Update i’ve managed to get the page to work but i now need some help resizing it? Please take a look here so you understand http://liharris.com/members/ For some reason everything is squished to the left?
@liharris – welcome to the suck (that is theme issues with bp (and other things bp related like rtmedia) (welcome to the suck a movie quote, kind of joking)-
you will likely not get any help in the bp forums when it comes to premium themes, you should contact the theme author.
I did a quick look, and I must say I have zero knowledge of that theme and all the css things that could affect everything – I am also not a css expert.
My first thought is that you can create something very similar with a free theme from the wp-repo and a one of the “cards” plugins from the from wp-repo..
my second thought is wondering why the theme author did not include a couple of css rules like:
.header {
margin-left: -200px !important;
}
body {
margin-left: 200px;
}
but again I have no idea what he/she is trying to do with whatever elements, and how one may affect another in different situations..
you could try to make a child theme (good luck with that friggin process!)
and adapt those rules..
but I suggest that you don’t get married to that theme and buddypress – even if you find a theme that actually says “works with buddypress” – I think you will find little issues to contend with – and from what I have seen (lately even) is that these premium theme authors (And free theme authors) have trouble keeping up with bp and other things that are (IMHO) needed addons with bp (rtmedia, or/and media press, or that other one – umm. photo something)
anyhow – I gave up on all premium and free themes and have been stuck with working with 2014 theme as it’s the only thing that gets any kind of “working well with bp / rtmedia and other things” – I’m sure other smarter coders mileage is different.
@djsteveb that actually really sucks! I Dont Blame BP because its a good tool its just the authors of themes that makes it hard. i’ve looked into child pages and that was too much effort for the time being.
i wish i never rushed into purchasing a premium theme but never mind haha i will keep looking and probbaly try and make a better decision when going for the next theme 🙂
@djsteveb What 2014 theme do you use?
– it’s the (or one of the) “default” wp themes ( https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyfourteen/ )
about the only way you will get any kind of support with bp or / and rtmedia..
it’s not the easiest thing to mod – but at least it works, and bp has some stylesheets included that massage it into something better than the average theme for some bp pages..
I finally got deep into it to style some changes at the various media queries / screen sizes..
btw – did you try changing your premium themes style.css to those changes to see if they work?
if you search the bp forums for other premium themes you will see that even ones selling as “the best or the most popular buddypress theme” – seem to have issues and lack good support.. search the forums for “kleo” for example – lol
I am sticking with twenty fourteen ’till things mature a bit (recent changes in wp and bp have made things complex in some ways) –
@DjSteveB i tried changing the style sheet and i messed up the site layout even more… i’m new to CSS and PHP as i’ve just moved from weebly.
@liharris – you can learn the basics of CSS fast and free at CodeAcademy dot com – php not as fast and easy from what I gather.. I’ve been doing the videos at udemy or maybe it’s udacity.. but I think a place like treehouse would be better.. not sure yet.
