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Hi, I advise doing this in your own child theme: You’ll have to modify the /activity/index.php file. In there you can change your activity stream loop to just return status updates, and you can also remove the dropdown filter. This page gives some guidance on modifying the activity stream loop, including the filter you’ll need […]

@ashfame – it’s not quite that simple. Yes, have a standalone installation. Then, to give smooth integration, you also want to ensure you have single sign on (i.e. not having sign on separately for both the forums and BuddyPress network), and you want to see your activity on the forums being shown in your profile activity […]

@djpaul – your solution on here kind of works, but still introduces concepts that confuse the user. They are made to ‘join a group’, when all they wanted to do was post on a forum (to you and me it’s trivial, but not to the ordinary user)… other confusing things happen… e.g. on this site – […]

You can also look at simple:press – some work has been done integrating that with BuddyPress @lisa – I share your frustration with the BuddyPress approach to forums; every client we have worked with (6 in total now) has asked for standard forums to be integrated, and not the BuddyPress Group / Forum approach. The BuddyPress […]

@travel-junkie – that’s an interesting plugin – we had a project a few months back where it would have been useful. I’ve also just posted to say we need a job board on BuddyPress.org. I’ve got a couple of projects that could use a freelance BP developer, but nowhere to advertise the opportunities.

BuddyPress doesn’t integrate the full version of bbPress you are expecting. Instead, it just uses a very restricted version integrated into BuddyPress groups. Basic forum admin functions are available from within the group admin. If you want full featured forums with BuddyPress, you’ll have to integrate a standalone forum solution. bbPress and…[Read more]

And this page details how to change the default tab:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

Good luck… let me know if it works!

There are some code snippets in this previous post (I don’t know if they still work, or if there is an easier solution, for 1.2.5):

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bp-12-how-to-add-a-custom-tab-on-the-home-activity-section/

@francescolaffi – thanks 🙂

Concur with @modemlooper that the codex needs more tutorial oriented material organised by use case: designer, developer, etc. Also concur with @pollyplummer that template tag documentation (and other api, which I understand @jjj has planned for 1.3(4?)) is vital. @hnla – it would be good to have this structured by use case as well, as well as the…[Read more]

@hkcharlie:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

Note: if you put the remove action / add action etc in functions.php (rather than bp-custom.php) then you don’t need to wrap them in a function.

You will need to create pages (in your wp-admin backend), and perhaps design bespoke page templates (html / php) if you want to enhance the basic layout of these pages. You would then implement your navigation menu to link to these pages. This is WordPress rather than BuddyPress specific, so you will be best to […]

check out the plugin from @travel-junkie

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-xtra-signup/