You’ll probably need to be a little more specific as to what you have done and are looking to control. BP provides many paths to custom styling you can create a child theme and then copy various BP templates or the stylesheets to it to modify, or you can create a new buddypress.php template from the themes page.php and redefine the get_template calls for header or footer so new unique ones are called when BP screens are being shown.
The BP codex has all these details, have a hunt through the theme section and a read of the template hierarchy to learn how you can introduce new template parts.
But re-state what you’re trying to do in a little more detail as we may be able to give better suggestions on how to achieve.
OK fair enough. I did look through the BP codex regarding this and am still unclear what is the best and easiest path.
My site is basic and includes the Header, Content, and Footer. I am using Genesis theme and created another template where I make several adjustments to the Header and this template is called buddypress.php and I can select it when I’m in the backend and creating pages. I’m sure there are many paths but I was thinking that the easiest one is to simply have BP load the new template I created, for all BP pages. I’m pretty sure currently it is loading the themes template called “pages.php”
Please point me in the right direction, much appreciated.
@r083r7 Hi. You’re right that BuddyPress loads page.php as its default page wrapper template. The list near the top of https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/ shows the entire template hierarchy. Adding a buddypress.php file to your theme should have it load that template.
This file should be in the root of your theme, or inside a subfolder called “buddypress”.
I forget how setting the page template in the wp-admin page editor works with BuddyPress (I think @hnla and I fixed it at a WordCamp a few years ago). But the stuff already mentioned will probably take precedence over it.
If this doesn’t work, I’m not sure.
I must be missing something basic.
Just to clarify this is the correct location:
wp-content>themes>genesis-sample>buddypress.php
genesis-sample is the child theme by the way.
Well that was strange.
I deactivated all my plugins except for BuddyPress. Then activated them all again. WORKS !!!
If anyone has any theories as to why it worked it would be nice to know.
@r083r7,
glad you got it to work ! 😉
Not sure if it is a theory or simply how it works, but deactivating/reactivating (plugins, themes) will in most case recalculate the permalinks.
