Reply To: Magazine-style start page with default sidebar and more – – Take 2

Here’s how to set a custom frontpage:

https://startupwp.com/topic/setting-a-static-frontpage-and-posts-page/

Since you’ll be using a static page, you’ll probably want a plugin like:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/list-category-posts/

For listing posts in it.

For the link colors, give this a try:

a {
  color: #FA73B6;
}

For BuddyPress pages, try:

.buddypress #content {
  width: 92%;
}
.buddypress #sidebar {
  display: none;
}
.buddypress li:before {
  content: "" !important;
}

For adding CSS, see https://startupwp.com/topic/customizing-your-theme/