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Ok i have update to new buddypress which i see changes the method used to set size.

Ok i have worked out why they are different, the ‘Me’ and ‘My Tags’ menu text are just text whereas the additional menu text that appears when selecting edit profile are links.

The menu text and links font are not the same, some people may be happy with this but personally i would prefer all text whether it heading or heading/link to be the same if it is in the same location, ie menu bar.

It looks like this something i will have try and change by creating a new style, though would have preferred this to be part of BP.

cheers

Sorry i didnt make it too clear the title of my home page currently reads ” firevine social media marketing network” in the title bar i have decided to change the nature of my site so that title no longer fits, is there any way to change this or would i need to re-install buddypress ?

i have not yet found a way to change it from my admin menu

Thanks Manoj,

Imagine the standard Buddypress layout. Now go to friends on the left menu. I have changed this page to just have the search feature with ‘members’ selected as the search option.You type in a member, it searches and returns the ‘member listing’ and AJAX powered member search feature.

This is exactly what I want, however, once you search, in the middle bar, default member template, where additional options are listed Eg. My friends, friend requests etc ‘Profile’ ‘Friends’ and the other ‘main’ titles appear with the following URLs:

‘http://address/member//profile

Any ideas howt o get rid of this?

Thanks again

@ Jeff Sayre :

Yes, but the thing is, I have read that I should follow the “BuddyPress” option under “Site Admin” menu, in order to change the member theme.

I am still unable to change the user theme.

How can I change the member theme ?

Thanks for a detailed reply, David.

No, I am not using Mac.

Yes, I want the width to be 800px (in fact, less than that, to get rid off the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of my screen).

I was on a trial-and error spree at a testing site, and was able to found the differences you have mentioned and have reached the same conclusion.

“the difference between profile pages and other pages seems to be that profile pages have two left sidebars with a fixed width of 138px (#optionsbar and #userbar) while the other pages have a single right sidebar (#sidebar) without any width defined (i.e. 100%). Meanwhile, #main is used on all pages and has a min-width of 680px. So unless you change some CSS code… the profile pages will always be at least 956px wide.”

Yes I have tried the max/mini width in the base.css, making both 800px, and it works on the main page and the some other pages as well (that is, under the second horizontal menu). It should work (after all IE6 displays all pages in 800px).

I am not sure how atentive I was to #main. I must try it. I must say your reply has given me some hope and a better idea about things, but I will add that BP still has a bug. On buddypress.org itself you can see that: the header or admin bar is fixed at 800px; it can’t adjust its width with that of the rest of the site. It works well with Firefox if I use: #wp-admin-bar { width: 960px !important; } … but it should work automatically.

I am also testing Elgg; several adjustments are pretty easier there compared to BP, but I perfectly agree with you: “It has some features I need that BP currently lacks… but BP is clearly much superior otherwise”. in addition BP has a very pleasant, elegant look. This is why I want to stick with BP and spend hours on my WPMU site.

Regards.

Socialpreneur: Ok thanks.

Would I have to edit the header.php for both the home and bpmember theme? So I would add the same code to both files?

<div id="header">

<h1 id="logo"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php bp_site_name() ?></a></h1>



<ul id="nav">

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( 'home' ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_HOME_BLOG_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php bp_home_blog_url() ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Blog', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Blog', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Members', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Members', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>



<?php if ( function_exists( 'groups_install' ) ) { ?>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_GROUPS_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Groups', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Groups', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>

<?php } ?>



<?php if ( function_exists( 'bp_blogs_install' ) ) { ?>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_BLOGS_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_BLOGS_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Blogs', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Blogs', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>

<?php } ?>



<?php do_action( 'bp_nav_items' ); ?>

</ul>

</div>

If I wanted to add another menu-link would I have to add something like this to both header.php files? Saying the new page was called ‘pagename’:

<?php if ( function_exists( 'bp_pagename_install' ) ) { ?>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_PAGENAME_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_PAGENAME_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Pagename', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Pagename', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>

<?php } ?>

Or is this wrong? Just wanna make sure I do it right.

Socialpreneur >

I guess its the header.php file in the bpmember theme that has to be edited and not the header.php in the home theme? Or should the change be added to both header.php files?

They almost look the same so whats the difference between the two?

Also how would the code look, there’s a section where it says:

Bpmember theme’s header.php:

<div id="header">

<h1 id="logo"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php bp_site_name() ?></a></h1>



<ul id="nav">

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( 'home' ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_HOME_BLOG_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php bp_home_blog_url() ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Blog', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Blog', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Members', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Members', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>



<?php if ( function_exists( 'groups_install' ) ) { ?>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_GROUPS_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_GROUPS_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Groups', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Groups', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>

<?php } ?>



<?php if ( function_exists( 'bp_blogs_install' ) ) { ?>

<li<?php if ( bp_is_page( BP_BLOGS_SLUG ) ) {?> class="selected"<?php } ?>><a href="<?php echo get_option('home') ?>/<?php echo BP_BLOGS_SLUG ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Blogs', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Blogs', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>

<?php } ?>



<?php do_action( 'bp_nav_items' ); ?>

</ul>

</div>

Its probably here the extra code would have to be added? I cant seem to get it to work.

Ok, I solved this.

When changing slugs, css needs to be hacked a little to show the icons properly. For example, when you change groups slug to communities in bp-custom like this:

define('BP_GROUPS_SLUG', 'communities');

You will need to find the following css entry from base.css locating at bp-themes/buddypress-member/css/.

li a#user-groups, li a#my-groups {background: url(../images/groups_bullet.gif) 88% 52% no-repeat;}

Copy above, create a file called custom.css if you haven’t done yet. Modify the css to:

li a#user-communities, li a#my-communities {background: url(../../images/groups_bullet.gif) 88% 52% no-repeat;}

And upload custom.css to bp-themes/buddypress-member/css/custom-components/

That’s it!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Your code works like a charm, and you have taught me a great deal about how BuddyPress (and WPMU) works. I really, really appreciate it.

Incidentally, the changes I made are as follows, in case your or anyone else is curious:

global $current_user;

if ( isset( $roles['administrator'] ) || isset( $roles['editor'] ) || isset( $roles['contributor'] ) || is_site_admin() )

was added to the “my_can_user_create_a_blog” function. Kind of an odd set of conditions, but, well…whatever. I\’m going to do a little bit of digging around later on, and see if I can condense that down a little (initially I’d planned to have it as a sort of “if user level is great than x” thing, but my cursory examination didn’t turn that up, so this is a decent stopgap for now).

I also added an if statement that draws on the “my_can_user_create_a_blog” function for the “my_blogs_setup_nav” function, so that now everything it does is wrapped thusly:

if (my_can_user_create_a_blog()==true) {

...

}

and changed “is_user_logged_in” in the “my_adminbar_blogs_menu” function to call “my_can_user_create_a_blog” instead.

Again, I can’t thank you enough. I only hope some day I can help someone out the way you’ve helped me.