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Hi David,

Hoping I’ll be able to help. I’ve seen alot of questions on the topic of How To Change and Reorder BuddyPress Group tabs and not much great direction. Hopefully you won’t be saying that after my posts… What I’m really hoping is someone comes in with a simpler, more elegant solution 🙂

Were you able to control the standard tabs?

For the standard group tabs, you can control them directly like this:

if (isset($bp->groups->current_group->slug) && $bp->groups->current_group->slug == $bp->current_item) 
{
        $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['position'] = 10;
        $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['members']['position'] = 60;
        $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['notifications']['position'] = 110;
}

So the code to put in functions.php might look like this:

function whff_setup_nav() 
{

  if (isset($bp->groups->current_group->slug) && $bp->groups->current_group->slug == $bp->current_item) 
  {
     $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['position'] = 10;
     $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['members']['position'] = 60;
     $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['notifications']['position'] = 110;
}

} 
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'whff_setup_nav', 100000 );

CUSTOM BUDDYPRESS GROUP TABS
Now, the non-standard tabs are the tricky ones. You can’t access them through $bp->bp_options_nav (at least I couldn’t figure out how to do this.)

Nonstandard Group tabs through the $wp_filter global. A good starting point is to dump the $wp_filter variable and get a look at it’s guts. Add this code in functions.php:

global $wp_filter;
    
foreach ( (array)$wp_filter as $key => $value ) 
{
   echo '<pre>';
   echo '<strong>' . $key . ': </strong><br />';
   print_r( $value );
   echo '</pre>';
}

$wp_filter is a bunch of nested arrays. Search through the output for your Group Tab Names (i.e. search for “Calendar”) and you will find something like this:

[00000000746c6153000000004e38ec1f_register] => Array
                (
                    [function] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => BP_Group_Calendar_Extension Object
                                (
                                    [visibility] => private
                                    [enable_create_step] => 
                                    [enable_nav_item] => 1
                                    [enable_edit_item] => 
                                    [name] => Calendar
                                    [slug] => calendar
                                    [admin_name] => 
                                    [admin_slug] => 
                                    [create_name] => 
                                    [create_slug] => 
                                    [create_step_position] => 81
                                    [nav_item_position] => 40
                                    [nav_item_name] => 
                                    [display_hook] => groups_custom_group_boxes
                                    [template_file] => groups/single/plugins
                                )

                            [1] => _register
                        )

                    [accepted_args] => 1
                )

That’s your Group tab and all the hooks you need to change attributes (in this case it’s the tab that says “Calendar”.)

But… unfortunately you can’t use the [00000000746c6153000000004e38ec1f_register] as a handle — that string is random and changes every time. But, now you know the class name is BP_Group_Calendar_Extension Object and you can search for that in the $wp_filter array and make the changes.

Hope this gets you closer, let me know how you make out. Cheers David!

I did further tests.

If I try to disable bbpress only, I still don’t get it working; however I noticed that I can attempt to send private message replies – although it will throw an error after redirect and page reload.

If I try to disable all other plugins (including bbp) it still doesn’t work. Could it be my own theme? It’s hard to debug…Anyone ever ran across similar problems?

🙁

On the default theme I just removed it from the menu bar. On the other theme which automatically shows pages, I made it private.
Same results both ways, stoped the links working.

I already have the following in my custom BP functions file:

if(bp_is_active('friends'))
		add_action('bp_member_header_actions', 'bp_add_friend_button');

	if(bp_is_active('activity') && bp_activity_do_mentions())
		add_action('bp_member_header_actions', 'bp_send_public_message_button');

	if(bp_is_active('messages'))
		add_action('bp_member_header_actions', 'bp_send_private_message_button');

	// Group Buttons
	
	if(bp_is_active('groups')) {
		add_action('bp_group_header_actions', 'bp_group_join_button');
		add_action('bp_group_header_actions', 'bp_group_new_topic_button');
		add_action('bp_directory_groups_actions', 'bp_group_join_button');
	}

As I say these buttons displayed in the theme in v1.7.3, they only disappear in v1.8. I think you’re right of course, it looks like a theme issue, I just cannot figure out what changed in v1.8 to stop these buttons working in my theme.

Nobody else has had the same issue? Lets try a different tact. Has there been any changes made to private message, add friend and public message buttons in 1.8?

Hi @mercime

The thread example I posted “username/messages/view/30/” can actually have more than two members. Conversations can have lots of members.

Obviously I can tell if the last message in the thread was sent to me by looking at it. I wanted to know how to check programatically. Sorry if I didn’t make that obvious. 🙂

Hi @mercime,

Apologies, let me explain..

If you see the message listed there then the message was sent

A private message thread can end up with many messages. Some of the messages in the thread were sent by you to a site member and some of the messages in the thread were received by you (sent to you by a site member).

I am interested in the very last message in the thread. How can I tell if that very last message was sent to me from somebody else or sent by me to somebody else?

Hope that helps?

@mercime.. will do. Question, do I have to configure a wildcard for my websites? Here is my scenario: I have one main site WITHOUT buddypress installed and a sub-site WITH buddypress and I only want to have these features on my sub-site: Forums, Groups, Extended user profiles, Private messaging and Friends connection.

Also, I want my sites addresses to look like these

My Community site: http://www.domain.com/community .. also http://domain.com/community (without www) should be accessible

And my main site: http://www.domain.com/.. and http://domain.com/ (without www) should be accessible.

What kind of settings should I use to accomplish this?

this makes buddypress unsuable for me… can anyone help?