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How to make BuddyPress theme appear site-wide, not just on Home page?

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  • takuya
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    @takuya

    use site-wide.css or custom.css they’re within the themes you’ve downloaded.


    KitWit
    Participant

    @kitwit

    I see those files (site-wide-sample.css and custom-sample.css) in the bphome folder. If I change those, do I put them back to the places where they currently reside? Does the bphome folder control the look of these other parts of the site? I’m confused about which files control which parts of the site. If there is some kind of structural documentation on BuddyPress, showing which parts files are controlling, that would be great. It isn’t transparent enough from the structure of the files themselves (at least not for a non-programmer). Thanks!


    KitWit
    Participant

    @kitwit

    I renamed those two files, placed the code in them that I wanted to work sitewide, and uploaded back to the css folder of the bphome directory. Nothing happened. Maybe you could give me a little more direction about exactly where these files should go? I’d sure appreciate it!


    mypop
    Participant

    @mypop

    @Kitwit,

    You\’ll also need to edit the member-theme css files- these control the look of Members / groups pages etc.

    If you\’ve installed it properly then they should be in /wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/css

    as per here: http://mypartyonparty.biz


    mypop
    Participant

    @mypop

    @Kitwit

    You did follow this:

    https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-buddypres

    and do have the member them in the correct place?

    where it says:

    6. The plugins are now activated and running, but you will need to move the themes to the correct locations. Move /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ to /wp-content/bp-themes/

    7. You can use any WordPress theme as your root blog theme, but BuddyPress comes bundled with an extra “home” theme that you can optionally use. To install it, move /wp-content/bp-themes/bphome/ to /wp-content/themes/bphome/.

    you will then need to edit the member theme to reflect similar changes in the base theme.

    Hope that helps.

    Gordon


    jfcarter
    Participant

    @jfcarter

    @kitwit

    I usually update the themes/bphome (for the basic site) and wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember (which controls the member and directory pages). I update them separately because I sometimes want certain customizations with the member profiles and not for the main part of the site.

    All the best to you!


    KitWit
    Participant

    @kitwit

    Gordon, JFC–

    Thanks for the help. I went into the bpmember folder and changed the base.css to show different colors and the new logo (as on the home page) but still no change. Maybe more files need to be modified? All I’m trying to do is change the logo from the socialnetworking one supplied with the installation, and the colors at the top, and some text colors … same changes that I made to the CSS file base.css for the home page of the site. Any suggestions? (Sorry to be such a NitWit! :-)


    jfcarter
    Participant

    @jfcarter

    I make my changes in bp-member.

    Only other thing I can think of is that you should go into the admin panel and check under Buddypress (almost at the bottom of the page). In the general area, you can select a theme for members. Select one, submit it and see what happens.


    mypop
    Participant

    @mypop

    @KitWit,

    That’s all I’ve done too.

    I just changed base.css in the two directories, and copied my logo file over as logo.gif to both locations

    base.css in

    wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/css

    and

    wp-content/themes/bphome/css

    and logo.gif in

    wp-content/bp-themes/bpmember/images

    and

    wp-content/themes/bphome/images

    Then remember to flush the cache in your browser (F5 usually does it)

    I also edited both header.php files as I wanted to change the link words from ‘blog’ to ‘News’

    as @jfc said, you might need to select a member theme in Admin / BuddyPress / General Settings / Select theme to use for BuddyPress generated pages:

    and then save.

    Note: Since I was ‘updating’ from RC1 I had to select a different them and then re-save.


    KitWit
    Participant

    @kitwit

    Gordon–

    Thanks for your help! I figured out what I was doing wrong. I had not replaced the logo image with the new one that I’d created, and so, of course, the old orange one was coming up instead. Isn’t it always the little stuff that trips us up?

    All your advice helped me out a great deal. Thank you!

    Kit


    giorell
    Participant

    @giorell

    How do you go about reactivating the old Social Network logo in the new updated buddypress installation? I’m not very familiar with PHP.

    Start a new thread.

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