Rant (BP-corporate theme)

[strebel]

The BuddyPress "corporate" theme while looks good, it is pure CSS amateur hour.
Everything, I mean EVERYTHING is float:left;


Please, for all that is holy in the world... do not just keep adding floats to hack position.

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Besides that... the theme is pretty sweet.

[Ryan]

I went to look, but finding their CSS is a bit of a jumble of files.

The main thing which sets alarm bells off for me is the use of

!important;

which is a pain in the neck when you are trying to customise a theme as the infernal !important declarations override everything.

This stuff seems to be chronically rampant in the WP community too and is utterly stupid as it just causes your pages to load slower due to excessive http requests and having to load the first CSS file before being able to load anything useful:

@import url( _inc/css/base.css );
@import url( _inc/css/directories.css );
@import url( _inc/css/settings.css );
@import url( _inc/css/components.css );
@import url( _inc/css/global.css );
@import url( _inc/css/custom.css );
@import url( _inc/css/wp-comments.css );

They need to kill the outlines around their input boxes too as they look really ugly when you click on them in some browsers.

Some hovers on the menu wouldn't go amiss either.


Good to see more BuddyPress themes popping up, but so far they all seem to be derivatives (or at least they look similar) to the one that comes with BuddyPress. I'm hoping someone will build something really crazy and innovative just like has happened with WordPress since it was launched.

[wpmuguru]

That whole list of CSS files comes from the BP skeleton theme framework that was released in March/April. When Andy updated the theme this summer he eliminated those.

[Jeffro]

I think BuddyPress needs a version of Kubrick and have all themes based off of that :) that would be pretty funny to see.