bonomonster

I was in the same boat Kru. Instead of purchasing I dropped them and went with Buddypress, and I’m going to purchase Memberpress to go with it. Buddypress is easily customizable out of the box and there is support all over for it.

You’ve actually been a lot of help. I really appreciate it. Hiring a freelancer will probably be a route I take in the future.

I found this. Not sure how to make any of it work. I put UM back to default, then added this code into my Stylesheet on the child theme. I changed only the colors over to the colors in my theme, hit update, wordpress confirmed the update, however nothing changed anywhere.

https://docs.ultimatemember.com/article/270-how-to-change-default-ultimate-member-blue-color-using-css

That really stinks to hear Norm.

Is it possible to copy what you wrote here? That way others can just change colors/padding/etc. to what they need?

I made all my changes to the child theme. My functions.php and stylesheet files were already in the child theme (pretty sure thise 2 folders always carry over into child theme)

Then paste the code Norm gave into the childs function.php file and hit update. You then need to put custom CSS into the stylesheet file that will tell wordpress how to style UM. I believe it defaults to what your theme is, but there are still going to be elements that you may need custom CSS for. I havent gotten a chance to see how much i can adjust in actual theme setting vs what ill have to write CSS for.

Thats what im not sure about either. I dont know if theres a way for it to pull the style from the child theme.

I was going to go into my Stylesheet and write custom CSS for the specific parts i want to chage so that it matches my theme.

@onefinaleeffort, are you using a child theme? Im very non tech when it comes to this stuff, but the first thing i did was create a chikd theme. I used this video to walk me through that.

Then I took the code Norm1 posted and put it in my functions.php file. From your dashboard, go to Appearance/Editor. On the right side you will see a row labeled “Theme Files”. Click the one that says “Theme Functions”, it will say (functions.php) below it. Then just skip a line or two at the bottom and paste the code from Norm1. Then hit update.

This will change the whole look of UM. Norm has listed all the wp_depueue_style changes in that code. The only one i wanted to change (at least for now) is the buttons on the registration form, so the only one i needed is the wp_depueue_style(‘um_default_css’). I erased the others. This kept most of UM looking the same for me. Whichever wp_depueue_style you change will completely change the UM css and the look from the default UM.

My understanding from here is you can then go back to the “Theme Files” on the right side, select “stylesheet” and write in new css for the UM stuff you want to change. I havent gotten this far yet though because im not sure what css to write to change it the way i want.

If you feel you’ve messed up along the way, you can delete the code from Norm in the function.php file and then update and UM should go back to default.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by bonomonster.

The crazy thing is that their pro price isnt cheap by any means. $200 yr is some serious cash for a plugin. And when you cant customize or get support, somethings definitely not right. They also make you purchase the pro version to get options that are free in buddypress from my understanding. I havent tried buddypress, but I may before going through all the hasle of trying to learn CSS to restyle UM.

Adding the above code worked for me also. It broke everything up so I can customize it the way I want. Now I just need to learn CSS to do that.

I really, really wish UM was integrated into Elementor. Maybe in the future….??

Yea, I dont understand it either. It has the potential to be a killer program, and its already pretty good. I wish the UM team would see this and understand our frustration. When you’re making your site look professional, cosmetics are just as important as functionality.

Awesome…. thanks… ill try that

Is there a walk through somewhere to show how to do this? I’ve been seeing people everywhere having this same issue.

I am building a site using the free version of UM and Elementor pro. The lack of support by UM about this and another issue im having is a little concerning. I had every intention of upgrading to the pro version, however lack support and basic features has me second guessing.

Update: After deactivating WP Event Manager my menu bar came back and seems normal.

I am having an issue where my main menu disappeared yesterday. I am using the OceanWP theme with Elementor.
The plugins I am using are:

Bluehost
Elementor
Elementor Addons & Templates
Header Footer Elementor
NavMenu Addon For Elementor
Ocean Extra
Title Remover
WP Event Manager
WPForms Lite

The main menu was originally created in OceanWP and was working well. When it first disappeared I tried to get around it by using Header Footer Elementor. That did not work. I also tried going under Dashboard/Appearance/Menus and made sure my setting were correct under the Edit Menus and Manage Locations tabs. I’ve also deleted the menu and tried creating a new one through OceanWP. The menu works under other themes.