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In reply to: HELP ON USING A BUDDY PRESS THEME!
Ok so most of these themes are built on bp-default, this theme is to be retired, a process begun with BP 1.9, this doesn’t mean it can’t be used and is still bundled in the core plugin for the moment, existing sites using it either directly or as a child of will still be able to work but new installs will not see the theme appear in the WP theme page as a selection, this is by way of encouraging people to use the new Theme Compatibility process which allows any theme to be used.
does this mean i can build a theme on bp-default without creating a child theme now hugo without it being overwritten when i update after 1.9.1?
the reason i ask this is because there is a plugin that i cant seem to get working on a bp-default child theme yet it works flawlessly from the bp-default parent.
@modemlooper thankyou for all your help i have managed to completely resolve this now you can mark this thread as solved! once again thankyou very much pal and to hugo cheers for recommending for me to get a developer and insulting my intelligence, like i said earlier i knew i was in the right direction when i mentioned needing to create a header-buddypress.php i just wasnt sure, its not like modemlooper had to explain everything in great detail to me he gave me a simple few lined solution and i followed it! like i said im a quik learner :)….the way i solved it was to not create the buddypress.php file you mentioned modemlooper and editing out what i needed to in just the header-buddypress.php.
for some reason when creating the other php my sliding login panel disappeared completely from all my buddypress pages.
i can now finally finish my theme top to bottom and launch my website…so really…thx again modemlooper!@modemlooper ok the reason my sliding login panel dissapears is when i create the buddypress php file and tell it to get buddypress header its no longer including my slider..any ideas? what would i add to get it to call my sliding panel too?
@modemlooper hmm actually not all has gone to plan on closer inspection because i have a search bar and a facebook google and twitter icon in my header so removing the header image still leaves these plus i have a custom sliding menu navigation panel at the top of my webpage instead of the buddypress default nav bar and when i remove this link…<header class=”art-header<?php echo (theme_get_option(‘theme_header_clickable’) ? ‘ clickable’ : ”); ?>”> it also removes my sliding login panel which is above my header? so not only do i ahve to remove my header image i need to remove the icons and search bar and stop it from removing my sliding login panel above my header??
even if i just remove this line theme_header_clickable my header dissapears but so does the sliding login panelits ok @modemlooper i figured it out 🙂 any chance you can point me in right direction on how to remove my main navigation bar too? as i could supplement it with a side nav bar in the buddypress pages thx…by the way youve been a great help so far.
@modemlooper which part of my header-buddypress.php do i remove pal so i do it right?
<?php global $wp_locale;
if (isset($wp_locale)) {
$wp_locale->text_direction = ‘ltr’;
} ?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head>
<meta charset=”<?php bloginfo(‘charset’) ?>” />
<title><?php wp_title(‘|’, true, ‘right’); bloginfo(‘name’); ?></title>
<!–[if lt IE 9]><script src=”https://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js”></script><![endif]–><link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’) ?>” media=”screen” />
<link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?>” />
<?php
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wp_generator’);
if (is_singular() && get_option(‘thread_comments’)) {
wp_enqueue_script(‘comment-reply’);
}
wp_head();
?>
</head>
<body <?php body_class(); ?>><div id=”art-main”>
<nav class=”art-nav”>
<?php
echo theme_get_menu(array(
‘source’ => theme_get_option(‘theme_menu_source’),
‘depth’ => theme_get_option(‘theme_menu_depth’),
‘menu’ => ‘primary-menu’,
‘class’ => ‘art-hmenu’
)
);
get_sidebar(‘nav’);
?>
</nav><?php if(theme_has_layout_part(“header”)) : ?>
<header class=”art-header<?php echo (theme_get_option(‘theme_header_clickable’) ? ‘ clickable’ : ”); ?>”><?php get_sidebar(‘header’); ?></header>
<?php endif; ?><div class=”art-sheet clearfix”>
<div class=”art-layout-wrapper”>
<div class=”art-content-layout”>
<div class=”art-content-layout-row”>
<div class=”art-layout-cell art-content”>oh by the way hugo as to reaching my abilities lol, do you not think thats a little off putting and undermining to someone who is just learning from scratch how to develop a website?
3 months ago i knew nothing about web-design and decided to learn myself all through youtube tutorials and places like these forums, my strong points are design/styling and logo creation /artwork ect, so putting these hand in hand with web-design makes sense, what is wrong with learning and asking a question or two when your stuck?i am not just creating a buddypress website i am also integrating alot of other features to this website that all work very well together (which i would say was a little over ambitious for a first time project but has all come together great), i am a very quik learner and sometimes only need a nudge in the right direction when im stuck, i didnt go out and buy a buddypress allready made theme and stick my own styling on top ive created my own theme and still made it work.
like i said hugo, as for my abilities, well my abilities will only grow, i cannot back out and go…oh i better go hire a developer lol
thx to people like modemlooper people like me can carry on learning! 🙂
why thankyou modemlooper…if you read above you will see i was on the right track but wasnt to sure, is there any way i can just add some sort of code to exclude it from calling the header within the buddypress pages? and how would i go about removing my navigation bar too(not the buddypress one, my main one?)
hugo and thx for closing the other thread but thats just crazy having to hire a developer when im askinga genuine question to people who know how to do this and could just tell me what to do?
i am capable of doing it myself if someone steps forward and just says “hey this is what you do”!i know for a fact hugo you will know how to do this by reading other posts, you have helped people out with allsorts of issues. and you could help me out if you wanted to? 🙂
why should it be any different for me to ask a question and for someone to step up and give me a solution?when someone asks for help doing something, you dont expect the answer to be oh go hire a developer? how is that helpfull?
im asking valid question! whats so different than anyone else asking about how to do something in these forums? and then someone saying oh you do this like this and add this to this etc?you could allways put a sticky at top of these forums saying …oh by the way if your stuck dont ask in here go and hire a developer! 🙂
p.s i know its just a website issue but what if you was in same position?
think about it
your virtually ready to launch your website and this issue arises after 3 months solid hard work , then you sit at your computer hitting this wall hour after hour with no clue of how to fix it going round and round in circles for over a week, stuck! cant move forward! cant do anything to rectify it! no help! cant find any info on searching the net after 2 million searches! (lol)
what does one do? give up? launch an incomplete website for people to say oh why didnt you do it this way its so hard to navigate like this, why dont you remove the header? lol you understanding my despair?asynaptic thx for the reply i think i posted this in worng section.
buddypress is installed and works fine…i dont need help from support on any of the matters on that page.
i just need someone to tell me how to remove my website header image and my navigation bar from above anything thats buddypress related on my website.
for instance do i need to create a budypress header php and if i do how do i exclude it from using my header image and navigation bar in wordpress pages? what would i add to the header php to stop these pages calling the header and nav bar.
i dont know how much more clearer i can be on what i need to do, thats what i dont understand? im asking a simple enough question?
showing someone a screenshot of my header wouldnt help its the same as anyone elses header just that it stretches to far down the page …its about 700px down the page by the time users have scrolled to the buddypress menus in the content area of my page, hence why i need to just remove my header and navigation bar from above my main content area on the buddypress pages (thus making it easier for users to navigate)!
i also know nearly every experienced buddypress user will probably know how to do this but no-one will reply or help me out?i cant do this as mentioned above…my header is a unique feature of all the pages…..ive integrated the main nav bar for my website into the header so it looks like part of the header….basically my site has 2 seperate content area one for the buddypress side of things and one for the orther pages if i remove the header i destroy the whole look of my theme as this section is crucial for navigation to the other areas…i refuse to believe that someone on these forums that have been using buddypress for years dont know where i would find where the links to the activity/profile/messages/ can be changed…i only need to locate these links in buddypress really to point them to under the header as henry said above (if it works) …surely someone knows how i can do this….im new to the buddypress plugin and nthis is why i need help to do this…basiclly its only location of where the links are in budypress files so i can edit them that i really need help with.
i meant to say header .php lol i dunno what i was typing style.css for haha its because im changing some styling in my style.css as we speak lol
yes this is what i was saying theres only the buddypress menu links i want to do this function so no need to hunt for all my other links….surely someone must know where these links are located in buddypress…what file? i only need to add the #top to the activity/profile/messages/friends/groups/settings/personal/mentions/favourites etc in the buddypress menu itself.
sorry the link would look like this
a id=”user-messages” href=”http://www.mysite.com/connect/members/username/messages/”>
ok so let me get this straight i would locate where my header is in my themes style.css add this line underneath.
<!– end header — >
<div id=”top”>…</div>then add the #top to all the links that i want to jump to under my header?
if so where do i find the links to add the #top ..where are the links located in buddypress to the activity/profile/messages tabs? i can see them if i use firebug but cannot locate them ..what file in buddypress will the be in?
example if i look in firebug at the messages tab i can see that it is
href=”http://www.mysite.com/connect/members/username/messages/”>
but i dont know where buddypress stores this as ive looked through a few files and cannot find it and how would i amend this with #top once found? could you give an example please.thats all i need to know its probably staring me in the face but i just cant see it 🙂
