How to Add, Remove, and Change the Order Of BuddyPress Component Menu

Today I needed to change three things in a BuddyPress installation:

1. Change the title of “Groups” to “My Conversations” in the BuddyPress component menu.
2. Remove the “Forums” menu item from the BuddyPress component menu.
3. Change the order of the BuddyPress component menu such that the “Messages” link is in a different place.

To accomplish these three things, I added the following to my theme’s functions.php file:

// Setup the navigation
// Props to http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/16223/add-buddypress-profile-menu-item for helping me figure this out
// http://themekraft.com/customize-profile-and-group-menus-in-buddypress/
function my_setup_nav() {
      global $bp;
      // Change the order of menu items
      $bp->bp_nav['messages']['position'] = 100;
      // Remove a menu item
      $bp->bp_nav['conversations'] = false;
      // Change name of menu item
      $bp->bp_nav['communities']['name'] = 'My Conversations';
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'my_setup_nav', 1000 );

Pretty nifty, eh?

By the way, if you want to see all of your options for editing the components menu, just throw the following into functions.php:

function bp_dump() {
    global $bp;
 
    foreach ( (array)$bp as $key => $value ) {
        echo '
';
        echo '' . $key . ': 
;';
        print_r( $value );
        echo '
';
    }
    die;
}

(Thanks ThemeKraft!)