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@danp: Yes, that’s the plugin indeed. I have the latest version.

Thanks for the ideas! I have gone through those options and the whole website is pretty much one big WP manual in layout (knowledge base search type of thing) so that’s covered.

The one 2 one tutoring is practically a video call, but I also share files and links and make a summary and assign homework that I want them to be able to review in their profile.

So I guess the best way would be to somehow link a personal page to a profile. Any ideas on that?

While googeling and writing this I have come up with the following:

Use dynamic links to user profiles via and then give my students a restriction level via s2members or simalair and restrict acces that way. Just thinking out loud and still pondering how to link unique user ID’s to a page.

http://edu.durkkooistra.com/ I have an open website, so the knowledge base is open to anyone, I just want to restrict one page per student to add the videos etc too.

@danbp

Getting closer!

So I made a custom post type via the CPT UI plugin. I then proceeded to remove the slug from the URL as suggested here: http://colorlabsproject.com/tutorials/remove-slugs-custom-post-type-url/

I have buddypress installed and use a filter to have a profile link as follows: mydomain.com/username. This to be able users to use a dynamic link in a widget that leads them to a personal page.
mydoamian.com/username/personalpage where username is dynamic to logged in user.

This works perfectly with pages but not with the custom post type I made. Anyone got an idea what I am doing wrong here?

@danbp

Thanks again for all the help! You seem to be helping out a lot of people.

Will this create a unique page for each visitor, or how do i link unique content per user? I tried what described above but I get a 404.

@danbp: Ok thanks, the snippet gave me the impression it was relative, not absolute. I am not a complete code n00b, but thanks for your concern.

Let me see if I get this right; because I am still not sure how this enables me to feed unique content per user.

Right now with your snippets I have a page template, a page with the template loaded and a link to that page in the buddypress user profile menu’s. How do I load content relevant to the logged in user on that page?

That is kind off the whole objective of using the dynamic links

There’s a plugin that can make profile tab links and even pages, so I guess I am not understanding what exactly is the idea behind you reasoning for being a simpler solution to my problem.

@danbp

Are you trying to be sarcastic or philosophical?

I appreciate this is a labor of love and there must be many people like me expecting a easy fix to problem that is not yours.

I am new to buddypress like I clearly mentioned and was delighted to see you help out with snippets of code. But like anyone starting out with WP/BP a list of conditionals do not constitute an easier solution.

Where a coder sees a list of options to achieve something, a lamen will see a list of meaningless out of context and poorly documented tags.

I got my hopes up, but I guess I either have to learn BP whenever I have time (not likely) or keep on working with the crappy solution I have now. Word of advice from a buddypress n00b, don’t expect people to see the options you see when you link to a reference list.

Heheh,

You see the only coding experience I have is with music related software or game middleware. The creative process of pulling pages per user is very abstract to me 😀

I do know my French classics…

“Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.”
-Jean Baudrillard

Hoping not being guilty of the first but here goes:

First I added a filter to bypass the members in the profile URL so I could use dynamic links via this plugin: Buddy Menu Buddy Links. Then I make a page with the username as parent and a child with the same title for all students (lessons). resulting in a workin url looking this mydomain.com/username/lessons.

I made a CPT to keep the it more organized only and the pages index less cluttered.

/**
 * Remove the slug from published post permalinks.
 */
function custom_remove_cpt_slug( $post_link, $post, $leavename ) {
 
    if ( 'student' != $post->post_type || 'publish' != $post->post_status ) {
        return $post_link;
    }
 
    $post_link = str_replace( '/' . $post->post_type . '/', '/', $post_link );
 
    return $post_link;
}
add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'custom_remove_cpt_slug', 10, 3 );
/**
 * Some hackery to have WordPress match postname to any of our public post types
 * All of our public post types can have /post-name/ as the slug, so they better be unique across all posts
 * Typically core only accounts for posts and pages where the slug is /post-name/
 */
function custom_parse_request_tricksy( $query ) {
 
    // Only noop the main query
    if ( ! $query->is_main_query() )
        return;
 
    // Only noop our very specific rewrite rule match
    if ( 2 != count( $query->query ) || ! isset( $query->query['page'] ) ) {
        return;
    }
 
    // 'name' will be set if post permalinks are just post_name, otherwise the page rule will match
    if ( ! empty( $query->query['name'] ) ) {
        $query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'student', 'page' ) );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'custom_parse_request_tricksy' );