David,
“…minimum required to give you the ability to add a new menu item…”
You talking about adding a new menu item to the buddybar ™ 
or to the user/options bar in the member theme?
David – Love where you’re heading with this. When you say “menu” do you mean Admin bar or the Home/Blog/Members/Etc menus in the BP header. I hacked the latter but would much rather do it thru a plugin such as you’ve developed
Oops. Sorry Burt. Failed to refresh as I was replying.
Adding a new menu item to the member theme, NOT the top bar. I did this with my recent example of “social” (view the screenshots):
http://www.davidbisset.com/2008/12/23/buddypress-adding-twitter-and-friendfeed/
This is a clean slate version of that above, if that makes sense.
EDIT: Duh. This actually DOES BOTH. This will add the same menu item in “my account” WITH submenu navigation in the grey “BuddyPress” bar that is present on the top page when you login.
Great Nic. I’m developing another version of this that expands on the navigation.
Remember that this isn’t really a plugin, more like a starting point FOR a plugin.
@dimensionmedia, i’m working for aggregator, here a picture: http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/6578/aggregatorlg7.jpg
i think tomorrow i will release basic code 
nice, very nice. thank you david
eh .. there’s a bug in buddypress, when you’re on the main page, “Test” is missing from the admin bar. If you enter a member page, it’s there. I’ve reported this in ticket #283
Pers,
What exactly do you mean by “main page”? I am on the main page of my BP site and i still see the “test” in the dropdown “my account” in the top bar. I am logged in, though. Screenshots would be helpful.
Just want to confirm to determine perhaps if it’s MY code or truly a BP bug.
UPDATE: This trumps the first version of bp-test mentioned above.
Basically I have created three versions of bp-test which allows one to learn and hopefully start building BP components. Here is a blog post with screencaps:
http://www.davidbisset.com/2008/12/25/buddypress-building-your-own-components-with-these-building-blocks/
For those impatient, here are the links:
http://www.davidbisset.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bp-testv0-1-0.zip
http://www.davidbisset.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bp-testv0-1-1.zip
http://www.davidbisset.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bp-testv0-1-2.zip
Version 0.1.0:
This version is very close to the proof of concept screenshots for Twitter and Friendfeed. Very basic – it just adds a menu and two submenus to that menu. It should automatically also add the menu to the “BuddyPress Bar†that appears at the top and (by default) is grey.
Version 0.1.1:
This version adds the “header tab†navigation you see in the screenshot on my blog. This requires a few additional PHP functions, and therefore increases the complexity a little bit. I also added a few BuddyPress PHP functions in the sample page that you should become familiar with but are very straightforward. This version rounds out how to create major navigational elements in BuddyPress.
Version 0.1.2:
This (final?) version changes the “Second Page†into an example of showing rowed results (similar to what you see on the wire page). This bumps up the complexity a bit since we use alot more PHP functions, mostly stored in the bp-test-templatetags.php file. We also use several classes seen in bp-test-classes.php and bp-test-templatetags.php. Also add a “standard†(of sorts) filter file (bp-test-filters.php). If you are planning on displaying anything in a table/row format like in the screenshot above, then you will want to examine this version. I have removed AJAX references to make it easier. Honestly this is all very close to the WIRE BuddyPress component so if you want to look at that as well, especially if you have the hang of this and just need to add in AJAX, that would be a wise move.
These three versions support potential BuddyPress components ranging from the very simple to more-or-less the level of some of the current BuddyPress beta components. These building blocks will hopefully be a learning tool first (if you don’t understand what they do, then you won’t get very far) and a time saver second.
I think that you don’t need using page to add in your member theme :S look plugin-template.php
@Nic. Unfort. i’m guessing what you are saying. It’s not clear, but i realize english is not your first language. The examples above include how to simply modify the existing BuddyPress theme. Plugin-template is actually a nice starting point, I just added more to my examples. Thanks for the feedback.
sorry, my bad .. I created “the bug”
@dimensionmedia,
I’m sorry. So, i think that you don’t need add files in /member-theme/ because you can write your plugin without adding files in /member-theme/ for example you can write:
function test_page_settings() {
global $current_user, $bp_settings_updated, $pass_error;
add_action( 'bp_template_title', 'test_page_title' );
add_action( 'bp_template_content', 'test_page_content' );
add_action( 'bp_template_content_header', 'test_page_tabs' );
bp_catch_uri('plugin-template');
}
function test_page_title() {
_e( 'Hello title', 'buddypress' );
}
function test_page_content() {
global $bp, $current_user, $bp_settings_updated, $pass_error; ?>
<p>Hello Content</p>
<?php
function test_page_tabs() {
global $bp, $create_group_step, $completed_to_step;
?>
<ul class="content-header-nav">
<li>Hello Tabs</li>
</ul>
<?php } ?>
With that you don’t need to add page in /member-theme/. I think that users that install a plugins want only add files on mu-plugins/.
Think if i’ve another member-theme that isn’t like the default, and i would like add this plugin..
I hope i explain well now
UPDATED, i wrote an example plugin that works without adding files in member-theme
You can find a small post here http://buddypressdev.org/forums/topic.php?id=7
That explain a bit about this example extending component that i called bpdev-example
I forgot, here you can download bpdev-example : http://buddypressdev.org/plugins/bpdev-example
Due to the holidays over here, i haven’t had a chance to look at this but if it works well done. BTW, I tried the link on your .org site first and got a 404.
There is more than one way to skin a cat – in fact your example is very close to the v.0.1.0 example i created a few days back. Both of these work for VERY simple components. Nice to see a slightly different execution. The more ways we can show this, the faster people will learn. Good job!
both the first and the second link works well.. try download it directly here http://buddypressdev.org/download/3
