I can’t find a ticket, but I’m pretty sure it’s come up before somewhere — probably buried in the depths of trac…
Roger’s solution would be to modify Post and Page activity items to link to the ?p=… link format; those do a canonical redirect to the “real” URL, so such a change wouldn’t affect search engines.
However, we’ve finished work on BP 1.6. We’re going to put out a release candidate very very soon, so this issue would have to be considered for a future version of BuddyPress.
@dvd3141 If you can make an enhancement ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ so this isn’t forgotten about please. 
Yes, the activity stream items are created at the time a post is created, so the bug is explicable. Surprised it’s not been encountered before ( @djpaul – have you noticed this previously? ).
I suspect the best solution is to store the links in the activity stream in a ‘permalink neutral’ way, and then apply a filter that ‘adds’ the current permalink structure to them when they are displayed / accessed.
alright, thanks @PaulGibbs
Editors can edit pages because this is a standard capability check built in to WP.
Again, BuddyPress doesn’t use Roles. At all.
Hi Roger,
“including site wide forums” – does that mean that posts under bbPress are automatically added to the activity stream, even when bbPress was installed BEFORE BuddyPress? If I look at http://www.mysite.com/activity which is the page I’ve set up with BuddyPress pages, it’s only showing BuddyPress-side activities.
And no, I don’t think it’s a problem with the buddydev’s widget plugin, as it seems to be able to publish BuddyPress activities just fine.
Hey Paul,
I will do that, however I have found a couple of threads discussing the same issue so I guess I’ll add mine to those.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-manual-activity-stream-integration/
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-set-up-bbpress-and-buddypress/
I’ve tried the suggestions there to no avail.
@edinchez We’ve fixed this for BP 1.6 which should be out in a couple of weeks.
If you cannot wait, open up register.php in your theme and adjust this line:
`if ( bp_has_profile( ‘profile_group_id=1’ ) ) :`
to look like:
`if ( bp_has_profile( ‘user_id=-1&profile_group_id=1’ ) ) :`
Please please be sure to revert this change after you upgrade to 1.6; it’s the sort of seemingly-harmless change that could cause some subtly weird behaviour at some point in the future which would take ages to track down
Not possible. BuddyPress doesnt’ use WordPress user roles or capabilities, so I don’t think we can do this granularly at the moment.
Ok, thanks @PaulGibbs.
(1) why can member’s with the role of “Editor” edit pages (a link appears for them on the bottom of the page) while members with the role of Subscriber, for example, cannot?
(2) why does the upper “static” menu bar across the page give different options based on role?
(3) are there different BuddyPress role settings that I should know about or be aware of?
The underlying purpose here is to determine what role to give our various members. Thanks for helping and guiding.
The bbPress plugin does create entries in the activity stream by default… including for site wide forums.
Sitewide activity widget is not part of BuddyPress — it’s a 3rd party plugin from buddydev
Do you see your bbPress activities in the normal BuddyPress activity stream? If not, there is something wrong in the way you have your site configured.
If you problem is just in the sitewide activity stream widget, then try asking on their forums at Buddydev.
Remember to include version numbers for your WP / BP and bbPress
Can anyone help me out with this ????
Hi,
The error log I posted encompasses the errors that have been generated while I was micking around with reinstalling buddypress and bbpress.
I have both bbPress and Buddypress installed currently, and I also have the Activity Streams component enabled.
However, a ticket from way back three years ago explains what I think the problem is. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/241
If I go to my profile, and post an update on my profile, this gets saved in bp_activity. But anything new topic creation or reply on my bbPress forum, it DOES NOT get saved in that table. So it looks to me that stuff created in the BuddyPress side gets saved in bp_activity, but stuff from the bbPress side do not.
Is there any way so that user activities from bbPress gets saved to this BuddyPress table?
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I have tried deactivating all plugins apart from bbPress and BuddyPress. Also, switched to the theme that came with BuddyPress. SiteWide Activity Stream is still limited to just BuddyPress activities.
Note that I have User Groups and Discussion Forums (within Groups) DISABLED, which is how I do want it, as we want the community as simple and straighforward as possible while still enjoying the awesome features like messaging from BuddyPress
I also imagine that if I were to create Groups in BuddyPress, and then post messages in Forums of that Group, it will get posted to the Activity Stream. But I really do not want Groups.
I understand that this may very well be how the plugin was designed to work, but this is a plea for a little help now
Have you enabled the activity stream component in your BuddyPress settings?
The basic step for debugging any problem like this is — disable all your plugins except BuddyPress; switch to the default theme. Does it work now? If not, there is something wrong with your install.
If it does… switch to your theme, test; then add your plugins one by one testing at each stage.
From that, you can determine what’s breaking it — install, theme, or specific plugin
[edit: from your error log, you clearly also have problems with bbPress not being installed]
@djpaul – Just the standard, out-of-the-box BuddyPress registration process for now. Couple of additional fields, all added as standard (via BP profile settings).
We are looking into using Gravity Forms for user registration in the future, mainly so that we can hook Twitter (& other social url’s) into extended & custom profile field, and also to make the registration process self-contained (not requiring email activation), but right now, we’re just using out-of-the-box functionality/forms.
FYI – We’re also using the Mingle theme by Parallelus but having raised this issue over on their support forums, I was informed that it’s highly unlikely to be a theme-related issue, which is fair enough really.
No, where your navigation is ( most probably in header.php ), place the last code snippet i posted.
Don’t install the plugin i posted, it was simply to give you an idea of the bp member links
sorry , i didnt get it , if the plugin is activated and i paste this second code somewhere in the theme it will show that menu?
The plugin i posted was a guide line, place this somewhere within your theme: http://pastebin.com/JLjMynR0
If the user is logged in, it will show up. It is a link to the users @Mentions
unfortunately none of them worked 
BuddyPress doesn’t use WP roles for anything, other than “is this user an admin” checks we have everywhere.
So you’re using bp-default theme. If you went through the Installation Wizard after activating BuddyPress, the Register and Activate pages (along with other BP pages) would have been auto-created, and the uri would have been yoursite.com/register if WP/BP are installed in main domain.
If you associate the Register and Activate with pages you’ve previously created e.g. “Join Us” and “Activate Now”, then your url’s would be yoursite.com/join-us/ and yousite.com/activate-now respectively.
When you say the new pages are invisible, do you mean you get a blank white page in browser?
WP themes which are updated to latest WP versions like Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven plus BuddyPress’ own bp-default theme have custom menu functions you’ll find in Appearance > Menus.
Just create a link named “Community” and add whatever links you want under it.
e.g. for bp-default theme or its child theme https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/how-to-set-up-your-main-site-navigation-using-the-built-in-wordpress-menus/
@mercime, I am using the standard default template and have gone into the general settings of wordpress and checked the box for anyone to be a subscriber. Still nothing.
@hornet1968 if you’re using a WP theme, you also need to install/activate the BP Template Pack plugin and go through Appearance > BP compatibility process. We have a list of “template-packed” WP theme near the bottom of this page https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
