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Try this in bp-custom.php

function wirelab_check_activity_login() { 
  if( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
    wp_die("To view this page you must first log in.");
  }
}
add_action('bp_before_directory_activity', 'wirelab_check_activity_login');

I can not see any activity on you homepage?

Did you use the customize option to change to a static page?

Hi Julia_B

To alter the templates for activity you need to do the following:

Create a page called buddypress in your root folder.
Inside the buddypress folder you create another folder called activity and in there another folder called single.

Now you need to access your existing plugins folder.
Open buddypress -> bp-templates -> bp-legacy -> buddypress

Here you will find 5 folders, one is activity, inside this are some php files and a folder called single, inside this single folder is the index.php file that runs the activity.

I copied all 5 folders to my new buddypress folder in my root and all the files in those folders, with them able to control/change the buddypress layout as I would with a child theme.

To have an activity wall on homepage you only need to customize the appearance of wordpress in the admin area/backend.

Go to “appearances” then “customize”, here you can change “front page” to activity and it should work.

Good luck

hi @millir,

give this a try:
tested on wp 4.0 bp 2.0.2 theme 2013 – snippet is in bp-custom.php

/*activity stream on homepage */
if (!function_exists('wwn_bp_activities')) {
    function wwn_bp_activities( ) {
		ob_start();
		
		// Remove 'bp_replace_the_content' filter to prevent infinite loops
		remove_filter( 'the_content', 'bp_replace_the_content' );
		if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . 'per_page=5' ) ) :
		bp_get_template_part( 'activity/index' );
		
		// Remove 'bp_replace_the_content' filter to prevent infinite loops
		add_filter( 'the_content', 'bp_replace_the_content' );
		
		// Get the output buffer contents
		$output = ob_get_clean();
		
		// Echo or return the output buffer contents
		if ( true === $echo ) {
			echo $output;
		} else {
			return $output;
		}
		endif;	
		
		ob_end_clean();
	
}
add_shortcode('wwn_bp_activities', 'wwn_bp_activities');
}

hi @canadadre,

you have to read the mentionnedd topic AND to follow the links if the topic contains some. 😉

i hope for you that you know how to copy/paste, because the above snippets must be added to your child-theme functions.php, or better into bp-custom.php

1. – Deny access to admins profile

// deny access to admins profile. User is redirected to the homepage
function bpfr_hide_admins_profile() {
	global $bp; 
	if(bp_is_profile && $bp->displayed_user->id == 1 && $bp->loggedin_user->id != 1) :
		wp_redirect( home_url() );
	exit;
	endif;
}
add_action( 'wp', 'bpfr_hide_admins_profile', 1 );

2. – Remove admin from the member directory and recount members

// Remove admin from the member directory
function bpdev_exclude_users($qs=false,$object=false){
    
    $excluded_user='1'; // Id's to remove, separated by comma
	
    if($object != 'members' && $object != 'friends')// hide admin to members & friends 
    return $qs;
	
    $args=wp_parse_args($qs);

    if(!empty($args['user_id']))
    return $qs;	
	
    if(!empty($args['exclude']))
		$args['exclude'] = $args['exclude'].','.$excluded_user;
    else
		$args['exclude'] = $excluded_user;
	
    $qs = build_query($args);

    return $qs;
	
}
add_action('bp_ajax_querystring','bpdev_exclude_users',20,2);

// once admin is removed, we must recount the members !
function bpfr_hide_get_total_filter($count){
    return $count-1;
}
add_filter('bp_get_total_member_count','bpfr_hide_get_total_filter');

3. – Hide admin’s activities from all activity feeds

// hide admin's activities from all activity feeds
function bpfr_hide_admin_activity( $a, $activities ) {	
	
	// ... but allow admin to see his activities!
	if ( is_site_admin() )	
		return $activities;	
	
	foreach ( $activities->activities as $key => $activity ) {	
		// ID's to exclude, separated by commas. ID 1 is always the superadmin
		if ( $activity->user_id == 1  ) {			
			
			unset( $activities->activities[$key] );			
			
			$activities->activity_count = $activities->activity_count-1;			
			$activities->total_activity_count = $activities->total_activity_count-1;			
					$activities->pag_num = $activities->pag_num -1;				
		}		
	}		
	// Renumber the array keys to account for missing items 	
	$activities_new = array_values( $activities->activities );		
	$activities->activities = $activities_new;	
	
	return $activities;
	
}
add_action( 'bp_has_activities', 'bpfr_hide_admin_activity', 10, 2 );

May this help !

Hello @multimartin,

2 nd question:
in the private blog settings, general > reading > search engine visibility, check disallow box. This will hide any of the private blog activities to appear on site activity and user feeds, except for those who are members of this blog.

If it is not enough, considerer this plugin

1 st question:
read here

Hello @saurabhsjain91,

first let’s see what is normally going on with group settings:
This is a public group
Any site member can join this group.
This group will be listed in the groups directory and in search results.
Group content and activity will be visible to any site member.

This is a private group

Only users who request membership and are accepted can join the group.
This group will be listed in the groups directory and in search results.
Group content and activity will only be visible to members of the group.

As you see, the only difference is the group content and activity visibility.

The easiest way would be to create only private groups, so the members had to request membership to access them. But it is not what you want to do and unfortunately, modifying group privacy for better flexibility is not very doable.

So, we have to focus on what it is possible to do with public groups accessibility, the one with the fewest restrictions.

Lukily, core developper @imath stumbled also upon this problem a few mounth back. And finally produced a plugin.

The features are:

1. allow users to submit a request to join the group.
2. selectively hiding group tabs.
3. add a custom group homepage when non-members are viewing the group.

More about this experimental plugin on @pollyplummer ‘s WPTavern.
The original post (fr) on @imath ‘s blog
The plugin can be downladed on github.

May this help ! 😉

Test this one. It works for me on a static homepage with custom template.

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) :			
	bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' );			
endif; ?>

Hi @totoff,

What’s new is a form (see activity/post-form.php)
To get it on a custom page, you can call it like it’s done in activity/index.php

if ( is_user_logged_in() ) :
		 bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' ); 
 endif;

That said, this form is not exactly a post editor, but more a brief notice or message publication to members, and depends of the context (activities or groups for ex.)

To let users publish blog poss from the front-end, you have to search for a specific plugin probably.

Yes, adding stuff to the activity stream is easy with plugins like Activity Plus, Buddypress docs.

Also, Buddypress allows for automatic embeds in the activity stream from a lot of sites, including youtube. You just have to drop in the URL in the “Whats new” box. You can refer to the link here for more information: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/embeds/

Embedding media to other pages would require custom coding, as @shanebp has pointed out. Where exactly do you intend to show your embeds?

There are plugins like Activity Plus that allow embedding things like a uTube link in the activity page on a member’s profile.

There are several pages in a member’s profile, including a profile page that has data describing that member. There ways to allow for what you want, but it would require some custom coding, iow. not an option out of the box, afaik.

Has the “enable comments” flag an impact on this feature?

Yes. And also “allow search engines”.

Users watch the activity stream to see what happened since the last time they connected.
This means that if they connect each 4 days, they check further. And this became false :
They won’t be looking 3 pages further for a comment that has just been posted a minute ago.

SWA is an instant information feed. The’re so many different uses of BP that i wouldn’t give one more than another, but i’m pretty sure that nobody is searching for something that is not/or could be – visible instantly.
If i don’t see an activity called comment, i don’t search for it. And if i would search, i use the SWA show filter.

Now back to the problem.
Try this snippet which will force chronological comment display on the SWA.
install it in bp-custom.php or theme’s functions.php

And give feedback !

function bpfr_stream( $qs, $object ) {
	if ( 'activity' != $object ) {
		return $qs;
	}
	
	$qs = wp_parse_args( $qs, array() );
	
	$qs['display_comments'] = 'stream';
	
	return $qs;
}
add_filter( 'bp_ajax_querystring', 'bpfr_stream', 20, 2 );

In the menu settings you can link to the activity page, not to a specific activity (so far i know).

I posted 3 snippets on Github to test and choose what you need/prefer to use.

Copy/paste the code into bp-custom.php

@jejemo

try by adding this at the begin of your function
$user_id = bp_get_activity_user_id();

If you’re working on the Toolbar, the correct way to add a menu is like on this example:

/* add links/menus to the admin bar*/
/* more details here: http://wpengineer.com/2113/add-menus-to-the-admin-bar-of-wordpress/ */

function mytheme_admin_bar_render() {
global $wp_admin_bar;

	$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
		'parent' => 'new-content', // use 'false' for a root menu, or pass the ID of the parent menu
		'id' => 'new_media', // link ID, defaults to a sanitized title value
		'title' => __('Media'), // link title
		'href' => admin_url( 'media-new.php') // name of file
		'meta' => false // array of any of the following options: array( 'html' => '', 'class' => '', 'onclick' => '', target => '', title => '' );
		)
	);
}
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'mytheme_admin_bar_render' ); 

A similar method is used to add a tab. Here on a user profile.

function bpfr_my_setup_nav() {
    global $bp;
	
	$mytab=array(
	'name'            => 'My Tab',
	'link'      	  => 'http://example.com/wp-content/themes/twentythirteen/my_extra_page.php',
	'slug'         	  => 'my-tab',
	'css_id'          => 'my_custom_tab',
	'position'        => 100,
	'user_has_access' => 1,
    'screen_function' => 'xprofile_screen_my_tab'
	);
	$bp->bp_options_nav['profile']['my-tab']=$mytab; 	
}
add_action('bp_setup_nav', 'bpfr_my_setup_nav');

Instead of the template change suggested above, it works better to add the following

/* set default BP to profile page instead of activity page */
define( 'BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT', 'profile' );

in your wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file (create that file if it does not exist – see https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/bp-custom-php/ for more about that file).

It may be that you need to set:

/* set default BP to profile page instead of activity page */
define( 'BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT', 'profile' );

in your wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file (create that file if it does not exist – see https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/bp-custom-php/ for more about that file).