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Hi,

I am a veteran WordPress user and am building my first BuddyPress powered site. I have most of this figured out; however, I need help/advice on group level features.

On some of my groups, I need the ability to share information such as static pages and files. So my three questions are:

Page
Can a standard WP page be made available within a group. I know I could use the GroupBlog plugin and post information as posts, but being able to serve up some pages would be great.

File Repository
I need a place where group members could share files. I have seen this on several site. Not sure if it is custom code or a plugin.

Group Level Menu
Assuming I can do pages and file area, how could I change the group menu bar to accommodate these new features.

Thanks in advance on any help with this!

When logged out, I see my site name, followed by “Login”, “Sign Up”, and on the far right, “Visit”. The “Visit” shows the white down arrow indicating a submenu, but when I hover, nothing happens. Clicking “Visit” reloads the page (“#”). When logged in, the menu changes to “My Account”, “Dashboard”, “Notifications”, as well as the “Visit” menu on the far right. They too have down arrows, but again nothing happens on hover (i.e. no submenu). At first, I thought it was a CSS problem, but I’m not sure which CSS file???

Activated Plugins: (All up to date as of this post)
Akismet
BuddyPress (Version 1.5.6)
BuddyPress Template Pack
Contact Form 7
Custom Meta
Dynamic Widgets
Flickr Thumbnail Photostream
Jetpack by WordPress.com
Ninja Pages, Categories, and Tags
s2Member® Framework
WP-PageNavi
WP Show IDs

I’m going crazy looking… Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated!

I’ve now tried a lot of things – and hope to see if somebody can help me here:
Take a look at my site under construction; http://ishojvolley.dk/2 – everything’s working fine. I installed the plugin “Theme my login” and it’s working fine – except for the case that you use the “log in” button in the dark Buddypress top bar.
How can I get this login button to direct people to my customised login-page instead of the standard wp-login.page?
I found the piece of code in the buddypress/core/bp-core-buddybar.php as you can see below – but I can’t find out to change it?
Any suggestions or other ideas?

// **** "Log In" and "Sign Up" links (Visible when not logged in) ********
function bp_adminbar_login_menu() {
global $bp;

if ( is_user_logged_in() )
return false;

echo '<li class="bp-login no-arrow"><a href="' . bp_get_root_domain() . '/wp-login.php?redirect_to=' . urlencode( bp_get_root_domain() ) . '">' . __( 'Log In', 'buddypress' ) . '</a></li>';

// Show "Sign Up" link if user registrations are allowed
if ( bp_get_signup_allowed() )
echo '<li class="bp-signup no-arrow"><a href="' . bp_get_signup_page(false) . '">' . __( 'Sign Up', 'buddypress' ) . '</a></li>';
}

For a BuddyPress Site I have a function for putting “Groups”, or other menu items in the wp-admin bar.

This is it

function bcustom_adminbar_menu() {
global $wp_admin_bar;
if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) { return; }
$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
'id' => 'bcustom_menu',
'title' => __( 'Groups' ),
'href' => network_home_url('/groups/')
)
);
}
add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'bcustom_adminbar_menu', 15 );

However if the bp root blog is not the network home then the function is incorrect.

Could somebody please help me to change the line

'href' => network_home_url('/groups/')

so that it goes to or is equivalent to

<a href=&quot;/groups/">Groups</a>

Thanks.

I have been trying to get my head around customizing the Profile navigation system. Specifically, I want to move subnav menu items from under one tab, to another tab and have their linking functionaility intact.

Example – I am working with:
bp-activity-loader.php (sub nav: public / personal / friends / groups )
bp-xprofile-loader.php (sub nav: public / edit / change avatar)

basically (or rather, complicatedly? ) I want to remove some links from “bp-xprofile-loader.php” and place them within “bp-activity-loader.php”

As my PHP skills are in the early stages at best (I can hack around a little to solve small problems etc) I have been able to at leat move a submenu from one into the other – but it’s link doesn’t work properly, as it is expecting itself to be inside of one area and not the other.

I understand that the Profile Menu and subMenu system is complicated for a reason – but it seems rather over complicated to simply move subNav menu items around within this space.

Further – I recognize that the “Activity page” poses a whole new issue as its own links are very specifi to the fact that it is all about “Activities” – which means the links I move into there do not work.

Lets say I want to move this (from bp_activity_loader.php):
`// Edit Profile’
` $sub_nav[] = array(
‘name’ => __( ‘Edit’, ‘buddypress’ ),
‘slug’ => ‘edit’,
‘parent_url’ => $profile_link,
‘parent_slug’ => $this->slug,
‘screen_function’ => ‘xprofile_screen_edit_profile’,
‘position’ => 20
); `

Into bp_xprofile_loader.php

I know there must be more code that needs to be moved over, but every time I think I know what that might be, I break the site.

Any guidance, or links to tutorials or example codes would be really appreciated. I know I should not be working directly in these files, but I cannot find any other way around this to make that Profile navigation system the way I want it to be.

Sincere thanks!