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Twenty Ten Theme
A. One column Layout
One column Layout. Click on image to enlarge.If you prefer to have a one column layout for all your BuddyPress pages, follow the steps below.
1. Create a child theme of the Twenty Ten theme.
2. Create a new file in your new child theme folder and name it buddypress.php.
3. The Twenty Ten theme has a one column page template, fortunately. All you need to do is copy over the entire source code of Twenty Ten』s onecolumn-page.php file into the new buddypress.php file and save file.
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4. Upload your Twenty Ten child theme folder to your server.
B. Full-width page Layout
Full-width Layout. Click on image to enlarge.If you prefer to have a full-width layout for all your BuddyPress pages, follow the steps below.
1. Create a child theme of the Twenty Ten theme.
2. Create a new file in your new child theme folder and name it buddypress.php.
3. Copy over the content of Twenty Ten theme』s onecolumn-page.php file into the new buddypress.php file.
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5. We will simply copy the theme』s one column style and then prepend the buddypress body class to override the theme』s one column styling. Open up your child theme』s style.css file and add the following at the bottom of the file then save the file.
?1234.buddypress #container.one-column { margin: 0; width: 100%;}
6. Upload your Twenty Ten child theme folder to your server.
C. Two Column, Right Sidebar Layout
Two-column Layout. Click on image to enlarge.This is the default page layout of the Twenty Ten theme. There is no need to do anything more if this is the layout you prefer for all your BuddyPress pages.
However, if you want to customize the sidebar content of all your BP pages, you can do so by: a) using a plugin like Widget Logic to assign widgets to specific pages by using conditional tags or b) by creating new buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php files and registering a new widget area in your child theme』s functions.php file. The following steps are for the second option.
1. Create a child theme of the Twenty Ten theme.
2. Create a new file in your new child theme folder and name it buddypress.php.
3. Open up the page.php file of the Twenty Ten theme and copy all content within and paste that content into your new buddypress.php file. Then change to and save file.
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4. If you don』t have a functions.php file in your child theme, create one. You』ll need to register the new widget area for your BP sidebar in that functions.php file like so:
?1234567891011121314 __( 'BuddyPress Sidebar Widget Area', 'mmechildtheme' ), 'id' => 'bp-sidebar', 'description' => __( 'Appears in the sidebar section of all BuddyPress pages.', 'mmechildtheme' ), 'before_widget' => '
', 'before_title' => '
', 'after_title' => '
', ) );}add_action( 'widgets_init', 'mme_register_bp_widgets_area' );
5. Create a new file in your child theme folder and name it sidebar-buddypress.php.
6. Add the following in your new sidebar-buddypress.php and save file:
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7. Upload your child theme folder to your server. You』ll need to add at least one widget to the BP Sidebar widget area.