Floating Toolbar

[Frank]

How can I get the floating toolbar to be the default?

[Paul]

@frankwarwick Appearance > Customize > WordPress Toolbar > Toolbar Layout.

[Frank]

Hi paul I am referring to default setting not how to change. Current default settings is for the top position, I want to know how to set the default to floating

[Alyssa]

@frankwarwick line 91 of buddyboss-inc/buddyboss-customizer/buddyboss-customizer-loader.php

Change fixed to floating

UNTESTED

[Frank]

It didn’t work ….

[Alyssa]

@frankwarwick I just tested this and it works. This will NOT work for a current site that has this setting set previously. This will only work for a new site without any previous Boss customization settings.

[Frank]

Is there a way to get this to work for an existing site …

[Alyssa]

@frankwarwick if you are using MultiSite it should work for new sites. You are unable to set this for existing sites since the current state is already saved, you will need to change it manually for that.

[Frank]

Hi @tjchester, I do have a MultiSite and when I created a new site after making the changes it didn’t work.
I will again test after clearing all my caches and use a different browser. I can’t see why it will not work.

Thanks for the follow up on this, always great support on BuddyBoss.

[Alyssa]

@frankwarwick one additional edit on line 246 of theme-functions.php from this:
wp_enqueue_style( 'buddyboss-wp-adminbar-desktop-'.esc_attr( get_theme_mod( 'boss_adminbar_layout', 'fixed' ) ), get_template_directory_uri().'/css/adminbar-desktop-'.esc_attr( get_theme_mod( 'boss_adminbar_layout', 'fixed' ) ).'.css', array( 'dashicons', 'googlefonts' ), '4.1.4', 'all' );
to this:
wp_enqueue_style( 'buddyboss-wp-adminbar-desktop-'.esc_attr( get_theme_mod( 'boss_adminbar_layout', 'floating' ) ), get_template_directory_uri().'/css/adminbar-desktop-'.esc_attr( get_theme_mod( 'boss_adminbar_layout', 'floating' ) ).'.css', array( 'dashicons', 'googlefonts' ), '4.1.4', 'all' );

I confirmed this works for new Multisite sites.

[Frank]

Yep, it works, thanks for the help.

FYI – I tried to do this in the child theme but it would not work so I now have to keep an eye on this when doing updates … any reason it would not work in a child theme?

[Alyssa]

@frankwarwick the way we call theme function files is different than how we call page template files and other normal files that you would want to edit in the child theme. We have some alternatives though, remove the changes to the parent theme files then try adding this to functions.php:

function buddyboss_secondary_scripts_styles(){
if ( !is_admin() ) {
wp_dequeue_style( 'buddyboss-wp-adminbar-desktop-'.esc_attr( get_theme_mod( 'boss_adminbar_layout', 'fixed' ) ), get_template_directory_uri().'/css/adminbar-desktop-'.esc_attr( get_theme_mod( 'boss_adminbar_layout', 'fixed' ) ).'.css', array( 'dashicons', 'googlefonts' ), '4.1.4', 'all' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'buddyboss-wp-adminbar-desktop-'.esc_attr( get_theme_mod( 'boss_adminbar_layout', 'floating' ) ), get_template_directory_uri().'/css/adminbar-desktop-'.esc_attr( get_theme_mod( 'boss_adminbar_layout', 'floating' ) ).'.css', array( 'dashicons', 'googlefonts' ), '4.1.4', 'all' );
}
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'buddyboss_secondary_scripts_styles' );

[Frank]

Nice one @tjchester it worked first time which now leads me to the question of changing the colours for the menus and header background, I can see them in “buddyboss-customizer-loader.php” but changing them has no effect in the child theme or the main BB theme

[Varun Dubey]

Hi Frank (@frankwarwick), I have checked BuddyBoss theme customizer codes and tested on existing installation and it is working fine. I had also tested on existing multisite on running site plus creating new sub site, customizer options are getting saved in database as displaying the header color changes as well.

You can pm me with you site url and admin login details i will check on your site.

Regards
Varun Dubey