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@mmcomber

It appears from Detective’s post above yours that the path you described is being successful. I intend to do the same with Hybrid Theme when I get started.

Could someone post such skeletal bp-in-between -framework to plugins or somewhere? One that:

– could easily be childed to any WP-theme

– is stripped from any non-bp elements? (header, footer etc.)

– load_template()s were replaced with locate_template()s

?

Or have I misunderstood something and this would be insensible?

I believe the font settings are all in the font css files. Logical enough The default theme uses the 12px sheet.

Hi!

In the example above I’m altering the forum poster avatar and am changing the size with with and height. So it works without editing core. Try if you can get the same effect with the function you are using.

This is not a question of editing bp-core but the specific theme file. I was for example editing:

theme_name/directories/forums/forums-loop.php.

You’ll have to edit some theme file at least.

Firebug is an excellent tool to find where you can change things. If you get Firefox and install Firebug (addon) you’ll get tons of work done. With it you can just point at things in the browser and it will tell you the current CSS that’s governing it. You can even add temporary CSS with Firebug to test things out.

The next step is to modify the CSS-changes in some file that you’re using. How proficient are you with that?

Look at:

The last line of style.css is: /* @import url( _inc/css/custom.css ); */. Remove the starting /* and the ending */ on that line. Save the file.

in:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/

In custom.css you can make the changes you want to add. If you’re not proficient with CSS you have to read up on that.

Another approach would be, in your header, wrap the main menu links with this code:

switch_to_blog( 1 )

...your main menu links...

restore_current_blog();

Also check out this plugin, http://wpmudev.org/project/New-Blog-Defaults, it has a bunch of handy options for new blogs. Including setting a default blog theme.

In BP there are more ways to skin a cat Thanks for sharing your solutions.

I wanted to edit the forums avatar and could edit this:

‘<?php bp_the_topic_last_poster_avatar( ‘type=thumb&width=50&height=50′ ) ?>’

You can find it in the theme /directories/forums/forums-loop.php.

That’s a very broad question.

The thing is…. it’s really quite new to all of us. It’s a new feature and haven’t been tested that extensively. There are no step 1, step 2, step 3 guides. I’m sitting and integrating the P2-theme with Buddypress and it’s a lot of work. I’m new to this and slow but if you start to read the code and try to understand it it’s quite possible to make it bend in the manner you want.

Did you do this step?

“You can try including the components.css file from the BuddyPress parent theme to add layout styles to BuddyPress pages. Open up your WordPress theme’s style.css file. Add the following line below the comment header:

@import url( ../bp-sn-parent/_inc/css/components.css ) “

From the guide:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/

That will get you a bit further to styling perfection. The rest is up to you. I’m sitting and styling my website right now. Lots of fun and frustration.

Great!

I’ve got a closed website so there’s nothing to show.

Since you aren’t using default theme, you probably didn’t configure your theme correctly that CSS is not being loaded. Read documents and forums posts about new theme architectures.

Are you asking how to use parent and child themes in 1.1? The readme is very clear on this but simply place both themes (parent and child) in wp-content/themes/. Activate the child… not the parent. The themes can be found in bp-themes in the BuddyPress download. Just move the contents of that folder (the parent and child theme) to wp-content/themes.

Hi again!

Read this:

“I’ve used a WordPress theme for my blog with the default BuddyPress member theme”

Over at:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/

You’ll have to edit things and if you’re not comfortable with that you’ll probably need more help than you can get here.

I don’t know your level of knowledge. Search around the forums and read up on the topics you need. I haven’t had answers to all my questions here in the BP-forums. You’ll have to search for some of them on your own.

Hi abcaa6!

There are just a few themes right now that are meant to work with 1.1 unless you make som modifications. So (I assume) DjPaul is advising you to use the default theme template and not others (or the only other one found at buddypress.org/extent/themes/).

The parent theme + its child is one of the few that works right now. Unless you rebuild it yourself:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/upgrading-a-buddypress-1-0-theme-for-buddypress-1-1/

I’m off trying that myself right now. Cya folks!

May I ask a possible dumb question? I’ve upgraded to 1.1.1 on 2.8.4a and am using a premium theme for my main blog. I’ve currently reverted back to the old BuddyPress theme system for now.

Here’s my question, can I leave my Premium WordPress theme as the Parent theme, create a child, and place the bp-sn-parent folders and the “optionsbar.php”, “userbar.php” and “plugin-template.php” in the child theme? Also place header.php in the child with the appropriate code for the usernav bar? And then edit the appropriate css?

Is that a workable and effective approach?

Many thanks.

@Jeff Sayre and others.

May I ask a possible dumb question? I’ve upgraded to 1.1.1 on 2.8.4a and am using a premium theme for my main blog. I’ve currently reverted back to the old BuddyPress theme system for now.

Here’s my question, can I leave my Premium WordPress theme as the Parent theme, create a child, and place the bp-sn-parent folders and the “optionsbar.php”, “userbar.php” and “plugin-template.php” in the child theme? Also place header.php in the child with the appropriate code for the usernav bar? And then edit the appropriate css?

Is that a workable and effective approach?

Many thanks.

Give me the weekend to test a theory. This should be possible by setting the BP_ROOT_BLOG to be the ID of the blog you want it to be, but if it’s not working that way I need to take a look at why.

You’ll want bp_enable_multiblog set to false. Setting it to true allows all subdomains to have access to the directories and profiles areas. This is mostly useful if you’re trying to use specific subdomains for specific pieces of BP, or if you want all blogs/subdomains/sites to have access to the directories from within themselves.

If you take a look at profiles.wordpress.org, you’ll see how they have BP used there within a subdomain.

I also think the better answer to your question would be to create a custom theme that only shows BP elements in the domain/subdomain that you want to show them. But, that takes a little more work I suppose.

First of all: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

Secondly: I am assuming you are using the default BP 1.1 theme for the moment – are you? If not, use the default theme until you have it all working. Make sure it is in /wp-content/themes/. Activate the theme in the normal way and select it; this warning message should go away.