[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Oh, FYI, the URL is here: http://business.mountainprideconnections.com/members

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Apparently the bar doesn’t extend to the full width of the open browser even in the default installation (I assumed it did), but if you notice how this installation of BuddyPress is configured here on the BuddyPress site (the page we’re on, in BuddyPress.org), the bar at the top extends full-width! Since I can’t peer into this site’s base.css file for the theme I’m wondering how to change that attribute … ?

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

I assume “avatar” appears in dozens of dozens of dozens of BP files? Perhaps I’ll try the CSS route and not care about people who use old IE!

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks Social and Stalker–

I’m not sure where in the “theme” file I should be looking to comment out the avatar functions … is this in the PHP? There seems to be several locations for avatar stuff in the CSS … sorry I’m not a programmer, but I can wade around in CSS and change things so if you could point me in the right direction … that would be great!

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Is this such a dopey question that it doesn’t warrant a response? Sorry to bump!

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

I can always login as the user and edit the profile, or pretend to be the user and sign up the old-fashioned way. Anyway, the problem is solved, even if it is a bit of a workaround to get there.

Future improvement to BuddyPress would be to have this profile-editing feature available to the all-powerful admin!

Thanks!

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Oh yea, oh yea, it works! Thanks so much!

Now, can I enter the same information on the back end through the admin panel that the user would enter himself/herself upon signing up for an account? Is there a way to manually enter users and do the same thing?

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

So … if I enable the extended profiles and create the fields I want, will they then show in the A-Z area of the site? I think you can see what I’m trying to do … I’m trying to create a directory of businesses using the members area of the site … eventually we want folks to sign up on their own and enter the information for the listing themselves …

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Yes, I am in the member directory. Each member shows up in the directory. Isn’t that where profiles are displayed?

Check this link:

http://business.mountainprideconnections.com/members/boulderoutlookhotel/

This is what shows up when “Extended Profiles” are disabled. Yes, I said “disabled.” Shouldn’t this be what shows up when the profile is “enabled”? Yet … are we talking about the same animal?

When I create a custom field, it also does not show in the entry form on the admin section of the site, so even though I’ve created several custom fields, those fields don’t show up and aren’t available for anyone to see/use.

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Well, I thought the same thing, but someone else told me to disable it. If I have the Extended Profiles enabled, nothing but the name of the member shows in the public profile. If I disable it, then all the information in the About the User section shows up. Makes no sense. What I want is to be able to 1) create fields for specific kinds of information that I want to show in the public profile and 2) have that information actually show up in the public profile! As it is, the only way to have anything show is to disable the extended profile … which is the opposite of what I’m looking for …

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Actually, I haven’t figured it out. If I want to add fields to the profile so that the person’s information (Address, City, State, ZIP, etc) isn’t displayed as a jumble of sentences, then how can I add those fields if I disable the extended profile option? Why would BuddyPress actually carry a feature that is attractive and then for any usable information to display, one would have to deactivate it? Am I missing something here?

So tell me … how do I add custom fields to the profile AND have them display on each member’s visible public profile?

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Oops! I just figured it out. Thanks! (Although it’s kind of counter-intuitive, isn’t it? Shouldn’t the full profile show in BuddyPress rather than the other way around?)

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

How do I do that? Is there something in the admin panel that will allow me to do that? And how can you tell (or know) which profile system I’m using? Still puzzled.

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Gordon–

Thanks for your help! I figured out what I was doing wrong. I had not replaced the logo image with the new one that I’d created, and so, of course, the old orange one was coming up instead. Isn’t it always the little stuff that trips us up?

All your advice helped me out a great deal. Thank you!

Kit

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Gordon, JFC–

Thanks for the help. I went into the bpmember folder and changed the base.css to show different colors and the new logo (as on the home page) but still no change. Maybe more files need to be modified? All I’m trying to do is change the logo from the socialnetworking one supplied with the installation, and the colors at the top, and some text colors … same changes that I made to the CSS file base.css for the home page of the site. Any suggestions? (Sorry to be such a NitWit!

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

I renamed those two files, placed the code in them that I wanted to work sitewide, and uploaded back to the css folder of the bphome directory. Nothing happened. Maybe you could give me a little more direction about exactly where these files should go? I’d sure appreciate it!

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

I see those files (site-wide-sample.css and custom-sample.css) in the bphome folder. If I change those, do I put them back to the places where they currently reside? Does the bphome folder control the look of these other parts of the site? I’m confused about which files control which parts of the site. If there is some kind of structural documentation on BuddyPress, showing which parts files are controlling, that would be great. It isn’t transparent enough from the structure of the files themselves (at least not for a non-programmer). Thanks!

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

WordPress (regular) and BuddyPress don’t work together (yet). You need to install MU first and then BP.

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Jeff–

Not sure we’re talking apples to apples, but I’ve created this thread to ask how I can make my theme consistent site-wide.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2538

I know there must be an answer to this, because the BuddyPress site we’re on is doing what I want to do!

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Did someone establish a new thread for this topic? I want to do the same thing. Can’t understand why BuddyPress can’t make the same theme available for anyone who signs on and creates a blog … I’ve modified my BuddyPress files and logo to show the colors and style I want–very simple adjustment to the standard BuddyPress theme–and I want that theme to be the same theme that everyone else uses no matter who they are … and for all pages to show up the same way.

http://buddypress.mountainprideconnections.com

This is a test site. Very basic.

[@kitwit Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Kunal17–

You also have to change the CSS file (base.css) so that it \\\”knows\\\” how large your logo is … I changed mine to be slightly taller than the stock logo for BuddyPress. Here is the code and what I did … this is just below the comment for HEADER:

#header {

padding: 25px 20px;

}

#header h1 a {

text-indent: -999em;

background: url(../images/logo.gif) top left no-repeat;

overflow: hidden;

width: 214px;

height: 55px;

display: block;

float: left;

Try that and see if it works. Good luck!