BuddyPress

Others have asked, but I haven’t found an easy solution to make dropdown menu items from my pages and post categories in the Buddypress admin bar? I want to use the bar as my main navigation menu.

function pages(){
?>

<li><a href=”#”>Pages</a>
<ul>
<li><a href=”http://www.animeonsen.com”>Home</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://www.animeonsen.com/about”>About</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://www.animeonsen.com/support-us”>Support us</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://www.animeonsen.com/advertise”>Advertise</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://www.animeonsen.com/anime-stores”>Anime stores</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://www.animeonsen.com/friends”>Friends</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://www.animeonsen.com/archives”>Archives</a></li>
<li><a href=”http://www.animeonsen.com/contact”>Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</li>

<?php
}
add_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘pages’, 15 );

That is what I did. (Sorry don’t know how to post the code as normal text!!!) It is not the best solution, but it works! Let me know if you figured out a better way.

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Here is an snippet that should be added to the bp-functions.php (located in the plugins folder)

http://pastebin.com/5K1rrVvL

Check my site to see how it looks: http://www.chwisgi.com

@JediSthlm are you saing you have to create a bp-functions.php file and put it in your plugins folder? Cause I don’t see one already created anywhere.

@alanchrishughes yes create a blank bp-custom.php (not bp-functions.php) and paste on the code. Save and upload the bp-custom.php file to wp-content/plugins/ folder

@mercime thanks! I’ve been trying to figure that out for a while now. Is there a way to add a link without the drop down arrow? I don’t see any class or id added to it so I don’t know how it is picking it up.

@Jens Wedin @alanchrishughes

I was looking for a way to include all navigation links in one navbar. Jens’ code snippet is brilliantly simple. Thanks!
The only drawback is you have to add links manually to get them to appear in the adminbar.

I’ve modified the code (borrowing inspiration from a snippet previously written by @David Lewis) so that:
1 – all “standard” BP Directory links appear automatically in their own dropdown;
2 – all BP plugin directories (Links, Gallery, etc) are automatically added to that dropdown;
3 – all WP pages are added automatically to the adminbar;
4 – all added WP pages respect whatever page order is set in the WP-Dashboard.

The code is here: http://pastebin.com/8FJmcgRF

To ensure that unwanted pages DON’T show up in the adminbar navigation (password-protected, Thank You pages, etc), install the Exclude Pages plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/

@pcwriter
You should release this as a plugin.

@rickkumar

Great idea! Hmm… my first REAL contribution. Cool
There’s gotta be a “How to Build a Plugin” tutorial around here somewhere…

@pcwriter

May be this can help:

Creating a Custom BuddyPress Component

http://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/creating-a-custom-buddypress-component/

@rickkumar

Yup, I’m there… and here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin

Cool

There’s got to be a much more logical way of doing this, we’re sitting here talking about adding a couple a hrefs like it’s rocket science and requires all kinds of php code. I know it takes some php to tell if a user is logged in or not and notifications, but its like the entire bar is held hostage to these few links.

@alanchrishughes

The code I’ve posted is actually quite simple when you get right down to it. Simple yet powerful. It does everything you want a dropdown menu to do, and it does it all automatically behind the scenes.

It starts by identifying what links belong to dynamically generated BP directories and adds those to the adminbar in a Community dropdown. To that same dropdown, It then adds all BP directories that are created by any BP plugins you may have installed.

It then identifies all WP pages and adds them to the adminbar also. The really cool part is no matter how you’ve set up your WP page hierarchy and page order in your dashboard, that will be preserved in hierarchical dropdowns like the following example:

Parent page 1
- Child page 1
– Grand-child page 1
- Child page 2
- Child page 3…

Go ahead, give it a whirl. Copy the code to bp-custom.php and upload to your plugins folder. No need to activate anything; Buddypress will recognize and execute the code.

Take a look at my homepage: http://nowrecovery.com/

The first dropdown is all Buddypress. The ones after it are all WP. If you create an account and login, you’ll see all the adminbar goodies appear to the left and bump everything else to the right.

@pcwriter
There is a need at present for dashboard links if one is running WP 3.0 single blog (unless one wants to have to ad the WP meta or type at address bar) I keep a function that allows me to add to adminbar links similar to that which you describe.

You may like to consider a twist or variation on your code to include the new WP 3.0 nav menus?

This example would add the ability for users to add / construct menus from the dashboard and place them on the adminbar:

http://pastebin.com/qJwURYxm

It’s not checked as such and names need adjusting etc.