How do I clear the menu bar?
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I’m trying to figure out a way to clear the admin bar – what I’m saying is that I’d like my body to start after the admin bar, as it is messing up the background image I have and the spacing.
I guess what I want to know is there a way for the body to start at the bottom of the admin bar, rather than having the admin bar overlay the body? I am trying to line up my background image and logo, and when logged in and the admin bar shows, it pushes the logo down, but not the background image.
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Well, it could really go in a few different places. Let me take a look when I get to work to see where will work the best.
Here on BuddyPress, the “admin bar” has been nick named the “buddy bar.” It actually replaces the typical “admin bar” from a normal WPMU install.
The files for it can be found in the bp-core directory if you needed to modify it for any reason.
The buddy bar is actually loaded very last in the DOM, and it is absolutely positioned to top 0, so its essentially hovering over the body contents. Because there are at least two active themes at any given moment (home and member) you could either throw the css into homethemedir/css/site-wide.css, or all of the base.css for each theme.
But let me double check for certain.
The admin bar gets triggered on every ‘wp_footer’ action that your theme triggers. Which is on every page load. There is no function call from a php file that does it. bp is almost completely driven by wp ‘actions’. Everything gets loaded, defined and ready for the events that are defined to make things happen.
Everybody is posting around each other here.
The ‘wp_footer’ action is triggered by your theme’s usage of (normally) get_footer()
which calls wp_footer()
which does do_action(‘wp_footer’)
which triggers bp_core_admin_bar() in bp-core-adminbar.php
which gets you the admin bar.
*deep breath*, let it out slowly now…
We haven’t met. I’m Burt and this is my partner John. Perhaps you’ve heard of us? Our professional tag team wrestling stage names are Ren and Stimpy. I never get to play with the pretty css stuff.
lol Oh Ren… haha!
@brandtd, this is certainly possible. As a matter of fact, this should happen as default unless you change the width of the body or html elements themselves. This is because the “Buddy Bar” isn’t contained by anything that has a relative position attached to it.
In bp-core/css/admin-bar.css – Try…
#wp-admin-bar {
position: absolute !important;
top: 0 !important;
left: 0 !important;
width: 100% !important;
z-index: 1001 !important;
height: 26px !important;
color: #fff !important;
text-align: left !important;
background:url(../images/admin_bar_back.gif) #818181 repeat-x !important;
}@brian, duh I get what you’re saying now. If I can give some feedback about the Buddy Bar for a moment, I feel that it should be an all or nothing kind of deal. Either it’s always there for people to use, or it’s never there and people have to naturally find their profile area and do things from there. Toggling a whole new set of what are essentially just short-cuts and adjusting the entire layout of the screen, even if by 26px, provides for a moment of awkwardness from a user perspective. For the 3 seconds it takes for someone to think to themselves “Hey what’s that? Do I need it? What does it do? Oh gosh there’s tons of menus now? What is this stuff?”
Now if you’ve used WordPress.com or signed up for a Gravatar before, then the bar idea isn’t new. But for what I consider the core crowd we’re catering to by using BuddyPress as a social networking platform, if it isn’t uniformly worked into the design of the site from the beginning, it only serves to confuse.
Again, this is just my opinion. Not saying it’s right, and certainly not saying that there is a better way. Just saying…
/rant
Back on topic. In theory you could put a…
<body>
<?php if (is_user_logged_in()){ ?>
<div id="buddy-bar-buffer"></div>
<?php }?>In your header file, and attach the CSS to that, rather than to the body itself? That would then only show that buffer when the user is logged in, and once they are logged in, that buffer will push the body down (as styled by the CSS you will give it in your base.css).
Does that make sense?
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