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@bruce7075,

here a complete solution you can use for friends privacy.

– Whe’re going to show the friends menu only to… friends !
– We remove friends activity.

Copy this to bp-custom.php

function bpfr_maybe_hide_friends_nav_etc() {
	$retval = false;
	
	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 filed
	if ( ! bpfr_maybe_hide_friends_nav_etc() ) {
		return;
	}
	// otherwise, we remove the nav
	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', 'bpfr_hide_friends_nav_to_non_friends' );

// we want also to remove all friends related activities to non friends
function bpfr_hide_friends_activity_type_to_non_friends( $activity_action = array(), $component_id = '' ) {
	
	// if condition is not filed we go back to original output
	if ( 'friends' != $component_id || ! bpfr_maybe_hide_friends_nav_etc() ) {
		return $activity_action;
	}
	
	// otherwise, we remove member from context
	$activity_action['context'] = array_diff( $activity_action['context'], array( 'member' ) );
	
	return $activity_action;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_set_action', 'bpfr_hide_friends_activity_type_to_non_friends', 10, 2 );

Related topic (other solution, or strict answer to your question) 😉
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/documentation-for-remove_action-activity-streams/#post-242974

function bpfr_remove_change_avatar_tab() {
global $bp;
	bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'profile', 'change-avatar' );

}
add_action( 'bp_ready', 'bpfr_remove_change_avatar_tab', 15 );

BuddyBar items

Source: bp-core-buddybar.php
function bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $parent_id, $slug )
and to remove a nav item
function bp_core_remove_nav_item( $parent_id )

Please do not double post.

try this:

function urbanfix_remove_nav_item() {

   if( current_user_cannot("access_s2member_level2") )
       bp_core_remove_nav_item('listings');
}
add_action( 'wp', 'urbanfix_remove_nav_item' );

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.