Comments on: Changing Buddypress default logo with a custom logo in buddypress admin bar

By: brajesh

brajesh — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:03:58 +0000

hi Dee
I guess,this will not work with buddypress 1.1(or above) as there has been some code modifications in the admin bar and there is no logo,instead ,the site name as a link is used in place of logo.
Still,there exists a way to add your own long(in case you wish so).just we need to work on the action hook “bp_adminbar_logo”
here I have posted a code snippet for clarification ,how to do it in the new system.
http://cosmiccoders.pastebin.com/f15deabca

The best thing is you can put it now simply in the functions.php file of your active theme and it will work.
Or create a new php file and put it into the mu-plugins both will work.

Hope it helps.

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:21:52 +0000

I have a couple questions:

One, Do we simply create a .php file, insert the above mentioned code, and put that file in wp-content/mu-plugins directory? Or do we need to insert the filters in a particular file, too?

Two, is this compatible with the newest version of BP?

BONUS!!! If someone could lay this out in a “Changing BP Logos for Idiots” format, that would be great! I’ve never worked .php and have done very little .css. One can’t assume that I know anything.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:17:00 +0000

Hi,

Can someone please explain when should I use apply_filter instead of add_filter?

Is it used when I want to call an existing filter without typing the hook again?

By: Law

Law — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:32:23 +0000

Awesome this works! thanks!

I tried overwriting the default image “bp-core/images/admin_bar_logo.gif” but that caused it to be pixelated… but this works great thanks again!

By: brajesh

brajesh — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:53:52 +0000

Hi
Thanks for your comments.
I am sorry,there were small typos,Please check the updated code above,just copy paste and change appropriately.It will work.
If you find any issues,please let me know.

Thanks
Brajesh

By: brajesh

brajesh — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:42:52 +0000

hi Eduardo,thanks for correcting me,I typed that by mistake,It is add filter.Thanks for pointing.

Brajesh

By: Chia

Chia — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:25:44 +0000

Ugh…I spoke too soon. I got a big fat error on line 6. Being a PHP noob I couldn’t figure out how to fix it. Argh! Thus, I still have “buddypress” in my admin bar.

By: Chia

Chia — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:29:31 +0000

Once again I end up on our site and find the solution I need. Thanks a bunch!

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:11:16 +0000

Thanks. I was looking for a way to modify the logo without digging through or changing any of the original code and new this was possible with hooks so thanks for this wonderful reference. I should mention that the above mentioned apply_filter(“bp_admin_bar_logo_src”,”cc_my_adminbar_logo”); did not work for me and I think it’s wrong. I used add_filter(“bp_admin_bar_logo_src”,”cc_my_adminbar_logo”); instead and that worked just fine.