http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ WordPress MU Forums Tag: themes en Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:33:21 +0000 http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15642#post-89322 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:16:24 +0000 andrea_r 89322@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>A buddypress theme is just a wordpress theme with BP elements in it is all. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15642#post-89317 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:58:25 +0000 wpmuguru 89317@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>You can use </p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddymatic" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddymatic</a> </p> <p>which is a theme framework that works on standard blogs, BuddyPress member blogs &amp; BuddyPress home blogs.</p> <p>Also, the codex for BuddyPress is at</p> <p><a href="http://codex.buddypress.org" rel="nofollow">http://codex.buddypress.org</a></p> <p>The code has info on creating BuddyPress themes. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15642#post-89303 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:21:45 +0000 Alysse 89303@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I need someone to explain to me the difference between a buddypress theme and a wordpress MU theme. </p> <p>I am creating a professional looking site, that I would like to link and/or incorporate features of buddypress community. That being said do I install and activate a wordpress theme (such as Ines that is set up to have buddypress widgets) and still bring over the default buddypress theme and activate that as well? Then how do they link together? I guess what I am asking are these two different entities. I also need to have the ability to customize a little -- without knowing any PHP coding.</p> <p>I would greatly appreciate someones assistance. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14058#post-89247 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:23 +0000 dizi izle 89247@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>thanks you </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15547#post-88836 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:19:41 +0000 scotm 88836@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Wondering if it's possible to move some or all theme options found in most premium themes to appear in the member's profile page (user-edit.php) versus the admin dashboard area? </p> <p>I'm assuming the trick is to edit this line <code>add_action(&#39;admin_menu&#39;, &#39;mytheme_add_admin&#39;); ?&gt;</code> but not clear what the alternative would be to make it appear in the profile area.</p> <p>Thx </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15530#post-88765 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:51:35 +0000 PotterSys 88765@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>It worked!. Thanks!</p> <p>I think (after what Ms. andrea_r commented) it's because WP goes a bit nuts after creating a new blog; specially when you have a subdirectory blog created </p> <p>BTW, I'm going to file a bug regarding this anyway (and/or why on the permalink admin page it still appears the .htaccess code) </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15530#post-88760 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:38:54 +0000 andrea_r 88760@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Well, we figured out *why* this works, just fyi. :) It flushes the rewrite rules in the internal cache. :D </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15530#post-88756 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:29:17 +0000 DeannaS 88756@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Regenerate your permalinks. We've seen that before. Go to Settings - Permalinks and just click the save button. I've not been able to reliably reproduce it, but we've seen it happen every so often. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15530#post-88753 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:38:09 +0000 PotterSys 88753@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I'm developing a WP-mu based site, and I'm creating my own themes.</p> <p>Some of my blogs give me a 404 error when I look for single posts. For example: on <a href="http://sitios.diinf.usach.cl/tips/" rel="nofollow">http://sitios.diinf.usach.cl/tips/</a> the Pages works like a charm (using only index.php). However, the single posts doesn't work (with the same template). </p> <p>Thinking it was a problem with my theme, I changed to Kubrick. However, it does still fail, giving a 'nice' 404 error.</p> <p>By the way, I'm using the directory based approach</p> <p>Any clues? </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13334#post-87968 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:32 +0000 masonjames 87968@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>dsader. I'm noticing an issue with this plugin after upgrading to 2.8.5.2</p> <p>If I go to the "Usertheme Management" page and enable Userthemes and Theme Editor for various blogs, and then as super admin copy the desired themes through each individual backend, when I return to the "Usertheme Management" page the blogs that I have changed are all highlighted in dark red and it shows them as all pulling their theme from the most recently changed blog ID. Everything functions correctly (as far as I can tell thus far) but it's not displaying the correct information for each blog on this page.</p> <p>Going to the "userthemes" page in the backend of the individual blogs shows the correct theme location and correct blog ID. Any thoughts?</p> <p>Gotta give you props, this plugin is beautiful. I'd love to see it incorporated with the Supporter plugin the premium devs put out. Just a thought.</p> <p>-james </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15072#post-86916 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:58:38 +0000 andrea_r 86916@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Nope, just dump it in there somewhere in the middle. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15072#post-86898 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:52:26 +0000 psvolley 86898@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for the tips. I think I can use the BP theme on my Members Area Home page, so activating it there can work well. </p> <p>re: defining the BP_root can you please advise on how and where to place this. I found the code:</p> <p><code>define( &#39;BP_ROOT_BLOG&#39;, [blog ID of secondary blog here] );</code></p> <p>but is there a specific place to put it in the wp-config file? </p> <p>Thanks again for your help. </p> <p>Paul </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15072#post-86787 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:45:57 +0000 andrea_r 86787@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>addendum: If you do this, you may also need to define the BP_root in wp-config so it know where to redirect people. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15072#post-86774 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:26:03 +0000 andrea_r 86774@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Activate BP on a second blog, not the main blog. Yes, you can do that. :D </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15072#post-86770 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:19:03 +0000 STDestiny 86770@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Make a new theme with only and index.php and add the following code to it:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php header( &#39;Location: <a href="http://sub.domain.com/&#39" rel="nofollow">http://sub.domain.com/&#39</a>; ) ; ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>Make sure that is the only code in the file and that there is no white space before the &lt;?php. And of course, change sub.domain.com to the address you want to forward to. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15072#post-86761 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:36:07 +0000 psvolley 86761@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Is it possible to redirect the home page (root install) of wpmu to a subdomain blog? If so how?</p> <p>My main reason for wanting to do this is to essentially hide the BuddyPress 1.1 theme from my home page. I only want to use a BP theme for the social layer, not take over the home page of the site. </p> <p>Trying to think logically, this could be one way to do it, without trying to merge my buddypress and wordpress themes together. </p> <p>Any advice would be greatly appreciated. </p> <p>Thanks<br /> Paul </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15033#post-86513 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:37:06 +0000 kgraeme 86513@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Sidebar elements are customizeable on a blog by blog basis by default, provided the theme is widgetized (most are).</p> <p>The opt-in form plugin can be one plugin or it can be separate plugins as you require. For an example of doing it with one plugin, try the Subscribe2 plugin. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15033#post-86506 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:26:25 +0000 andrea_r 86506@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>"While I read that sidebar and other elements are passed to all blogs on the site, I need to have them be different "</p> <p>Use widgets. Go into each blog, make sure the sidebar is widgetized, then in the back of, say, the Texas blog, set up a widget with the opt-in form.</p> <p>And you don't need to have widgetized areas in just the sidebar, they can be anywhere. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15033#post-86489 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:19:47 +0000 BrianMI 86489@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I'm launching my first MU site (fishingspots.net) and am in the planning stage needing some advice.</p> <p>The site will have a limited number of blogs and they'll be by state. So there will be fl.fishingspots.net, tx.fishingspots.net, ca.fishingspots.net etc.</p> <p>Users will be authors and not blog owners for this project.</p> <p>While I read that sidebar and other elements are passed to all blogs on the site, I need to have them be different because I'd like to have an email opt-in that is different for each site. So the fl.fishingspots.net blog would have an email optin that would add people to a Florida Fisherman list.</p> <p>I thought that perhaps, to get different items to show in the sidebar, footer, and other areas of the site, I could have a plugin created that would would create a control panel in each new blog accessible only to admins.</p> <p>This control panel would have fields for blocks of code that would be unique to each blog and the theme could then be tweaked to pull whatever code was in those fields for display. </p> <p>Thus I could plug into the Florida Fisherman Aweber opt-in form code into the control panel on the fl.fishingspots.net and it would be called to display in the sidebar there but nowhere else and the Texas Fisherman Aweber opt-in form code would display the sidebar of tx.fishingspots.net and nowhere else.</p> <p>Is this something that can be created? </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14852#post-85696 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:33:26 +0000 nonegiven 85696@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I see the plugin actually does not effect the MU Themes activation page. It is still necessary to manually click each theme with no sorting etc. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13334#post-85600 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:18:12 +0000 vipula 85600@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>dsader - am using wpmu 2.8.4 and am having some trouble with userthemes revisited.</p> <p>when I try to copy a theme to system themes, it does not copy.</p> <p>any help would be appreciated...thanks! </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14852#post-85564 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:22:52 +0000 andrea_r 85564@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Your best bet, since most of the themes admin area is general WP, go file trac tickets as enhancements. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14852#post-85561 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:59:28 +0000 nonegiven 85561@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Will have a look, thanks ... I was going to say it does not work for me in 2.8.4a but I see it addes a second "Themes" in the "Appearance" menu. It is pretty much what I imagined. Great.</p> <p>I was thinking a simple sort by activate/inactive/needing updated etc would also help. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14852#post-85528 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:07:16 +0000 dsader 85528@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Themes are a lot of work to keep current, keep compatible, and keep a variety.</p> <p>I do much appreciate the theme install page. </p> <p>In the following plugin, I've specifically gone after the screenshot issue, compact display, and sort by tags. I do enjoy the bandwidth saved by doing away with loading dozens of screenshots every time theme page is loaded.</p> <p><a href="http://wpmudev.org/project/Rollover-Themes-List" rel="nofollow">http://wpmudev.org/project/Rollover-Themes-List</a> </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14852#post-85524 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:28:05 +0000 nonegiven 85524@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>I read WPMU might be merging and so I have no idea how themes might be managed in the future but two suggestions:</p> <p>• in Site Admin &gt; Themes &gt;</p> <p>It needs a single, simple radio button at the top to 'select/deselect all themes'. I just added 100 themes ... why does every WPadmin have to manually selection all themes individually?</p> <p>• in Appearance &gt; Themes &gt;</p> <p>does this not need re-designed or is there a plugin to do it?</p> <p>For examples, </p> <p>a Lightbox style presentation that shows scrolling single theme screenshots?<br /> a simple, single line list with smaller thumbs that uses a rollover effect to show a bigger preview?</p> <p>• in Appearances &gt; Themes &gt;</p> <p>Defining themes via a 'Search', 'Categories', e.g. single column, double column, color or search as per plugins, e.g. status as active, disabled, upgrade available.</p> <p>I love Wordpress but, historically, it has always had this thing of making items in the Admin section REALLY BIG and simple (in a negative way) looking. I would prefer it to be simple but more condensed, using a single, even, typography ... and with less page clicking. I just don't think there is a need for the BIG blocks given over to theme designs.</p> <p>• Screenshots</p> <p>Just as a grumble aside ... why do some designers never seem to optimize their screenshots for web use? I have seen some up using .pngs at around 250k when they could be 25k or less. Do the arithmetics ... </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14822#post-85437 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:26:19 +0000 andrea_r 85437@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>"Who owns the theme files? " </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14822#post-85436 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:58:55 +0000 oimi 85436@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Thank you for your suggestion, what should I ask them? </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14822#post-85399 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:20:14 +0000 andrea_r 85399@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Instead of changing permissions on the folder, you need to find out who on the webserver owns access to the folders themselves.</p> <p>your webhost support may be able to help. </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14822#post-85395 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:43:53 +0000 oimi 85395@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Who owns the theme files? What do you mean? </p> http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14822#post-85373 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:38:59 +0000 oimi 85373@http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ <p>Also, does anyone have any idea why the page has a break at the bottom? I've only just noticed it, but can't work out what I have done that has caused it.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ioimi.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ioimi.com</a> </p>