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Profile default tab is member’s activity. You have to modify this first and assign another tab to default. For example, profile tab.

define('BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT', 'profile' );

Now you can use this to remove the activity tab. Note that the second if is related to visitor, you can remove it if you never want to show the activity tab.

function bpfr_hide_top_nav() {	
if( bp_is_active('xprofile' ) )	
	if( !is_user_logged_in() ) {			
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'activity' );
	}
}
add_action( 'bp_ready', 'bpfr_hide_top_nav' );

Add this to your child-theme functions.php or to bp-custom.php

Not sure it will work with your theme, and ‘activity’ tab seems now impossible to remove (since 2.2 at least). I don’t know why exactly. Uncomment both lines to see if it works for you.

function bpfr_hide_top_nav() {	
	
	if( !is_user_logged_in() ) {	

// bp topnav items to hide	
	//	bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'activity' );			
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'profile' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'friends' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'groups' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'forums' );	

//bp subnav (my activities, my groups, etc)
	//  bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'activity' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'friends' ); 
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'favorites' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'groups' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'mentions' );
	}
}
add_action( 'bp_ready', 'bpfr_hide_top_nav', 10 );

You could be right. I think bp_core_remove_nav_item() might do a little more than just visually removing an item from the member’s nav menu.

If it helps, this is the method that adds the item to the nav menu.

Hi @eversatile

I have been trying to find the file location of the profile and group navigation menus, with no luck

There isn’t a template file which you can change if that’s what you mean, but…

I would like to change “forums” to “discuss” and remove the “members” from groups menu, etc

You can customise slugs quite easily. See the Customizable Slugs in BuddyPress article.

bp_core_remove_nav_item() will let you remove nav items from the navigation. There is also bp_core_remove_subnav_item() for removing sub nav items.

You can use bp_core_remove_nav_item( $parent_id ) to remove items from the navigation array. $parent_id is the slug of the parent navigation item. So, for example:

function my_nav_item_removal_function() {
    bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'friends' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'my_nav_item_removal_function' );

hi @kostas-gogas,

try this:
bp_core_remove_nav_item( ‘friends’ ); // bp topnav
bp_core_remove_subnav_item( ‘activity’, ‘friends’ ); //bp subnav (my activities, my groups, etc)
add_action( ‘bp_ready’,’your function’);

action hook bp-core-dependency.php:104
Fire the ‘bp_ready’ action, which runs after BP is set up and the page is about to render.

Hi @dmccuiston,

here is another solution which let you remove easily nav and subnav items to any visitor and users who are not friends.

If one or all items are removed, a message is displayed.

Put these 3 functions in bp-custom.php or child-theme functions.php

function bpfr_view_profile_msg() {
	// msg in case the nav item is removed
	if ( bpfr_maybe_hide_friends_nav_etc( $retval ) )  
	echo'<h3>Sorry, you can only view the profile of your friends !</h3>';	
}	
add_action( 'template_notices','bpfr_view_profile_msg' );

function bpfr_maybe_hide_friends_nav_etc() {
	$retval = false;
	// condition 
	if ( bp_is_user() && ! bp_is_my_profile() && ! friends_check_friendship( bp_displayed_user_id(), bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) {
		$retval = true;
	}	
	return $retval;
}

function bpfr_hide_friends_nav_to_non_friends() {	
	// stop if condition is not ok
	if ( ! bpfr_maybe_hide_friends_nav_etc() ) {
		return;
	}
	// otherwise we remove the nav items
	// bp topnav items
	bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'profile' ); 
	bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'groups' );
	bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'forums' );
	
	//bp subnav items
	bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'friends' ); 
	bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'mentions' ); 
}
add_action( 'bp_ready', 'bpfr_hide_friends_nav_to_non_friends' );

here’s some clues:

First you need to check the user’s role/capabilities and then remove the navigation menu for these users. For me, I used:

if (current_user_can('none_admin_role')){bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'notifications');}}
add_action( 'wp', 'bp_remove_nav_item' );

You then still need to remove it from the admin bar. My code:

function my_remove_admin_menu(){
	global $wp_admin_bar;

	if (current_user_can('none_admin_role'))
	{
		$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('notifications');
	}
}
add_action('bp_setup_admin_bar', 'my_remove_admin_menu',301);

hopefully, this does the trick for you. I took me while to figure this out…goodluck.

Hi @sundev

Have you tried using bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'slug' )? There is also a function available in BP to remove sub-nav items bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'slug', 'subnav-slug' )

@catwomanbadkitty

function bphelp_remove_activity_from_profile(){
bp_core_remove_nav_item('activity');
}
add_action('bp_activity_setup_nav','bphelp_remove_activity_from_profile');

Hallo @sbrajesh !

I tried use code:

add_action(‘bp_friends_setup_nav’,'bpdev_custom_hide_friends_if_not_self’);

function bpdev_custom_hide_friends_if_not_self(){
if(bp_is_my_profile()|| is_super_admin())
return ;

bp_core_remove_nav_item(‘friends’);

}

I copied and pasted the code into the ‘bp_custom.php’ file but it did not work for me.
I’m new to wordpress, html, php and css but I seem to find my way til now. Some advise please? I really need this option to work and I can’t find a plugin that cover this.

Kind regards,

If you guys mean the the sites from the navigation, then you can use the following code in either your theme’s functions.php or bp-custom.php

function bpdev_remove_blogs_nav(){
    global $bp;

    bp_core_remove_nav_item($bp->blogs->id);//

}
add_action('wp_loaded','bpdev_remove_blogs_nav');

Hope that helps.

I know this thread is 2 years old. But here’s my problem:

I would like to display different member profiles for different types of groups. I have 2 groups: faculty and contributor. More accurately i want to disable components like bp Links and group docs wiki for the faculty group; i settled for removing the links to such.

i thought the best approach would be to check if a member is of a certain group and then based on the conditional statement, remove the unnecessary tabs in the profile menu. If there is a better approach. Please lead the way:)

in my theme’s function.php:

`
if(groups_is_user_member( bp_loggedin_user_id(), BP_Groups_Group::get_id_from_slug(‘faculty’))){

function setup_nav() {
global $bp;

// Remove a menu item
bp_core_remove_nav_item( ‘messages’ );

}

add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘setup_nav’, 1000 );
}
`

if i make the conditional statement truthy the appropriate tab is removed. If i stick the code in the if statement into something like header.php it works. BUT for some reason, together they do not.

Perhaps functions.php cannot reach such functions? I tried putting it into bp-custom.php, site just crashed.

Thank you for your time, any help would be appreciated 🙂

You Can put this code in your bp-custom.php and It will take care of your issue

`
add_action(‘bp_friends_setup_nav’,’bpdev_custom_hide_friends_if_not_self’);

function bpdev_custom_hide_friends_if_not_self(){
if(bp_is_my_profile()|| is_super_admin())
return ;

bp_core_remove_nav_item(‘friends’);

}

`

hope that helps.

bp_core_remove_nav_item()