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Probably not, but you could probably edit the text yourself!

One way of doing this is by cropping just the text as an image and running it through WhatTheFont to identify the font and then making your textual edits (providing you have the font in question!)

+1 for making the settings page themeable, JJJ!

I’m petitioning with Andy to make the settings pages themeable in 1.1. I might have to do it myself.

Hey gyonis,

For #1:

You’ll want to turn off blog registration and also set the default user role in WPMU to be “author”; that way everyone will be able to make a post on the root blog.

You can do this by going into your WPMU admin area and navigating to “Site Admin > Options”. Set “Allow New Registrations” to “Only user account can be created”. And set “Dashboard User Default Role” to “Author”.

For #2:

You’ll want to use some type of customized post screen plugin such as Flutter or my personal favorite Custom Field Template.

That should get you going!

You might also want to read this thread which talks about how to create a community blog.

Makes sense. When I saw the filename (theme-options.php)… I figured this was a custom generated css file that was pulling in settings from the admin side. I guess the theme needs more testing maybe? Anyway… you could add “#post-entry li blockquote {color:#000;}” anywhere and it should work. Using the BuddyPress “custom.css” file or “site-wide.css” files might make sense if you don’t plan on changing the theme and don’t want to mess with the theme files.

Just as David Lewis said:

look at theme-option.php line 4

body {

color:#FFFFFF !important;

font-family:Arial,sans-serif !important;

}

take out “!important”

Hi John James,

where will this P2-theme being apllied ?

At each User-blog, or at a Group-Blog or somewhere else ?

Many thanks,

Erich

Okay, I’ll go backwards part way up the list of answers:

Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files. how do i check?…hosting is through GoDaddy.

GoDaddy provides different levels of access to server error logs depending on your hosting plan. Contact customer support and ask them.

Your next step is to try an isolate the problem. First, you switch back to the default theme and see if the problem goes away. If it does, then you most likely have an issue with your default theme. Contact the theme designer and ask for assistance.

However, I’m guessing it is not a theme issue but either an issue with one (or more) of the many plugins you have installed and activated or an issue with your mail server. Your server’s log files should help you in determining if there is a server issue with sending mail.

But, until you can get at your server’s log files, you can investigate possible plugin conflicts–and you might actually find the problem in doing so.

What you need to do is go through the standard procedure for finding plugin conflicts. Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress. Since it is the BP registration mail messages that are in question, you must keep BP activated.

Now, the first step is to try the registration process with just BP activated. If the registration goes through without an issue, then you can start to suspect that the issue is caused by one of the other plugins (or some combination of them acting together).

So next you begin reactivating your other plugins, one at a time. Each time you activate a plugin, you test to see if the issue occurs. This means that you only have one additional plugin activated besides BP. If the problem does occur then the issue could actually be with the plugin you just activated. You make a note of that possibility, deactivate it and move on to the next plugin and test it the same way. Each time, you note what happens. You may find other plugins also cause the issue to return.

Finally, you activate all the plugins that appear to not cause a conflict and see if the issue returns. If it does not, you now know that you can at least use that subset of plugins together without causing this particular issue.

What can you do when you find a plugin conflict?

• Make sure that you are using the most recent version of that plugin and that it is compatible with the version of WPMU you’re running
• Contact the plugin developer and ask for their assistance
• Simply deactivate that plugin and not use it. You may be able to find a substitute plugin
• Report your plugin conflicts back here so that the community can benefit as well.

Woah, woah. First of all, get Firebug for Firefox. It lets you inspect and amend CSS on the fly which would help you with this sort of thing.

Secondly, I just got crit by a wall of text for 10,000 damage. Please use a ‘pastebin’ service, such as http://buddypress.pastebin.com/, in future.

Thirdly, I’m also going to mark this thread as complete for your as your above post seems to suggest you have resolved your problem.

First, always read the “readme.txt” file before proceeding with any WPMU or BuddyPress upgrade.

Before installing BuddyPress from trunk, you need to make sure that you are running WPMU 2.8.4a. If not, you need to deactivate all WPMU plugins, upgrade WPMU, and then try again. The latest WPMU version can be found here.

Once you’ve installed BuddyPress, make sure you move the theme files into their proper location.

Get Firebug for Firefox ! really a must-have and working and tuning themes…

I found the property using Firebug on Firefox:

.wp-caption, ol.commentlist li, #cf {

-moz-background-clip:border !important;

-moz-background-inline-policy:continuous !important;

-moz-background-origin:padding !important;

background:#FFFFFF none repeat scroll 0 0 !important;

}

Change the background property and you’re done.

But it looks that the CSS propoerty is part of your templates options. So check the template options or the file theme-options.php

Hope this will help.

Are you using the default theme that comes with BuddyPress or a custom theme (3rd-party theme)?

David, definitely sounds easier.

I edited and uploaded custom.css to /wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/css, but doesn’t the custom style sheet need to be called into the template? Simply uploading the file doesn’t seem to do the trick.

Thats a good trick John, thanks.

The other day someone was asking about assigning different members “levels” to have access to certain assets. This seems like a good way to do it. Create 5 groups or so and base permissions on those.

Any thoughts if that would be easier than assigning members an actual permission level?