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hi i am new to buddypress, and i was wondering how to rename header tabs (groups, forums) etc both in wordpress mu and wordpress.

You can either edit the header.php file of your theme, or create your own custom language file. I’d probably try the latter: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-rename-the-favorite-button-on-the-activity-stream/

Do note though that the custom language solution doesn’t work if you want to customize text only in one place.

For example, I want to rename ‘Home’ in the Group subnav to ‘Discussion’. Can’t be done using the language file for that would change all occurrences sitewide. I’m still at a loss how to do this, short of redifining bp_get_options_nav() (which I don’t like for other reasons).

I know this is an old topic, but its in the top results of Google when trying to find a solution for this.

So, to help save other people time (who land on this page when Google’ing this situation) here’s the fastest fix I’ve come across so far.

Create a file called “bp_custom.php”.

In it add:

function bbg_change_tabs() {

global $bp;
$bp->bp_nav['profile']['name'] = ‘New Profile Verbiage’;
$bp->bp_nav['activity']['name'] = ‘New Activity Verbiage’;
$bp->bp_nav['friends']['name'] = ‘New Friends Verbiage’;
$bp->bp_nav['groups']['name'] = ‘New Groups Verbiage’;
}
add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘bbg_change_tabs’, 999 );

Replace the “New W/e Verbiage” with what you want it to say.
Double check that BuddyPress forums didn’t change any foot marks to apostrophes.
Save bp_custom.php and upload the file to /wp-contents/plugins/

Refresh your page to see if it worked.

So far it works for me just fine.