Hi there,

I would like to add a blog tab to my buddypress profile page which is just a custom template/loop from wordpress posts, but I’m having trouble trying to figure out the best way to add a tab.

Could someone explain?

Thank you

[@defunctlife Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

No one out there knows the best way to do this?

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

have a look at the bp_core_new_subnav_item function

something like
`
bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( ‘name’ => ‘My Profile Page’ ), ‘slug’ => ‘my-profile-page’, ‘parent_url’ => $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->profile->slug . ‘/’, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->profile->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen’, ‘position’ => 40 ) );
`

then the screen function to render the page:

`
function my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen() {

//add title and content here – last is to call the members plugin.php template
add_action( ‘bp_template_title’, ‘my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen_title’ );
add_action( ‘bp_template_content’, ‘my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen_content’ );
bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( ‘bp_core_template_plugin’, ‘members/single/plugins’ ) );
}
`

`
function my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen_title() {
echo ‘something’;
}
`
`
function my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen_content() {

//do something here for the page content

}
`

[@defunctlife Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks Rich, can this be done without editing the core?

[@defunctlife Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Never mind, I see you named them as my_profile_page function. Will be giving this a try today. Thank you!

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

you can add this to whatever functions/bp-custom file – the above code is incomplete and only serves as a rough guideline.

[@modemlooper Moderator 14 years, 3 months ago]

been messing with this and got it to work but not sure how to get a sub nav working. I have a tab next to profile but want to have sub navs.

`function my_test_setup_nav() {
global $bp;
bp_core_new_nav_item( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘test’ ), ‘slug’ => ‘test’, ‘parent_url’ => $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->slug . ‘/’, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen’, ‘position’ => 40 ) );

bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Home’ ), ‘slug’ => ‘test_sub’, ‘parent_url’ => $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->slug . ‘/’, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->slug, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen’, ‘position’ => 20, ‘item_css_id’ => ‘test_activity’ ) );

function my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen() {

//add title and content here – last is to call the members plugin.php template
add_action( ‘bp_template_title’, ‘my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen_title’ );
add_action( ‘bp_template_content’, ‘my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen_content’ );
bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( ‘bp_core_template_plugin’, ‘members/single/plugins’ ) );
}
function my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen_title() {
echo ‘something’;
}
function my_profile_page_function_to_show_screen_content() {

echo ‘weee content’;

}
}
add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘my_test_setup_nav’ );
`

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

wrap the bp_core_new_subnav_item call in a function which is hooked on xprofile_setup_nav action (if that is installed, i don’t recall the name of the regular profile setup_nav action)

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

oops, i guess you could use bp_core_new_nav_item as well – i was just copying my example code from a plugin of mine which places it under the ‘Profile’ nav

[@modemlooper Moderator 14 years, 3 months ago]

I was looking at one of @djpaul ‘s plugins to see how the sub nav items were added below but I can’t seem to get it to show up.

[@defunctlife Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Thank you both for your help, so I’m hoping I can return the favor. Modemlooper, here is how I adjusted the My Friends tab, but it has sub nav code for you, maybe it will help. Credit for this from @jeffsayre

`function my_friends_setup_nav() {
global $bp;

/* Add ‘Friends’ to the main navigation */
if( bp_friend_get_total_requests_count($disp_user) > 0 && bp_is_my_profile()) {
bp_core_new_nav_item( array( ‘name’ => sprintf( __( ‘Friends (%d) (%d)‘, ‘buddypress’ ), friends_get_total_friend_count(), bp_friend_get_total_requests_count() ), ‘slug’ => $bp->friends->slug, ‘position’ => 60, ‘screen_function’ => ‘friends_screen_my_friends’, ‘default_subnav_slug’ => ‘my-friends’, ‘item_css_id’ => $bp->friends->id ) );
} else {
bp_core_new_nav_item( array( ‘name’ => sprintf( __( ‘Friends (%d)‘, ‘buddypress’ ), friends_get_total_friend_count() ), ‘slug’ => $bp->friends->slug, ‘position’ => 60, ‘screen_function’ => ‘friends_screen_my_friends’, ‘default_subnav_slug’ => ‘my-friends’, ‘item_css_id’ => $bp->friends->id ) );
}

$friends_link = $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->friends->slug . ‘/’;

/* Add the subnav items to the friends nav item */
bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘My Friends’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘slug’ => ‘my-friends’, ‘parent_url’ => $friends_link, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->friends->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘friends_screen_my_friends’, ‘position’ => 10, ‘item_css_id’ => ‘friends-my-friends’ ) );
bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( ‘name’ => sprintf( __( ‘Requests (%d)‘, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_friend_get_total_requests_count() ), ‘slug’ => ‘requests’, ‘parent_url’ => $friends_link, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->friends->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘friends_screen_requests’, ‘position’ => 20, ‘user_has_access’ => bp_is_my_profile() ) );

if ( $bp->current_component == $bp->friends->slug ) {
if ( bp_is_my_profile() ) {
$bp->bp_options_title = __( ‘My Friends’, ‘buddypress’ );
} else {
$bp->bp_options_avatar = bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( ‘item_id’ => $bp->displayed_user->id, ‘type’ => ‘thumb’ ) );
$bp->bp_options_title = $bp->displayed_user->fullname;
}
}

do_action( ‘friends_setup_nav’ );
}

add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘my_friends_setup_nav’, 11 );`

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

@modemlooper Looks like the above should sort you out? Let me know.

[@modemlooper Moderator 14 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks, I’l mess with it

[@irishartisans Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Hi guys,
Thanks for the code it worked perfectly for me. However under the new tab in the page content I want to add a products feed from the wp-ecommerce plugin.
So for example my new tab is “my products” instead of the test one above. Usually to put the products on the page you would just put in [productspage] however this isn’t working for me its just throwing up errors. I’ve tried putting it in an echo statement like the above example has wee content

so I’ve put echo ‘ [productspage] ‘;

But this just prints the words [productspage] to the screen. Usualy these keywords would show up all the products on the screen…. any ideas??

Thanks again for the tab code!

[@proglot Member 14 years, 3 months ago]

i’m using wpmu 2.9.2 and qTranslate. when i turn qTranslate tabs are not translated. why? everything else is translated normally.

`
bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( ‘name’ => sprintf( __( ‘Members (%s)’, ‘buddypress’ ), number_format( $bp->groups->current_group->total_member_count ) ), ‘slug’ => ‘members’, ‘parent_url’ => $group_link, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->groups->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘groups_screen_group_members’, ‘position’ => 60, ‘user_has_access’ => $bp->groups->current_group->user_has_access, ‘item_css_id’ => ‘members’ ) );
`

[@defunctlife Participant 14 years, 1 month ago]

Hey guys,

Regarding @nuprn1 post, bp_get_displayed_user_nav() is not displaying any tabs on this custom page.

Any ideas?

[@defunctlife Participant 14 years, 1 month ago]

Never mind, it’s something I changed as it works in the default template.

[@tubruk Participant 14 years, 1 month ago]

@nuprn1 how can I add a tab after the forum tab ?

[@johnny2011 Member 13 years, 7 months ago]

is there a plugin for this?

[@gunju2221 Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Not currently, but it’s a good idea. I might do a plugin in the future where you can add as many tabs as you want, to profile, or groups.

[@4ella Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

please do that !! – with some explanation or some possibility how to get the content below that Tab or sub Tab (text , images ) the best should be some self creating custom fields form on the EDIT subnav page ( and the content on the publishes part – the similar process how profile EDIT and PUBLIC subnav Tabs works .

[@gunju2221 Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

I would allow the Admins to have a Admin Page in the Backend with options to create more tabs, and the content on the tab

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Go @gunju2221 !

[@dains Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

@virtuali I was thinking the exact same thing today – in other CMSs I’ve used, I’ve been able to see a treeview of the navigation for the entire site and put any items I wanted in any spots (or rather, any items other people wanted 07 ). Since BP uses a common header file and seems to do its own setups for each tab (although I haven’t looked at everything yet) this might not be an impossible dream.

This would perk up Buddypress’ design and usability options a LOT. My particular configuration is moving the “My” subtab from the Profile out to each main tab. While I’ve found code to remove the subtabs from the Profile view, I found this post looking for how to add those subtabs, just as they are, to the main tabs.

[@dains Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

Also, let me throw this link in here as references as to how to configure the existing tabs on groups and profiles (reorder, rename, remove):

http://themekraft.com/2011/02/customize-profile-and-group-menus-in-buddypress

[@qrahaman Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@dains, your enclosed link no longer works. The following should:

Customize profile and group menus in BuddyPress