Right Panel without BP

[Paul]

I saw in a reply to a previous forum post that Boss can be used without BP activated. However when logged-on to a site without BP, the right slide panel becomes active but remains empty, and it’s not possible to assign a different menu or content. How can I use Boss without Buddypress?

[Alyssa]

@style960 is that the only issue you have found so far?

[Alyssa]

Also to clarify is this on mobile, desktop or both? And this is the WP toolbar, correct?

[Paul]

@tjchester Purely the WP toolbar, and only on mobile yeah. I can’t see/envisage anything other issue.

[Alyssa]

@style960 when I disable BP the menu does not display when logged out. When logged in it shows the log out button. I guess if you really wanted you could hide the button on mobile but then you would need to add a log out button somewhere.

[Paul]

@tjcheste I have no problem adding a logout option but I’d ideally like to populate that panel I’m just not sure how I can do that, although I can see header.php would need to be amended. I’m no longer using BP.

[Alyssa]

@style960 unforutnately this has to be done through the WordPress codex like this:

function custom_admin_bar_render() {
    global $wp_admin_bar;
  
    $wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
        'parent' => 'my-account',
        'id' => 'edit',
        'title' => __('Edit Page'),
        'href' => admin_url( 'edit.php')
    ) );
}
// and we hook our function via
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'custom_admin_bar_render' );

[Paul]

@tjchester Ok I’ll have a read of the codex, and see what I can do. Thanks.

[Alyssa]

NP

[Paul]

@tjchester Is there no easy way to just call a different menu for this panel?

[Alyssa]

@style960 this menu is the wp toolbar. There is no integration for other menus. Sorry.

[Paul]

@tjchester I resolved this with the use of a Toolbar plugin. Right slide panel is functional again, thanks.

[Alyssa]

@style960 Great, care to share the plugin in case someone else stumbles upon this post?

[Paul]

@tjchester Yeah – https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-symposium-toolbar/
You can do all sorts with the toolbar. I just re-directed the WP Avatar link, and added a custom menu to the User menu.

[Alyssa]

Awesome plugin, thanks! I’ll close this out now.