Custom Community Pro

Product Description

Get the most downloaded BuddyPress Theme

→ over 100,000 downloads within the first year
→ continuously in the top 10 WordPress Themes
→ over 2,500 members and counting
→ continuous development

Create a unique site or social network within minutes. Easy set up with predefined settings, all customizable with easy options and shortcodes. Customizable shortcodes for column layouts, accordions, slideshows, image effects and widgets. Add your own styles and background-images easily. Create websites faster than ever before, without touching code.

→ Here’s a how-to-start guide.

Pro Features at a glance

Powerful theme settings page to customize every part of the theme
Page and post templates
Single page and post settings
Customize your profile and group pages
6 colour schemes for easy set up:
white, light, grey, dark, black, natural
List posts within your page, in different styles
Color Picker to choose your colors easily
Combine fully customizable shortcodes for column layouts, accordions, slideshows, image effects and widgets
Add your own styles and background-images easily via fileuploader or within shortcodes
Completely reworked CSS, clean design, cross browser compatible
36 widget areas (15 flexible ones to put anywhere)
5 special widgets
For WordPress, WPMU and BuddyPress

Free Basic Support

We walk you through until you have your site up and running.

Browse the Knowledge Base
Technical problems with installation? Click here.
Browse discussions in the support forums.

Premium Support available

Get direct help and advise from product experts here.

Theme Settings

You have a powerful theme settings page to customize all parts of your site.

General Appearance

6 colour schemes – for quick set up:
white, light, grey, natural, dark, black
Favicon Image
Default Layout – Sidebars left, right, or both
Background colour, image and repeat,
position and fixing
Container colour, image and repeat
Container corner radius
Font style, colour and size
Title font style, colour, size and weight
Link colour
Show excerpts or content
Define excerpt length
Login page logo
Login page height
Login page background image
Login page backtoblog fade colour 1
Login page backtoblog fade colour 2

Header

Show/hide header text
Header text colour
Custom Logo
Header height
Header image, repeat and positioning

Sidebars

Widget title style
Widget title font size
Widget title background colour, image and repeat

Footer

Footer height
Footer background colour, image and repeat
Show/hide credit links
Your own credits links in footer

BuddyPress specific settings

Show/hide login-bar header
Show/hide Buddypress default sub-navigation
BuddyPress sub-navigation background colour
Show/hide search bar
Use global Buddydev search instead of bp-search
Search bar x-position
Search bar y-position
Show/hide login sidebar
Login sidebar text

Profile page settings

Show profile header
Profile sidebars
Profile avatar size
Profile menu order

Group page settings

Show groups header
Groups sidebars
Groups avatar size
Groups menu order

Slideshow (the top slider)

Show/hide slideshow: home, all, off
Select post categories and amount
Use pages or custom post types
Slideshow style: with preview or full width image
Define the sliding time
Order posts
Show/hide caption
Create a shadow under the top slider

Overwrite CSS

You have an extra field to overwrite existing CSS.
This way you are able to customize even the smallest CSS details.

Page templates

Right sidebar
Left sidebar
Left and right sidebar
Full width page

Shortcodes

Do a lot of awesome stuff inside your posts and pages without coding. Just copy examples from the demo page, insert the shortcodes in your page/post and modify. With many possibilities to customize.

Columns shortcodes

Create clearly structured layouts easily!

2 columns
3 columns
4 columns
2/3 columns
3/4 columns

Additionaly you can define background colours, borders, corner radius, shadow, background images, height.
You can also combine them in hierarchical mode and put other shortcodes inside, for example a widget shortcode…

Slideshow shortcodes

Add fully customizable slideshows inside your content!

Show posts, pages or custom post types
Show with slider navigation (preview) or full-image slider
Select a post category and the amount of posts
Show/hide caption
Add a reflection
Customize your slider navigation
Play around with custom width and height, caption size and position and more

List posts shortcodes

List your posts inside your content!

image left, content right
image right, content left
image over content
image under content

Image effect shortcodes

Add some nice effects to your images.

Image frame, fully customizable
Reflection or shadow, also customizable
Add custom CSS

jQuery accordion shortcodes

Insert fully customizable jQuery accordions into your images. Perfect to present much content that needs to be toggled.

Customize titles font and background colours
Customize border colour and hover background colour
Add custom CSS

Widget shortcodes

You can add widgets inside your content anywhere you’d like to.
Just insert the widget shortcode into your post.

Other shortcodes

There are some further useful shortcodes like…

widget shortcodes
facebook like buttons
blockquotes
buttons
horizontal line
break – to make a simple enter, what’s sometimes nasty in WP editor…
clear – e.g. to reset all floatings

Post templates

With Custom Community Pro you also have several layouts for your posts. You can integrate the featured image automatically in the single post view:

Featured image left
Featured image right
Featured image over contet
Featured image under contet

List your posts under your page

With a jQuery mouse over effect
With the featured image left, content right
With the featured image right, contet left
With the featured image over the contet
With the featured image under the contet

Single page settings

Slideshow on/off
Slideshow category
Slideshow: use custom post types, pages or external urls via custom fields
Slideshow style: full width or with preview
Slideshow caption on/off
Define the sliding time
Slideshow order of posts/pages
Amount of posts/pages
List posts under that page
Select a style for listing the posts
Select category of posts
Select amount of posts
Page templates: sidebars left, right, left and right, or no sidebars

Single post settings

Post layouts/templates: 4 styles:
image left, content right – image right, content left – image over/under content
Show/hide avatar
Show/hide date/category
Show/hide tags
Show/hide comment-info

Demo Site

Check out the demo page which is full of examples and explanations.
A great starting point to get to know to the theme functions.

Showcase

Want to see some example sites made with Custom Community? Check out our showcase.