[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

That is the home.php file for groups, if you simply don’t want a sidebar to feature on the single group screens then the easiest approach is simply delete the line:

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However I don’t know what rules are applied to #content, if it was margined from the right to make room for the sidebar or it has a fixed width sufficient to leave space for the sidebar then that will need to be adjusted for the groups pages otherwise all you will have is an empty space where the sidebar used to be. You may need to refer back to the previous help merciime gave you on how to do that, if it needs doing

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

What’s buddypress ‘stuff’? you must be specific on tech forums and be clear as to what ‘things’ you are referring to

If you are not worried about any test posts/pages plugin settings then all you need to do is get all the site files uploaded including BP plugin and your themes folder, then when you have run the WP install routine you will be able to log into the dashboard and start to configure basic WP parameters and then activate BP and set that up. As for DB stuff I mentioned that briefly on another thread, you should perhaps stick to one thread otherwise things become disjointed and hard to follow.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Your question isn’t very clear. If you have created your site on your local machine, incl posts, pages, plugins, general settings and you want to recreate it completely as it stands then yes you need to take a mysql_dump of the DB via something like phpMyAdmin, to upload to your production DB but you’ll need to hack some fields in the DB for things like site url, simpler perhaps is to start afresh with a new DB then start re-configuring basic settings and use the WP xml import/export facility to transfer any posts/pages/comments you have locally that you want live.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

I’m going to come across a bit cold hearted here and say ‘Google Is Your Friend’. You will need to research these aspects to get familiar with what you need to do, this forum is for BP support and guiding on how to install a site to a server is a little outside of it’s remit (WP codex may have some guides?)

Essentially your hosts are only saying what they all will, when you set up a shared hosting account you are provided with a control panel along with url and login plus ftp access to your web directory.

CPanel is designed to be used by non technical users, it is a point and click interface to server management and pretty easy to use, you just need to spend a little time familiarizing yourself with it. For ftp you will need a client e.g filezilla to use to upload your site files (or you can use the cPanel filemanager upload capabilities, either way it’s not hugely difficult. Your database will also be set up via cPanel, then it’s simply a case of running the WP installer when the site files are in place and you have pointed a domain name to your provided IP.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Groups works in slightly different fashion it’s index ‘home.php’ tests to see what parts it needs to display so if it was the sidebar you needed to remove to make fullwidth then you would remove sidebar for all group views. You could though wrap the sidebar in a conditional logic to not show the sidebar if forum view – something like:

in : /wp-content/themes/your-theme/groups/single/home.php
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Not sure how well that will work for you as your site is locked down and we can’t visit those pages.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Wish I knew enough about this stuff

If you’re going to run a WP/BP site it would benefit to learn the basics of HTML/CSS you don’t need to be a master but a grasp of the fundamentals will help you with basic issues. An excellent resource for beginners is HTMLdog

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Same question you asked here isn’t it Greg?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/template-tag-question-how-to-call-all-activity-on-member-profile-page/

Wait a while then you can bump the original.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Well that sidebar markup doesn’t carry the widget class that you styled on so you will need to add :
#sidebar #sidebar-login-form to your widgets ruleset as a grouped selectors set :
`
div#sidebar div.widget,
#sidebar-login-form {
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #AEE100;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
padding: 15px;
}
`
If you also wanted the login/ jin us text/button then you will have to add a division around that markup and the form and style that e.g:

`

all the sidebar form and text markup here

`
And replace the #sidebar-login-form above with #login-join-box on the ruleset.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

That’s what I meant

Lets add -moz in to the mix though:
`
div#sidebar div.widget {
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #AEE100;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
padding: 15px;
}
`

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

But that is exactly what mercime has given you!, explain why that doesn’t do what was asked?

I suspect that in reality what you are after is that each widget appear in it’s own sidebar, that is is widget has the overall look the sidebar does with rounded corners, which is a little more work to do and involves you identifying the rules that are applied to #sidebar, removing the selectors and replacing with .widget and then adding in revised margins, #sidebar would still need some rules though, if that’s what you are actually after have a go at re-factoring the rulesets to show us and we can help where you get stuck.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

@gregfielding Doing `!bp_get_blog_signup_allowed()` isn’t probably the best approach though as it twists logic and if you did decide to close blog registration from the dashboard you would then be showing the form for blog signup the reverse of what you want.

Why not simply wrap the blog section in a test for a variable e.g:

‘$show_blog_signup = false;

if( $show_blog_signup) :

blog form stuff

endif;
`
Then you change the variable at top of page if needed.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

This topic was discussed quite a while ago and a ticket created? for more meaningful alt atts for avatars and has been addressed for 1.3 with avatars now saying ‘alt=”profile picture of …”‘ or ‘alt=”Group logo of…'” so if you can wait for 1.3 to drop ?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

if you’re logged in but that’s unlikely to be the case should have run the tests before making the definite statement

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

It’s a known issue and will hopefully be dealt with when the site gets an overhaul.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

? for sure? how can you tell or have you inside knowledge?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

It tells you right there where to look for the file? It’s either there or you have a copy of it in your child theme.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

@naved you are now essentially running two threads on the same question, you need to keep to one only as it’s confusing and wasteful of peoples time if they respond on one where it’s already been answered on the other.

I have covered most of this now on another thread

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

Tell us what folder though!

if you are refering to a child theme folder then it’s possible it doesn’t WP uses a template hierarchy system this means that it looks for files first in the theme folder then if the theme says it’s a child theme WP looks to the parent theme for the file so a child theme may not have copied over that file and is using the parent copy in which case copy over the whole file to the child theme and edit it from the copy which WP now uses instead of the parent copy

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

As Paul links to this is being worked on, but it’s a much harder task than at first it appears

For now your best means of locating is FireBug highlighting the element on the page and checking what rulesets and line numbers are shown below in the right sidebar

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

using very strong wallpaper paste, slapped loads on

selected the text in left pane and then selected right click copy – not ‘copy html’ or ‘copy inner html’ pasted in the forum using backticks

correct place? if it works there it should be ok

There is a favourite button if you go to ‘activity’ but can’t remember if it works on these topics – no subscribe though

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

This is the structure and naming you have to play with:
`
div id=”rss-2″ class=”widget widget_rss”>

Born on this Day

`
so all you need do is:

`.rsswidget h3 a {color: #fff;}`

You have described rules for div#sidebar h3.widgettitle which only changes the heading element the rsswidget has an anchor in the heading which inherits the styles for anchors.

What may be better is to separate styles
`
div#sidebar h3.widgettitle {
background: black;
border-top: 1px solid #94A3C4;
clear: left;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 25px -15px 10px -8px;
padding: 4px 8px;
}
div#sidebar h3.widgettitle,
div#sidebar h3.widgettitle a {
color: #fff;
}
`

Then you cover headers with or without anchors without being too specific i.e .rsswidget

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

open up header.php find:

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Add page id you don’t want to show as a comma separated list after the ‘exclude=’ parameter.

BP 1.3 will handle this better as you can use the wp 3.* nav manus more effectively to build custom menus with BP pages actually using pages so easily selectable.

Or you can install the add-all-nav-menus -to-adminbar plugin or what ever it’s called you’ll find it in the BP plugin repo

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

So the rss widget is not using a h# element then? You restyled the title text assuming they would all be h3?

Look at the rss widget find it’s parent element ( widgets all have a common class of ‘widget’ and perhaps the widgets name also the widget id the last two are unique so you use those to style on

.widget-rss a {color: #fff;}

However that will style all anchors not just the title so you may need to be more specific does the title anchor have a unique class name? if so use it on the anchor a.rss-widget

Finally you can group the selctor set that works with the other styles for white h3.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

@4ella no DO use a child theme, if all you want to do is some basic CSS styling ten you only nee to create the most basic child theme with a style.css file in it.

Follow this guide it’s very straightforward:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

If you now activate your theme in the dashboard it will inherit/ import the main BP styles as well as all the other important BP stuff, you can now add your own styles to your stylesheet below the @ import calls to override any BP styles.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

try the process in reverse to find out what the cause is, activate the theme but no plugins and see how the site performs, if still ok activate plugins one by one checking each time to see how the site runs.