[Jonathan]

Hi everyone!

We at the Modern Language Association just launched a new minimalist theme for our CBOX-based website, MLA Commons. It’s a fairly major re-imagining of the CBOX theme. Here are a few of the things we did:

• fixed a number of bugs, like the border around the text box I’m typing in right now
• modernized the buttons to simple, flat ones
• gave buttons, buttony links, and tabs a fairly consistent look
• took out gradients, lines, and other 3-D elements wherever possible
• removed redundant messages from the PHP templates (like the forum loop which says “This forum contains 16 topics / Viewing 15 topics, 1 – 15 of 16 topics”)
• regularized and standardized the design across plugins, so that it looks as seamless as possible
• included a forked version of the buddypress-docs plugin which rethemes the way docs display
• updated the typography
• added a slick jQuery dropdown menu for our “Help” section

Check it out at commons.mla.org. Feel free to use any of the code for your own projects, too. It’s all up at our GitHub repository.

Oh, and if there are any maintainers of this site who see this message, it’d be great if we could update the screenshot and link for our site in Showcase so that it reflects the current state. Thanks in advance!

-Jonathan Reeve

[Matthew K Gold]

Wonderful, Jonathan! Congrats — it looks great. And we will certainly
update the screenshot.

Best,

Matt

[Ray]

Nice work, Jonathan.

The customized MLA theme looks really streamlined and clean. Also the group type and visibility filters on the Groups directory are cool features.

Congrats!

[Iurie Malai]

@jreeve, @mkgold, @r-a-y

I wanted to test the CBOX-MLA theme but I got this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function infinity_get_header() in /my_home_path/public_html/wp-content/themes/cbox-mla/templates/homepage-template.php on line 11

Does anyone know why this is happening? Commons-in-a-Box theme is active and updated.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 3 months ago by Iurie Malai.
• This reply was modified 10 years, 3 months ago by Iurie Malai.

[Liz Brown]

ooooh! Nice! Love the way the active members looks as a vertical display, too.

[Jonathan]

@iurie, I’m looking into that at the moment. That happens to us, too, if we change themes then change back to cbox-mla! Which is quite worrying. I just opened a thread about it here:

https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/reloading-child-theme-causes-errors-with-loading-infinity-functions/

I have a feeling it’s because the theme genealogy (cbox-mla -> cbox-theme -> infinity) is getting mixed up somehow, but I’m not yet sure how. If you have any ideas, let me know.

[Jonathan]

@iurie, It should be fixed now. Give it a try, and let me know how it looks on your system.

[Scott Voth]

@jreeve – The new theme looks great!  I have updated the showcase page and slider with new images and new link.  Cheers!

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