Nevermind I found it in the buddypress-member / css folder
I’ve been looking around in the css files.
In buddypress-home > css, I found custom-sample.css. The comment in the file says to rename it as custom.css and put style changes in that file.
This way style changes will be preserved even while updating the buddypress-home theme.
This is the answer I needed and I’m posting it in case it will help someone else too. Thanks, Andy, for enabling this through your file structure.
Did you put /member-themes in /wp-content? I made the mistake before of putting it in wp-content/themes, but it really goes in /wp-content.
When I have problems with either the member or home themes the first thing I do is thrash around looking for the problem in code. It’s never the code lately. Lately it’s me. I was having *weird* home theme problems right after an update to bp.
After awhile I realized I hadn’t moved the home and member themes out of /mu-plugins into the correct spots in themes and wp-content.
I was running new core code on old theme code. Didn’t work well.
The ‘news’ button only works if the home theme is running on blog id 1. Sounds like it isn’t. You have to hack some stuff to get it to work. If you are comfortable changing the code in the home theme then it’s here:
if ( $current_blog->blog_id > 1 )
return false;
lines 59/50 in themes/buddypress-home/functions.php. Comment those out and news works.
Thank you Andy for taking time out from getting the beta release ready to help. Your help was spot on. I’m wondering why all the permissions weren’t set at 755 to begin with. I’m going through individually setting them to the right levels but its quite painstaking.
Hey burtadsit – funny – I figured I’d do theme work as well until someone chimed! I’ll admit to you that this is my 1st MU install, all the others were vanilla WP jobs. Wierd. I use hostgator and they are a little off in the way they store your files. Just found it via another route. Disregard. Will give the bbPress install a go. Thanks. You’ll likely be hearing form me again.
Mike
Howdy mike,
1. Yup. bp relies on bbpress for it’s forums.
2. ahhh… you can’t not have one. It’s the only way that mu knows where to go for your database and other such things. You looking in the correct dir?
3. Torturing animals is high-level?
Until somebody chimes in with a magic solution to all this, I’m gonna go work on a theme. So there.
It’s entirely permissions. Make sure everything in the theme and any JS/CSS in buddypress is 755.
Hmm that worked a little. Things are a little less busted up, though still kinda screwy as you can see if you visit. Any more ideas?
Sorry to bump but anyone have any idea what I’m doing wrong here? I’ve followed the readme install to the t. Help.
To be clear I’m using the latest WPMU and r658 of BuddyPress. Also, though I said above member-themes didn’t work when I followed the readme instructions and so I moved it to wp-content/themes/, I’ve since moved it back to follow the readme instructions exactly. Things still not looking right. Help?
I went to your site and I see what it is doing. I have no idea why though. I did notice that you’ve installed mu with the subdirectory option and you are running the bp home theme on your ‘sajjadkhan’ blog. I don’t know what that would have to do with it but try selecting a different theme for your other blog.
The error msg looks like you have the bp home theme in /wp-content/member-themes
Got me.
thanks for reply . I double checked and bp home theme is in /wp-content/themes
and member theme is in /wp-content/member-themes
It doesn’t look like you have things configured quite right yet.
The bp home theme shouldn’t be in: /wp-content/member-themes it should be in: /wp-content/themes
The bp member theme should be in: /wp-content/member-themes
What is confusing to me is that it’s reporting an error looking for *anything* in /wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-home/. That directory path doesn’t exist. Shouldn’t exist.
Oh! That’s it! I had put /member-themes in /themes/ not /wp-content/!!!!
It is working now! Thank you so much. What a dumb mistake. I read where to put it a million times!
Now I can move on to install the forums!
Those errors are normal. Normal? Well, everybody has them for the moment. Nothing to get excited about. The URLs for the menu items you are having problems with are launching stuff in the member theme.
Double check the member theme installation. Should be in /wp-content/member-themes/(stuff here)
Any custom code in your bp install?
I’m at a total loss. This navigation bar used to work for me until about trunk r571 or so.
I took out my MU plugins one by one and without affecting any change on the navigation bar. Still blank screens.
The BP member theme is here: /wp-content/themes/member-themes/buddypress-member. That’s right?
I am not getting any error messages (as you can see above).
I can’t think of anything else to try. (I haven’t yet added the forum because I’d like to get this working again).
If you would take a look: http://gnowfglins.net/.
Thanks for the help. I appreciate any you can give!
These are the errors I’m getting and they ARE theme related:
[Fri Dec 12 06:21:47 2008] [error] [client 166.129.121.43] File does not exist: …/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/images/background.gif, referer: http://…/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/style.css
[Thu Dec 11 21:43:13 2008] [error] [client 166.129.9.233] File does not exist: …/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/custom-styles.css, referer: http://…/wp-content/themes/buddypress-home/style.css
I’ll go hunt down those files, I guess. Beats me why they haven’t been going over with the rest of the files every time I update the trunk.
The site in my profile is NOT the site I am using for a WPMU-BP test. On the test site, I am using the WPMU 2.7 RC-whatever-it-is.
I DO have all the bp components installed. I made the switch to using the member-themes folder but I’ll take a look at that specifically since you mentioned the theme. Maybe I’ve done something wrong there.
And I’ll check the error logs. Thanks.
