Sorry but we give up

Hi @ruzakuku,

I’m sorry this wasn’t something you felt you could do. If you followed the instructions here for custom CSS, it should work fine.

https://businessdirectoryplugin.com/support-forum/faq/how-to-use-custom-styles-with-bd-2-1/

We have many people doing this and they’re able to be successful. Not knowing what you’ve tried (or if you tried editing the CSS directly, which we don’t recommend), it’s hard to say where you’re struggling here. It could be a cache issue. It could be bad selectors (If you’re new to CSS selectors, this is a good article here: https://css-tricks.com/how-css-selectors-work/). It’s hard to say.

If you can post what you’re doing and what isn’t working, that might help a bit more.

The point is not to make custom CSS, it is to find WHICH CSS needs to be changed, in which file. The CSS in the theme folder have quite nothing, at least not what we need, we had a look at other files and found dozens of files that contain CSS. We tried to change some colors, nothing changes on the display.

Especially we need to change:

– Text Color of the categories in the drop down area when a user submits an entry.

– Color of the fields NAMES when we display an add. For example “Company name”, “Address” etc, not the data.

– Background and text colors on the adds listing

So if you can tell in which file and functions are these params, that would be good. Thank you

Hi @ruzakuku,

The problem with pointing you to files is that:
a) it only tells part of the story
b) your theme adds much of the “selector” to the CSS depending on the rendering

Instead, let me point you to what most folks do and what tool to use.

Use Chrome Developer Tools or Firefox Developer Console. These are invaluable tools that most web developers utilize on a daily basis. There’s a “click to target” icon on the tool that allows to you:
1) Click on the element on the page you want to identify
2) On the lower right, it will tell you ALL of the CSS that is used to render that element, in order of hierarchy (which is SUPER important to know!)
3) It also tells you the specific CSS file it came from as well, although IMO that’s not as important in most cases (it can tell you whether the style is from your theme, BD or something else though)
4) And you can change it, LIVE, in the browser, to test your changes and see what works/what doesn’t before adding a single line to the file

CSS, by design, is made to be “overridden”, not directly modified–meaning that you can add YOUR specific changes to an external file, and those changes in the file will be loaded BEFORE the ones in the plugin so you can make color and font changes without modifying code. This is the easiest, least painful way to do that.

Here’s an article about how to use that for Chrome: https://developer.chrome.com/devtools

And Firefox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1kAVK0RikY (video tutorial)

This will be able to help you answer all of the questions you have above in the easiest way possible, while avoiding editing ANY plugin files, which is definitely not recommended by us OR WordPress in general.

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by Business Directory Plugin.

Well, that does not help as I see the class name but not the file name where these classes are. That’s enough for us now. Do you accept paid work, if so I will tell you what we need, for you probably 30 minutes work. If not, I will this time give up for good, I reinstalled the plugin some hours ago after your messages but couldn’t fix anything.
So if you accept paid work please tell me where to contact you,
thank you.

Unfortunately, with our hefty feature list and our ongoing support work, we lack the bandwidth to do that kind of customization for sites. There are a few great resources to help you out here.

1) Tilden Tasks: https://tildentasks.com/ They will also do longer WordPress tasks, but they break it down to 1 task per day.
2) Codeable, which has WordPress expert developers available for short-term projects: https://codeable.io/
3) The last option would be hiring a developer on Upwork (formerly known as oDesk) to help out if you think this is beyond your current skill set. https://upwork.com There’s a lot of decent folks on there as well.

Try that and let me know if you run into more issues.

Ok thank you for your reply, but so we are definitely uninstalling the plugin. Just to say, most of plugins that interfere with display have basic settings (colors!) that are written in their config panel, as it seems obvious that every user will need different settings according to his template, and is not ready to spend hours to copy and change files into various directores!

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by ruzakuku.

Hi @ruzakuku,

I’m sorry this didn’t work out. BD takes on the look of your theme by inheriting MOST of the CSS that your theme uses. It also adds some of its own. Sometimes, depending on the theme, it works out OK, sometimes not. Again, since we provide the custom CSS file and offer that ability to override it, you don’t need to change files in the plugin. To say that we interfere with the basic settings is not accurate.

I wish you the best of luck finding a solution that works for your site.