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Style a splashpage with tabbed content

Want to give your site visitors a lot of information on your splashpage, but don’t want them to have to endlessly scroll for it? The solution is nested & tabbed content. Here’s a tutorial to give you a head-start on building and styling just that kind of splashpage. For this how-to, we’ll be using the [...]

Create a private community complete with splash page

Some of you have asked for the ability to create a Facebook-like splashpage for your Buddypress homepage and the ability to lockdown your site. As of version 1.2.1 of BuddyBuilder, you now have that God-like power Moreover, combining the “Show Home Page Title and Content” option in BuddyBuilder with the Homepage widgets available under “Appearance” [...]

Use WordPress Custom Menus for Buddypress Components

Adding items to your main menu that link to specific Buddypress components couldn’t be easier with WordPress Custom Menus and BuddyBuilder. This little tutorial will show you a neat trick to get it done lickety-split! First, you’re going to need the URLs to the components you want to link to; this is really simple with [...]

Merge and redirect group forums to Global Forums plugin

If you have Global Forums by Brajesh Singh installed on your site, you know how versatile that plugin actually is. If you don’t know about it, you really should check it out at BuddyDev.com. It’s a premium plugin that you can download once you’re a member of the site. Membership also gets you access to [...]

Insert a full-width ad above or below a BuddyBuilder header

Want to insert an ad, a slideshow, a row of YouTube videos, or anything else above your BuddyBuilder header, or below it? It’s actually very easy to do with the theme’s built-in features. This tutorial will show you how to add a 728x90px banner ad below your navbar and, once you know how to do [...]

Exclude your main blog from the directory

Ever want to exclude your main blog from the “Blogs Directory” listing? Here’s how: Copy bp-default/blogs/blog-loop.php to your child-theme, while maintaining the same folder structure. (If you’re using BuddyBuilder or BuddyLite, then that’s your child-theme ) Open blog-loop.php and find the following line of code (around line 22): 1 <?php while ( bp_blogs() ) : [...]

Adapting Plugin Templates

If you don’t see a Template Support Pack for your plugin on this page, you can adapt it yourself by following the steps below. You may run across a cool plugin you want, but find that the pages it generates look kinda crappy in BuddyBuilder. (That’s probably because the plugin is using its own CSS [...]

Saving a New Style

You’ve worked hard to create an awesome new style for your site. Don’t lose those settings! (This is especially important before upgrading BuddyBuilder.) Exporting your stylesheet is easy. Once you’ve got everything the way you want it on your site, click “Save Settings” in your BuddyBuilder admin panel. Click the “Export” button. A dialog box [...]

Installing a New Style

So, you’ve found a style you like in the Gallery and want to install it on your site? You can do it in just a few simple steps. The first thing to do is to get the stylesheet. The stylesheets for BuddyBuilder are not CSS files. They are .txt files containing serialized data that will [...]

Installing BuddyBuilder

Congratulations! You just got your hands on one of the most extensively customizable themes available for Buddypress. Now what do you do with it? Let’s get it installed first, then go on to enable some features. After purchasing and downloading BuddyBuilder (you can get it here), extract the contents of the zip folder to the [...]

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Style a splashpage with tabbed content

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Merge and redirect group forums to Global Forums plugin

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Exclude your main blog from the directory

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