[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 6 months ago]

Oh, that’s no good. Can’t we make a change to that? I know I’m trying to use Buddypress for a purpose it wasn’t necessarily designed to fulfill (a directory) … if random is a flavor, then can’t we have “non-random” (i.e., alphabetical?) as a flavor, too?

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Hmmm … now I’ve managed to get my members to alphabetize, but my groups won’t … I’ve modified the groups-loop.php to show the type=alphabetical but so far, it’s not working … I know something is working, though, because I changed my &per_page to 20 instead of the default 10 … that part’s working. What am I doing wrong?

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks so much, Burt! It worked like a charm!

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Jason–

Do you mean that your home page style isn’t showing up in the members and groups pages, i.e., you are still seeing the “Social Networking” logo and the orange, rather than your green theme? That you want those pages to match your home page theme?

If that’s what you’re concerned about, you have to change your CSS in a different place for those areas. They aren’t controlled by the same CSS that manages the main page of your Buddypress installation.

Your CSS for the groups and member pages are in the wp-content/bpthemes/bpmember folder. Your logo (logo.gif) is in the bpmember/images folder.

Make your changes there just as you did with your base.css for your bphome theme and you should be good to go.

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Okay, found it. Vipers! Works great. Thanks, all.

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Does anyone have a reliable plugin that they’re using for MU, then? I have searched the MU forum for information and the postings that deal with this issue are really old, sometimes as old as two years. I’d be eternally grateful if someone could just say, “Hey, this one works great for me,” so I can be on my way!

TIA!

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Sorry to bump, but has anyone dealt with this, or does anyone have a solution? I’d be pretty heartbroken to find that I’d spent weeks developing a huge site only to find that a basic functional element such as YouTube video embedding would not work … surely there is an answer! Pleeez!

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

I deactivated IntenseDebate and still the same problem. Are BP people averse to embedding videos?

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Well, how can I embed a video in my blog post? Could Intense Debate be creating a problem? That’s about the only plugin on my new site that I’ve never used on the old WP installations … ?

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

But when I changed it back, it didn’t fix. Is that because something was recorded in the database that can’t be reversed by a simple name change?

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Maythil–

I was advised by someone ON the forum to do it! I was making changes and asking questions, and was told by a moderator to be sure and “create a new theme” by “changing the theme name,” so that’s what I did!

And I did change the name back to the original, and as I noted in the last post, nothing happened. Still blank!

This isn’t an absolute disaster, though, since what I changed was on a test version of the site I’m developing, but if someone could outline the proper procedure for making a theme name change (I have only made minor modifications of the CSS files in my BuddyPress home theme), that would be great. Or point me to where I can find that information. Thanks!

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Oh, and then I changed the name back to “bphome” and it did not fix itself! So the folder was renamed to its original name, but still nothing is happening.

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Only the folder name. Can you tell me the proper way to rename a theme, from the get-go? Or is that referenced here on the site somewhere, in easy-to-understand step-by-step instructions?

TIA!

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

YEE-HA! It worked! Thanks, DJ! You’re a prince!

Kit

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks DJ … appreciate the pointer … but if I may say so, please remember, though that not everyone in here is a code genius … ! I’ll give it a try and see if that works.

Thanks very much.

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

I’d love to Just Do It, but there is no command in WPMU to do so … where do I find it? And the link that DJ posted doesn’t work … sorry!

I exported the file, no problem, but I can’t find any way to import it!

Ideas?

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Sorry to bump this up the queue, but I’m a little desperate to migrate my content from the WP over to the new MU/BP installation. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks again.

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Jeff–

I’m also using a large 23″ monitor, but I have not changed any of the widths in the CSS that you note in your message previous to the last message. Those are the values that come “in the box” in the default BuddyPress installation. But it’s clear that the designers of the BuddyPress.org website have changed theirs … I’ll try to make those changes and see if that makes a difference.

Isn’t there just a simple way of making this feature expandable to the width of whatever browser window my visitor may have? Like using a percentage size instead of a fixed pixel width? What if a 30″ monitor comes along and wishes to view it?

(John James J … yes, I believe you are seeing what you say you are seeing, for sure! Maybe my problem is that I have too generous a browser window … but on the BuddyPress site this top bar expands to fit whatever size window I make in my monitor … but my own version of the theme doesn’t do this, nor does the “out of box” installation of BuddyPress … there is always a gap!)

Thanks for the code!

Kit

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Thank you! Problems solved, and resolved!

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Jeff–

No, it’s not resolved yet. I can’t seem to get this to work. I’m still not sure which CSS attributes are controlling the width of the search-login-bar at the top of the page, despite having looked them over in Firebug. Here is the CSS code I see when I use the inspector to examine the Buddypress web site:

#search-login-bar { custom.css (line 70)

background:#EBEBEB none repeat scroll 0 0;

border-top-color:#0090FF;

}

#search-login-bar { base.css (line 43)

background:#FFF9DF none repeat scroll 0 0;

border-top:10px solid #F7740A;

padding:7px 10px;

}

And then here is the code I see when I inspect the same element in my installation:

#search-login-bar { [base.css (line 50)]

background:#CCCCCC none repeat scroll 0 0;

border-top:10px solid #CA3495;

padding:7px 20px;

}

Any tips would help (I know this is a totally elementary, if not kindergarten-level, question!).

Thanks.

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks, Jeff. I assume renaming the theme is simply changing the name of its folder?

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Oy! Of course … I forgot to use Firebug on THIS site … sometimes the most obvious stuff trips us up! Thanks, Jeff!

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Jeff–

I don’t want to create a new theme, just modify the files so that these featured member profiles don’t show. Are your instructions to show me how to do that? I hope so!

TIA!

Kit

[@kitwit Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Jeff–

Uh, this is the widget that comes with BuddyPress … I have not installed any member widgets from any other source … !