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What is the best approach to overwrite template tags?

joelpittet
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@joelpittet

15 years, 5 months ago

I would like to overwrite the bp_login_bar template tag. But I am a noob to wordpress plugins/tags. I could just rewrite it there but for easier upgrades is there a place to overwrite that like is themes/mytheme/functions.php a good place for it? And do I use add_filter or add_action or something else?

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Brajesh Singh
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@sbrajesh

15 years, 5 months ago

hello Joe

As far as overwriting the template tags are concerned,That is not allowed.You can only overwrite pluggable functions(In case of wordpress/buddypress).

As far as I see, the bp_login_bar() is a normal function(template tag), you may have a look at the code in buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php,so you can not overwrite it.

Yes, if you want a customize the look of the form/output generated by it, you can use a work around.

Copy the code for bp_login_bar and put it inside a new function say bp_custom_login_bar() inside your theme’s functions.php,now you may modify the code inside the bp_custom_login_bar() to make it look as you want.

The only extra work you will have to do is, you will have to replace all the calls of bp_login_bar tag in your template by bp_custom_login_bar.

Hope it helps.

If I misinterpreted your question,please clarify.

joelpittet
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@joelpittet

15 years, 5 months ago

Thank you sbrajesh, I think that is what I was looking for. I will do that for the time being.

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