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Yes @sxalexander, it appears that the function exists for searching post_text as well as tags and other fields within the class.bbquery file but I cannot work out how to activate it in my theme.

If you want to see how an extra column is added then look at bp-columns, which is a child of bp-default with just an added column…

To find out what needs to be changed to just move the menu bar, one can experiment with the firefox addon from http://getfirebug.com/ ( for developer tools in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 & 9 – press F12. )

From that can be seen that all the following should individually move the menu bar out of the way….
`
#header {
padding-top: 80px;
}

#header #search-bar {
margin-top: 60px;
}

#header #search-bar .padder {
padding-top: 65px;
}

#navigation {
padding-top: 55px;
}
`
When placed (only 1) in the child theme’s style.css

Change to bp-default theme and see if issue is corrected. If it is, please contact theme author and bring it to his attention. If issue is not corrected, deactivate plugins except BuddyPress to isolate the issue.

You could install and activate – Theme Check Plugin and the Log Deprecated Notices Plugin.

The first plugin will check if your theme is up to latest WP standards. Take note of “Warnings” and “Required” notices and make corrections as noted..

The second plugin kicks in some minutes after you activate it. When you check it under Tools > Deprecated notices, it will let you know if there the deprecated template tag/s in your active theme and usually give you the replacement template tag/s.

should be!

For reference, my bp-default child theme header.php would look the same as the one here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php?rev=5003

It is in bp-default theme. But that was not the point ( I was trying to be helpful…. ) .

What I was suggesting is that in your child theme style.css in the `#footer-widgets` section that you should already have, you could also add those (edited!) lines – between the `{` and `}`

I think there may be cleverer ways – but a quick fix would be to open the child theme’s header.php and replace the blank line 28 with
“
Then replace the blank line 43 with:
“
This will ‘comment out’ the relevant lines so they could easily be re-enabled later if required.

Otherwise just delete the lines between – you could always copy header.php to your child theme again if needed…

NB: I just upgraded to buddypress v1.5.3 on the site so that is where the line numbers come from…..

I added something to your other topic about bp search: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/remove-the-default-search-in-bp-default/

I had a look at your site and wonder if the border colour could better match the main widget footer area.

In /bp default/ default.css there is the following in `#footer-widgets`
`
border-bottom: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
border-right: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
`
`#e0e0e0` was to go with a white area… It could be overridden, in the child theme, to better match your new colour for that area

A backtick is a “` symbol, which is normally below the Esc key and above the Tab key on a standard querty english keyboard

Did you put the text (including `Template: bp-default` and `Theme Name: Whatever` on different lines ) at the top of the style.css file?

Did you Activate the child theme (or even preview) on the wordpres themes page?

The file should be called exactly style.css and the name is important . What is put at the top of the file is also important – see previous link to codex…..

It needs to go in it’s own directory, such as in wp-content/themes/my-theme/

NB: Please use backticks in this forum to make sure any code you quote is precise…..

I think the search you are looking for is in header.php

You should not edit or delete anything in the bp-default directory/folder. Place a copy of header.php in your child theme and edit that…..

All it needs at this stage is a new folder under /wp-content/themes/ with a style.css simple text file in it. Then replace #666 (see above) with #778899 ….

You should be able to preview any changes in the themes section, before activating…

If the file being looked for isn’t in your child theme, wordpress will look for it in the parent theme so you don’t need to worry about anything else for this task.

It is possible but it would be much better if you create a child theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

In this situation, you just create a new directory (via ftp or cpanel etc) and a new style.css file See here for what to put at the top of the file.

To find out what needs changing most people use firefox with firebug addon ( then press f12 ) , or developer tools in internet explorer 8 or 9 ( press f12 ) or similar in other browsers. You should also be able to test different colours etc using these tools…..

So, having looked at your site, in your style.css you would put something like
`#container {
background-color:#666;
}

#footer-widgets {
background-color:#666;
}`
for a grey background – if that’s what you wanted…

That should overwrite the bp-default colour but leave the orginal file intact so your edits are not lost on buddypress / bp-default updates…

Then you activate your new theme….

Change to bp-default theme and check if issue is corrected. If it is, you know what to do.

Rename the Custom Community theme folder to something else in your server via FTP/cPanel/etc. e.g. to wp-content/themes/custom-community-xxx

Change to bp-default theme and check if issue is resolved.