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I have to break this up into separate posts because I don’t think the BP forum wants me to include so many links:

If you want to replace the activity post with recipes instead (eliminating the default ‘activity’) you could change the label of activity to “recipes” using this guide from the codex:

Change “Activity” component’s name and slug to something else.

Then add it to the activity stream as a registered activity:

Post Types Activities

Users would need to use the dashboard to create a recipe update in this model, unless you created a front end recipe posting system using something like Gravity Forms:

https://gravitywiz.com/use-gravity-forms-to-create-user-submitted-posts/

@rvnamb if you aren’t looking to do programming you may want to check out some of the plugins here. https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/recipes Some of them seem to integrate with Buddypress

If you want to replace the activity post with recipes instead (eliminating the default ‘activity’) you could change the label of activity to “recipes” using this guide from the codex:

Change “Activity” component’s name and slug to something else.

If you want to keep the activity updates, and add a separate form for recipes, you will probably need to explore Custom Post Types. You’ll need to register a post type called Recipes.

These might help:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-custom-post-types-in-wordpress/

Then add it to the activity stream as a registered activity:

Post Types Activities

Users would need to use the dashboard to create a recipe update in this model, unless you created a front end recipe posting system using something like Gravity Forms:

https://gravitywiz.com/use-gravity-forms-to-create-user-submitted-posts/