[nigelanderson]

Hi

When you look at a user’s profile, there is a navigation strip (a div with id=”item-nav” which contains another div with the UL items) which has the following elements:

Activity | Profile | Blogs() | Messages | Friends () | Groups () | Settings.

I’m trying to work out how and where that is generated so that I can modify it (for example, omit ‘blogs’ which my users won’t have) and also to re-use it elsewhere.

I’m using a theme which uses it as-is in the header, for example.

But what I want to do, specifically, is to create a main navigation bar for my pages which looks something like this (reading down rather than across as it will appear):

Home
Community
— Activity
— Groups
— Members
— etc.
Your pages
— Your activity
— Your groups
— Friends
— Messages
— Settings
About

How do I extract some of those user-specific navigation elements to be able to use them in my menus? (And, where best-practice-wise should I do it? Presumably altering the buddypress files directly is a no-no.)

I’d be really grateful if someone could give me some pointers as to how it works to get me started. I’ve been digging around but am finding this bit a little opaque.

Thanks!

[nigelanderson]

Partly answering my own question, from the default buddypress theme I’ve found that the navigation strip is generated by this bit of code:

<div class="item-list-tabs no-ajax" id="object-nav">
<ul>

</ul>
</div>

Could someone explain a little about how this works? I’ve located bp_get_displayed_user_nav() in the bp-core-templatetags file. I’m not sure about the next line.

Thanks!

[nigelanderson]

I’ve made some headway but still need help if anyone is able…

I’ve been editing the CSS of my child theme to simply set the display property of the items I want to omit (eg ‘blogs’) to ‘none’ so that they do not show up.

I have also used this to add the logged-in-user-specific links I want to my navigation bar:

<li><a href="#"></a>
<ul>

</ul>
</li>

which now displays. I don’t have fine control over it, eg changing the text or altering the order, though I can live with that. But, my CSS trick of locating the element’s id and setting its display property to none doesn’t work in my drop-down menu.

It seems as if I need to actually have bp_get_displayed_user_nav() return a different list than it does by default.

Any ideas?

Thanks!