Comments on: Customizable Slugs in BuddyPress

By: John James Jacoby

John James Jacoby — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:14:25 +0000

If it’s a bug, you’ll have better luck opening a ticket with more details at http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org. If it’s a support issue, open a topic in our support forums.

By: Sean A

Sean A — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:38:40 +0000

OK I just tried to add the

define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES’, true );

line to my bp-custom.php file and I still can’t get to remove the “members” slug from my link so it goes to domain.com/username instead.

Any ideas what else I should/could do?

WP3.3 and BP 1.5.2.

By: Jerry Lee

Jerry Lee — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:30:39 +0000

At first it wasn’t working, then I put it in my bp-custom.php file, and voila!

By: Javhy

Javhy — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:54:04 +0000

define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES’, true );

enable http://domain.com/username/?

By: Jeff Higgins

Jeff Higgins — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:48:03 +0000

Did anyone ever figure out a way to either remove the /members/ slug altogether or write some sort of mod rewrite in the htaccess so that a user could be found by going directly to http://domain.com/username/?

By: michael

michael — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:35:09 +0000

doesnt work!!! as usual. What is the ‘overwrite’ order for slugs? do they get overwrited if they appear somewhere else? why?

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:15:49 +0000

One issue some people may run into: I don’t use the Buddypress search right now at all. But it still overrides the slug I had for my own search — http://www.lllllllllaaaaaaallalala.com/search/

When I installed bp, it was redirecting people from /search/ to /members/ (which I turned off anyway). Adding the define rule above for SEARCH to my bp-custom.php fixed it. I just changed the search slug to something else. (I guess by default it is /search/ ?)

By: kReEsTaL

kReEsTaL — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:48:28 +0000

Hello guys,

Thanks to the Buddypress documentation, I successfully changed all editable slugs (in French).

However, a feature is missing imho : the ability to edit the submenus’ slugs, such as “just-me”, “favorites”, etc.

Basically, you still need to edit the core files if you want to edit them, but that’s a ridiculous solution since all changes will disappear during any Buddypress update.

Any plans on making these submenus’ slugs editable in a near future ? Or do you know any plugin or tip which would help with this matter please ?

Thanks a lot

By: justkidding

justkidding — Sun, 09 May 2010 18:10:47 +0000

WP Freak:
Go to \ wp-admin \ Site admin \ Blogs \ Edit your ID=1 blog \ find “Permalink Structure” and delete from structure “/blog”.
It helps me

By: r-a-y

r-a-y — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:54:10 +0000

@everyone with problems, please post your issues on the buddypress.org/forums.

Not many people will see your issues here.