress_Child_GSN/
Description: GSN BuddyPress Child Theme
Version: 2.1.1
Author: Bart
Author URI: http://www.giantscalenews.com
Template: buddypress
Tags: buddypress
*/
#buddypress div.item-list-tabs ul li.selected a,
#buddypress div.item-list-tabs ul li.current a {
background-color: #eee;
color: #555;
font-weight: bold;
border-radius: 0px, 0px, 4px, 4px;
}

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is the child theme folder in the wp-content/themes/ folder as it’s described in the codex entry?
is there anything else to do as far as pointing things in the right direction other than building the new style.css file in the child directory?

i’m trying to modify the various boxes and windows for the buddypress features so to start I did this but when I save it and then reload the page nothing is happening. Thank you.

/*
Theme Name: BuddyPress_GSN
Theme URI: http://www.giantscalenews.com/wp-content/themes/Buddypress_Child_GSN/
Description: GSN BuddyPress Child Theme
Version: 2.1.1
Author: Bart
Author URI: http://www.giantscalenews.com
Template: buddypress
Tags: buddypress
*/

div.item-list-tabs ul li.current a,
div.item-list-tabs ul li.selected a {
background-color: #FFF;
color: #000;
font-weight: 700;
border-radius: 0px 0px 3px 3px;
}

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really? that’s it? only the stuff that you want to change?

i’ll have to give that a try and thank you very much for the help!

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here’s a question, we already have a them and we’re also running an additional forum plugin. so right off the bat we have ClassiPress and SimplePress. It appears that what I’m following here is to make BuddyPress the site’s overall theme which isn’t the case. I just want to be able to edit the .css elelments that BuddyPress is calling on for forms and windows that are exclusive to buddypress on the site.
I’ve fixed a couple of things so far, I’ve made the style.css file from a blank document following the directions more closely. I’ve also copied all of the contents of the default BP theme into my child theme folder.
WordPress is recognizing the child theme in my Appearance>>Themes window of the WP Dashboard but it’s attempting to override the ClassiPress Child Theme that we have.
Is any of this understandable? I feel like I”m getting close, any help would be appreciated to make this plugin work correctly for us.
Thanks,
Bart

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doesn’t seem to work for friends but will check the link you posted

thanks,
bart

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this whole thing is confusing. if BuddyPress is trying to get rid of the default theme why am i trying to make a child version of it? also, what are my options going forward if ClassiPress doesn’t do the compatibility thing that BP is working towards?

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First of all, thanks for the informative replies Hugo.
I’m following the directions here
https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
I made a new directory in wp-content/themes/ and called it BuddyPress_Child_GSN
into that directory I copied buddypress.css and entered the information at the top of the file as directed but changed it for our site (www.giantscalenews.com….

/*
Theme Name: BuddyPress_GSN
Theme URI: http://www.giantscalenews.com/wp-content/themes/BuddyPress_Child_GSN/
Description: GSN Compatible theme for BuddyPress.
Version: 1.0
Author: Bart
Author URI: http://www.giantscalenews.com/
Template: bp-default
Tags: buddypress, GSN
*/

changed it back to buddypress.css and i’ll keep reading the directions to get things pointed in the right direction.

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in looking at the documentation and the variety of .ccs files in the BP subfolder, do I copy the buddypress.css file to my child theme folder and then rename it style.css?

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By PM I mean Private Message and when I go to the Private Message screen to send one to a user, username suggestions do not appear in the box as I begin to type letters regardless of whether I start with an @ or not.
So I guess that this feature doesn’t exist and that there are no plugins to make it work?

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it’s not a SimplePress issue, it’s a BuddyPress issue. I’m asking if there is a plugin for BuddyPress to add this functionality to the BUDDYPRESS PM system.

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ClassiPress/SimplePress
We have the Friends menu item in the HOWDY! drop down menu and the Friendships menu item takes you to the Friends page. I have one friend listed so far and there are buttons for Friendships and Requests but no way to invite new friends. so as far as I know, we’ve got them set up or am I misunderstanding something?

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would love to see an answer to this as we have the same problem with phantom BuddyPress Notifications. People have numbers in the blue circle but when they click they get an error message and I’ve tried resetting the system cache but no luck.
THanks,
Bart

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it’s not the @-mentions that I’m talking about although the functionality is similar, we’re looking for that suggestions feature in the To: field of the BP PM’s form.
Thanks,
Bart

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ok, thanks for the explanation.
Bart

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so the answer is that BuddyPress will generate the .min.css file from my styles.css file? or is it this from another link?

Since version 2.1, BuddyPress minified stylesheet is used if SCRIPT_DEBUG is not set. This was preventing themes to override the stylesheet using a file named buddypress.css. This patch make sure that if a buddypress.css file is located in one of the allowed css subfolder it will override the one provided by BuddyPress.

and isn’t it a downgrade in performance if the .min.css file is being lost to a custom .css file? Isn’t the point of the .min.css file to speed things up?

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Hi,
I’m up on doing a child theme but not on editing a .min.css file. When I went to the theme editor I saw everything but the .css files. Was that a bug in the old version?
Any advice on editing a .min.css file would be appreciated.
THanks,
Bart

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will buddypress automatically compress the buddypress.css file to the buddypress.min.css format if i edit the buddypress.css file?

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just went to make changes in min.css and there aren’t any lines of code, everything runs into everything else. using the editor in cpanel with the UTF-8 character encoding if it matters.
thanks,
bart