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Is there a way to make a group forum page the default rather than the activity page? I’ve been trying to figure out how to solve a variety of engagement problems and this would really do the trick. Apologies if this is already been answered. Did some digging, couldn’t find it.

Someone did indeed post a code snippet that did exactly that, though I can’t find it myself any longer. Ideally though, this would be a plugin functionality that could be enabled per-group as a check list via the WordPress backend. I’d love to engage more users to the full potential of our groups, but fact is some of our groups still exist for the sole purpose of replacing the forum board we emigrated from.

I agree about the potential for groups, but the forum is still the anchor for that and when people are missing it – or better yet think they’re participating when responding to an item in the activity feed that doesn’t connect to the original topic at all – it makes the challenge for engaging readers all the more so.

You may want to view this topic.

http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/how-did-you-add-the-view-blogpost-button/#topic

Redirect the reply to the forum post works well. You can see here (http://www.thechembook.com/chemistrycircle/) that the kids may ask in a forum post but the reply in the activity stream takes them back to the forum post and stops the replying in the activity stream.

@travel-junkie wrote something along the lines of what you’re looking for. See here: http://shabushabu.eu/reordering-buddypress-group-tabs/

Hey @philohagen Did you ever figure this out?

It seems like it should be an easy switch, but there’s a lot of dumb things I’ve run into trying to get it working.

I tried @travel-junkie ‘s suggestion via @paulhastings0, but got WSOD every time I did it.

Could try this as an alternative:

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/changing-group-tab-display-defaults/#post-55449

@r-a-y

That’s exactly what I needed. Thank you!

Not to be a Debbie Downer, but it’s frustrating that the search functionality on this site is so subpar that I couldn’t find that after a long time looking. I don’t know how many times I’ve searched for something, tried to click on “page 2″ of results only to get a not found page. It can’t be just me, right?

Yes this works great.
function redirect_to_forum() {
global $bp;

$path = clean_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );

$path = apply_filters( ‘bp_uri’, $path );

if ( bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $bp->bp_options_nav['groups']['home']['slug'] ) === false )
bp_core_redirect( $path . $bp->bp_options_nav['groups']['forum']['slug'] . ‘/’ );
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘redirect_to_forum’ );