Add Buddypress profile and messages link to Wordpress menu

Question

In the wordpress menu I would like to add a link to the buddypress user profile and messages. These links are dynamic based on the username like, http://buddypress.org/community/members/username/messages/, for example.

I know you can get the username with php but that is not allowed within wordpress menus (wp-admin/nav-menus.php) from what I can tell. I also need to add them at a specific place in the menu, not just at the end. What would be the simplest way to add these dynamic links to the wordpress menu?

Example:
Main Menu -> Human Resources -> Employee Resources -> Messages
Messages needs to link to the buddypress user's messages

Answer 1

This will give you the user-specific profile URL:

<? echo bp_loggedin_user_domain(); ?>

If you'd the link to go to the user's Messages page, just add to the end like so:

<? echo bp_loggedin_user_domain().'messages/'; ?>

Answer 2

I believe this question is the same as what you are asking; see if the answer to that question helps you.

If that doesn't help, you may want to see if the BuddyPress Links WordPress plug-in provides the additional functionality that you require.

If neither of those solutions prove helpful enough, please provide a link to your site and point out which menu you are trying to add BuddyPress links to and we can give you more specific information.

Answer 3

The desire is to have "My Profile" "My Messages" as Wordpress Menu items. I'm not sure it can be done, because I've never seen a dynamic menu item before, and Salutation people kind of thought of everything...

HOWEVER, it just occurred to me that you could put a static link to a static page in the menu, but have those pages Dynamically Redirect based on bp_get_user_id() or whatever it is:

http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/wordpress-page-redirect

Sorry this isn't a full answer but I'm just being creative here.

So, make a menu item "My Profile" link = "example.com/redirects/my-profile" which then uses onwe of her methods to redirect them to example.com/members/%USERID% or something like that.