Topic: CANNOT find the right template file…

CANNOT find the right template file…

@somethingelse

Participant

11 years, 9 months ago

i have moved the bp-legacy templates into my child theme… so path is

themes/child-theme/buddypress/whatever

have had no problem making changes needed to members-loop.php

but for love nor money can i get the page i’ve set for the member directory to get rid of the stupid sidebar…
i have done everything i can think of… i BELIEVE IT HAS SOMETHING to do with my theme not playing nicely with the bp templates, but i cannot sort it out.

using catch-box theme…
site is still in development, but the page in question is here
http://69.89.17.134/teachers/

i have messed with multiple page templates, content-part templates, and everything i can think of with child-theme/buddypress/members/index.php and STILL i have a sidebar.

i am going out of my mind. please help. i’m sure it’s simple and i’ll look like an id10t but that’s ok. pride is out the window on this project already 🙂

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@hnla

Participant

11 years, 9 months ago

Have you read through the guides in the BP codex?

Have you created a buddypress.php file to manage the page.php rendering? Theme compatibility uses the stock WP page.php file – or a series of other templates names in same manner WP performs template selection. You need to customize page.php essentially but not the themes copy but a copy of renamed for Buddypress use which you can then edit, again fairly detailed guides available in the BP codex to help explain the process.

@somethingelse

Participant

11 years, 9 months ago

i must be searching on the wrong things in the codex, then, because i cannot find what i want.

no, i don’t have a buddypress.php file… yet… but i’m guessin’ i will soon!
thanks for the direction… i’ll report back if i find a solution.

@henrywright

Moderator

11 years, 9 months ago

Your file should be:

/buddypress/members/index-directory.php

and not:

/buddypress/members/index.php

(which is what I think you mentioned you have).

@modemlooper

Moderator

11 years, 9 months ago

BuddyPress uses page.php as the outer container of your files in the your-theme/buddypress folder.

To create a custom outer container duplicate page.php and rename it buddypress.php

your-theme/buddypress.php then you can remove the sidebar from that file

@hnla

Participant

11 years, 9 months ago

echo echo!

@somethingelse

Participant

11 years, 9 months ago

well thanks for rallying the troops. we got ‘er done!
would love to know precisely where in the codex that little gem is hiding … would have saved me HOURS of screwing about thinking i was crazy.

a little css and i’m all fixed up… at least, for the members directory page…
but now the sidebar is GONE from the individual profile pages, which i didn’t mind so much.

so, is it reasonable to assume i can make additional buddypress template files as i would any other template files – buddypress-member-single.php for example – and get my sidebar back on select pages?

as for the index-directory.php @henrywright mentioned above, i do not have anything like that in the buddypress templates… where else would/should i find that? and what does it do?

@hnla

Participant

11 years, 9 months ago

They don’t exist until you create them.

🙂 I’ll go and fish out all the codex guides that have been written on the subject of templating/themeing

Also remember you can use conditional logic to wrap the sidebar in your bp template so if you wanted the sidebar just for user account screens you could do:

`
if( bp_is_user() ) :

endif;
`

The two guides to read are:

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

Template Hierarchy