magichew

Implemented these fixes and everything works as it should. Thank you.

Just for completeness.

Adding the bod.archive rules effected other wordpress pages such as the post archive pages.

The rule to add was body.tax-bp_docs_tag

I have a twenty twelve child theme that I could upload to dropbox for anyone who might find it useful. Just let me know.

I’ve noticed that there was the CSS class of full-width applied to the body tag on full width pages.

I first thought about trying to add that class somewhere in the BP Docs files so that it’s added to every BP Docs page.

I found where the class is added (includes/compontent.php) line 1003 but then I thought that this (as a lot of this so far) isn’t very upgrade proof.

The simpler solution for me was to apply the CSS rules to the body.bp-docs and body.archive classes.

I have it all working as required.

Now I need to move my changes from my sidebar.php to a child theme to maintain update/upgradeablilty.

Apologies for so many posts but I thought it might be useful to others who might want to do the same as I.

Got it.

In the sidebar.php file add the conditional statements.

I’m using twenty twelve and so there was one in there already (if theres widgets show the sidebar, if not then don’t).

I just joined in with this one and said if the page is a bp_docs page don’t show the sidebar, if it isn’t then check to see if there’s any widgets, if there are show the sidebar, if there’s not then don’t.

Code looks like this. Not sure if this should be done with an else if or not but it’s working and I’m happy.

<?php if ( 'bp_doc' == get_post_type() ) : ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-1' ) ) : ?>
		<div id="secondary" class="widget-area" role="complementary">
			<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-1' ); ?>
		</div><!-- #secondary -->
	<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Thanks evrenk

That’s kind of what I’m looking for but not quite. Doing that loses all of the styling and pushes my side bar down the page.

I can get the look via CSS is the web inspector hiding the side bar and setting the main div to 100% but obviously this doesn’t stick.

I’m sure there’s a technical reason why it’s not available but it’d be great if I could just choose a full width template.

You’re absolutely right and I agree that you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.

I’m sure that this plug in used to allow me to chose the pages to block, rather than choosing the pages to allow. It’s not practical for me to choose the pages to allow as there are so many and every time I make a new one I’ll need to add it to the allow list.

It was much better when I could simply block the activity pages etc.

I really appreciate your work on the plugin, I certainly could not execute anything close to this.