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16 months… we’ve been waiting that long? Wow.

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Roger posted some good links too. I’ve been really impressed with the potential of filters and the like.

Ok… there are few things you need to look at to achieve this:

You should create a new theme where you are going to implement your reworked profile / activity sub-nav menu. I suggest deriving this from the bp-default theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

In the default theme, the activity sub-nav menu is created by a call to bp_get_options_nav() in /members/single/activity.php. It’s this call that you’ll either want to replace with your custom version (or apply filters / action hooks to get your desired result).

You should also take a look at how the activity stream is built – it’s quite easy to create your own activity loop that will return all the items for a given user merged into a single page (rather than the separate tabs): https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

Hopefully that’s enough to get you started.

@askunky

There are any number of ways you can do this using CSS positioning (and developing your own bespoke website theme).

This isn’t really a BuddyPress question though, it’s a general website development / CSS question. I suggest a good book on CSS would be a starting point.

Incidentally: There’s no need for div wrappers just to position an image (you are adding unnecessary bloat), and I’d certainly avoid inline style definitions (which can be a maintenance nightmare).

@pcwriter – I’m not sure what you are trying to write with your CSS, but I suspect you’ve confused absolute and relative positioning. For the approach you are suggesting, you should make your main header div relatively positioned, and use absolute positioning on your image to position it absolutely in relation to the header div: http://css-tricks.com/absolute-positioning-inside-relative-positioning/

As to suitability of BuddyPress for a ‘simple site’ – it depends what you want that site to do – if you want user profiles, messaging, groups, activity streams, etc. – then BuddyPress gives you a great platform to build on.

If you just want a simple content management system with posts, then you’d be better building on vanilla WordPress.

If you don’t need content management, then your simplest site would just be HTML and CSS.

@askunky

The image should be contained within a div whose precise placement in the header can be controlled with position:relative;
Here’s an example styleset to get you started:

`.my-header-image {
position:relative;
left:-50px;
top:150px;
z-index:1;
}`

In the above example, the top-left corner of the div will sit 50px to the left of the left edge of your header, and 150px below the top edge of the header. No width or height is defined so you can place whatever size image you want in it. Here’s how:

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Hope this helps!

thats very cool jeff! i cant await to turn on all the new privacy settings

@owrede Make sure that you’re using BP 1.2.5.2

You can write your own customised BuddyPress website (theme) to achieve this:

Please check the codex reference I gave you – it has all the details on how to write your own custom (filtered as you want it) activity loop.

Also check under docs on this site for details on how to write your own bespoke website theme.

@ehegwer

You should add an action function to the xprofile_updated_profile() hook. It’s called when a profile is edited.

In your action function, you can use bp_activity_add() to create a new activity item each time a profile is edited.

You can find those functions in bp-xprofile.php and bp-activity.php, and it’s probably worth checking to see how they work.

If you are not familiar with writing hooks, there is some content in the docs section on here. [ https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/action-reference/ ]

If you search the forums for bp_activity_add you’ll find some examples of how to setup and call that function – it’s at the heart of what you are trying to do.

I did a few days ago:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/show-profile-changes-in-activity-feed/

@ehegwer – post your question as a separate thread, if you want users to find and answer it

@paulhastings0 I forgot to add we’re in a sub-folder install on bluehost. Site at http://www.coetail.asia

@paulhastings0 yes…all blogs are public and actually any and all widgets/plugins that are suppose to be site wide are not pulling any of the blog posts or other content. I’m running 1.2.5.2 which from I can tell is the latest version. I’ve checked the config.php file to see if there was something I had to switch on there and couldn’t find anything. All site wide widgets just pull from the main blog. Really would like to have the latest blog posts from the community on the front page.

@bowromir

@bowromir I was trying to ensure the thread didn’t necessarily run on seeming to be focused at your site, this was trying to be kind! As for Moderators hat actually no it can’t ever be left off that is one of the burdens incurred in the responsibility, and I definitely do not feel the need to act tough and I trust that was a joke as for showing power that is the mark of a BAD moderator I’ve been doing this sort of thing for far too long to be feeling as though I needed to demonstrate power, also too old to think that’s important.

I’ll close the thread though now which is about the only power I do have