Topic: Adding links to admin bar

Adding links to admin bar

confusednewbie
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@confusednewbie

15 years, 9 months ago

Feel a bit silly asking this, because I am a proper newbie with wordpress MU and buddypress.

I want to admin some hard links to the admin bar, how would I add an ‘Example’ (example.com) button to the bar? Would I keep having to update something in bp-core-adminbar.php with every upgrade?

Thanks!

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vsellis
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@vsellis

15 years, 8 months ago

I’m working on this too. From what I can tell you have to essentially hack some core code which I’m relatively comfortable doing but don’t really want to.

I’ve temporarely used css to position the links where I want them but they don’t slide as more links are added when the user is logged in vs. when they are no so there is overlap. uh..

Any suggestions out there?

Burt Adsit
Participant

@burtadsit

15 years, 8 months ago

You can supply your own admin bar if you like. From /bp-core/bp-core-adminbar.php:

add_action( ‘bp_adminbar_logo’, ‘bp_adminbar_logo’ );

add_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_login_menu’, 2 );

add_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_account_menu’, 4 );

add_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_blogs_menu’, 6 );

add_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_notifications_menu’, 8 );

add_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_authors_menu’, 12 );

add_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_random_menu’, 100 );

Those are the actions that are triggered for each of the major menu sections. For ‘my account’ it’s the function bp_adminbar_account_menu(). In bp-custom.php, make one if you don’t have one, do:

remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_account_menu’, 4 );

add_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘my_account_menu’, 4 );

function my_account_menu(){

<your stuff here for the account menu>

}

gpo1
Participant

@gpo1

15 years, 8 months ago

I want to add

Home

Blog

Members

Groups

Blogs

in the admin bar on members theme to replace these in the original layout. what’s the code to do it?

Burt Adsit
Participant

@burtadsit

15 years, 8 months ago

gpo1, I’m sure there are programmers around the forums that can do this for you if you don’t have the time to research and implement this.
enlightenmental1
Participant

@enlightenmental1

15 years, 8 months ago
question

I’ve hand coded the bp-core-admin-bar.php to add additional links

and add a If(user_is_logged_in) so I can switch links when the user logs in..

but my li / ul aren’t creating droppdowns

example
```
<li> main link </li>
<ul>
<li>sub link</li>
<li>sub link</li>
</ul>
```
instead of getting the sub-links to show as a dropdown, they show up as new “main links”

I am aware of the no-arrow class but are there more css classes to add to these items to make them become a drop down?

here’s my complete code:
belogical
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@belogical

15 years, 8 months ago

sounds like a project for the new group “Code Snippets Solution Library”
enlightenmental1
Participant

@enlightenmental1

15 years, 8 months ago
```
echo "<ul class="main-nav">";

echo "<li >Main Link</li >";

echo "<ul >";

echo "<li >sub link</li >";

echo "<li >sub link</li >";

echo "<li >sub link</li >";

echo "<li >sub link</li >";

echo "<ul >";

echo "</ul >";
```
why doesnt the above create a dropdown in the admin bar?
enlightenmental1
Participant

@enlightenmental1

15 years, 8 months ago

figured it out

wow… I’ve never seen a list item like this… had me very confused