WordPress Scholar Theme

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BuddyPress Scholar Theme Custom settings

Scholar is a theme designed to work for heavy content sites and communities. It’s highly configurable to allow you to easily deal with a lot of content on your site and highlight featured categories.

Scholar is designed to put your content first with featured categories and home page spotlight sections along with a featured category slideshow. It also focuses heavily on your community with strong member activity and forum themeing. BuddyPress Scholar can adapt to a range of site types from Educational through to community and more Magazine based ones – it really adapts to fit any site type you wish.

BuddyPress Scholar

Here is a list of the features of BuddyPress Scholar:

4 page templates
Fully customizable front sections to feature your content
Advert section in header
Post images without the need for custom fields and even set the size
Featured post slideshow that automatically shows your images without custom fields
Site message and welcome message areas
Choose a square or large image logo with or without text
Social media link features – just add your url to link to your Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook urls
Multiple sidebars all widget ready
Widget ready footer with 4 sections
6 Attractive color schemes
Create your own theme styles using the easy styling system
Parent and child themes allowing for easy updates
Theme options that mean no code editing to configure any feature on this theme
PDF manual
Tutorial Video

BuddyPress Scholar also comes not only with the default color scheme but 6 more styles each with custom image elements to keep the high impact design. If one of those preset styles doesn’t fit then you can easily create your own just by using our easy color picker.

BuddyPress Scholar Presets

BuddyPress Scholar comes with 4 page templates: full width, sidebar left, sidebar right and 3 columns. The home page is already set up and you can link up the sections using our easy to use theme options. The home page has a configurable on/off slideshow, site message area, social media links and a whole host of options to select categories to feature the content from your main site. BuddyPress Scholar comes with a range of widget areas including 4 in the footer. You also get a cracking blog and news template you can link up to show the latest from your blog. You can even have a site wide advert to link to another site and make money on your site or advertise a service. You can also brand your site using the easy to add logo upload that fits either a square or rectangle logo.

BuddyPress Scholar features WPMU DEV’s images without custom fields function. This pulls through the first image in your post automatically and you can even set the size of this in the configurable feature category sections. It is set to be a background image to a html element so is fast, simple and elegant without the hassle of custom fields.

Unlike many other BuddyPress themes at WPMU DEV we make sure our themes give your site a total consistent look. We even theme the default BuddyPress pages. Take a look at the activity stream and forum styling in BuddyPress Scholar:

BuddyPress Scholar BuddyPress styling

A WPMU DEV theme also ensures your blog posts look great with a range of text styles for your posts. Take a look at a sample blog post with the BuddyPress Scholar theme.

BuddyPress Scholar Post

Check out the demo over at BuddyPress Themes in Action and you can also see more screenshots of BuddyPress Scholar here.

Not only do you get a great theme but at WPMU DEV you also get great support in our forums, documentation, videos and live chat. Twice a week you can even talk directly to our theme designers so you can talk about anything relating to any of our themes. WPMU DEV really is the place to go to get a great theme and feel safe in the knowledge no matter what you want to do with your site you’ve got the support to do it.

As with all the WPMU DEV themes BuddyPress Scholar is not only a BuddyPress theme it works with WordPress, Multisite and BuddyPress. All WPMU DEV themes also have child and parent themes, we don’t make you use one core parent or have to buy a framework like other companies, we let you create your own child themes with everyone of our themes. A WPMU DEV theme really is the only complete solution you need to theme your site.

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Installing a theme from WPMU DEV

1. Download the theme file

2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive

3. Upload the folder to /wp-content/themes/ folder on your site

If you’re using multi-site you’ll need to visit Network Admin -> Themes and Activate it there.

4. Make sure your install path is correct for example:

/www/var/site/wp-content/themes/thethemename
not
/www/var/site/wp-content/themes/themes/thethemename

5. You’ll see several files and folders depending on the theme package. Most themes contain a folder for the parent and child theme within the folder called themes.

6. Launch FileZilla or your FTP client – read more about using FTP and FTP clients here.

7. Enter your domain name, your username and password. NOTE: the same username and password that you use to log into your cPanel.

8. Click Quickconnect

9. Upload both the parent theme folder and child theme folder to wp-content/themes/

For example, with BuddyPress Daily theme you need to upload bp-daily and bp-daily-child to wp-content/themes/ (bp-daily folder is the parent theme folder)
With Gallery you need to upload gallery and gallery-child to wp-content/themes/ (gallery folder is the parent theme folder)
We provide child themes with themes to enable you to customize your own files without having those changes overwritten when we update a theme.
To find out more about parent and children themes please visit our guide to parent and child themes.

Uploading parent and child themes to your theme folder on your site

10. Dragging the theme folders from your computer into theme folder in your WordPress directory uploads these new themes to your WordPress install however they aren’t enabled on a WordPress Multisite install.

11. As Super Admin user on WordPress Multisite you have the choice to enable:

a) The theme network wide so that all users can use the theme
b) Enable access to the theme on a per site basis
c) Use Supporter plugin via supporter-themes.php to make it available as a premium theme for supporter sites only

Enabling The Theme network wide

Here’s how to enable Sleek Photo network wide so that all your users can use the theme:

1. On your Network Admin dashboard click on the Themes menu

2. Select Network Enable underneath the theme name to enable its access network wide.

To enable more than one theme at once:

Enabling themes on a per site basis

Any theme that has not been activated for the entire network can be activated on a site as follows:

1. Locate the site you want to enable specific themes on by searching for the specific site by clicking on Sites > All Sites

2. Once you have located the site click on Edit (hovering your mouse over the domain name brings up the action menu)

3. Click the Themes tab

Only themes that haven’t been enabled network wide appear on the site theme list

You can also enable more than one theme at the same time:

Using Supporter Plugin for Premium Themes

The supporter plugin allows you to select premium themes for supporter sites only.

The idea is you make the best and nicest themes available on supporter sites so users will want to sign up to access the themes.

To install:

1. Install the Supporter plugin as per the installation instructions.

2. Upload supporter-themes.php to wp-content/mu-plugins

How it works is:

1. A Premium Themes page is added to Settings > Supporter in the Network Admin dashboard, where you can select the themes that you want to enable for Supporter sites only.

Only themes that haven’t been enabled network wide on Network Admin >Themes will be listed on this page

2. A Premium Themes sub-menu item is added to the dashboard of all sites under both Supporter and Appearance – but only users using supporter site can activate a Premium theme.

3. Whereas users on non-supporter sites can see all the Premium themes but can’t activate them – instead they see a message saying ’This feature is limited to supporters only’