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bp_parse_args could be a solution.

Read the first comment block in bp-xprofile-template.php

@livingflame,

if you’re only looking for “free” solutions, i’m afraid that you won’t get many, unless you find and built them yourself.

BuddyDev, very expensive. That’s your opinion. Did you even know that you use a function contributed by it’s author ?

How many time have you already spent on this forum, and nothing to say about all other searches you probably have done elsewhere ?
Do you imagine the price you have to pay if this support forum wouldn’t be “free” ? And the time (which is money) to charge to yourself for those efforts ? Certainly more than 20$ !

Not everything can be native, because not everybody need functionnalities you want and because BP is only a plugin and not a collection of whatever existing enhancement who might be added, or who YOU think it should be in.

This is your 7th topic here.
And a good dozen of times i read your claim about lack of feature or functionnalities.
You critizise a lot but aren’t very constructive. That attitude is really unfair in regard of all the people volonteers working around BuddyPress.

Ok I’ve written something up, hope you like it

http://buddyuser.com/hardening-buddypress-against-spammers

It’s a temporary information and i wouldn’t try to alter or remove it.

It use WP heartbeat API and what you’re looking for is defined in this (filterable)function:

bp_activity_heartbeat_last_recorded

Yep, like @hnla said. BuddyPress’ DB requirements are the same as WordPress’.

And what is the problem ? It seems to do what it is intended for.
But it is a premium plugin. If you need assistance you have to ask on the plugin support.

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Not sure it’s a fix to apply directly in a core file. You’ve probably need to review some of your templates or custom functions.

http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/2.6.2/functions/bp_blogs_get_subdomain_base/

http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/2.6.2/functions/bp_signup_get_subdomain_base/

@venutius Thanks for the write up, hopefully in time the idea may gain traction, as for a handler for loading those snippets I did have one in use locally but code was rough and ready, so may consider re-doing and making available on github, originally the idea was to add a loader for the snippets to the core buddypress-functions.php file where the main stylesheets are loaded from.

For now all I can suggest I’m afraid is to play around with the min-height properties where they occur as it really is something that can never be a true one size fits all to create boxes unless we start adding JavaScript into the equation to test for the tallest box and set others to that.

@jek-fdrv,

we’ve discussing about this “tab” issue on this ticket:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7304

I invite you to jump in if you have any comments. You might also find a solution for your use case.

Hi @mei-ling,

it’s not an issue but how it works ! 😉

You can filter the activity stream and remove the activities you don’t want to be showed.

Add this snippet to bp-custom.php or your child-theme functions.php

function bpex_bp_activity_types( $retval ) {
   if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {

// list of all BP activity types  - remove or comment those you won't show.
	$retval['action'] = '
		activity_comment,
		activity_update,
		// bbp_topic_create,
		// bbp_reply_create,
		friendship_created,
		created_group,
		joined_group,
		last_activity,
		new_avatar,
		new_blog_post, 	
		new_blog_comment,
		new_member,
		updated_profile
	';	

	return $retval;
	
	}
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_activities_parse_args', 'bpex_bp_activity_types' );

You might also remove bbpress activities from the activity filter. You can use this (goes to same file as previous)

function bpex_remove_bbp_activities_dropdown_labels() {
   if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {

         // Remove forum filters in site wide activity streams
        remove_action( 'bp_activity_filter_options',        array( bbpress()->extend->buddypress->activity , 'activity_filter_options'   ), 10 );
     
         // Remove forum filters in single member activity streams
         remove_action( 'bp_member_activity_filter_options', array( bbpress()->extend->buddypress->activity , 'activity_filter_options'   ), 10 );
 
         // Remove forum filters in single group activity streams
         remove_action( 'bp_group_activity_filter_options',  array( bbpress()->extend->buddypress->activity , 'activity_filter_options'   ), 10 );
   }      
}
add_action( 'bp_init', 'bpex_remove_bbp_activities_dropdown_labels', 9 );

Codex references:

Using bp_parse_args() to filter BuddyPress template loops

bp-custom.php

Thanks to the member who got in touch recently offering to help. Unfortunately we had to give up on Buddypress and went ahead with WP Symposium. Not impressed with their support and we won’t use them again. If we have to use Listify and social networking again I will be back to Buddypress!

By the way if anyone is thinking of using WP Symposium I would say don’t bother. The software itself is ok but looks basic and there are no demo sites (only their own which is on a basic free theme with no other major plugins and probably on a dedicated server). We’ve had to move to a dedicated server as it was so slow and we had big problems getting it to work with other aspects of our site. The support forum is closed so you cant actually see other people’s responses which would save time. Instead you just have to deal with one stroppy support guy who blames your other plugins rather than helping to resolve issues. We had to spend a fortune getting glitches in the coding repaired. Never again!