custom sidebar buddypress integration

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May 14, 2015 at 7:37 pm #39546

viguursthijs
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Gentlemen,

what would you recommend to be the best approach if we want to add a separate sidebar to the combined buddypress/wpgeo-profile pages of our users?

I find many advices on tweaking the buddypress sidebar.php file, but my guts feeling tells me that this is not the way to go, because the main look and feel is managed by (in our case) the wpgeotheme framework and its child modern theme.

We’ve succeeded in adding a separate widget area, so that’s fixed, but now we want to add that to the profile page.

Am I clear enough?

Thanks again!

May 15, 2015 at 5:30 pm #39622
Paolo
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Hi,

Buddyress uses the default page sidebar.

Just go into page.php of the child theme and use a conditional tag to make it call your custom sidebar instead of the default sidebar, when needed.

Buddypres conditional tags are:

Profile Page:
```
if (bp_is_user())
```
Users page:
```
if (bp_is_directory())
```
Others BP pages:
```
bp_current_component()
```
Example:
```
if(bp_current_component('members'))
```
To know the name of the page:
```
echo bp_current_component();
```
These info are already availble in the Buddypress forums too.

Thank you,
May 15, 2015 at 5:33 pm #39623

Paolo
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https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/template-tag-reference/#is_-functions
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