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Thanks so much Andrew Tegenkamp. This works exactly how I wanted.

Andrew (and others):

I was referred to this thread to help me figure out how to bypass the group admin page. What I’d like to do instead is have the users go directly to the forum page after the group directory page. I am not clear though how to actually make this happen based on the discussion above though. Would you assist in this modification as well?

Thank you in advance.

@jad117, I hope this helps, and please let me know with another mention if not.

Basically the first step is to create a blank file called bp-custom.php and save it as /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php. You can learn more about this file at https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/ and what it does and all.

Then, in that file (or in your theme’s functions.php file) you can paste certain bits of PHP code that have become known as hacks or tricks in order to make BuddyPress act a little differently. One such trick is to move around the tabs and redirect people so that group links like http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-testers-614548248/ would actually redirect to http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-testers-614548248/forum/ instead of showing http://testbp.org/groups/buddypress-testers-614548248/home/ as it does now.

The code I gave earlier does this and like myself, some others after me have offered various improvements or changes, so I’d try them each out and see what works best for your setup. You can only have one function of each name at a time or you’ll get an error. You can also visit http://bp-tricks.com/featured/feature-forums-noticed/ for how the author of that post does this “trick” and see some comments there as well, as that is a site devoted to finding just the right trick to get BuddyPress to do exactly what you want!

I hope that helps, and as I said, if not, write back at me, and I’ll try to answer any questions you have!

Thanks,
Andrew

Ok, let’s take this in two parts.

1) If the actual function code is appearing above your header, then make sure you have it inside PHP tags

2) If you are still getting the warning about “Cannot modify header information” I’m going to hope you have a control panel like cPanel or access to your php.ini file. If you have cPanel, check out the “Software/Services” section and then look for “php.ini ezConfig” or something like that. Clicking that brings up a form and you will want to turn on output_buffering and save the form. If you have direct access to your php.ini file (like a localhost setup) then edit php.ini and look for the last instance of output_buffering without a semicolon (; indicates comment in php.ini) in front of it and change it (hopefully) from output_buffering = Off to output_buffering = On. Then you would save the php.ini file and restart Apache.

If you can’t access either of these, another option to try would be to add this line of php inside the PHP tags you set above:

If none of this works, post a link if you have it public, or if not, head to http://pastebin.com/ and paste the source of your homepage and I may be able to help some more?

I’m getting an error on your site because you have my_bp_groups_forum_first_tab delcared in both bp-custom.php and functions.php. Go ahead and remove it from one (probably functions.php for now) because you will get a PHP error since you have the same function name trying to load twice. FYI, the bp-custom.php file is for anything BuddyPress related, where the functions.php file is just for the theme.

Once it’s working try it when you are not both logged in and on a public group. The if statements in there require that you either be a member of the group or the group be public, so it’s possible it was working but you didn’t see it if you were logged in (probably as the admin) and had not officially joined that group.

ok, let’s give this code a shot. I just tried it on a local dev and it worked well.

If that does not work for you can you kinda enable debug and comment out the /* and the //echo lines and see if you get anything different?

On a side note, I noticed you called them forums. Did you know that bbPress is now a plugin at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/ if you don’t want all the BuddyPress features and just the forum itself? Just an FYI in case that serves ya better. Check out https://bbpress.org/blog/ for more as it’s new as of yesterday as an official release.

That’s odd ~ are you using 1.5 or on the 1.2 branch? Guess I shoulda asked that before

Regarding the forums, you may need to disable BuddyPress since the forum plugin bbPress uses the same code as BuddyPress for its forums ~ it’s all bbPress.org and it creates users as WP users so there are plenty of plugins to email all your users FWIW.

If you do feel comfortable with me FTP’ing into the site, feel free to send me some FTP info and I can take a look. Should only need access to the plugins folder to debug the redirect thing ~ I’m very curiuos why it doesn’t work, but it sounds like BP may be overkill for this project since bbPress is now available so I would understand you heading a different direction too.

Ok, looks like 1.5 needs this code… should be working on your site too! You can change the 98 to any number really. It stars out at 10, with forum = 40 and members = 60, so just put the number to whatever you want and it will fall in line in the order you want (less than 40 = first, 41-59 = middle, 61+ last). Of course you can change activity log to whatever title you want too.

thanks andrew. that’s perfect! you’re the man!

Thank you so much Andrew that worked brilliantly. I am running WordPress 32.1. and Buddpress 1.5

Anyone know how to add class to the menu item? I tried this:
`
function bbg_change_profile_css() {
global $bp;

$bp->bp_nav = ‘new_css’;
}
add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘bbg_change_profile_css’, 999 );`

But it changes the menu id, but I want to add class to the menu item.

Anyone?