[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

Adding in the link too that would rock like it does in forums / streams.

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

Cool glad it helped.

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

Assuming you mean the custom header that you find under appearance > header then here is a blog post with a tutorial.

http://buddydress.com/2010/04/custom-header-tutorial-adding-an-image-and-changing-the-size/

Excuse just linking but it pretty much sums up easier than me saying to you what to do and hopefully will help as a reference.

If it’s not custom header just let me know.

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

Here is some real basic styling no colouring just indenting in the traditional style of comments not the activity stream version for now figure we may as well get traditional down first?

`ol.commentlist, ol.commentlist li {
list-style: none;
margin: 10px 0px;
}

ol.commentlist .children {
margin-left: 20px;
}
`

We could of course do borders around those but that will start with some simple indenting.

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

Current_menu_item would be my preference to be honest as a styling option.

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

+1 for BP-Default Menu bar same styling maybe hover a few shades up to highlight hover.

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

May I suggest we have a consistent hover over colour just from a usability point of view? Even a hover and current would be the ideal I would go that stage further. I totally agree the top and sub / drop menus should both have a hover colour but it should also be the same. I also would lean to the menus actually being the same colour not the different white. My reason would be 2 fold: contrast / visual and usability.

Rather than doing a 2 cents with another version and creating a too many cooks situation I reckon seems sensible to add to the version you’ve come so far with @Modemlooper? May I suggest some possible enhancements as a result of this thinking?

I’m thinking we could perhaps add the following possible enhancements:

1. Hover / current styling
2. Darker consistent to top menu styling
3. Bottom border rounding on the drop down perhaps to match the top rounding on the top menus?

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

@GUAP: There is an update out for that theme or alternatively you can follow the theme changes from 1.2.5 > 1.2.6 in the codex on this site if you are no longer a member at BuddyDress so don’t get updates. If you are though updates are free to any member it’s up to you which route you go. I can’t though replicate any issues with a vanilla (nothing else) install and updated Daily theme so that could be the problem. Now, whether there is something going on with followers plugin or not.. that could only be seen once the theme is updated really to be fair to your installation.

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

@AnindyaRay: Hmmm what happens just as a ‘test’ with the default BuddyPress theme and your site? I always use the BuddyPress default theme as my ‘baseline’ test.

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

@AnindyaRay : Well I get a JavaScript error on your page when testing with firebug and that certainly could be making your adminbar get grumpy. My advice would be to using firebug track down what is causing that by turning off all plugins and widgets and extra code you’ve added then adding it in one by one. I usually opt for the ‘all off’ dramatic approach myself as saves time building up as oppose to one by one off. Up to you though.

@Maryke: Depends if your child uses the default BuddyPress one and has any core / major files changes in it. If it’s just CSS or additions to code then probably not but if it’s changes to code you’d have to check for anything that could be different. Generally if using default theme as your parent you’ll at least be 99% ok just depends on how extensive you’ve got in your child which I can’t really say.

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

@AnindyaRay: Hmmm you got a link for your site? My thoughts are maybe a javascript error (try in firebug to see that) or something like error in files (did you copy over the adminbar.css and also both javascript files (ajax.php / js)? I certainly don’t get any issues with the default or my themes that don’t use custom admin bars – perhaps the custom admin bar code. Worst case maybe you could remove that feature (hate to suggest that but if it’s causing issues).

@pcwriter: General rule is last supported version is latest with BuddyPress / WordPress or at least that’s the way I work with themes myself. Can’t really speak for others. I myself choose that route as there are generally security and other reasons for upgrades.

@Roger: I get the frustration but to be truthful I’m a theme designer and I don’t have these issues as said before I go with latest version support and I think you will find most do. This is of course a point of debate and maybe not the place for this said debate as a personal choice / company choice depending on your working situation. This happens with every release it gets better and more gets added… WordPress has same problem if you think of what happened around 3.0 for instance.

I do think it’s perhaps a point of note to those of us in themes to get more involved and this is one point I myself have in the past few months realised. We can complain about things and claim them wrong but until we get involved can we be surprised over something getting changed. It’s a project we all can get involved in and perhaps this all should be a call to action rather than a soap box moment which I know myself I’m feeling. BuddyPress themes will I think truly benefit from those of us that work with them getting involved where we can. Please take this in the good nature it’s meant as I’ve also had this realisation.

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

I would say all things should be required by Blogs-Mu to be honest. However, it’s going to be a case of you’re only going to know as do. You definitely will have template changes otherwise have the magical double button issues on friends and blogs

Not sure what you mean about php file … it’s a case of finding the file and replacing the content with the updates should be pretty much a copy and paste job with Blogs-Mu.

Are you sure your site works correctly? I’m fairly sure you’re going to find some issues about the site and to be honest I’d always recommend updating. Ultimately it’s up to you but my recommendation is a calm methodical copy and pasting session

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

The question of ‘how to create a custom theme’ is a fairly open ended one. My advice would be start with creating child themes of the parent theme. As Chouf1 already said the codex is a great place to start. You may also want to look at how others have done things and learn by example for instance here: https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/. If I was going to advise someone on how to learn I’d say you have to first off do a child, add a widget area.. learn about what CSS does what maybe using something like firebug to do inline changes and learn. If you’re looking to do a total fresh take non default theme then you want to follow the more methodical process of creating image > XHTML / CSS > theme when learning. By having your end goal from the start you can focus the things you will need to learn and apply.

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

You may find the widget version of default by modemlooper https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme gets you on the right track otherwise you can fairly easily add widget areas to your theme or use something like the 3 column or other default themes. Have you checked out a few of the default variations right here: https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/ ?

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

If you do all those changes you should be on track but it’s hard to say really until do it on the theme if that makes sense? Just with the CSS changes remember CSS is cascading and some themes use !important to over-ride this. It’s best to just in testing add your new CSS to the last CSS file called to make sure it has a fighting chance (key term in CSS is cascading). Also consider the theme may have it’s own styling different from the default theme even if uses the basic structure of it.

[@karmatosed Moderator 15 years, 7 months ago]

‘What’ you should change sort of depends on if you are using a child theme of the BuddyPress default theme or not. There is quite a list of updates for the theme changes the members is one, ajax.php /js and functions.php is another along with some member/group/forum loop stuff. I would strongly suggest if you can getting the latest update from your theme source particularly as you say you are a novice which I take means not comfy in code?