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@shanebp,

thanks for your reply I thought as much but I think it get wiped during the plugin update.

Thanks for your input anyways.

Best Regards

@funmi-omoba

Open the plugin file, find the text, replace the text

@shanebp,

Thanks for your snippet which works great with standard buddypress message system but did not work if using BP Profile Message UX plugin, is there anyway to make it work please

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-message-ux/

tahnks

@shanebp – oops thanks for pointing that out. global $bp; can be removed

@shanebp good point about using the bp_send_private_message_link approach. Although you would avoid double buttons by using a translation file.

@henrywright-1
And how would you avoid double buttons due to this call in member-header.php?
do_action( ‘bp_member_header_actions’ );

@tayenewm
Use the provided apply_filters:

function tweak_button_label ( $args ) { 
	$args[link_text] = 'Something'; 
	return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_send_message_button_args', 'tweak_button_label', 1, 1 );

@henrywright-1
Don’t include the global if you aren’t going to use it.

actually you could make use of the bp_send_private_message_link function and do it like this:

<a href="<?php bp_send_private_message_link() ?>" title="Private Message">Private Message</a>

You can change the “Private Message” text to whatever you like. You’d just paste the code into your theme where ever you’d like the button to appear

You could do it like that but each time you update BuddyPress you’ll lose the changes you’ve made to bp-messages-template.php. I’d try to avoid making changes to the plugin core.

you would add something like this to your theme’s functions.php

function bp_disable_messaging() {
	global $bp;
	
	if ( USER_TO_DISALLOW && bp_is_current_component('messages') ) {
		wp_redirect( home_url() );
		exit();
	}
}
add_action('wp','bp_disable_messaging');

Note: USER_TO_DISALLOW would be your unpaid WooCommerce users. You would need to get whatever this was from WooCommerce as I’m not familiar with the plugin. Once you’ve added that bit in the code should work.

This will help you. It shows you how to change most of the text labels and messages outputted by BuddyPress:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

You’ll need to know the user_id for the teacher.

Then check the array for that id. If it’s found, remove it.

And tell the student why, something like:

bp_core_add_message( __( 'You cannot send a private message to the teacher.', 'buddypress' ), 'error' );

Do you know how to use filters?

Take a look at function send() in
\buddypress\bp-messages\bp-messages-classes.php

It has lots of filters.
I’d use the do_action_ref_array