Topic: bp-blog theme as default

bp-blog theme as default

concrain
Participant

@russelrocketpopmediacom

15 years ago

I would like to remove the customize options when a user creates a blog.

I want the style of the blog to match my current site style.

When I create a new blog the style is wp-default.

How do I change this to my bp-theme?

How do I remove the customize options when a new blog is created?

thanks

Russel

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abcde666
Participant

@erich73

14 years, 7 months ago

I would also like to know how to style the “User-Blogs” to be the same theme (look and feel) of my BP-page.

Which files do I need to change and where do I find the CSS-file in order to make “User-blogs” the same style as my BP-page ?

At least how to get rid of the blue-colored WP-image and change some CSS-styles (colors, etc.):

http://domain.com/erichtest/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpg

Many thanks,

r-a-y
Keymaster

@r-a-y

14 years, 7 months ago

I’d create a child theme of the default, copy over header.php and remove all the BP nav items, then you’d have a theme you can use for user blogs that looks exactly like the default BP theme.

Andrea Rennick
Participant

@andrea_r

14 years, 7 months ago

And use the new blog defaults plugin to set this themes as the default.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/

abcde666
Participant

@erich73

14 years, 7 months ago

many thanks Ray & Andrea for your replies.

I guess I still do not understand how to do this and where to find the proper files in order to change the style for the user-blogs ?

Is there anybody out there who has made the BP-theme (the one which is used at testbp.org) for being used on all User-Blogs ?

Is it really that difficult to do this ?

r-a-y
Keymaster

@r-a-y

14 years, 7 months ago

Here are the steps to create a user blog theme off of the BP default theme:

1) Create a new child theme.

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

2) Copy over /plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php to your child theme’s directory.

3) In your child theme’s header.php, strip out all the [li] items in the [ul id=”nav”] block as well as the do_action line. Leave the wp_list_pages() line intact.

4) That’s it! Your new theme is ready to be used on user blogs

photodesign
Participant

@photodesign

14 years, 7 months ago

r-a-y this worked great, thanks.

The only things I see are (1) that it seems to insist on using the name of the community in the header instead of the name of the blog – all other custom header items are respected, and (2) is loses the avatar of the poster.

Thanks again.

dainismichel
Participant

@dainismichel

14 years, 2 months ago

did ya get those last two issues fixed…
wow, looks like buddypress has come a long way since i asked this however long ago…glad to see the phenomenal progress!