Grab component page title from the WordPress page title.

[sooskriszta]

BP provides the functionality to change names and slugs of components via the config file.

It would be nice if like bbPress, these options are provided in the WP admin panel.

e.g.

define ( 'BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG', 'streams' );
define ( 'BP_BLOGS_SLUG', 'journals' );
define ( 'BP_MEMBERS_SLUG', 'users' );
define ( 'BP_FRIENDS_SLUG', 'peeps' );
define ( 'BP_GROUPS_SLUG', 'gatherings' );
define ( 'BP_FORUMS_SLUG', 'discussions' );
define ( 'BP_MESSAGES_SLUG', 'notes' );
define ( 'BP_WIRE_SLUG', 'pinboard' );
define ( 'BP_XPROFILE_SLUG', 'info' );
define ( 'BP_REGISTER_SLUG', 'signup' );
define ( 'BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG', 'enable' );
define ( 'BP_SEARCH_SLUG', 'find' );
define ( 'BP_HOME_BLOG_SLUG', 'news' );

[sooskriszta]

Any danger of this being sneaked into 1.6.1 or 1.7?

[DJPaul]

No, not for 1.7.

[sooskriszta]

1.9?

[sooskriszta]

Slug constants are deprecated: ​http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/changing-internal-configuration-settings/
which is mostly fine as BuddyPress asks you which page to use for each component (e.g. Groups, Members etc) and even creates the pages for you. if you want to change the slug, no sweat...just edit the page normally in WordPress and change the slug as you would for any normal page or post. Fantastic!

However, the problem is that in the frontend, instead of using the page titles as set in WordPress, BuddyPress continues to use hardcoded component names as the page titles. e.g. If you tell BuddyPress to use the page Schools (with slug schools) as the Groups list/page, then BuddyPress faithfully uses the correct page, and the slug is schools. But when you visit the page in frontend, the title shown is Groups, not Schools. This can't possibly be correct. BuddyPress should grab the page titles from WordPress too.

[sooskriszta]

Did someone say that jjj is working on this?

[DJPaul]

Top-level (directory) slugs can be changed via the legacy constants of the post_name of the page mapped to that component. URL slugs underneath that hierarchy can't be customised like this.

We have ticket(s) open for rewrite rules, and we'll have to support this kind of thing when we implement that.

[sooskriszta]

@DJPaul Perhaps I have not explained the ticket well. What I am talking about is slightly different than slugs (even though slugs were included in OP).

BuddyPress is used in many different contexts. So, admin should be able to customize the component names. If someone wants to call Groups Rooms or Teams or Choirs or Cities or Classes or Chapters, they should be able to do so.

Similarly if someone wants to call Members Singers or Students or Players or Officers, they should be able to do so.

etc

[sooskriszta]

In case someone is interested, ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-power-seo/ does this.

[sooskriszta]

In case someone is interested, ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-power-seo/ does this.

*Partially*