You don’t edit the dashboard BP pages, they are simply placeholders for BP, you mention the BP codex did you not see this page? :
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/
That should help.
i did read it, but as a newbie its sometimes a little complex and i thought there was a way to bypass dealing directly with php files.so in order to change the single member page layout i have to make changes directly to child-theme php files?im trying to understand the logic because my problem (remove the right side bar from the single member page )was already posted a lot of times and none of the solutions worked for me -the theme i have installed (and child theme i have created) has an option for 3 culomns layout
so if can you help me – which of these files will help me to remove and how, the side-bar from the single member page )
the optional files theme/members/single/home.php
theme/members/index.php
there is no page.php in members directory.
i have tried to remove `<?php get_sidebar( ‘buddypress’ ); ?> from them -didnt help
there are few more files
in the theme directory left-sidebar.php right-sidebar.php and page.php but i will probably have to use conditional tags <?php is_page_ and since i don’t know how to call this page i dont know how to write this function.
@mewrd you cannot bypass dealing directly with PHP files to customize some or all of your BP pages. Basically BP pages are rendered via the theme’s default page.php file.
i have tried to remove `<?php get_sidebar( ‘buddypress’ ); ?> from them -didnt help
What theme are you using? If you’re using a child theme of the BP Default theme, then that would work on the file you copied over from BP Default theme into your child theme’s folder in server.
However, if you’re using a WordPress theme with BP Theme Compatibility, for BP 1.7 per link hnla gave above you’re limited to customizing the HTML structure wrapping the BP templates to all templates or not at all (see last paragraph). Full customization of HTML wrappers (like removing sidebar for the Members pages only) is possible come BP 1.8 https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/template-hierarchy/
thank you so much for taking time to respond to my question,
i am using – buddy multi-purpose -theme from themeforest,(indeed wordpress with bp compatibility but they are not good at support though)
so i will wait for bp 1.8 if i understand you correctly,
big relief
tnx again
