Topic: Help with BuddyPress menu items

Help with BuddyPress menu items

Ansidious
Participant

@ansidious

12 years, 2 months ago

Hi I recently took over a project in WordPress and I have never used BuddyPress before. My issue is that I can create and edit menu items in the admin of wordpress, but I can not find for the life of me the menu items created with BuddyPress i.e. Activity, Community +, etc. I want to delete these BP made items, but I can not find the code to where these items are listed. I have searched header.php and what looks like custom navigation.php. Is there an easier way of messing with these items than sifting through line upon line of custom code?

BP version. 1.2.8
WP version 3.4.1
BP plugins:
BP avtivity scroller
BP albums+
BP analytics
BP like
BP xtra signup
BP popular
BP share it
B vents
custom sidebars
popup
cforms
redirection
Akismet

Note: I am not posting a link because it is useless with this particular site. Ps. I have searched forums for a couple hours to no avail as this is a custom theme not a default BP theme.

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@mercime
Participant

@mercime

12 years, 2 months ago

== BP version. 1.2.8 / WP version 3.4.1 ==

@ansidious I have to say it, BP version 1.2.8 is compatible with WP 3.1 and you should be using at least BP 1.5.7 with WP 3.4.1. Cool to know that you could still push BP 1.2.8 to WP 3.4.2

== My issue is that I can create and edit menu items in the admin of wordpress, but I can not find for the life of me the menu items created with BuddyPress ==

Since you[re still on BP 1.2.8, the menu is hardcoded in the header.php file used by a bp-default child theme or a WP theme with BP template pack.
bp-default supports custom menus since BP 1.5

modemlooper
Moderator

@modemlooper

12 years, 2 months ago

DO NOT UPGRADE until you read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/upgrading-buddypress/

Ansidious
Participant

@ansidious

12 years, 2 months ago

Thank you for your quick responses! I had tried updating both WordPress and BP, but both instances crashed the site and I had to re-upload the site. Later I found comments with in the previous designer’s php comments recommending not updating. It is difficult because the site was super customized by this guy and he has recently passed away. I will try to find the correct code to remove in the header.php. Do you have any suggestions on what to look for in the code that might speed this process up?

modemlooper
Moderator

@modemlooper

12 years, 2 months ago

The best solution is to move content to a dev server piece by piece, get everything right and then just trash the current db. BP has come a long way since 1.2 and you don’t need to hack the core as much to customize it.

@mercime
Participant

@mercime

12 years, 2 months ago

@ansidious My condolences to the family and friends of the man who passed away. On BP 1.2,8 — bp-default theme, Lines 51 through 77 show the generated menu items in header.php file https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php where the dev could have changed the slugs and other URL

Ansidious
Participant

@ansidious

12 years, 2 months ago

Great guys thank you for your great help, I will continue on with what you have told me!