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Posts Tagged ‘tutorial’

BuddyPress Colours Tutorial

July 7th, 2010 Posted in tutorials |

Today we’re going to have a look at our great free theme BuddyPress Colours and see how you can easily create your own colour scheme.
We hope you enjoy the tutorial and look forward to seeing your colour schemes.

You can get BuddyPress Colours right here now.

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Firebug: installing, discovering and using – the tutorial

June 2nd, 2010 Posted in tutorials |

Today we’re going to take a look at firebug and how using parent and child themes you can customise your css by finding the class in firebug.  What is Firebug?  Well, it’s a development add-on for the firefox browser primarily but goes far beyond that and is now available on other browsers.  It’s our number [...]

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Logged in and logged out content tutorial

May 26th, 2010 Posted in tutorials |

This week’s tutorial is all about showing or hiding content depending if a user is logged in or not.  A few weeks ago in the forums The iconBLock Ltd was tweaking the Social theme to not show some navigation depending on if a user was logged in or not.  As a result of this the [...]

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Parent and child themes explored

May 19th, 2010 Posted in tutorials |

Today we’re going to look at parent and child themes.  To learn a bit more what we are going to do is create a child theme for the default BuddyPress 1.2 theme.
We’ve got a video tutorial and after that the written version with the source files and code you’ll need to get you [...]

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Custom header tutorial: Adding an image and changing the size

April 28th, 2010 Posted in tutorials |

Many themes have the in-built ability to upload your own custom header. In this tutorial we are going to go through how to add your own, customise the header to make it taller and change your text colour. For this tutorial we are using the Default BuddyPress 1.2 theme.
Tutorial video:

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