[paintermommy]

I have searched and searched for at least 2 hours now and I am not finding a solution.

I am setting up a community through Buddypress on a client site. Here is what it looks like so far: http://www.soulwomansanctuary.com/community/

I have set up the sidebar and WordPress menu to have links to things like Community Members. Activity, Forum, etc. I have also added a link called “Edit Profile” which I would like to link to the user’s profile page. I have it set up this way because I am not going to be using the normal Buddypress sidebar widget. I am going through Wishlist member so that only members can access the community.

I have tried all different things to get the link and nothing seems to be working.

Here are some of the links that people have suggested using:
http://soulwomansanctuary.com/community-members/USERNAME/profile/
http://soulwomansanctuary.com/community-members/%username%/profile

I appreciate any help that you might have.

[Roger Coathup]

It’s a dynamic URL — i.e. it changes for each user, so you can’t just type in a single link in html.

It’s easy to do with a bit of PHP code though — just call the function bp_loggedin_user_domain()

[Toby Cryns (@themightymo)]

Something like this should work:
`if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
global $current_user;
$username = $current_user->user_login;
echo ‘ | My Profile‘;
}`

[paintermommy]

Thankyou so much for your fast reply! Can I just insert this code into a text widget? Or do I need a special plugin?

[paintermommy]

That did not work for me Toby. I even added a special PHP widget. Any ideas?

[Roger Coathup]

Use the function I provided – there’s no need to try and construct the URL yourself (as Toby has tried).

[paintermommy]

I am not great with code so my apologies, but how would I do that exactly? I am trying to add a link in the sidebar along with the other community links. Do I need the PHP widget and then add specific code with your “function”? Can you provide the exact code? Sorry again to be a pain. My client is about to give up on it altogether so I just want to try one last time to see if we can get it working.

Thanks so much for your help. I appreciate it.

[Toby Cryns (@themightymo)]

@rogercoathup is right. Use `bp_loggedin_user_domain()` and not my function. …note to self, update header code in my theme…

Regarding how and where to add the code, try adding the following to your template:

“

What is the result?

[paintermommy]

Hi Toby. I am not seeing any code. Maybe you can email it to me? Dawn(at)DPK-GraphicDesign.com. I soooo appreciate your help.

[paintermommy]

And just a reminder… I need the code to add to the widget to get the link to work under the other links in the sidebar. Thankyou!

[paintermommy]

I am still looking for help. Anyone?

[k8peterson]

I am looking for the code to this function as well! I would like to add it as a main menu item. would appreciate any help!

[@mercime]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-menu/screenshots/

@paintermommy k8peterson Create custom menu and use the menu widget for sidebar.

[k8peterson]

thank you @mercime !

[paintermommy]

I had no idea that this plugin existed. Thankyou!

[ihiustler]

@paintermommy did you ever get this to work with the wishlist plugin? Are your forums private and only for paid members?

[bookee]

@mercime, your solution works for my site. However, I’dd like to add the menu as a child menu. Looking at the source code, I know this much information about the parent menu (id=”menu-item-822″). How would I proceed? Please assist.

 

Thanks.

[@mercime]

@bookee is this related to the login link you wanted in other post?

[bookee]

@mercime, thanks for the reply. Yes, this is somewhat related with my request on the other post. In this case, the menu position being the different factor. I appreciate the support, I truly do.

[@mercime]

@bookee http://teleogistic.net/2013/02/dynamically-add-items-to-a-wp_nav_menu-list/

[alvinzach]

@paintermommy
try this a href="<?php bp_loggedinuser_link() ?>"> profile

[Jack Reichert]

To solve this I decided to hijack a page. If the member is logged in, they get their profile, otherwise, they go to a signup page.

Just pop the following code into your functions.php file… and create a page named ‘profile’. Now you can add that page to your WP menu and it should do what you need.

 function redirect2profile(){
	include_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/plugin.php' );
	if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/profile/' && is_plugin_active('buddypress/bp-loader.php') && is_user_logged_in()){
		global $current_user;
		wp_redirect( get_bloginfo('url') . '/members/'. $current_user->user_login . '/profile/'); 
		exit();
	}
 }
add_action('init', 'redirect2profile');

[gediweb]

@jackreichert Worked perfectly for me. thank you!

[craig]

A few years ago I set up my first buddypress site and sold it.

I definitely remember using a dynamic url for links to the users profile, activity stream etc.

It was something like:

http://www.mydomain.com/member/$profile/

Are we all sure that this can no longer be done?

[struth]

@jackreichert your a bloody genius Mr Jacoby, buddyPress just gets better & then some, thanks you mate!

Do you mind if I include your code in my “n00bish” wp plugin:

function redirect2profile(){
include_once( ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/plugin.php’ );
if($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] == ‘/profile/’ && is_plugin_active(‘buddypress/bp-loader.php’) && is_user_logged_in()){
global $current_user;
wp_redirect( get_bloginfo(‘url’) . ‘/members/’. $current_user->user_login . ‘/profile/’);
exit();
}
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘redirect2profile’);

I’m just beginning my journey into php & I’ve always wanted to write a toolbox for wp and buddy, you gotta start somewhere : )

PS:Do I credit you in the plugin as a contributor?

Best Regards
John Hart

[xiot]

Hi there!

This worked quite fine for me, but i have the problem that this code doesnt bring me to a signup page when you aren’t logged in.

I tried to add the redirect with “else” but it didn’t work for me either.
The code has now changed, since I tried to figure out why it doesn’t redirect me to my register page.

I’m not very skilled with PHP so maybe someone can help me out.
I want the code to redirect the not logged in user to a register page

  function redirect2profile(){
	include_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/plugin.php' );
		if ( is_user_logged_in()){
		if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/profile/' && is_plugin_active('buddypress/bp-loader.php')) {
			global $current_user;
			wp_redirect( get_bloginfo('url') . '/member/'. $current_user->user_login . '/profile/'); 
			exit();
			}
	} else {
		if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/profile/' && is_plugin_active('buddypress/bp-loader.php')) {
		wp_redirect( get_bloginfo('url') . '/register/');
		exit();
		}
		}
		 }
add_action('init', 'redirect2profile');