Adding sitewide search to BuddyPress Daily

Want to add Brajesh’s ‘Sitewide Global search’ and remove the sidebar search with BuddyPress Daily?  No problem:

1. Edit sidebar.php and any other sidebars you want to remove the search from – you will find sidebars for buddypress have bp- before them under library/sidebars/.

Remove the following code:

<div class="light-container">
	<form action="<?php echo bp_search_form_action() ?>"
method="post" id="search-form">
	<input type="text" id="search-terms"
name="search-terms" value="" size="18"/>
	<?php echo bp_search_form_type_select() ?>
	<input type="submit" name="search-submit"
id="search-submit" value="<?php _e( 'Search', 'buddypress' ) ?>"/>
	<?php wp_nonce_field( 'bp_search_form' ) ?>
	</form>
</div>

2. The search bar location you want to add the unified search to is located in library/components/searchform.php

Add linkedin to the social links in BuddyPress Scholar

A great tip to add more social links comes in the form of this one from James.

If you’d like to hardcode the link into your theme, this could be done by opening bp-scholar>sidebars>sidebar-home.php
Place the following on lines 64-66:

<div id="url-linkedin">
	<a href="http://YOURLINK.com" title="Linked In">Follow us on Linked In</a>
</div>

Replace YOURLINK.com with the url for your profile with linked in.

Finally, open up your style.css and add the following lines to the bottom:

#url-linkedin {
	padding: 5px 0 5px 30px;
	background: url("_inc/images/NEWIMAGE.png") no-repeat scroll 0 9px transparent;
}

The other social media images are 16×16 and located in the _inc>images folder. You should be able to find a similar image for Linked in and place it in the same directory and then replace NEWIMAGE with the actual image name.

BuddyPress Scholar

This new theme will rock your world… and you don’t need to be in education to enjoy it. It’s a massively powerful, multi-skinnable, CMS focused BuddyPress theme.

It’s got customization options galore, with 4 different templates, a whole stack of color schemes, parent and child themes and a lots more besides.

And, naturally, it’s entirely BuddyPress 1.2.1 compatible!

You can get BuddyPress Scholar here.

BuddyPress Business

BuddyPress Business is the ultimate in sleek, professional BuddyPress styling.

Like all WPMU DEV themes it’s packed full of extra features, great customization options and color palettes and is fully supported through our forums and live support.

So, now there’s no need to compromise on community and brand – you can have both.

You can download BuddyPress Business here.

Which is also, of course, BuddyPress 1.2.1 compatible :)