Directory pages after BuddyPress 12

[dontdream]

Hello team,

I recently received a report from a user about the missing "Page Attributes" meta box for a directory page, after the post type change in BuddyPress 12. The missing features are:

1) Select the parent page and the order of the subpages (there is already a ticket on this). This means that a directory can be under a page, or a page under a directory, or (?) a directory under a directory.

2) Select the page template for a directory, among the custom page templates provided by their theme.

Some themes (e.g. Astra) don't rely on page templates but do allow users to customize the page structure on a page-by-page basis, and this feature is also no longer available after the post type change in BuddyPress 12.

I don't know if it's easier, for BuddyPress and theme authors, to implement these features with the new "buddypress" post type or go back to the old "page" post type. What do you think?

[imath]

I think BuddyPress directories are not site pages, that’s one of the reason, when building the BP Rewrites API, I chose to use another post type. The second reason was to let Users go back to the Classic BuddyPress to carry on using pages.
The third reason is, it was misleading for users as the content they were writing into these pages were never displayed.

Using pages for BuddyPress directories is not consistent and we were doing a lot of workarounds to avoid messing with regular pages.

I believe the future for BuddyPress customization will happen into the WordPress Site Editor, the « wysiwyg » way.

About 1) You can use the WordPress Site Editor to build your site navigation without any hierarchy between post types. It’s also possible with WP Navigation Menu.
About 2) We already have a powerful template hierarchy inside BuddyPress + there’s the custom post type one that is available.

As you said, this was in BuddyPress 11.0: if you need to stay Classic, we have a plugin to help you carry on upgrading BuddyPress: ​BP Classic.

Pages won’t come back, well I’ll always be against this kind of requests.

[dontdream]

Hi imath,

Thank you for your explanation! I agree and I think we can close this request now.