Reply To: Change slug without touching core files?

@danbp

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a slug is a human friendly URL. (as of your topic title)
a tab name or a menu item is just a name, on which applies an URL. (as of your given example)

This means that your tab or menu can be written Cow-Boy and his URL can can be completely different, for example your-site/members/mcuk/amigos/

For consistancy and SEO logic, most prefer the same wording for both.
Related to “friends”, open bp-friends/bp-friends-loader.php and see how it works.

You will discover that

// Define a slug, if necessary
   if ( !defined( 'BP_FRIENDS_SLUG' ) )
	define( 'BP_FRIENDS_SLUG', $this->id );

is not deprecated.

In other words, to change the slug, you can use from within bp-custom.php
define ( ‘BP_FRIENDS_SLUG’, ‘whatever’ ); whatever should be exclusively alpha numeric, lower case, without any special character or ponctuation.

To modify tabs and menu items, simply use the language file.

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