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RESOLVED : Found the answer here : http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/44863/whats-the-easiest-way-to-change-the-default-landing-page-for-buddypress-groups

OK – I’ve found the answer.

please ignore my first suggestion above.

the solution is to either:

a) wordpress, admin, settings, privacy (site visibility) – allow search engines to index this site – must be set

OR

b) include the following filter in my plugin (or themes functions.php file):

`
add_filter(‘bp_is_blog_public’,’scl_bp_is_blog_public’,10,1);
function scl_bp_is_blog_public($is_blog_public) {
return true;
}
`

i chose the second method for my purposes.

note: BP seems to make very confusing/ambiguous use of the wordpress ‘blog_public’ option – in the file functions referred to in my first post above, it makes an explicit test of this option, and if not set to public then disables posts or comments from appearing as items in the activity stream.

i note that issues around this factor were raised as a ticket a year or so back and this mechanism was provided as some sort of solution (to exactly what problem i am uncertain – though luckily a filter was provided).

personally, i cant see the point of it – surely a BP option to specifically allow/disallow wordpress post and comment activities would have been far better – after all, what has WP search engine visibility got to do with BP activity streams – i have no idea! (perhaps someone could enlighten me).

meanwhile, I am considering raising a new/reopening a ticket on this (since the situation appears unchanged in the new BP 1.6 code).

be interested in others views.

hope this helps someone.

ps. having scanned though the buddypress source code i’ve just found a clue to what the problem maybe:

file: bp-blogs-function.php

function: bp_blogs_record_comment

– takes a parameter ‘is_approved’ – if it is false, then blog comments are NOT added to BP activity stream.

this suggests that WP comments are ONLY recorded in BP activity stream IFF comments are wide open and ‘automatically approved’/’do not require approval’. If on the other hand, comments are set as ‘requiring admin/moderator approval’ (as they most usually will be), then they will NOT EVER be posted to BP activity stream

this seems to be confirmed by the appearance of a NEW function on the forthcoming BP 1.6. The new function is:

bp_blogs_transition_activity_status

– and its purpose seems to be to enable WP comments status to appear on BP activity stream WHEN/IFF admin/moderator approves them.

please could someone confirm this is the case?

is there any workaround for BP V 1.5.4?

many thanks

Hmm, I installed clean wordpress, clean buddypress and clean database – the problem remains .. http://s2.ipicture.ru/uploads/20120324/UNK7xT0a.jpg

@aces

The problem is if i remove the page-link-to plugin.

All the pages will end with a .html. I wonder if this is due to my SEO plugin which default all pages and post with a .html URL.

Instead of http://learningdigitalphotography.net/registration/ It becomes :
http://learningdigitalphotography.net/registration.html

What can i do to change it?

Thanks

Hmm, ok sorry for being a jerk, you’re right. It wasn’t your fault and I realize you were just trying to help. My bad. Anyway, changed the file back and all is good.

Sorry. I guess I’ll try to find some other solution for the buddypress problem.

sorry wrong topic

mercime and aces thank you guys for your replies
@mercime
1 – No its not just the posts, I want the blog owners to interact and be friends with each other.

3 – I did try this method, used Networks for wordpress and WP multi network by @johnjamesjacoby.
that would obviously solve the problem but there were few limitations because of which I had to give-up.
my story was- I was planning for a site under which other users could create their own subsites (blogs).
I am also using several domains for it, so that if a particular blog name is booked by someone then others could get same name blog on other domains ie networks.
the Limitation was – If a particular blog already exsisted on one network, then new users were unable to create blogs(of same name) by themselves on other networks.
i had chat with the plugin authors and other experts but unfortunately this was not possible.

2 – The second method that you described i found hope in it. So I went ahead and tried it.
the issue was- I could not have users create their own blogs on those mapped domains, when someone tries to register it redirects them to the main site instead of letting them create subsites from mapped domains.
yes I am saying subsites from subsites using Network plugins, but in the end its the same problem as above.
btw thanks for in detail explanation mercime

@aces – hey buddy what I understood was this feature would add a link on blogs same as buddypress to display contents of BP.

Have you guys seen any website WP or non-wp which offers blogs on sub domains/directories using multiple domain names ?