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Not sure how to mark this topic resolved, but I’ve decided to go about this in another manner. I followed the BP model and have my admin bar acting in the capacity of a menu and deleted my primary menu. Is working out pretty well thus far. For anyone else that’s interested I

Removed “howdy, $name” just because to me it screams WP

function custom_adminbar_welcome() {
	global $wp_admin_bar;

		$name = wp_get_current_user()->display_name;
		$avatar = get_avatar( wp_get_current_user()->ID, 28 );
		$class = $class = empty( $avatar ) ? '' : 'with-avatar';

		$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
                'id'    => 'my-account',
                'title' => __('') . $avatar,
				'class' => $class
			) 
		);
}
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'custom_adminbar_welcome' );

Removed WP links and change logo

add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'custom_adminbar_welcome' );

function rebranding_wordpress_logo(){
        global $wp_admin_bar;
        //the following codes is to remove sub menu
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('about');            // Remove the about WordPress link
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('wporg');            // Remove the WordPress.org link
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('documentation');    // Remove the WordPress documentation link
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('support-forums');   // Remove the support forums link
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('feedback');         // Remove the feedback link
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('site-name');        // Remove the site name menu
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('view-site');        // Remove the view site link
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('updates');          // Remove the updates link
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('comments');         // Remove the comments link
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('new-content');      // Remove the content link
    $wp_admin_bar->remove_menu('w3tc');             // If you use w3 total cache remove the performance link
 
        //and this is to change wordpress logo
        $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
            'id'    => 'wp-logo',
            'title' => '<img src="http://test.theblackxperience.com/darklogo45.png" />',
            'href'  => __(home_url()),
            'meta'  => array(
                'title' => __('eQubator'),
            ),
        ) );
        
}
add_action('wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'rebranding_wordpress_logo' );

Moved BP child menus up to make them primary menus

function make_parent_node( $wp_admin_bar ) {

if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
		return false;
	}

	 $wp_admin_bar->add_node( array(
		'id'     => 'my-account-activity',     // id of the existing child node (New > Post)
		'title'  => '<span class="ab-icon"></span><span class="ab-item">'._x( '', '' ).'</span>', // alter the title of existing node
		'parent' => false,          // set parent to false to make it a top level (parent) node
	)); 
    $wp_admin_bar->add_node( array(
        'id'     => 'my-account-friends',     // id of the existing child node (New > Post)
		'title'  => '<span class="ab-icon"></span><span class="ab-item">'._x( '', '' ).'</span>', // alter the title of existing node
		'parent' => false,          // set parent to false to make it a top level (parent) node
	));    
    $wp_admin_bar->add_node( array(
        'id'     => 'my-account-messages',     // id of the existing child node (New > Post)
		'title'  => '<span class="ab-icon"></span><span class="ab-item">'._x( '', '' ).'</span>', // alter the title of existing node
		'parent' => false,          // set parent to false to make it a top level (parent) node
	));
   
	$wp_admin_bar->add_node( $args );
}
add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'make_parent_node', 999 );

Added CSS to turn the menu items into dashicons

#wp-admin-bar-my-account-friends .ab-icon:before{
	font-family: "dashicons" !important;
	content: "\f307" !important;
}
#wp-admin-bar-my-account-messages .ab-icon:before{
	font-family: "dashicons" !important;
	content: "\f466" !important;
}
#wp-admin-bar-my-account-activity .ab-icon:before{
	font-family: "dashicons" !important;
	content: "\f130" !important;
}

#wpadminbar .quicklinks li#wp-admin-bar-bp-notifications>a:before{
	font-family: "dashicons" !important;
	content: "\f319" !important;
}

Only problem I’m having now is that for some reason the logo has decided to move itself to the right, but that’s another question for another topic. But hope this helps someone else.

Hey @osisis,

Glad to see you sorted it. This was my code:

function bptest_main_nav_notification_bubble( $items, $args ) {
    if( $args->theme_location == 'header-menu' ) { // In manage locations via WP Dash>Appearance>Menus
    	$items_array = array();
        while ( false !== ( $item_pos = strpos ( $items, '<li', 3 ) ) ) {
            $items_array[] = substr( $items, 0, $item_pos );
            $items = substr( $items, $item_pos );
        }
        $items_array[] = $items;
        array_splice( $items_array, 3, 0, '<li id="bubble">' . bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) . '</li>' ); // 0,0 1st position, 1,0 2nd, etc
        $items = implode( '', $items_array );
    }
    return $items;
}
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'bptest_main_nav_notification_bubble', 10, 2 );

I gave it the ID ‘bubble’. You can obviously give it a class if you want too (class=”bubbles”).

All the code I’ve used is in the post above. Not required any custom functions.

The function: bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) was mentioned here:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-get-notification-count-code/

Just echoing that function in my child header.php gives me exactly what i needed (along with the CSS i posted). Everything works fine.

The only issue is to locate it within the menu itself in the correct location after the Notification tab, which i cannot do in the header file. At the moment I am only able to locate it within the container that holds the menu.

The menu I am using I have created via WP > Appearance > Menus. Just a bog standard menu in the header of the page.

Brilliant! It worked a treat, and I used the ‘user_register’ as suggested. So for anyone else looking for this solution, this is the code i used to turn some on and some off by default on new user registration:

add_action( 'user_register', 'bpdev_set_email_notifications_preference');
function bpdev_set_email_notifications_preference( $user_id ) {
//I am putting some notifications to no by default and the common ones to yes to enable it.
//ref. https://bp-tricks.com/snippets/changing-default-buddypress-notifications-settings and BP forum
$settings_keys = array(
'notification_activity_new_mention' => 'yes',
'notification_activity_new_reply' => 'yes',
'notification_friends_friendship_request' => 'no',
'notification_friends_friendship_accepted' => 'no',
'notification_groups_invite' => 'no',
'notification_groups_group_updated' => 'no',
'notification_groups_admin_promotion' => 'no',
'notification_groups_membership_request' => 'no',
'notification_messages_new_message' => 'yes',
);
foreach( $settings_keys as $setting => $preference ) {
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $setting, $preference );
}
}

and this went in my child theme functions.php file.
Hooray! Thanks so much again – it will make a big different to our users experience.
Cheers 🙂

I should add that i’ve got a part of it working by echoing the following where I want it to appear but it’s obviously just echoing the numerical count and I want the full functionality of the BP notification tab with links and descriptions of the items.

echo bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() );

@henrywright YOU MY FRIEND ARE A STAR! 🙂 This is exactly what i was looking for and can confirm its working for me, i have now got the mentions split out with the number of mentions displayed and working correctly, thankyou very much henry!!!! also thankyou very much @danbp for your help. This is resolved! cheers.

Oh one last thing henry it turns out i didnt need to use the echo $count; at the end because it was causing it to echo 4 times on the page, but removing it seemed to fix the problem and the count is still showing.

So the final code i used was

$query_vars = array(
	'user_id' => get_current_user_id(),
	'component_action' => 'new_at_mention',
	'is_new' => true
);
$count = BP_Notifications_Notification::get_total_count( $query_vars )

ty once again henry.

@henrywright using this bp_activity_format_notifications( $user_id = 0 ); i have got the mentions to show in the dropdown but without the username of who mentioned you until you hover over it, there is no count though.

Update:

well i’ve just tested option #1 and it didn’t work – my test new user had all email notifications still set to ON as the default.

and # 2 code didn’t work either – all set to ON.

Maybe @henrywright or @nd1 could throw some light on this if possible, as their thread is now closed??

Or any other ideas would be much appreciated – thanks heaps.