Profile Media Tab

Included in Free - MediaVerse is the most complete media solution for BuddyPress communities. Integration is optional - the plugin works standalone on any WordPress site, but when BuddyPress is active, it unlocks profile tabs, group media, activity stream, and notifications automatically.

When BuddyPress is active, MediaVerse adds a Media tab to every user’s BuddyPress profile page.

Tab Location

The tab appears in the main BuddyPress profile navigation at:

/members/{username}/media/

It is added via bp_setup_nav at priority 100.

What the Tab Shows

The Media tab displays the profile owner’s published media items in a paginated grid. Privacy filtering applies:

• Visitors see only the profile owner’s public media.
• Logged-in users see public and members-only media.
• BuddyPress friends see public, members-only, and friends media.
• The profile owner sees all their own media.
• Moderators (moderate_mvs_media) see all media.

Sub-tabs

As of 2.4.0 the profile Media tab has three sub-tabs:

Sub-tab	URL
Media	/members/{username}/media/
Albums	/members/{username}/media/albums/
Documents	/members/{username}/media/documents/

Documents sub-tab

The Documents sub-tab lists the profile owner’s documents, filtered by what the viewer is allowed to see:

• The profile owner sees all of their own documents.
• A logged-in member sees members-level and public documents, plus anything shared directly with them.
• A logged-out visitor sees only public documents.

Free registers the sub-tab and emits the filter mvs_profile_documents_html( string $html, int $owner_id, int $viewer_id ); MediaVerse Pro answers it (Documents/ProfileDocuments.php) with the privacy-filtered document list. It works on both BuddyPress and BuddyBoss (BuddyPress-compatible). This is BuddyPress-only - there is no standalone /author Documents tab.

Profile URL Pattern

MediaVerse also registers a standalone media profile URL:

/media/@{username}/
/media/@{username}/page/2/

These URLs are handled by the TemplateLoader and use the explore.php template, filtered to the specific user.

User Profile Edit Page

Logged-in users can edit their avatar and profile details at:

/media/edit-profile/

Or use the [mvs_profile_edit] shortcode on any page.

Disabling the Profile Tab

To remove the profile tab without disabling the entire integration:

remove_action( 'bp_setup_nav', array( $integration, 'add_profile_tab' ), 100 );

Since $integration is not easily accessible externally, the cleaner approach is to use the tab’s existence to skip rendering:

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', function() {
    // Remove the MediaVerse media nav item from BP.
    bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'media' );
}, 200 );