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I’m creating a custom WordPress/BuddyPress theme and I’m hoping to create a custom page at /members/USER/messages/custom which can be customized with the template file called custom.php located in the THEME/buddypress/members/single/messages directory.

Can someone please explain the correct approach for doing this?

I’m going to need to do add other pages to other BuddyPress components, so I would appreciate a solution that doesn’t just work exclusively for my above example.

I’ve read about bp_core_new_nav_item() and bp_core_load_template(), but the instructions that go with them seem out of date. I’m also not looking to add a nav item, so I’m a little reluctant to use bp_core_new_nav_item() because of its name.

Thank you.