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[Resolved] Well.. really so much work, to just change some bg color? bp 1.7

@grayson_marik

Participant

13 years ago

Well, long story short, I have my page running with a dark theme. Unfortunatley in bp messages, the background color is white – as is the font color.

Such is of course not good for readability 🙂

So I wanted to change this background color.

All I want to change is this :

div#message-thread div.alt {

background: #ffffff;

}

Do I really have to create a custom theme for that?

Or is there any more streight forward way to do it?

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@bphelp

Participant

13 years ago

Just make a child theme it is really simple:
https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
If you make changes directly to your theme it will get overwritten upon updating.

@bphelp

Participant

13 years ago

Or you could create a bp-custom.php which you place in your-site/wp-content/plugins
See:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/bp-custom-php/
And add this code:
http://pastebin.com/t9LybbQC
This is assuming you correctly targeted the element you want to change.

@grayson_marik

Participant

13 years ago

Wow, that was rather simple, albait I expected it rather to look for something like a “bp-custom.css” to simply overwrite the styles from the default theme, as a “most easy way to tweak stuff”.

I had tryed to do it with a child theme first, but could not get it to work properly so you helped me a lot by setting me right to the starting line.

Thank you!

@bphelp

Participant

13 years ago

@grayson_marik
Glad I could assist you! 🙂

@bphelp

Participant

13 years ago

JFYI If you change themes at any point you will have to make sure that the targeted CSS is the same, if not you will need to re-adjust the CSS selector in the code provided.

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