[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress Trac] #9222: Directory pages after BuddyPress 12

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#9222: Directory pages after BuddyPress 12
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 Reporter:  dontdream        |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Core             |     Version:  12.0.0
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |
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Comment (by imath):

 I think BuddyPress directories are not site pages, that’s one of the
 reason, when building the BP Rewrites API, I chose to use another post
 type. The second reason was to let Users go back to the Classic BuddyPress
 to carry on using pages.
 The third reason is, it was misleading for users as the content they were
 writing into these pages were never displayed.

 Using pages for BuddyPress directories is not consistent and we were doing
 a lot of workarounds to avoid messing with regular pages.

 I believe the future for BuddyPress customization will happen into the
 WordPress Site Editor, the « wysiwyg » way.

 About 1) You can use the WordPress Site Editor to build your site
 navigation without any hierarchy between post types. It’s also possible
 with WP Navigation Menu.
 About 2) We already have a powerful template hierarchy inside BuddyPress +
 there’s the custom post type one that is available.

 As you said, this was in BuddyPress 11.0: if you need to stay Classic, we
 have a plugin to help you carry on upgrading BuddyPress:
 [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-classic/ BP Classic].

 Pages won’t come back, well I’ll always be against this kind of requests.

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