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Hi Folks

I have spent a few hours Googling how to set up dynamic links in WP/BD. I found a lot of people asking the same questions. It’s surprising that BP does not allow this functionality out of the box.

For example, if anyone wanted to create a link on the main menu to the users profile, edit profile etc.

Most solutions I found required custom functions or hardcoding menu items into the theme. This rather defeats the object of having a nice menu management system in WP backend.

I found this solution, thought I would share it.

First I installed the Buddypress Profile Shortcodes plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-profile-shortcodes/

Next I installed the Shortcodes in Menu plugin – https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-in-menus/

Voila, create menu items in the menu management system to pretty much whatever user area you want to link to.

Hope that’s helpful for someone 🙂