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BP default theme – can it be made to be fixed width very easily please?

  • @nzde

    Participant

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Hi there

    BuddyPress is fantastic. Really fantastic. Thanks to Andy and the crew.

    I’ve a question please regarding the default theme. Obviously it’s a flexible width theme, adjusting up to a maximum width of (I don’t know what) when you’re using a large monitor.

    I’m wondering how easy it would be to select a fixed width for the theme please. The reason is that I’m keen on doing a modified home page but the flexible width may play a bit of havoc with the posting of images, videos etc when one moves from one monitor size to another.

    Does anyone know whether this’d be an easy fix please?

    Many thanks

    Richard

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  • @bowromir

    Participant

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Making it fixed is really easy..

    1: Open up default.css (_inc/css/default.css) and right at the first few lines under the “body” selector change this:

    min-width: 960px;

    max-width: 1250px;

    to this

    min-width: 960px;

    max-width: 960px;

    Now open up adminbar.css and do the same.. done!

    @apeatling

    Keymaster

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Don’t do that, create a new child theme and override the default css by adding the above into your child themes style.css. Otherwise you will lose the changes on upgrade.

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

    @bowromir

    Participant

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Woops.. forgot to mention that.. forgive me I was still hungover ;)

    @ashfame

    Participant

    14 years, 10 months ago

    If its the only change, its better to do it in the default css only and again do it at every upgrade. It would be better in terms of performance but if you are using lots of CSS stylers then better go for a child theme :)

    @r-a-y

    Keymaster

    14 years, 10 months ago

    @ashfame

    I wouldn’t recommend that. Andy’s method is the preferred method.

    I think the performance hit in using child themes is minimal.

    @ashfame

    Participant

    14 years, 10 months ago

    @r-a-y

    @import for CSS is expensive

    Using a child theme for small modification adds two of them

    @takeo

    Participant

    14 years, 10 months ago

    First I’ve hear of that. I’ll have to do some searching. I’ve never considered @import to be “expensive”.

    @r-a-y

    Keymaster

    14 years, 10 months ago

    @ashfame, it only adds one @import request if you do your overrides in the same CSS file.

    eg.

    @import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/style.css );
    

    
#content {WHATEVER;}
    

    
...
    
more overrides here

    @nzde

    Participant

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Cool. Thanks so much for this tweak. Very much appreciated.

    @ashfame

    Participant

    14 years, 10 months ago

    @David

    I belive you will come up with something which is more informative :)


    @ray

    what about the adminbar.css ?

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