Reply To: Font colour on Buddypress pages
BP experts seem to know (or are willing to share) the answer
Firstly it isn’t really something that requires BP expertise nor is it some secret people are trying to hide from you.
CSS is coding and requires some degree of understanding if you wish to start modifying code to some degree you’ll have to leave behind that notion of being a non expert 🙂
There is no general bit of code that can be provided to suit all users in this request, the start point for stating a general font color is the body tag as this is a inherited property however then that color can be overridden with other values further on down into the cascade so if it didn’t work on the body tag likely it is being stated somewhere else and as there is no particular set notion as to where as this is a stylesheet authors decision it’s hard to give anything other generic approaches. Using a tool such as firebug in FireFox you may be able to examine the elements that have styled text and see where they inherit things like color properties from in the stylesheet and then adjust accordingly.
@henrywright approach adding !important might work however it’s not a good practise (sorry Henry 🙂 )
The reason people are always advised to use child themes is that this way you can make changes and be assured they won’t get overwritten in updates, now in your case looking at your custom theme with very bold coloured backgrounds the rules in the buddypress.css stylesheet that set activity meta to grey would need changing but to do this you would want to copy over that stylesheet or in your themes styles write very specific rulesets to override the BP ones.
The process for copying over BP files is described here:
