BuddyPress.org

If you go to Customize>>menus you will see there are buddyPress pages there you can add to menus, but these are the user specific menu items i.e. My Activity etc. To add the global pages you just need to create a link to the page in question, i.e. http://www.yoursite.com/activity

Ok, i misunderstood the whole… The initial question was:
what I am trying to link to is
http://localhost/wordpress/community/profile/<displayed_user>/

Try this:

function tab_custom_link_to_page() {

	if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) {

		// link to what you want		
		$link = bp_get_root_domain() . '/community/profile/'. bp_get_displayed_user_username();
		echo '<li><a href="'. $link .'">Community</a></li>'; 
	}  
}
add_action( 'bp_member_options_nav', 'tab_custom_link_to_page' );

Hi @tronix-ex,

Give this a try. Read more will only appear again if you use more than 500 000 characters…
Add to bp-custom.php

function bpfr_excerpt_length( $length ) {	

$length = 500000; // adjust the length to desired number of characters 

// Is the current page a user's activity stream page ?
	if( bp_is_user_activity() ) {
	  return $length;
	}
}
add_filter( 'bp_excerpt_length', 'bpfr_excerpt_length', 11, 1 );

Hi @rezbiz,

in brief, you want to add some status dependent custom link to the BuddyBar.

I’ll ignore Kleo (premium theme) and Visual Composer (third party plugin).

Following examples let you add an external link to a non BP page on almost any menus (except BP usermenu).

How it works ?
– create a test page and call it Book.
– the page slug must be /book/
– the link (tab/button) will be displayed to logged-in users only.

I made also a snippet which add such a link to the WordPress Main Menu. This menu is the one you see in WP’s menu customizer by default. Depending the theme you use, you have always a main menu and X others. This can vary and it’s to you to find how it can/should work eventually. See theme documentation and WP Codex if you get in trouble with it.
Note that it should work with all Twenty themes at least.

Add the snippets to bp-custom.php and see the result. After that, read through the code and modify the page name/ID and slug to your need. Leave anything else untouched.

// add Custom tab on site wide activity and members directory pages
function tab_custom_link_to_page() {

	if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) ) {

		if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
			return false;

		// link to what you want
		$link = bp_get_root_domain() . '/book';

		echo'<li><a href="'. $link .'">My Book</a></li>'; 
	}
  
}
add_action( 'bp_activity_type_tabs', 'tab_custom_link_to_page' ); // site wide activity page
add_action( 'bp_members_directory_member_types', 'tab_custom_link_to_page' ); // members directory page

// add Custom tab on Profile Nav
function add_profiles_link_to_page(){

	if ( bp_is_profile_component() || bp_is_user() ) {

	if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
		return false;

	$link = bp_get_root_domain() . '/book/';

	?>
		<li><a href="<?php echo $link; ?>"><?php printf( 'My Book' ); ?></a></li>
	<?php  
	}
}
add_action( 'bp_member_options_nav', 'add_profiles_link_to_page' );

// add Custom tab on Groups Nav
function add_groups_link_to_page(){

if( bp_is_active( 'groups' ) ) {

	if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
		return false;

	$link = bp_get_root_domain() . '/';

	bp_core_new_subnav_item( array(
		'name'			=> 'My Book',
		'slug'			=> 'book',
		'parent_slug'		=> bp_get_current_group_slug(),
		'parent_url'		=> $link,
		'screen_function'	=> true, 
		'position'		=> 40 ) );
	}
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'add_groups_link_to_page' );

// add Custom tab on Groups Directory
function add_groups_directory_link_to_page() {

	if( bp_is_active( 'groups' ) ) {

	if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
		return false;
 
    if ( bp_is_current_action( 'custom' ) ) 
        return;
 
	$link = bp_get_root_domain() . '/book';

    $button_args = array(
        'id'         => 'my-books',
        'component'  => 'groups',
        'link_text'  => 'My Book',
        'link_title' => 'My Book',
        'link_class' => 'my-books no-ajax',
        'link_href'  => $link,
        'wrapper'    => false,
        'block_self' => false,
    );  
   
    ?>
		<li><?php echo bp_get_button( apply_filters( 'bp_get_group_custom_button', $button_args ) ); ?></a></li>
    <?php
	}	
}
add_action( 'bp_groups_directory_group_filter', 'add_groups_directory_link_to_page' );

// add Custom tab on WP Main Menu ( after Home, About, etc )
function main_menu_custom_link_to_page( $menu ) { 
     
	if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
			return $menu;
	else
 	// link to what you want
	$link = bp_get_root_domain() . '/book';

	$grouplink = '<li><a href="'. $link . '">My Book</a></li>';

	$menu = $menu . $grouplink;
	return $menu;
}
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'main_menu_custom_link_to_page' );

Yes, it looks complicated, but it isn’t. Simply it’s not homogeneous ! 🙂

@fearthemoose, @rezbiz,

Here “the best guarded secret” finally revealed !
But it’s not a secret, is part of Codex and a multi handled topic subject on this forum.

What we want to do: remove access possibility.
Where: on BuddyBar navigation menu (the one below the profile header).
Specifics: make the activity and forum tabs only visible to the logged in user.

NOTE: The activity tab is shown by default when you visit a profile.

As we are going to hide/remove this tab to visitors, we need to define as first another default tab. If we won’t do that, the visitor will get a Page not found error. Which is not exactly the case here, the page exist but the visitor can’t access it.

Let’s define arbitrary Profile as the new default tab. You can of course define what ever other existing tab on your BuddyBar as default.

Add this line to bp-custom.php
define( 'BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT','profile' );

Now the mega “open secret” !

The folowing snippet contains almost any BP menu items you can have on a BuddyBar, and includes also the Forum item, in case you use bbPress.
You can remove or comment out those you don’t want to use.
Note also that it is only an example – you have to play with it to fit your need. But at least you have the right syntax to use.
Note also that some profile menu items are user only, such as message or notice. In other words, these are always private.

This function goes preferably to bp-custom.php

function bpfr_hide_tabs() {
global $bp;
	 /**
	 * class_exists() & bp_is_active are recommanded to avoid problems during updates 
	 * or when Component is deactivated
	 */

	if( class_exists( 'bbPress' ) || bp_is_active ( 'groups' ) ) :
        
        /** here we fix the conditions. 
        * Are we on a profile page ? | is user site admin ? | is user logged in ?
        */
	if ( bp_is_user() && !is_super_admin() && !is_user_logged_in() ) {

        /* and here we remove our stuff ! */
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'activity' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'friends' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'groups' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'forums' );
	}
	endif;
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpfr_hide_tabs', 15 );

Some other hints for privacy
if you want to allow only the profile owner to view some tabs, replace
!is_user_logged_in by !bp_is_my_profile() – this scenario doesn’t need a check for logged in users as it is made by bp_is_my_profile.

If you want only to make a profile private, read here.

If you want to remove a sub-nav item (ie. View on Profile), you use something like:
bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'profile', 'view' );

Many other possibilities for navigation are also available, including for groups. Several examples are given on Codex, here.

And if not enough, RTFM and search the forum ! 🙂

Have fun !

Hi,

not sure i understand correctly, but if you want the resume page to show as default landing tab (in place of the user activity) when you are on a profile, you can use this:

define( 'BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT', 'resume' );

Add it to bp-custom.php

Codex reference.

I’m unable to reproduce your issue on a single install with over 20 plugins active and plenty of custom functions active in bp-custom.php
I can upload medias without problem with different 3th party themes or Twenty’s

Try to upload a fresh copy of WordPress and BP and see if it makes a difference.

Now about the snippet.
It works more or less, no code error. You commented the action, so it is deactivated if someone copy/paste it without correcting this.

That said, what is the reason behind using a redirection to login if the site, or at least the buddyPress parts, should be private ?

Wouldn’t it be more logic to redirect visitors to an anonymous page with some important information, from which the first one could be Sorry, but this site is private ? Followed by some informations how to register or pay a fee or whatever the reason.

A private site has two type of visitors: those invited to join and the others. Don’t give the opportunity to those who are there by chance to enter the site so easily.

I let you think about this and eventually create an appropriate page and template.
Here a code example redirecting to a page called Intranet and the correct calls to slugs for all components (including bbPress).

function bpfr_guest_redirect() {
global $bp;
// enter the slug or component conditional here
	if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_groups_component() || bp_is_blogs_component() || bp_is_page( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) || is_bbpress() ) {
	
// not logged in user are redirected to - comment/uncomment or add/remove to your need
		if( !is_user_logged_in() ) { 
			//wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') ); //back to homepage
			//wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . '/register' ); // back to register page	
			wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . '/intranet' ); // back to whatever page
		} 
	}
}
add_filter( 'get_header', 'bpfr_guest_redirect', 1 );

Add it to child-theme’s functions.php

Why don’t you just put this two lines of css code in your theme’s css or custom css page instead of trying to get into functions files..

a.button.item-button.bp-secondary-action.delete-activity.confirm {
display: none;
}
a.delete.acomment-delete.confirm.bp-secondary-action {
display: none;
}

The ultimate tutorial to add wp_editor to What’s New textarea (on Site, Members and Group Activities pages).

Warning
The What’s New feature was never intended to publish posts or formatted text. It was imagined for brief announcement or instant conversation. That’s why this textarea is texturized and doesn’t allow much HTML tags. It is also ajaxified and need the original BP ID to work.
You will use it at your own risk.

The following trick will let you remove the existing textarea from the template and replace it with a custom wp_editor. And it will be very customized ! For example, you will not have the visual tab, but only his HTML version, similar to the one you see on this forum for example.

Required:
BuddyPress activated
a working child theme
some understanding of HTML and php grammar

This trick was succesfully tested on a single install with WP 4.6, BP 2.6.2 and a Twenty Sixteen child theme.

Start !
Read from here how to remove the textarea in post-form.php

The code to remove is line 40 and looks like this:

<textarea class="bp-suggestions" name="whats-new" id="whats-new" cols="50" rows="10"
	<?php if ( bp_is_group() ) : ?>data-suggestions-group-id="<?php echo esc_attr( (int) bp_get_current_group_id() ); ?>" <?php endif; ?>
><?php if ( isset( $_GET['r'] ) ) : ?>@<?php echo esc_textarea( $_GET['r'] ); ?> <?php endif; ?></textarea>

You replace it by:

<?php
$content = '';
$editor_id = 'whats-new';
wp_editor( $content, $editor_id );
?>

As the visual edit tab doesn’t work, you must deactivate it. In your child-theme functions.php, add this:
add_filter( 'user_can_richedit' , '__return_false', 50 );

And that’s it !

If you want also rich edit for activity comments, which i didn’t recommand for sites who have many comments, you can use the same technique as above, with some more settings. Note that each comment has is own ID and that each comment editor should also have an unique ID.

First, you need to remove the textarea from (child-theme/buddypress/)activity/entry.php
You remove this:
<textarea id="ac-input-<?php bp_activity_id(); ?>" class="ac-input bp-suggestions" name="ac_input_<?php bp_activity_id(); ?>"></textarea>
and replace it by

<?php
$id             = bp_get_activity_id();
$content	= '';
$editor_id	= 'ac-input-'. $id;
$settings	= array( 
			'textarea_name'	=> 'ac_input_'. $id,
			'editor_class'	=> 'ac-input bp-suggestions'
		);
wp_editor( $content, $editor_id, $settings );
?>

With Twenty Sixteen, i first couldn’t see the Post Update button and the option selector. I got it with this little CSS adjustment (in child-theme/style.css).

div#whats-new-options { display: block!important;}

Function reference: wp_editor.

@apock i merged your older topic to this one.

– ensure you have only one activity page (and none in trash).
– resave your permalinks. Sometimes pages are lost after updates.
Also:
– have you tested with another theme ?
– which plugins do you use ?
– do you use some custom code related to activities ?

Try this (the second function adds the course title):

function customize_page_tracking_args() {
    if ( ! bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {
        return;
    }
     add_post_type_support( 'sfwd-courses', 'buddypress-activity' );
 
 
    bp_activity_set_post_type_tracking_args( 'sfwd-courses', array(
        'action_id'                         => 'new_sfwd-courses',
        'bp_activity_admin_filter'          => __( 'Published a new course', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'bp_activity_front_filter'          => __( 'Course', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'bp_activity_new_post'              => __( '%1$s wrote a new course, <a href="%2$s">[Course]</a>', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'bp_activity_new_post_ms'           => __( '%1$s wrote a new course, <a href="%2$s">[Course]</a>, on the site %3$s', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'contexts'                          => array( 'activity', 'member' ),
        'comment_action_id'                 => 'new_sfwd-courses_comment',
        'bp_activity_comments_admin_filter' => __( 'Commented on a course', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'bp_activity_comments_front_filter' => __( 'Course Comments', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'bp_activity_new_comment'           => __( '%1$s commented on a <a href="%2$s">Course</a>', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'bp_activity_new_comment_ms'        => __( '%1$s commented on a <a href="%2$s">Course</a>, on the site %3$s', 'custom-textdomain' ),
        'position'                          => 100,
    ) );
}
add_action( 'init', 'customize_page_tracking_args', 1000 );

function new_sfwd-courses_include_post_type_title( $action, $activity ) {
	if ( empty( $activity->id ) ) {
		return $action;
	}

	if ( 'new_sfwd-courses' != $activity->type ) {
		return $action;
	}

	preg_match_all( '/<a.*?>([^>]*)<\/a>/', $action, $matches );

	if ( empty( $matches[1][1] ) || '[Course]' != $matches[1][1] ) {
		return $action;
	}

	$post_type_title = bp_activity_get_meta( $activity->id, 'post_title' );

	if ( empty( $post_type_title ) ) {

		switch_to_blog( $activity->item_id );

		$post_type_title = get_post_field( 'post_title', $activity->secondary_item_id );

		// We have a title save it in activity meta to avoid switching blogs too much
		if ( ! empty( $post_type_title ) ) {
			bp_activity_update_meta( $activity->id, 'post_title', $post_type_title );
		}

		restore_current_blog();
	}

	return str_replace( $matches[1][1], esc_html( $post_type_title ), $action );
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_custom_post_type_post_action', 'new_sfwd-courses_include_post_type_title', 10, 2 );

Hi Jrzvw,

Were you able to fix this?

I can’t find where to start a new questions so i will just add to this one?

My current site only shows the members that were active. There is 50 WP members registered but only 22 showing on ALL MEMBERS page. I feel the amount of members showing will influence the amount that will join up. SO this one time I would like to have it show all registered members and after it can just add them as they are active.

I tried : add_filter( ‘bp_get_total_member_count’, ‘bp_core_get_total_member_count’ ); in the theme function.php and also bp-custom.php BUT it did nothing.

I tried a few other suggestions e.g one that did make the last activity of all users registered to be a certain time, however this made all the Members look as they are logged in. Is there any code I can insert in function.php that will show the members registered and not just the active ones?

Cheers.

Link to my test site:

BP 2.6.11
WP 4.5.3

If you look at wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/index.php That’s the template you need to edit in order to change that text.

Inside wp-content/themes/your-theme/ Make a file called buddypress.php. In that file add the following…

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php the_post(); the_content(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

By default BuddyPress will use a file located in your theme that currently exists, something like page.php as you can read about here.

By creating a buddypress.php we’re telling BuddyPress to use a custom template loader for all BuddyPress pages and components. Inside that file (buddypress.php) you can do anything you like for the “wrapper” around your BuddyPress stuff. In the code example above for buddypress.php we’re grabbing the content but not bringing in things like <?php the_title(); ?> like you will find in a typical page.php that most WordPress themes will have.

This will remove ALL page titles from BuddyPress pages, as you now have a custom “wrapper” for those areas the plugin will use.

If you wish to remove the title on a per page basis you may simply want to do a CSS solution and do target the body tag with CSS and then any suitable elements in the HTML. This means you could do something like…

body.activity.directory div.page-inner h2 { display: none; }

If you don’t want to do a CSS solution you can then look into component detection.

Hope that helps.

The Home tab is the default one. If you remove that tab, BP has no way to know where to output the other group tabs content. If you remove Home(aka activity) you should define another landing tab.

But when you want to modify groups, you shouldn’t define ‘profile’, but ‘groups’. (read what you wrote!)
For the profile landing tab, see this codex page.

For groups, you can try this snippet. This let you define a different landing tab for each of your groups (not profile, ok ?). 😉

function bpfr_custom_group_default_tab($default_tab){
	/**
	 * class_exists() is recommanded to avoid problems during updates 
	 * or when Groups Component is deactivated
	 */
	if ( class_exists( 'BP_Group_Extension' ) ) : // 
	
	$group=groups_get_current_group();//get the current group
	
	if(empty($group))
	return $default_tab;
	
	switch($group->slug){
		
		case 'kill-bill': // group name (use slug format)
		$default_tab='forum';
		break;
		
		case 'groupe-2014':
		$default_tab='members';
		break;
		
		default:		
		$default_tab='home';// the original default landing tab
		break;
		
	}
	
	return $default_tab;
	
	endif; // end if ( class_exists( 'BP_Group_Extension' ) )
}
add_filter('bp_groups_default_extension','bpfr_custom_group_default_tab');

dont think there is a ready plugin for this..there is a plugin by imath which offers sticky activity …but that has to be done manually by the admin…maybe in future we can have custom activity pages like groups/members have right now

Hi,

tested the theme – Load More is working on all activity pages. Unable to reproduce.

Deactivate all plugins except BP.
If you use custom functions (in child or bp-custom), remove them and test again.

Check also your custom CSS. Sometimes, renaming an element make JS unable to find the load more button.