BuddyBoss Theme

Hi @harkonan — Thanks for trying out our plugin, and I appreciate your kind words.

To clarify, our plugin will work with child themes. In most cases, child theme CSS written for LearnDash elements will override our plugin’s styles. We did this intentionally to give people a better starting point, but allow more advanced users to override our styles with their own.

However, the Boss Theme by BuddyBoss is one of the few themes that is not compatible with our plugin (we’ll be updating the plugin page to reflect this in the next few days).

Our plugin was designed to help those whose themes do not add any styles specifically for LearnDash (because the default LearnDash styles are very outdated). However, the Boss Theme has written a bunch of their own styles to specifically match their theme. Essentially, they’ve already done what we’re trying to do with our plugin, so there’s no need to use the plugin.

With that being said, if there are certain aspects of LearnDash in the Boss Theme that you would like to override, please let me know. Because BuddyBoss uses different class/ID names for LearnDash elements, I’d probably have to create a separate plugin for it, but it could probably be done.

And if you’d just like to customize a few things on the quiz page that you linked to, let me know which ones. I might be able to send you some CSS snippets to get you started.

@escapecreative

Thank you very much for your reply and I am still new to css and styling and I really would like the quiz page I showed you to look like what your plugin makes “non styled” Learndash themes look like.

I too agree with Learndash being outdated and could not find any other resources about styling their elements.

That is when I stumbled upon your plugin and I thought my troubles were gone haha.

Would it be possible to switch the class names out in the current plugin so that the Boss theme by buddyboss could pick it up and use that?

Otherwise which snippets of CSS can I use to make the quiz look more modern.

Currently the way the quiz is styled is the theme defaults and there is no way to change the look accept to add and customise the css inside the child theme.

And again thank you for the feedback and response. I think you guys are going to do awesome stuff.

@harkonan — I think it’ll be much easier, and more sustainable in the long-term, to use custom CSS to override the Boss Theme styles, instead of switching out the class names.

Also, I think your request is somewhat unique. I think most users of the Boss Theme will prefer the Boss Theme styles over the ones I’ve created. So I’m not sure I want to update this specific plugin to override any Boss Theme styles.

What I can do is create a handful of CSS snippets that will override the Boss Theme’s CSS and make the quiz page look much closer to what I’ve created with this plugin. You’ll be able to copy/paste them either into a child theme, or the Additional CSS area of the Customizer, and they should instantly take effect.

Please allow me a few days to put these together. I’ll need to rewrite them, and then test them out to make sure they override the Boss Theme styles.

I’ll post again here once they are ready.

@escapecreative

Thank you for the willingness to help me out. Could you guys implement the request into the premium plugin that you are working on so that I may also purchase it when it comes out.

Also thank you very much I will be waiting for the css snippets. Like you said I can use these in the meantime to get the style more towards what you guys have in the plugin which I love.

Speak soon..

Best wishes.

That’s a good suggestion. And if I include it in the premium plugin, not only will the default styles be applied, but you’ll have the ability to change 30 different aspects of LearnDash without using any CSS.

I can’t promise anything right now, but I’ll certainly consider this in a future version of the premium plugin.

I’ll be in touch soon with some CSS snippets.

Hey @harkonan —

I’ve created some sample styles you can use to override the BuddyBoss styles that are being applied to your quiz pages. It’s not a comprehensive list of every single element, but it covers many of the elements on the quiz page.

View CSS here

This CSS should either be copied to a child theme, or placed in the “Additional CSS” area of the WordPress Customizer. Play around with the colors, borders, background colors, etc. until you get the desired effect you’re trying to achieve. I included comments to explain what each block of code refers to.

If you wouldn’t mind, I’d love it if you could rate the plugin and mention your support experience.

And if you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

@davewarfel

Thank you very much I am going to test the css now and give some feedback to how it looks like!

Thank you very much for the support and help.

It would be cool to have had this in the launch of the plugin version as the Boss Theme is about the only Learndash theme we recommend to our clients for various reasons.

It is just a mission to style the theme according to what you want and would be so great to have a plugin to go along with the theme which takes this hassle out completely.

I hope you have a great day and thanks again for the help.

Please do let me know how it goes.

I completely understand why you would recommend the Boss Theme, as it’s in a league of its own in terms of design & functionality. But I also get your desire to style LearnDash elements your own way, and not be tied down by what the Boss Theme provides.

I’ll certainly consider this in the premium version, and will let you know when it’s ready.