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Hi @josephfrio13yahoocom and @lflier

Component navigation is set-up in the component’s class. For example, the setup_nav method within the BP_Friends_Component class does this for the Friends component. See here for exactly how it’s done.

To my knowledge, there is no easy way to move subnavs around.

@lflier that sounds like a good approach. The screen function will be already written for you and as you say, creating the new subnav and removing the unwanted one is easy enough.

@josephfrio13yahoocom you have a fine question. I am one step away from being able to answer it for you. I know how to create and delete subnavs, and I know how to set up screen functions for the subnavs I create. But I am not yet able to connect a new subnav with an existing BuddyPress screen function.

I tried the following code last night, but was unsuccessful:

function setup_custom_nav() {
	global $bp;
	bp_core_new_subnav_item( array(
		'name' => __( 'Change Avatarr', 'buddypress' ),
		'slug' => 'change-avatarr',
		'parent_url' => $bp->loggedin_user->domain . 'settings/',
		'parent_slug' => 'settings',
		'screen_function' => 'lf_screen_function',
		'position' => 30,
	) );
}

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'setup_custom_nav');

function lf_screen_function() {
	add_action( 'bp_template_content', 'xprofile_screen_change_avatar' );
	bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( 'bp_core_template_plugin', 'members/single/plugins' ) );
}

What I get from this is another whole site-generator division inside the already existing one. I get the same thing if I put ‘xprofile_screen_change_avatar’ in directly for the screen function.

I’m getting the screen function from here: https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/12bc8cb1b6000d73be2d43e1c34e26c42b5ff215/src/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-loader.php#L216

@henrywright

Thanks, Henry. Your suggestion is intuitive and it was my original plan, too. I tried it that way first and failed (same result as above).

Then I went back to the code I had used in my own site, which is the lf_screen_function() that adds an action to the function that gives the desired output, which, in this case appears to be the xprofile_screen_change_avatar function. But that also failed.

There’s got to be a way to do it, though.

Same output as before.

@henrywright

Thanks. I’ll try this as time permits.

In the meantime I can share with @josephfrio13yahoocom what I know about changing the BuddyPress subnav section:

1. You’ve seen a working example of creating a new subnav in the code I posted earlier. Just substitute your own output function for the xprofile_screen_change_avatar function in the line:

add_action( 'bp_template_content', 'xprofile_screen_change_avatar' );

2. To remove a subnav item see my post here.

3. To change the default subnav, which you will have to do if you want to delete a default subnav, see the BuddyPress codex here, which has a nice example.

I’m sure Henry could do better, but I hope this gets you started. All of this can be done in a functions.php file. No modifications of the BP core should be necessary.

I was able to get the avatar form to show up with this snippet:

function setup_custom_nav() {
  global $bp;
  bp_core_new_subnav_item( array(
    'name' => __( 'Change Avatar', 'buddypress' ),
    'slug' => 'change-avatar',
    'parent_url' => $bp->loggedin_user->domain . 'settings/',
    'parent_slug' => 'settings',
    'screen_function' => 'ca_screen_function',
    'position' => 30,
  ) );
}

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'setup_custom_nav');

function ca_screen_function() {
  add_action( 'bp_template_content', 'change_profile_picture_screen_content' );
  bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( 'xprofile_template_change_avatar', 'members/single/plugins' ) );
  xprofile_screen_change_avatar();

}

function change_profile_picture_screen_content() {
  bp_get_template_part( 'members/single/profile/change-avatar' );
}

But when I try to upload a new avatar the resizing/cropping screen doesn’t show up.