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A related issue is how forum post links show up elsewhere. For example, we have a private group on facebook and I am directing them to the various forum topics that I am creating. All of the links show up as TAFA Forum Group. It gets really confusing if you post a lot of them. I would think this also has to do with how the permalinks and feeds show up. I don’t know if this is a buddypress or bbpress issue, but I hope it’s addressed in future updates. Social media is a part of our world now and buddypress needs to be able to function just as wordpress does if content can have viral potential.

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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.