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Perhaps this could help: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/new-user-invalid-key-the-solution/

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I am assuming that you have bbpress installed on your wordpress. There are some bbpress widgets available for this purpose. Appearance>Widgets – look for those starting with (bbpress)

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Thank you @netweb!

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Thanks @danbp for your reply.

I am fine with your explanation about the private and public nature of activities. My original question was about new forum activities created afterchanging a group’s status to public not showing up in group (&sitewide) activity anymore.

The real issue is this: Buddypress automatically creates forums during group creation if the check box is marked in. Private forums for private groups; public forums for public groups.

However, Buddypress does not change the visibility of the forums themselves when a group’s visibility is later changed. So while you think that your group has become Public now, it is still running a private forum inside itself.

Hence the queer case of the missing forum activity. So yeah, the workaround would be to manually change the forum’s visibility whenever one changes the group’s 😉

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Hmmm.

Would it make you happier if either of the following were true?

1. Buddypress did not have a “sidebar” at all, or
2. Buddypress’ sidebar merged with one of your sidebars, i.e. your stuff [specialized information and menus, etc.] and Buddypress’ stuff [Members, Groups etc] showed in the same sidebar

If yes, then take heart because this is easily achievable. If not, then you are talking
about finding a theme that uses three sidebars (whoa!).

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Buddypress does not “create” its own sidebars. It uses the theme’s.

Maybe it will be a good idea for you to try it out with a couple of free themes. The default wordpress theme (twenty fourteen) comes with two sidebars, you can probably play around with that a bit.

It should work the same way with a paid theme as far as Buddypress goes.

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You could take a look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/
It allows you to make all pages/posts private by default. You can (optionally) exclude upto 10 pages/categories to show to the logged out visitors.

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Yes, adding stuff to the activity stream is easy with plugins like Activity Plus, Buddypress docs.

Also, Buddypress allows for automatic embeds in the activity stream from a lot of sites, including youtube. You just have to drop in the URL in the “Whats new” box. You can refer to the link here for more information: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/embeds/

Embedding media to other pages would require custom coding, as @shanebp has pointed out. Where exactly do you intend to show your embeds?

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Or you could try a plugin like: https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/

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If you are talking about the activity page, then this feature is already present in Buddypress. Please check if you have “Activity auto-refresh” turned on.

Dashbaord>Settings>Buddypress>Settings>Activity auto-refresh

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I read another solution here

1. Install and activate this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-exec-php/

2. Create a new page called “Friends” or whatever name you want and add it to your menu.

3. In content of this page, add this code

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;URL=http://blabla.com/members/<?php global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();

echo sanitize_file_name($current_user->user_login). “”;

?>/activity/friends/”>

4. You may still need a way to hide this menu from logged out users. Plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/if-menu/

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I ran into the same problem. Same solution fixed it, too.

Thank you.