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@wanderingsoles Just to be clear, you have enabled registration on your site and removed the copy correct? Have you have assigned the Register and Activate pages in Settings > BuddyPress > Pages? Have you tried changing your theme to 2014 or 2015 to check if it’s a theme issue or not?

BuddyPress 2.2 should fix this problem.

Release is imminent so stay tuned!

Just a couple further thoughts about this, since you guys are re-thinking it:

If you really want people to get into the right sub-forum, why show a long list of topics in the first place? If they’re browsing, they’ll click an interesting-looking topic, and then end up posting their own question in whatever category they find themselves in (or append their question to an existing topic).

On the other hand, if they arrive at /support with the intention to post a query without browsing first, it isn’t immediately obvious that a category must be chosen first in order to do that.

An alternative:
buddypress.org/support perhaps shows a couple/few sticky posts, but the main content is a modified version of @modemlooper’s ‘When Asking for Support’. I’m guessing few people actually open that link before posting. For clarity, it might even be sub-divided into its troubleshooting advice, and the installation-environment probes.

I’d follow (or even precede) that with concise instructions on initiating a query by first selecting the relevant category from the sidebar list.

If there is a desire to just have all posts sorted by most-recent, just link to such a page. The /support page as it stands now seems to be geared for browsing.

It sounds like a bug.
Please create a ticket on trac.
Use the same user / password you use here.

Careful not to confuse the bp_get_activity_user_id filter hook with the bp_get_activity_user_id() function.

See here for the function and here for the hook.

I do not want to ‘add’ new activity. I just want that when one visits example.com/activity, it displays… …all updates in private/ hidden groups where the concerned person is a member (this is NOT displayed currently.) How do I do that?

You have to ‘add’ the new activity.

Regarding the second bullet point, you’d need to modify your activity loop which will be inside your activity template. Try something like this:

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&display_comments=stream' ) ) : ?>
    <?php while ( bp_activities() ) : bp_the_activity(); ?>
 
        <?php locate_template( array( 'activity/entry.php' ), true, false ); ?>
 
    <?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

For more info on the BuddyPress template system and where you find your activity template, please see this article.

You should copy the entire buddypress folder from the bp-legacy folder to your root anyway, this will allow easy adjustment of those core templates, and you get easier access to those files to copy code for new page-templates you can add to your root folder.

Perhaps you might have to alter Brajesh Singh’s code to this, not sure.

<?php bp_get_template_part( 'buddypress/activity/index' ); ?>

Another way around would be plugins that allow activity as shortcode to be placed on any page, but more plugins is not necessarily a good idea.

Good luck

Peter Hamilton
Onlijn.com

I think you are playing with the old bp default theme files which are no longer being used(?)

see – https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/bp-default-theme-moving-forward-with-bp-1-9/

and perhaps -> https:// codex.buddypress .org/themes/

although I am pretty sure a bunch of the info on that buddypress .org / themes is talking about the old ways of doing things.. so check dates.. I think a bunch of that info is deprecated… however you may find what you are looking for in the codex..

maybe what you are looking for in relation to profiles is touched on here: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/guides/displaying-extended-profile-fields-on-member-profiles/

You could be right. I think bp_core_remove_nav_item() might do a little more than just visually removing an item from the member’s nav menu.

If it helps, this is the method that adds the item to the nav menu.

@screampuff

I experimented with the code but couldn’t get it to work

Looking into it now…

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As an aside, whilst looking through the plugin’s code, I noticed that endpoints (example.com/author/username/achievements) are used if you ever have BuddyPress disabled. Just something to keep in mind.