@r-a-y Got it working! The instructions you gave are correct. I didn’t realize that both “Front page” AND “Posts page” under Settings > Reading had to be altered. I originally only altered the Front page.
Working solution:
Front page set to “Activity Stream”
Posts page set to “Blog”
Thanks @r-a-y!
“Works fine for me in Chrome. Might be browser caching.”
Cleared the cache and it’s good in Google Chrome now. Interesting that it did that. My bad.
@r-a-y So close… I followed the instructions:
1) Login to the WP backend, navigate to “Pages > Add New”. Create an empty, new page called “News” or “Blog” or whatever you want. This page will contain the blog updates.
2) Under “Settings > Reading”, set front page to “Activity Stream” and your posts page to the new page that you just created.
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Using: Default BP Theme
Front page shows “Activity Sream” but the new “Blog” page I created shows a normal page similar in format to the About page, not the blog’s latest posts.
Page attributes:
Parent > Main Page (no parent)
Template > Default Template
Order > 0
whats the correct way to post code in the forums now? can’t seem to get anything to work.
sorry, cant post div tags for some reason…
@Mike_Pratt I have been here as long as you have so you know that I am a fan of BuddyPress, however I cannot honestly say that my sites have not suffered due to some of the missing features that were standard on NIng. I had a ton of members that used the events system a lot and that was really one of the main hubs of activity on my sites. Let’s not be total fanboys here, this is a serious hole in the BuddyPress feature set. I think that in lieu of all the people looking to leave Ning that BuddyPress has to be on par with the basic community features offered on other platforms to snag those people who like I did abandoned that closed platform.
Profiles
Blog/Blogs
Groups
Forums
Events
These are ALL base features on any of the social networking software out there. I am willing to pay for plugins, Hell i bit the bullet and joined WPMU Dev for a few months last year and paid for (at that point) some of the few really good BuddyPress themes they had. I am not a deadbeat by any means, I will pay for a good working solution.
…I’m sorry for ranting. We need, Events bottom line.
if you look at the source code for one of your normal WP pages, you will see the page content area starts with
now if you look at the source of one of your BuddyPress pages, you will see:
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You need to replace the div tags on your BuddyPress pages with those your WP template files are using.
Also, I’d be pretty sure the template pack also enables the JS & ajax required for BP functionality but if I were you, I’d get the layout issues sorted first.
I have deactivated the template pack because the only thing I think it does it just makes sure the admin bar on top comes up fine. I have instead installed a plugin to remove it completely.
But I kind of need help in adding the divs as I have no clue about this. I am supposed to be editing the default theme files which is bundled with Buddypress. It will be great if you can let me know where in the files I need to add the divs.
Thanks very much in advance 
Thanks for your feedback @mercime. I checked the default’s theme header, lines 73-77, and it points to “Blogs” not “Blog” singular. Clicking on the Blogs menu link shows me the blogs in the network — not the latest posts.
I’m open to doing it the way buddypress.org does, but I can’t seem to get both /blog (“latest posts” page) and a custom homepage to work hand-in-hand. I have a feeling it’s something simple I don’t have configured properly. When I previously installed wpmu with sub-directories I was getting the following URL http://example.com/blog/2010/04/26/hello-world/ … going to /blog would redirect to the site’s front page.
Disclaimer: I’m new to wpmu and buddypress, though I do have experience with single wordpress installs.
@Dwenaus,
I couldn’t quite get it to work, Are you saying in the latest version it will work automatically? If so i’ll just wait until then.
Thanks for the great plugin.
Thanks,
Jordan
I’m seeing the same as r-a-y
I’m getting the ol’ duplicate activity stream items bug when you hit on the “Load More” button in the activity stream.
It’s something to do with cookies. If I clear them, the problem resolves itself.
@absticles – If you’re using a child theme, to override the CSS, either create a file called /_inc/css/adminbar.css in your child theme, or just override CSS rules with the !important rule in your style.css.
If you’re using subdomains for your external apps, Boone’s write-up will probably not work due to javascript cross-domain security issues.
@armandmorin I don’t think it is a plugin, just some functions which show members activity like “total number of posts/replies/comments”, etc, etc.
Have a look at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-do-you-show-a-members-total-post-count/
BTW, your post does not show your username, just your avatar/pic. I can see the username of who started this topic but not yours…new layout quirks ?
yikes…. cross-posting might become an unintended consequence of the new site design. On the old Forum setup, there was no reason to cross-post, since the Forum Index made it easy to catch up with all new forum posts at a glance.
FYI, I’m running the following plugins and they seem to be stopping/slowing spammers:
Bad Behavior
WPMU-Block-Spam-By-Math
Also I use this in my .htaccess http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/
Seems to be showing for me. Went ahead and made a pastebin though: http://buddypress.pastebin.com/NZKUck7F
This still didn’t work for me @Phlux0r. But thanks for the code. I’ve added it to my file anyways.
@mike2ike – Until they sort out why code is getting eaten, maybe post the code to http://buddypress.pastebin.com/ ?
