Now I have dealt with the sidebar that should not be there (thanks to Brajesh Singh who is my personal code hero today) I ready to think about doing something a bit more ambitious with my member profile view.

I was thinking about creating a responsive sidebar to the right of the member profile. Mostly to contain the item-nav section. If that was all I wanted to do I could set a viewport wider than say 800 and just set some floats to #item-nav.

However, what I am thinking is that it would be nice of the sidebar contained profile information and other things relevant to the member in question. Maybe some widgets and such.

Clearly, I am going to need to create a custom template or theme part. However, I have to confess I found the BuddyPress codex less than helpful when it came to figuring out what I need to do to make that happen.

What I need is some advice to get me on the right road. Where do I even start? I found the legacy folder and 166 files in BuddyPress but that’s a lot of code to review when I don’t really understand what it does. (I could read all the code and figure it out eventually but that is a very painful way to approach things). I am hoping that other people have made custom member profiles and there is a decent tutorial somewhere.

Any advice greatly received.