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Cool site, really like to see a magazine format being used like this with BuddyPress. I like how the stories are the feature and it’s a really effective entry point home page.

Checking that pastebin link to see what you’ve done does show the while loop in place and it
looks like it ought to be ok so there may be issues elsewhere.

Just for safety copy the page.php file and rename it buddypress.php, revert your page.php to as it was. BP will use buddypress.php if it finds it. In buddypress.php replace the get_template_part call for content-page with the actual content in that file so your buddypress.php contains all the code it needs in one place and repost it to pastebin – this is chiefly so people can see all the code.

I’m not aware you can use it twice but perhaps you don’t have to. What about having types of groups?

You can do a custom field to indicate type using maybe: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-groups-extras/

Then you can check for type and load a different template, style differently, change language and name.

I’m not sure about forums but you could do something similar using forums and topics.

A few questions if that’s ok to try and work out what is going on.

1. Did your theme work for BuddyPress before you updated BuddyPress? If so it could be your theme is causing the issues.
2. What template is being used for the site rendering – is it single.php or page.php or another page?

Admin’s can edit under the WordPress admin panel > Activity.

Aside from that there was this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-edit-activity-stream/ – not sure if that works on current versions though. May be worth trying out on a safe test site (not your live site) to see.

You’re probably looking for something like the profile.php found in plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single

Copy the buddypress folder found in bp-legacy to your theme’s folder and edit the files you want.

You can find it in on line 24 of the member-header.php template, under plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single.

Hope that helps.

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@naturalworldstm
Thank you for your help! 🙂

@rrhyox
I don’t use the buddypress activity plus plugin but I would assume it is js that conflicts with your theme. Maybe it loads jquery from google instead of the included js in WP in the header which you should be able to comment out or remove. But maybe you should contact the theme author to see if they will be willing to test and help you sort it out to be safe. I don’t use this theme or plugin so take what I am saying as speculative because I may be wrong.

You could see this component in Settings just under Components:

Components – Pages – Settings
All (9) – Active (9) – Innactive (0) – Must-use (2) – Retired (1)

Look this (1) in Retired and you’ll find what you want. 😉

It’s also written this:

Group Forums: BuddyPress Forums are retired. Use bbPress.

Sure @bphelp, here is the link https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-media/. They also have some pro add-ons like video, tagged. I deleted this plugin a few months ago but at this momment they are updating it frequently and have great support.

@naturalworldstm
Do you have a link to the particular plugin version as there has been confusion over which bp-media plugin is being used in previous forum topics which is not your fault. Its just the name conflict by the developers is confusing to others so please supply @ludachrisgsx with the link to the plugin you are suggesting. Thank you for your help! 🙂

@rrhyox
This is a third party plugin that has not been updated in a while so you may want to request support on the WPMU DEV forums as well. When WP 3.6 comes out It is supposed to support native audio and video support but I am not sure how or if that will be integrated within the buddypress activity post. If so it will be awesome! Hopefully someone else may shed some light on this. 🙂

bp-media last release do that

Not my business, but I was really confused with these bbPress <-> BuddyPress forums, too.
It’s not necessary to write that ‘Group Forums’ are some kind of a component of BP when they are actually not. It bears only unneeded confusion for users. ‘Group Forums’ are just an option to connect some group with a particular forum from all the forums in a site, but all forums are bbPress forums at the end. BP doesn’t have any forums in it!
I think you should better leave the settings for people to chose if they want their groups to have forums or not while they are creating these groups. That’s enough – no more explanations are needed then. To write articles about ‘Group-forums’are really confusing for all the newbies. ‘Group forums’ or whatever the name is, are another yet forum in bbPress parental for other forums.
This part with these shortcodes is another big mess too – people DON’T UNDERSTAND this – I’m 99,99% sure that I am not the only one who think this way.
Some details in BP are quite well explained (UNNECESSARY) while other ones (IMPORTANT ones) are totally ignored. There is almost none info for shortcodes for example – how they work, where to write them, how to make them work, lists of them, etc… 🙁

@megainfo

Nice plugin. Is it easy for you to include function in this plugin to do either of the following:

* Automatically block (or make Private) the listing of posts in Activity from specific blogs on the network.

* Automatically block (or make Private) the listing of posts in Activity from specific users of the network.

I have been trying to do this for a long time but no such plugin or feature is available yet.

Thankyou.