I wanted to display the user’s username in the navigation menu when they are logged in. I found a few solutions but they do not work perfectly.

First I used this function bp_loggedin_user_id() and it displays the ID number nicely, with no problem. However since what I need is the name I went on to use bp_get_displayed_user_fullname()

When I am on the profile page, the user’s name displays nicely, but when I navigate to another page, nothing shows.

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I am currently still mainly working on my localhost, however I have a demo site up at village.rw

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No. The demo does not have the set up am currently inquiring about. I found how to display the name. I put the following code in my functions.php and it works great.

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_custom_menu_item');

function my_custom_menu_item($items)
{
    if(is_user_logged_in())
    {
        $user=wp_get_current_user();
        $name=$user->user_firstname; // or user_login , display_name, user_lastname
        $ppicture=$user->bp_displayed_user_avatar;
        $items .= '<li>' .$ppicture;
        $items .= '<li><a href="' . bp_loggedin_user_domain( '/' ) . '">'.$name.'</a>';
    }
    return $items;
}

However I am now trying to get the buddypress profile picture to show up too. I’ve run into the same issue once again. when I use the function bp_displayed_user_avatar(); the picture only shows when I am on my profile. When I navigate elsewhere it doesn’t show. I am thinking there has to be some code in the profile page that enables the function to return a result. And that code is missing on other pages which is why it returns empty. But I don’t know what it is exactly.

Kind regards

Vital

How about this one?

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_custom_menu_item');

function my_custom_menu_item($items)
{
    if(is_user_logged_in())
    {
        $user=wp_get_current_user();
        $name=$user->user_firstname; // or user_login , display_name, user_lastname

ob_start();
bp_displayed_user_avatar( 'type=full' );  
$ppicture= ob_get_clean();

        $items .= '<li>' .$ppicture;
        $items .= '<li><a href="' . bp_loggedin_user_domain( '/' ) . '">'.$name.'</a>';
    }
    return $items;
}

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the help. It works even better than what I had. However there is still the issue of it only showing when am on the profile page. When on another page nothing shows.

Can you put your local set-up to your online demo and provide us with wordpress and FTP access of that site?

Its hard to check on your issue if we can’t check the actual set-up you have.

Thanks