Button colour: What SP theme are you using? If any other than the CSS only theme then you can change colours for just about everything in the colour overlay file you are using. But – as I am not aware of any of themes having such an issue I am thinking this might be your WP theme being over-zealous. To check for that I would need a link to your forum page.

User Group Assignment: By ‘enabled’ I assume you mean in the Options > Member settings that you have set up the default user groups for new registrants of each Wp role type. And no – there are no known bugs. Are you using a third party plugin of any sort to collection new user data?

Blurred Avatars: Again – this sounds most likely to be a WP theme issue. Again I would need to see it however.

heres the forum link Forum Link -> www.communitycustoms.info/forum-2

I’m using a modified version of the CSS theme you provide (which pretty much suited our needs of the group just needed a couple of buttons removing and colors altering)

As for user the member group settings you are correct sorry i should probably have made that clearer. The only plugins that should affect user registration is buddypress and that (to my knowledge~) just relies on default WP roles

Also should you need it the theme we use is called custom community and can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/custom-community

Well – on the button colour you better give me an example of one I can see as a visitor as I can not get to see the submit reply ones and not sure what the ‘few others’ are!

On the fuzzy icons and taking yours as an example, this is a 50×50 px file that you are upscaling to 75x75px. Afraid that is going to produce fuzziness every time. Far better to use the same size originals and, of course, scaling down tends to produce sharper resized images.

SP knows there is a new user registration because WP sends a ‘message’ via its hook system. This is necessary for the system to work and is how plugins communicate with WP core events. Sometimes third party substitutes fail to include these hooks in their code which leaves, in this vase, SP, high and dry. I know that at least one version of BuddyPress failed to institute the new user hooks but I thought that had subsequenty been fixed up so – are you using an up to date version?

Re the button colour this only appears to be occuring on the ones that you can see while you are logged in, so that you can see an example ive rigged up a dummy account for you

username: SPtest
Password – SPTEST

which ill disable when were done (if you wouldnt mind letting me know when that is).

its mostly those where submission of info is needed so in new post fields and on profile entry fields.

As for the Avatar thats an oversight on my side i though i was cropping at 100×100 my bad.

as for buddy press yes im using the latest version, im pretty new to this level of editing in wordpress where would you recommend i look to see if the hooks are functioning correctly?

Thanks swordfish

Your problem with the submit buttons is, as I suspected, an over-zealous WP theme. In your theme CSS file you will find this:

a.comment-edit-link, a.comment-reply-link, a.button, input[type=”submit”], input[type=”button”], ul.button-nav li a, div.generic-button a, .activity-list div.activity-meta a.acomment-reply, .activity-list div.activity-meta a {
    color: #DDDDDD !important;
}

The problem lies with that !important directive at the end. Whenever you use this then it means use this everywhere for this type of element no matter what else is defined. It’s a bit like carpet-bombing and to be avoided if necessary. Remove the !important and all is well.

The following WP Action hooks will trigger the creation of a new SP member and associated data: ‘wpmu_new_user’, ‘wpmu_activate_user’ (both multi-site only), ‘added_existing_user’ and ‘user_register’ – and this last one is the usual and most common method. So is BuddyPress using one or any of those basically?

And you can remove that user now should you wish.

hte honest answer is i have no clue where to look for either of those things, im looking at my WP theme css and cant find any mention of the code that you mention but ill keep looking, also i have no idea where to look for those calls, a look on the buddy press forum indicates that they use their own handling instead of wordpress however but i have no idea where to find the snippet to try and correct it manuallly

It would be buried in the code somewhere and I am afraid we do not use BuddyPress.
Perhaps the quickest way would be to ask them?

No worries, I will pop over and ask them later thanks for the help yellow swordfish its very much appreciated

(for future referance if you need it, when using the custom community theme the setting that was affecting the forum buttons was the container color under theme settings)

Well – that makes life easier!

Hey

I have a couple more questions if you dont mind but figured it would be better sticking them in here rather then cluttering the place with a new thread:

1: how do i chage the button colours, (ie you have the submit reply button red here, on my site its blue, if i want to change that to a different colour which bit am i looking at here :-/

2: Im looking to integrate cubepoints’ rank readout into the forum so that it shows under the avatars to save me hunting can you point me to the right php file?

3: is there support for a “preview” button alongside the submit and cancle buttons?

i might have a few more later but theyre the few quick ones i have off the top of my head

nomis78 said

1: how do i chage the button colours, (ie you have the submit reply button red here, on my site its blue, if i want to change that to a different colour which bit am i looking at here :-/

Depends what SP theme you are using. Is it a theme with overlay support or a CSS only version?

2: Im looking to integrate cubepoints’ rank readout into the forum so that it shows under the avatars to save me hunting can you point me to the right php file?

You will need the templates folder in your SP theme. We are talking here of the topic view – i.e., a single topic displaying the topic posts – so the template in question is spTopicView.php. if you take a look through that you will see the flow of the elements s they display and should easily fund the avatar template function.

3: is there support for a “preview” button alongside the submit and cancle buttons?

Sadly and currently lacking. This is because it is really quite hard to do but – I have made a promise to anyone who will listen that I am going to tackle this once and for all as soon as possible – which basically means when we are through the teething period of V5! So – hopefuly – not too long now.

i might have a few more later but theyre the few quick ones i have off the top of my head

Brilliant thanks again, and yes I’m using a variation on you CSS template (new folder and renamed 🙂 )

In that case you need to locate the CSS for the

#spMainContainer input.spSubmit

class which is about two-thirds of the way through the (big) file. You can change the background there. But – it might be bleed through from your WP theme. Firebug or most modern browser inspectors can tell you what CSS is being applied to any display element or with a link (and provided I can get to the button in question) I can also take a look.