FORM & BUTTONS Didn’t Inheriting My Theme

You can add this code to your Custom CSS area:

#buddypress .standard-form div.submit input {
    background: #3FB0AC;
    padding: 10px;
    border: 0;
    color: #fff;
}

You can use your browsers Inspect Element feature, or using a tool like Firebug, to inspect the code structure of your site, this allows you to locate the element you wish to modify and view the classname(s) you can use to add custom CSS code.

Hope this helps.

@themesumo, your code solution is only a drop in the bucket of that user problems.

@hopecenter, what do you expect? You are trying to run two community builders. I am pretty sure your problems will go away as soon as you start by deactivating BuddyPress.

@borisv, thank you for sending my that information on the conflict check procedures. I did step one – switched my theme to the WP Twenty Fifteen and found that the problems that I was having with the buttons, events calendar plugins and the forum plugin all went away. The plugins worked properly on Twenty Fifteen (with the exception of a couple buttons). So, I don’t think its the plugins.

Can you tell me which are the two community builders you are referring to? Should I remove one, which one should I remove?

I am not in the web design or computer field. So, I don’t know how to read or write CSS, I only know basic HTML. I downloaded Firefox and Firebug to inspect the page like was suggested to me. I tried to figure out how to find things on Firebug by watching a tutorial on YouTube. But I can’t figure it out. That’s why I was hoping the people on the forum could help me out.

LOL, I tried to pick very popular, well established and supported plugin from the WordPress Plugin directory to avoid any potential conflicts — what to do.

@themesumo — thank you for replying to and sending me more CSS. I have applied them, even if it is a temporary solution, because I need to record a video tutorial (screencast) on how to use my site, I can’t do that until the buttons and everything on the page looks right. At least on the main pages that I will need to show in the screencast.

I have taken down all the custom CSS for now because I am trying to get KopaTheme (my theme’s author) to look at my site and fix it for me. I hope they respond.

You need to uninstall BuddyPress and stick to Ultimate Member which is superior. You’ll thank me later. Any thing that Sumo gave you will be lost as soon as you update either your theme or uninstall BP, so at this point, don’t waste your time modifying CSS code anymore and you should backtrack and erase it.

One more thing: if you continue to have the same problems then you nailed it in your post above; it’s a theme conflict, in which case, Sumo’s idea will only then be good, but most likely, with different CSS code. I warn you, the job to modify an entire UM site could be substantial so you may have to hire a guy like ThemeSumo.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by borisv.

@borisv — thank you for your post. I uninstalled the BuddyPress plugin. I saw the changes to my forum pages. Thank you, it fixed the issue I was having with the display on the forum main page. But the buttons are still not working on the forum pages and throughout my site.

Should I also uninstall bbPress. I deactivated it and lost the information on my forum page altogether so I put it back. I am guessing they work together.

I will take your word for it that UM is better than BuddyPress, I don’t have a preference and don’t know anything much about either one to make the call. What I did like about BuddyPress was that it had these features — activity streams, messaging, and notifications.

My community is very social. Right now we’re using WhatsApp (Group) notifications, there’s a lot of activity including media, links and private messaging. The problem with that is that messages get lost after a while and it’s not as searchable. A really good forum is needed.

Is there something besides the paid extensions of UM that can be used on my site to add these features?

Since I am still having the issues with buttons on my site, does that confirm that it is a problem with my theme. Or is there another potential conflict I am missing?

Thank you so much for your input.

You have a tall wishlist my friend. Some developers pay top dollar to add all that in their CMS. I am sorry but we are not a liberty to discuss paid plugins here, so this will be my last post in this topic because the issue in this topic is resolved.

Since I am still having the issues with buttons on my site, does that confirm that it is a problem with my theme.

According to your theme test, YES. You will need to correct each button only with simple CSS modifications if you’re lucky.

A really good forum is needed.

A really good forum is what I use, but it’s not WordPress. WordPress forum plugins are best to my knowledge lame, especially the one we use to communicate right now. WP was never meant to be CMS for forums.

I will take your word for it that UM is better than BuddyPress, I don’t have a preference and don’t know anything much about either one to make the call. What I did like about BuddyPress was that it had these features — activity streams, messaging, and notifications.

UM has some cool add-on features to do just that, but they are paid extensions, so we can not discuss any of this here. You can ask pre-sale questions here:
https://ultimatemember.com/pre-purchase-question/

Thanks.