[@mrsminkie Participant 8 years, 11 months ago]

@shwikiart

Try this: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/loops-reference/the-activity-stream-loop/#filtering-examples

Copy the activity-loop.php file into your child theme and then update line 18 with the settings that suit you using the guide in the link to help.

[@mrsminkie Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

It sounds as though I’d be making the site much more cumbersome than it needs to be, and it already has a lot of plugins for functionality.

I will test the multi-site with secondary BuddyPress blog one day, but for now, I’ve decided to just try and work within the theme as best I can.

I do think that multi-site, although perhaps overkill, is what I needed to be able to keep my userbase constant and able to log into either site (area), while allowing content to be shared across the network.

Thanks for your advice!

[@mrsminkie Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

Hi Henry,

I’ve read that post a few days ago.

My other reasons for wanting to use multi-site was for the shared userbase and to be able to easily share content across the network (both ways).

How else would I achieve this? The plugins that I’ve found are for multi-site…

[@mrsminkie Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

Also, this post tends to tell me that this is what I need: https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/getting-started/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/

Whereas WordPress says that multi-site is very separated and not for shared users. There is a lot of conflicting information out there.

[@mrsminkie Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

I understand what you’re saying about keeping things simple but unfortunately, the BuddyPress theme is very much orientated towards being a social network and isn’t suitable for standard pages, nor is it very easy to create custom templates for – I have already created quite a few to handle custom post types.

Additionally, the main menu of the BuddyPress theme is an extension of the admin bar, and it doesn’t support a dropdown menu. I could only add choices to the profile dropdown (with profile, photos, friends etc.) which is far from ideal.