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I followed 2 steps to successfully display usernames in the BP members directory & other pages instead of default Display names:

1st step was to install the BP Usernames only plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-usernames-only/
This replaced display names across the site by usernames however, when I used the search box on the members directory to search a member, it returned results with members display names again and not usernames. To resolve this, I additionally followed step 2 explained here: http://customwebdesignseo.com/activity/p/3002/

You could also wrap modemlooper’s code with a few conditionals:

`<?php
// see if the activity component is active and if we’re currently on an activity permalink page
if ( bp_is_active( ‘activity’ ) && bp_is_single_activity() ) :
// add our mini activity loop
if ( bp_has_activities( ‘include=’ . bp_current_action() ) ) :
while ( bp_activities() ) : bp_the_activity();
?>

<meta property="og:description" content="”/>

<?php
endwhile;
endif;
endif;
?>`

This can also be turned into a tiny plugin, so if you don’t like adding huge chunks of code into your header.php, you could hook into the ‘bp_head’ action:
http://pastebin.com/CPAk4D16 (paste the following into wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php)

@websitevala The code provided here is custom to the theme used. Please start a new topic of your own where you should provide more information about your installation.

Have a read through the compatibility steps again as they are quite detailed.

Essentially you have things back to front, it’s not the BP markup you are looking for (#container doesn’t actually appear in index pages it’s written to header.php) but you custom themes markup which must be reflected in the BP templates, so at a quick glance comparing page.php to activity/index.php you need to add your themes single_wrap element after #content and move the sidebar call to the position just before #content is closed, in other words your custom themes files are the correct markup structure and you need to replicate that in the BP template pages.

Hi , sorry I am not able to help you with your thumbnail problem but at least I will bump this thread for you and will ask you how did you get custom post type into activity page ? I have also created custom post type section (with the help of gravity forms form which generate a custom post type post which I see in standalone page) but I can’t get to see it in activity page too, can you post here the code to appear the content of custom post type in the activity page?

Thank modemlooper – I totally agree about unsupported plugins and warned the client, but he is crazy about having this group home page and all the extra info sections. Everything was working well until the last buddypress update. The problem seems to be that both the group frontpage and Activity are directing to mysite.com/group.
I am thinking that creating a custom activity page may more what we want. building on the trick above – if I create a custom page template, such as group-activity.php – not sure where to put this. We are using a child theme.
Then – remove the default Activity sub-nav item and add a new custom sub-nav link
Any reason that won’t work?

A component will create a directory much like members or activity. url.com/recipes

On a users page it will have a tab recipes that list a users added content. The activity stream in my opinion should not be edited. It’s a listing of all site activity not individual content. That should be added via a component.

The BuddyPress skeleton component is an example plugin to learn the complexity of creating what you desire