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Easy way to check although possibly disruptive to your users is to drop back to default theme and see if the ‘?’ works if it does it’s Suffusion at fault.

read this theres a part about child themes

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_custom_image_header

Go into file widget-home.php and change

query_posts(“cat=-$id”);

to

query_posts(“cat=-$id&showposts=6”);

Change the number to the amount of posts you want to see

don’t know how it’s suddenly appeared, it’s always been there and it is supposed to be clickable to reveal @mention guidance text, the fact that yours isn’t makes me suspect a custom theme issue and if it just appeared was there a recent upgrade to the custom theme?

If you check a regular bp-default install you’ll see the functionality.

hi all
how can I add more then four thumbs of the latest posts in to the `widget home Page` template?

Hi @phyz, are you talking about the custom community theme? This functionality is not added yet.

What is the result if you drop back to the default BP theme and try or for that matter plain WP

Ah hmm, red rag to a web developer

No need to learn Photoshop, CSS, HTML or other technologies

Well there you go thanks arseseer , makes me redundant

I can’t see that that automated web site creator will present any huge issues as long s it creates standard type static theme files it will simply be a case of identifying those elements and class names existing in one file but not the other.

Artisteer – see http://www.artisteer.com/
It’s a theme generator, if you like. I generally use it to quickly create a theme, then tidy things up in the CSS.

Re the Jobs board, I didn’t know one existed – will head over there later today if I don’t sort something first.
Thanks

This aspect shouldn’t really have anything to do with PHP it’s a markup issue or markup and CSS in respect to matching class or id names, however I’m not familiar with the theme you reference.

I don’t care I just want it fixed… is this wrong??

Not wrong but one has to be careful of the tenor of ones comments/requests, obviously no one is under an obligation to help being that this is a volunteer support forum.

As per my previous suggestion have you tried opening the two files I suggested and comparing the structure? Looking at such elements as say

<div id=”content”> in the BP file and comparing that to your chosen themes file if they differ you need to adjust the BP file to match also look for other elements that may be in your chosen theme file but not present in the BP one. It’s this structure that you need to get to match for the BP files to work, it’s markup/ specific not PHP even though the files might be typed as .php

If this still proves too difficult or demands on your time not permitting (most of us have huge demands on our time ) then I suggest posting in the jobs board group for some hired help.

Lastly The theme Artisteer might just possibly create themes in a manner that is simply not possible to work into a BP theme or at least that presents additional difficulties over more static themes, that is speculation though but I would say that there are a fair few themes that would never work well with BP due to flaws in their construction.

There have been dozens if not hundreds of posts on this issue due to the fact that this step requires – as I believe it does pretty clearly state – a basic knowledge of CSS/HTML and of how themes are structured and from that point on requires some manual work.

There comes a point where a little coding knowledge is required BP is not a simple application and the requirement to have it use a WP theme not a standard one jivany makes some vaild points about this earlier in the thread. That said it isn’t actually that difficult only requiring basic level knowledge and you do state I have a good understanding of CSS, and HTML but when it comes to PHP I am pretty much beat. a good knowledge is more than is required and as for PHP at this stage it isn’t really relevant.

In some of those posts you allude to there are further explanations of what needs doing , I know as I’ve responded to a few, but a basic pointer in the right direction is about all that can be given the rest is up to the individual, call it if you will the price of admission? Checking those threads carefully might help? Usually it’s only a case of comparing two files and ensuring that the structure matches i.e elements and names they are given page.php is a possible starting point to compare against one of the BP directory index files?

Please note this isn’t meaning to be unhelpful but to ask that members take this further is possibly asking too? much of them. An absolute and definitive guide to the template process is never going to be that easy to do as themes will vary and the steps required change accordingly.

Providing a zip file suggests you hope that someone will take the files and do the work for you this isn’t appropriate to expect of anyone, but maybe someone with time on their hands will, if not as suggested earlier in the thread you might need to hire someone for a few hours to do this for you?

Re: Step 3 – customizing theme for BP.
There has been dozens, if not hundreds of posts regarding this issue, is there anyone here that can edit my files, or provide a full tutorial on how to do this.
I have created my theme using Artisteer, and no matter how many times I have tried to correct the alignment it just will not work!!
I have a good understanding of CSS, and HTML but when it comes to PHP I am pretty much beat.
The files are all local, I am working on this locally on the Mac, using MAMP so I don’t have a URL to give, but can give a location where I have a zip file of the required files.
Hopefully someone with a bit of know-how will create either a plugin to correct this, or a fully explained tutorial that covers this properly.

Simply beautiful. Congratulations on a job well done.

I have been trying to make Artisteer files usable for BP, with no luck…
Having tried several times I cannot seem to get the code right on all the files, below is the theme’s page.php code, can some kind person here please highlight or indicate to me (I am not good at PHP, CSS, or HTML yes, but not PHP) what I have to carry across to the BP files.

bacticks

bacticks

Your plugin works a treat rich – thanks for sharing!

I think ajax refresh is THE thing that’s missing from BuddyPress at the moment. How does the P2 theme do it? Maybe we could “borrow” that functionality.

I wish I was a coder…