I am trying to adapt this function so that I can include a tab/page for each of my Buddypress group for chat. I would like to use the plugin Quick Chat. At the moment I have successfully created a tab called 'Chat' but it points to the activity stream, and I am not sure how to change this so that it can point to a page for the Quick Chat plugin. Could you help?

Thanks,

Nick

This code should go in the functions.php file in your theme directory. It looks like you may have put it in a functions.php in WP-includes.

And this code should be fine anywhere in your theme\’s functions.php, so long as it\’s not inside another function or anything like that.

If you can\’t get it to work, give the sample theme a try and work backwards. Let me know how it goes!

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What am i doing wrong and where exactly in functions.php should i put it?

Glad you found this post helpful!

The great thing about having to make a new template file is that you can do whatever you want with it! The slug-matching trick you've described is pretty much the group home page technique developed by modemlooper, but you'll need to create a custom post type to make it work seamlessly.

If you want a quick front-end editor, you can add fields to the group Admin page with the action 'groups_custom_group_fields_editable'. There's another action, 'groups_group_details_edited', that lets you process and store the changes wherever you want. I've used this technique before, storing the contents in a groupmeta entry.

Best of luck!

I just came across this post of yours & tried it on a new site… worked like a charm, thanks!

Now I was wondering whether you or anyone might have figured out a way to populate the page via an editor of sorts, perhaps? Maybe a front-end posting method that creates a post with the same slug as the group, then displaying that post on the group home page? Am I giving anyone any ideas yet?

I wanted to populate the page with HTML, but it seems quite a bit of it gets stripped out – images for example. So I was hoping there might be a few really industrious programmers out there who could take this great method and make it really amazing.

Cheers,
Phil

Did you try the sample theme posted on this page? It should provide a nice reference for what to expect if you're having trouble integrating it with your theme.

Note that this won't change text on the "Home" tab to "Front," it instead opens up the "Home" tab to be whatever you want it to be. Not having looked into it, you'd probably have to change a BuddyPress core file or two to get the tab name changed.

Hope that helps!

– David