How to Add, Remove, and Change the Order Of BuddyPress Component Menu
January 26th, 2012 — Blog Post, BuddyPress
Today I needed to change three things in a BuddyPress installation:
- Change the title of “Groups” to “My Conversations” in the BuddyPress component menu.
- Remove the “Forums” menu item from the BuddyPress component menu.
- Change the order of the BuddyPress component menu such that the “Messages” link is in a different place.
To accomplish these three things, I added the following to my theme’s functions.php file:
// Setup the navigation // Props to http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/16223/add-buddypress-profile-menu-item for helping me figure this out // http://themekraft.com/customize-profile-and-group-menus-in-buddypress/ function my_setup_nav() { global $bp; // Change the order of menu items $bp->bp_nav['messages']['position'] = 100; // Remove a menu item $bp->bp_nav['conversations'] = false; // Change name of menu item $bp->bp_nav['communities']['name'] = 'My Conversations'; } add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'my_setup_nav', 1000 );
Pretty nifty, eh?
By the way, if you want to see all of your options for editing the components menu, just throw the following into functions.php:
function bp_dump() { global $bp; foreach ( (array)$bp as $key => $value ) { echo '<div>'; echo '<strong>' . $key . ': </strong><br />;'; print_r( $value ); echo '</div>'; } die; }
(Thanks ThemeKraft!)
