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Ah, thanks. I thought it might be something like that. Well, if you can secretly hack Andy’s templates, you could always set ( bp_has_forum_topics( bp_ajax_querystring( ‘forums’ ) . ‘&no_stickies=’ ) ) in forums-loop to get stickies sticky there, too…

[DJPaul just helped me figure that out!]

@stwc – because it’s a sticky. eg. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/

Would be nice if the site admin could set super stickies.

Question: why is this thread yellow in the Forum index?

@agrundner Thanks for that — one of the thousand little things I noticed and forgot and was going to go back to. And just did!

@thekmen our disagreement is exactly the reason it should be a plugin. So people have a choice.

Get to this screen in your WP admin panel:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Permalinks_SubPanel

Set it to “Day and Name”. Save. Check your BP pages and see if they work.

Don’t worry about the .htaccess file for now.

Set your permalinks to something other than the default.
Afterwards, make sure that a .htaccess file is written in your WP root directory.

@rogscorp

BuddyPress Sitewide Activity Widget for BuddyPress 1.2 and above

+1 for shameless bump !

@apleating thanks for pointing us to the location of the template file. Easy enough to fix for a child theme, though it probably would have been better if the activity permalink page template followed the theme’s default template.

Fix:

1. In your child theme create the following folders members/single/activity/
2. Copy over permalink.php from the default bp theme (/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/activity/permalink.php)
3. Modify the permalink.php code to show the following — replace the asterisk with the appropriate tag:

*?php get_header() ?*

*div id=”content”*
*div class=”padder”*

*div class=”activity no-ajax”*
*?php if ( bp_has_activities( ‘display_comments=threaded&include=’ . bp_current_action() ) ) : ?*

*ul id=”activity-stream” class=”activity-list item-list”*
*?php while ( bp_activities() ) : bp_the_activity(); ?*

*?php locate_template( array( ‘activity/entry.php’ ), true ) ?*

*?php endwhile; ?*
*/ul*

*?php endif; ?*
*/div*

*/div*
*/div*

*?php locate_template( array( ‘sidebar.php’ ), true ) ?*

*?php get_footer() ?*

#####################

In your child’s style.css file add:

body.activity-permalink {
min-width: YOUR-PIXEL-NUMBER !important;
max-width: YOUR-PIXEL-NUMBER !important;
}

If you’re using standard WP, just assign new users the WP role of “Contributor” or higher… that’s it!

It should work on WPMU, just activate the plugin on the blog where BuddyPress is active.

Has anyone figured out how to use cubepoints with WordPress MU + Buddypress?

@Modemlooper I’d have to disagree, I think we all need a media plugin in core that we can all work off & customise to suit our own needs.
Even replying to this comment was a nightmare, spotted it in activity stream but couldn’t reply till I found where you posted the comment, I know usability is still being worked out on the new site design, but the more core components the better to sort these issues out.

Ahh okay, that’s what I thought!

Also, also, thanks for the new standard most-recently-bumped view of forum threads, @apeatling.

Enhancements I’d suggest would be
1) a link to the last post in the thread (easy to do, I know)
2) pagination in the most-recently-bumped view to see older bumped threads (or maybe a dropdown to select number of threads shown, but that would break the standard navigation paradigm being used, so probably suboptimal). Things move fast, and even visiting several times a day, stuff I want to track gets bumped off the front page, and is then very hard indeed to find, because I (and I assume other people) find it hard to remember in many cases which Group a thread was posted to (and threads are often posted in the ‘wrong’ Group, which makes it even harder).

Also, as I moaned about before, I’m very much in agreement with the low-contrast color scheme being hard on the eyes.