Making My Website Private
Restrict your website or blog may be useful to allow your community to express itself freely. You can quickly achieve that thanks to a plugin.
Cera
Private Messaging with BuddyPress
This feature works as an internal site’s email for your community’s members. They can reach other users on their friends list as well as reply to received messages.
How to Fix the Missing Stylesheet Error?
A very common issue caused by uploading the incorrect zip file when trying to install the theme, which also has a very easy fix.
Creating a Light/Dark Mode on my Website
This custom made plugin allows you to add a fast Light/Dark mode switch button on your website.
Limiting Content to Paid Members
With PMPro, you can create some membership levels for your users to buy to access premium content.
Migrating bbPress sidebars after Grimlock for bbPress 1.1.2
Since Grimlock for bbPress 1.1.2, we decided to improve the sidebars used in bbPress pages. […]
Translating BuddyPress
To translate your BuddyPress website in one language, the best practise is to access to your ftp and place the .po and .mo files provided by the BuddyPress Community. This ensure good performances as you don’t use third party plugin.
Translating Grimlock
Grimlock and its add-ons are printing lots of strings that might still be displayed in English. This post explains how to solve this in order to fully translate your website to your native language using Poedit.
How to Disable Comments on my Posts?
Instantly allow or disallow comments from any post type in WordPress (Pages, Posts, or Media) to stop the spammers.
Limiting Posts Creation to Paid Members
Heads up! Want to manage memberships and charge your users for premium content ?To manage […]
Frontend Posting With Social Articles
Allow your community members to write posts about the subject of their choice and let them share their work on the common feed of your blog
Why my Downloaded Picture is Not Displayed?
After uploading a profile/group image, this image is not displayed and prevent you from cropping it. This issue is caused by the “Lazy images” Jetpack feature.
Resetting the Dashboard Widgets After Updating to Cera 1.1.6
When updating to Cera 1.1.6, the widgets in the Dashboard page are no longer visible. Don’t worry, you just have to replace them to the right area.
Importing The Widgets Manually on Your Website
In your Themeforest profile you can download the theme you bought with all files and documentation. This way, you can easily import manually specific content like the widgets.
Exporting and Importing the Customizer Options
It can be useful to export your WordPress customizer settings to save them or import them on another website. This way, you can recreate easily a clone of your website or start fresh with a backups of the customizer options.
Changing the Badges “New” and “Hot” in the Primary Navigation Menu
To add a tag in a menu item, you’ll have to use some html. There are plenty of css classes that you can use to define a tag with a specific color. We made you a list so you can choose which one you’d like to use.
Importing Manually Posts and Pages
In your Themeforest profile you can download the theme you bought with all files and documentation. This way, you can use the files provided to easily import the content manually.
Why My Site Does Not Look Like the Demo?
In most cases, these type of issues are caused by server misconfigurations. Don’t hesitate to […]
Translating BP Profile Search
To translate the search forms, several strings that you’re looking for need to be translated from the BP Search Profile plugin.
How to Make Your Site Completely Private
To make your site completely private (intranet or full private content platform), you have to […]
How to edit the text in a menu?
The text in some sections will not be editable in the classic page builder. The reason is that they are in a menu displayed thanks to Grimlock Menu block.
Translating Your Website with Loco Translate
Looking for a way to translate your site to your native language? Loco Translate provides in-browser editing of WordPress translation files and integrates with automatic translation services.
Getting GDPR ready with BuddyPress
WordPress and BuddyPress help site owners to comply with the GDPR thanks to a couple of features in relation to “Right to Erasure” and “Right to data portability”.
My members directory show no members or only one
By default, BuddyPress only shows members considered as “active members” on the site. Even if you manually activated the users, there is one more step to make them visible.
What icons can I use for my menu and on the whole site
A large choice of icons is available for your theme. Depending on the theme you choose, several icon packs may be available.
Installing the Elementor Demo Version Manually
It can be useful to import manually the content of your website. For specific themes, the Elementor templates are created and can be downloaded.
Translating Your Website Using Poedit
The best way to translate your website is to use Poedit to edit manually the dedicated language files that store translations of your site’s content in other languages.
Add Geolocation feature for BuddyPress members (BP Maps for Members)
Heads up! Make sure BuddyPress, BP Maps for Members and BP xProfile Location are installed […]
Searching Members Locations by Radius
Heads up! Want to allow your members to share their geolocation and display them on […]
Syncing the Author Bio With the Member Bio Profile Field
Since Grimlock for BuddyPress v 1.3.5, you can now create a new xProfile field and […]
Getting Your BuddyPress Community Further
It might be interesting to add some features to make a difference. We listed you some plugins that might help you take it to the next level of your community.
Installing BuddyPress Docs
Heads up! This plugin requires BuddyPressBefore you can use BuddyPress Docs, you will first need […]
How to customize display of vertical navigation menu items
Customizing menu items in vertical navigation may seem difficult, but it brings a lot of […]
Managing Roles, Member Types and Groups with BuddyPress
BuddyPress includes several useful components right off the bat, such as member types and groups, which can be enabled or disabled. These features can also be extended by several plugins.
How to Fix the “Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again” Error?
If this confusing WordPress error appears when you’re trying to upload the theme, it means […]
Moderating Interactions with BuddyPress
Keep control of your community by moderating interactions between members with the addition of some extra plugins.
Creating Documents with Attachments
Heads up! Want to manage documents on your site ?To manage documents, all our themes […]
Installing Your Theme with Envato Studio
You have the option of letting Envato Studio install and import the demo for you. This way, it ensures that your demo is fully imported so you can get to work and focus on your project.
Adding New Profile Fields to BuddyPress Members
Profile fields allow your users to add additional information about themselves. You can create as many profile fields as you like to ensure that your community has all the information it might need about other users.
Improving Website Performances
The performance of your website can be improved significantly when following the right steps. Here are few tips that will help you get your pages loading faster.
How do I translate my website?
They are multiples ways to translate your website. However, each tool has its specificities. It’s important to choose how you’ll translate your website depending on your needs.
Creating Documents with Limited Access
Allows your users to create documents, manage them and set limit access to each document created depending on their needs.
How to edit the login page ?
You can edit this page with the Customizer. Simply go to your admin panel and […]
How to Edit Colors and Icon in a Menu
Some CSS classes allow you to change the background colors of the icons used in a menu. Each of them uses a color set in the customizer.
Installing the Demo Using the Theme Setup
You just bought the theme and you wish to Import your favorite demo. Our theme setup will do this for you by activating the desired plugins and importing the demo content.
Installing Social Articles
Heads up! This plugin requires BuddyPressBefore you can use Social Articles, you will first need […]
Installing The Events Calendar
Looking to add events on your website ? Easily create and manage an events calendar […]
Show BuddyPress Fields in Members Cards
Starting from Gwangi 1.2, you can easily display any profile field of your choice on […]
How to Change the Default Login and Register Menu Items?
After importing the demo content, you might have the wrong links for the Login and […]
How to Hide Admin Users in the Members Directory?
Hiding Admin Users From the Members Directory Heads up! Don’t know how to add a […]
How Can I Hide Member Pages for Non-registered Users ?
By default, there is no option to restrict member pages for non members, but it […]
How to Hide the Admin Toolbar for Specific Roles ?
By default, the admin toolbar is always displayed to your users, but it is often […]
Adding Custom PHP Without Changing Your Child Theme
Sometimes, you are using a child theme and you don’t want to edit its files by fear of losing your customizations in a future update. Our recommendation to easily add snippets to your WordPress website is using the Code Snippets plugin.
How to Add the Meet Our Active Members block ?
Adding a block listing your members could suggest more interactions with your visitors. This way, you can show them that your community site is active.
Creating a Membership Website Pricing Page
Heads up! Make sure Grimlock for WooCommerce Subscriptions is installed first! Please make sure you […]
Add a quick view button on products list
Install plugin First you need to download, install and activate the plugin YITH WooCommerce Quick […]
Switch the product image on hover (thumbnail flipper)
Install plugin First you need to download, install and activate the plugin WC Secondary Product […]
Setup Yoast SEO with your theme
Install plugin + Grimlock addon First you need to download, install and activate the plugin. […]
Setup WooCommerce with your theme
Install plugin + Grimlock addon First you need to download, install and activate the plugin. […]
Setup WPML with your theme
Install plugin + Grimlock addon First you need to download, install and activate the plugin. […]
Setup BBPress with your theme
Install plugin + Grimlock addon First you need to download, install and activate the plugin. […]
Translating Your Theme
Translating your website in one language manually is the best practise to ensure good performances as you don’t use third party plugin. To do it, you’ll have to access to your ftp and translate some specific files with Poedit.
Creating a Multilingual Website
Your theme works with WPML to create a fully multilingual website. This means you can have your website available in multiple languages.
Translating a Single Word
Sometimes if you only need to translate a single word you may not want to create an entire translation file. You can do it easily with String Translation.
Adding Custom CSS
WordPress allows you to add custom CSS to change the appearance of your website through […]
Creating a Child Theme
A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality and styling of another theme, […]
Installing Jetpack
Jetpack is a free WordPress plugin that provides various features and enhancements to your WordPress […]
Removing the Default Styles
By default when you create a child theme, the default CSS for the theme will […]
Installing WordPress
We assume you already have a fresh copy of WordPress installed on your server. If it has […]
Customizing the Single Page
The single pages of your website can be modified through the Customizer. To display all available […]
Creating the Homepage
Create a New Homepage Your theme allows you to add blocks to showcase marketing oriented […]
Customizing the Site Logo
The custom logo displayed in the navigation bar of your website header can be modified […]
Customizing the Site Title
The title of your website header can be modified through the Customizer. To display all available […]
Customizing the Site Tagline
The tagline of your website header can be modified through the Customizer. To display all available […]
Customizing the Yoast SEO Breadcrumbs
Heads up! Make sure Grimlock for Yoast SEO is installed first! Please make sure you […]
Customizing the Forum Pages
Heads up! Make sure Grimlock for bbPress is installed first! Please make sure you have […]
Customizing the BuddyPress Button Colors
Heads up! Make sure BuddyPress is installed first! Please make sure you have BuddyPress and […]
Adding Custom PHP in Your Child Theme
If you need to modify functionality, you will often need to insert custom PHP code in to your starter child theme.
Customizing the Events Page
Heads up! Make sure Grimlock for The Events Calendar is installed first! Please make sure […]
Customizing the Shop Page
Heads up! Make sure Grimlock for WooCommerce is installed first! Please make sure you have […]
Customizing the Search Results
The search page of your website can be modified through the Customizer. To display all available […]
Customizing the Single Product
Heads up! Make sure Grimlock for WooCommerce is installed first! Please make sure you have […]
Customizing the Product Categories
Heads up! Make sure Grimlock for WooCommerce is installed first! Please make sure you have […]
Creating the Static Front Page
By default, WordPress shows your most recent posts in reverse chronological order on the front […]
Customizing the Posts Page
The posts page of your website can be modified through the Customizer. To display all available […]
Customizing the Single Post
The single posts of your website can be modified through the Customizer. To display all available […]
Customizing the Menu Locations
Your theme comes with several of built-in menu locations for your website.You can select which […]
Customizing the Global Appearance
The global appearance for your website can be modified through the Customizer. To display all available […]
Customizing the Typography
The global typography for your website can be modified through the Customizer. To display all available […]
Customizing the Navigation
The primary navigation for your website can be modified through the Customizer. You can edit the font, colors, layout and many other things to make it look exactly as you like.
Customizing the Buttons
The buttons displayed in the web pages of your website can be modified through the Customizer. […]
Customizing the Hero
Heads up! Make sure Grimlock Hero is installed first! Please make sure you have Grimlock […]
Customizing the Pre Header
The pre header, the area above the header displayed in all web pages of your […]
Customizing the Header
The header displayed in all web pages of your website can be modified through the Customizer. […]
Customizing the Pre Footer
The pre footer, the area above the footer displayed in all web pages of your […]
Customizing the Footer
The footer displayed in all web pages of your website, can be modified through the Customizer. […]
Customizing the Form Controls
The form controls displayed in all web pages of your website can be modified through […]
Customizing the Tables
The tables displayed in all web pages of your website can be modified through the Customizer. […]
Customizing the Pagination
The pagination displayed in the blog page can be modified through the Customizer. To display all […]
Customizing the Loader
The loader when web page is refreshed can be modified through the Customizer. To display all […]
