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Hi @intimez,

you have 2 possibilities to use bbPress. As group forums, this is intended in buddypress standard install, or as standalone forum., aka sitewide forum, with the complete bbPress plugin. The bbPress part shipped with BP is not exactly working as the plugin.

In the first case, you may use the install wizard of BP. Activate “discussion forums” and create the appropriate page on the “pages” tab. Done ! You have to create first a group, and from ithin the group admin you can then activate a group forum.

In the second case, don’t check “discussion forums” and install the bbPress plugin. Once installed, a “forum” menu appears on the left in the dashboard. Go to the forum settings page and do your settings.

If you want to use ONLY a sitewide forum, you can let all the forum settings by default.

If you want to use the group forums AND a sitewide forum, witch is not recommended because confusing for your members probably, you have to take care to one thing.

The “forum base name” in the forum settings of the plugin. By default this name is “forums”. But this base name is also used by the group forums, so it wouldn’t work for both. In fact, this name is reserved for BP only.

So if you want both forum types, CHANGE OBLIGATORY the base name to something other as forum or forums, and that’s it !

Hi,

you probably try to modify the buddypress.po file. It would be better you use the po file who comes with your genesis theme. Also don’t forget to save the modified po file with poEdit to generate the mandatory mo file
The pot file contains the translatable strings and the file names/numbers who they are.
The po file has exactly the same content + translated strings
The mo file is the compiled po file

The translation is executed by PHP’s gettext function who read the compiled mo file. Po and Pot files are human readable files and aren’t necessary to be on the server.

Use a language file https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

There are a number of plugins in the WP plugin repo which could change what shows up in the admin toolbar. For BP-specific nav links, check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-custom-profile-menu/

@seriousdon you’d need another forward slash in front of your comment before the code like so http://pastebin.com/HSpJNLyV

In order to place the dynamic profile link at the beginning of the menu change this following line from
$menu = $menu . $profilelink;
to
$menu = $profilelink . $menu;

This link offers an alternate solution: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/35163/add-buddypress-profile-and-messages-link-to-wordpress-menu

You might also look into custom walkers for the WordPress menu.

How can I hide this menu item for users who are logged in only as it does not show up in the menus under Appearance.

@voopress The code above shows the link only for logged in users. The link won’t show up if they’re not logged in. Why would you want to “hide this menu item for users who are logged in only”?

instead of hacking the php file

There’s no hacking being done here 🙂 You’re legitimately adding a filter to include the dynamic link to the menu. You can change the markup in the code posted just so those additional class/es would match those of the IfMenu’s. I’m not aware of any menu plugin which allows you to add a dynamic link.

I am just using BP’s default.css to make changes, and I dont see any of those lines in that file.

@shripad first, do not make your changes in BP’s default.css file as it would be overwritten when you upgrade your BuddyPress plugin. You should create a child theme of BP Default theme instead and just make the changes in your child theme’s stylesheet. Or use a WP theme and install the BP Template Pack plugin to make BP templates compatible with your theme. Or, wait for BP 1.7 where BP templates will automagically be included in your WP theme.

As for the responsive styles, they are not in default.css file but in the responsive.css file I linked to above. You’d find it in the same folder where default.css is located.

Then you just have to override that in your child theme. BP Default’s responsive.css https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.6.2/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/responsive.css

See line 211 https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.6.2/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/responsive.css#L210 where it expands #nav li to 100% of containing div. If you’re going to remove or change that, you’d need to work on for the #nav li which is set at 46% of container on line #43 of same file.

What dropdown menu? I don’t see any at this time. Changed themes/menu perhaps.

Site could be considered NSFW.

…depends where you work…  😉

Compared to some help requests I’ve answered, this site’s rather tame.

@jidanni

CSS design is a very complicated subject. The base BP theme’s CSS file is almost 2,500 lines long and has a vast and intricate style tree. Answering a RFC (request for comments) on a given set of changes to it  is many hours of work, and is beyond what can be handled on these forums.

If you have a specific problem, eg: “When I set style X to Y, the level 2 menus explode” or “How can I invert the color scheme”, the users here will be happy to help you.

Also, be aware there are sweeping changes in the works for BuddyPress’ template system. The core development team is currently re-designing the entire template system to use page-fragment injection. In theory, this will allow BuddyPress to use almost any WordPress template set – not just ones designed specifically for BuddyPress.

I’d estimate they’re about 6 months away from release on this.

^F^

buddypress 2012 change nav order members menu and submenu. No fuzz and works in buddypress 6.1 version. Thanks !
$bp->bp_nav = ’10’;
$bp->bp_options_nav = ’30’;
$bp->bp_options_nav = false;

The easiest way to get rid of the tabs is to simply “display: none;” using CSS.

Alternatively, you can hook into “bp_setup_nav” like this: http://www.themightymo.com/2012/01/26/how-to-add-remove-and-change-the-order-of-buddypress-component-menu/

@buddhatunes the “blogs” page with regards to BP is the Blogs Directory page which only shows up if you have gone multisite (created a network). Unless you’re referring to something else entirely ….

If it’s just the link at the menu item, you can just edit the page name and slug in page edit panel, then go to Settings> Pages and choose the new blog menu name from select box and click on Save. You know you’d also have to change title of the Blogs Directory page in yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/yourthemename/blogs/index.php in this line

Sean,

I have a very similar question to yours — I’m trying to modify the order of the tabs in the Groups navigation, rename some of them, and get rid of some of them. I, too, am running BP 1.6.1.

I can help in one respect — you need to enclose the code in your bp-custom.php file in the php brackets:
<?php

YOUR CODE

?>

In the meantime, I would appreciate (from anyone) help with these customizations of the BP menus. Did something change in 1.6 to affect this? Much of the help out there concerns v1.5.

Thanks in advance,
Dylan

Best way is to use a language file https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

@naijaping On second thought I do like what I see in your approach better than the drop down menu I have. So I am interest in the code. From what I can tell it seems like you have everything in in your header.php file. I would like to do this with maybe a few changes in styling. Let me know when you have the code here. Thanks!
Edit:
It would also be helpful if you can share where in the header.php file that the code needs to be placed. Thanks again!

Hi I have the same problem,

When I try to click ‘Activity’ ‘Members’ or ‘Groups’ on my menu, it says ‘profile.php’ can not be found on my server. However if I add a ‘/’ to the end of the link or if I click on the pages elsewhere, it works fine. I’m not sure how to fix it on my main menu though.

I have re-installed BuddyPress and WordPress already and nothing changed.

Can someone please help?

My website is http://www.fosterfriends.org