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Altering the BuddyPress top admin bar without touching core?

  • Avatar of Thord Daniel Hedengren
    Thord Daniel Hedengren
    Participant

    @tdh

    4 years, 1 month ago

    First of all, thanks for the great work with BuddyPress so far! I’m playing around with it, and enjoying it a lot. Can’t wait for 1.0 and some real documentation, that’ll certainly me develop themes and such. :)

    Anyway, I’m trying to drastically alter the top menu bar, preferably without hacking bp-core-adminbar.php, although I will as a last resort. I need to make these changes work across ALL themes on blogs, as well as the members part.

    Can I use bp-custom.php in any way to resolve this?

    Thanks a lot!

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  • Avatar of Paul Gibbs
    Paul Gibbs
    Keymaster

    @djpaul

    4 years, 1 month ago

    If it is css changes you can use a file called site-wide.css (or something similar). I’m at work so can’t look at source for HTML changes at the moment.

    Avatar of Thord Daniel Hedengren
    Thord Daniel Hedengren
    Participant

    @tdh

    4 years, 1 month ago

    I’m afraid I need to make actual HTML changes, from removing elements to adding new ones.

    Avatar of Gordonbrander
    Anonymous

    4 years, 1 month ago

    You could try using http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/remove-buddypress-admin-bar/ and then create a little plugin that copies the parts of the bar you want and hooks into wp_head.

    (Heads up: check the source of the remove-buddypress-admin-bar plugin: there is a parameter you may need to set based on what version of BP you’re running.)

    Avatar of Thord Daniel Hedengren
    Thord Daniel Hedengren
    Participant

    @tdh

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for the tip, I’ll check that one out! If possible, I’d avoid it though, since plugins can act up on updates and if this works, I won’t be there to manage it all the time.

    Avatar of Gordonbrander
    Anonymous

    4 years, 1 month ago

    @Tdh plugins might have their issues, but I would *highly recommend* doing it via plugin. If you hack the core you won’t be able to upgrade the software without losing your changes.

    Avatar of Thord Daniel Hedengren
    Thord Daniel Hedengren
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    @tdh

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Yeah I know, that’s why I wondered if it was possible to do something using bp-custom.php (which is meant for custom core overrides to keep it outside the actual core, unless I’ve misunderstood everything?). But yeah, I guess that plugin is my best bet, will have to give it a go tomorrow.

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