Short of changing core buddypressbp-activity.php, I haven’t been able to change the activity’s default_subnav_slug from Personal to Friends.

Does anyone have a clue?

I’m copied the whole bp_activity_setup_nav (from bp-activity.php) into a custom function inside the theme’s functions.php

function my_bp_activity_setup_nav {

global $bp;

bp_core_remove_nav_item(‘activity’);

bp_core_new_nav_item( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Activity’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘slug’ => $bp->activity->slug, ‘position’ => 10, ‘screen_function’ => ‘bp_activity_screen_friends’, ‘default_subnav_slug’ => ‘friends’, ‘item_css_id’ => $bp->activity->id ) );

// rest of original bp_activity_setup_nav but with subnav positions changed
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘my_bp_activity_setup_nav’);

This did not work. I’m at a total lost because the changed subnav item positions in my_bp_activity_setup_nav() is reflected. Just not the default_subnav_slug / screen_function for Activity.

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

[@liping Member 13 years, 10 months ago]

I have no wish to change the slug or labels.
What I want is to change the default subnav slug for Activity.

Currently http://yoursite/members/myaccount/activity/ defaults to Personal.

I want to change this to default to Friends instead.

[@liping Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

Bump, anyone?

[@liping Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

I loathe to bump this, but I really really don’t want to hack core files to do this. Anyone?

[@hamedhemmati Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

I would like to do something similar as well. I want the default landing page to be different for when the user is visiting the page from when another user is visiting the page. So far haven’t found anything that would point to how you can change the default landing page.

[@liping Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

I finally figured it out (took way too long).
Here are the code snippets to be placed in bp-custom.php (NOT functions.php, my fatal hair-tearing mistake).

`
/** wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php **/
function my_change_activity_default_subnav() {
global $bp;
if (bp_is_my_profile()) {
bp_core_new_nav_default(array( ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->activity->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘bp_activity_screen_friends’, ‘subnav_slug’ => $bp->friends->slug));
}
}
add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘my_change_activity_default_subnav’ );

function my_change_activity_subnav_sequence() {
global $bp;
if (bp_is_my_profile()) {
// flip just-me and friends positions
$bp->bp_options_nav = ’20’;
$bp->bp_options_nav = ’10’;
}
}
add_action( ‘bp_activity_setup_nav’, ‘my_change_activity_subnav_sequence’ );
`

[@rogercoathup Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@liping – was about to post that this may need to go into bp-custom.php rather than functions.php

This order of invocation issue should really be addressed. Changes like tab orders, removing tabs, etc. should be theme specific – i.e. you may want to run a site where you switch themes – with the presence or not of tabs being determined by the theme.

Unfortunately, needing these things to be in bp-custom.php means they affect all themes, not just the one you want it for.

Anyway, thanks for the heads up on bp_core_new_nav_default() function… I’d removed the general tab from settings… and was searching for a way to remove the default link to it that still remained.

[@rogercoathup Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

… unfortunately, we’ve not been able to get this to work with the settings menu… will post separately

[@ankurm Member 13 years ago]

@liping
It worked perfect!
Thanks

[@abysshorror Member 13 years ago]

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/activity-feed-default-set-to-friends/#post-118121

Hope it helps !