[Plugin: User Community] Help With Several Layout Changes?

[cfisher]

I have a User Community set up at my website, The Behavioral Medicine Report here.

I have several layout questions. I am not great with CSS so I would appreciate specific suggestions. You will notice right away the main layout page does not fit within the website column. I would also like to change the header bar from orange to another color. Any suggestions on how to go about these? Does this plugin have its own CSS file?

2 feature suggestions:
1. I would like to be able to allow email addresses to be seen by registered users, but not the general public. It is currently all or none.
2. I wish I could have more flexibility in the pic sizes in the photo gallery.

Thanks for the great plugin!
Chris

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[Txanny]

Yes, the plugin has its own CSS file, that can be overriden by using a filter (You need to program a plugin to do this). The file is located at the plugin’s folder and called style.css. There you can change the table colors.

About you features suggested:
1. Showing email addresses and other info to registered users only will be included in a next version, probably 0.8.

2. What kind of size flexibility do you mean? Tell me a bit how you propose to improve that.

Thanks!

[cfisher]

Thanks for the response. I had found style.css in the plugin folder, but it says, “This this is just a Sample file for ALKIVIA Styles.
The file is not loaded, and you have to set the styles in your template.
Consider this as a list of available styles to customize.” This doesn’t sound like the right file??

thanks!!
Chris

[Txanny]

Thanks for reporting this. Yes, this is the correct file, and it is loaded. This is what sets your table to orange. I will correct the file description.

Just you have to take care to save a backup of the modified file, as it is overwritten on plugin updates.

I’m thinking about a setting to allow moving the CSS file out the plugin folder, this way you will not lose your changes when the plugin is updated.

This will not be present on version 0.7 to be released tomorrow, but most probably on 0.8.

[cfisher]

Do you recall offhand what the color code is for that orange you used? I can’t seem to locate it… that’s pretty lame of me too as this is a small css file.

I tried the font resize solution see in another thread here to solve the orange border size problem.. it worked, but it also change the font size of my website… I wish I weren’t so darned incompetent with CSS… I am fine with HTML….

Oh ya, about the photo gallery. It would nice if I could select different sizes without having to modify the global WordPress settings (i.e., large). In addition, there is no way to communicate to the user in the upload area about the specified size; if they upload something significantly different the resizing will certainly do a chop job on the user’s picture.

[Txanny]

You have the table header colors here:

table.profile-list thead {
	color: #f2f2f2;
	background-color: #f27830;
	text-align: center;
	}

About the size, you have no to change the global wordpress settings, on the Community Gallery settings page you can set the size for the images you want to be used on the gallery and profile. (Set the option ‘Use this settings’ and fill the size you want the image to be converted at upload time. (Only resizes at upload time!).

More flexibility have to be added to allow image resizing, I know ?? The size the image will be converted to will be added to the user profile on next versions, just I’ve wrote down this to do it for 0.8.

[magcrossin]

Is there a way to change more then just color, right now I cant get my right and left sidebars to show? I have looked at the main files but dont know where to insert the <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/second.column.post.php’); ?>

Thanks for such a great plugin, cant wait until 0.8. Any ideas when that might come out, it will be like Xmas!

[magcrossin]

Oh wait, I know what I did, I took them out to fit the Members directory in the page template. OK I think I know what to do.

But would still like to know any hints about 0.8?

Thanks again.