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@tom_taylor_85 – your solution (using the admin panel setting) turns off all activity stream posting. The original poster only wants to remove the Sitewide Activity tab, and I assume wants to keep activity streams within profiles, etc. The best solution is just to remove this tab from the main nav bar, is to edit the header.php […]

@bojanski hide_sitewide is a boolean, and in this line is being used to test whether an activity item has been marked as hidden or not – (it’s not a count @tom_taylor_85) You should NOT be modifying the code there – that’s a core file, and you’ll run into problems when you upgrade if you’ve modified them. You’ve […]

@tom_taylor_85 –

Please post details of your fix, in case anyone else comes across a similar problem

@tom_taylor_85 there’s a conflict of CSS inheritance between your custom theme and the bp-default theme’s CSS. Your theme should be in wp-content/themes/ folder so that’s not the problem. As rogercoathup mentioned above, you should install firebug add-on to Mozilla to help you ID which need to be fixed.. It’s the CSS.