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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).

Please don’t post BP files, it’s really unnecessary. We’re all BP user ! 👿
Sorry, i didn’t correctly understand your request. I thought you wanted to change the order of the selectbox filters. If you also interested, see this old tread.

SWA shows by default all site activities and they can be filtered. It is well documented on the Codex.

If for some reason you don’t want to modify a theme file, you can use a custom function and put it into bp-custom.php

Example ( BP 2.0+ only)

function make_swa_show_notice_only( $retval ) {	
	
	 if ( bp_is_page( 'activity' ) ) {
		$retval['action'] = 'activity_update';					
	 }
	
	return $retval;
	
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_activities_parse_args', 'make_swa_show_notice_only' );

Now the swa shows only notices (if exist). If you need to see a member activity, you have to go on his profile. Same for groups, the activity is only on the group page.

a couple of things:

• here’s the codex page for customizing the permalink for members or any other component like it:
  https://buddypress.org/2009/05/customizable-slugs-in-buddypress/
• while it may not be buddypress’s fault if there was a conflict with a plugin (cubepoints), I would suggest considering moving from cubepoints to myCRED which has a newer code base, support and extensive documentation (mycred.me)

maybe someone else can chime in on the activity update ‘bug’ that you mentioned

HI,

I am attempting this as well.

I went into custom.css in my buddyboss theme (it is reflective mobile ready theme)

I thought I was adding this in the right place by putting it in global area, but it did not work…

have never been near css before so clueless…

here is what the page looks like with my addition… it did not hide the active (how long ago) item…

can someone please advise?? I saw to add it to the bottom, but that seems not right given how this is set up… did I do something wrong with brackets, or spaces or something?

I tried it with, and without, the dot in front of the word span…

/*————————————————————–
This is your custom stylesheet.

Add your own styles here to make theme updates easier.
To override any styles from other stylesheets, simply copy them into here and edit away.

Make sure to respect the media queries! Otherwise you may
accidentally add desktop styles to the mobile layout.

You’re the boss, so have fun editing!

————————————————————–
>>> TABLE OF CONTENTS:
—————————————————————-
1.0 – Global Styles
2.0 – Responsive media queries (mobile styles)
2.1 – MAXIMUM width of 720 pixels (phones landscape)
2.2 – MAXIMUM width of 380 pixels (phones portrait)
2.3 – MINIMUM width of 721 pixels (tablets+)
2.4 – MINIMUM width of 1040 pixels (desktops and laptops)
————————————————————–*/
/*————————————————————–
1.0 – Global Styles
————————————————————–*/

/*
.span.activity {
display: none;
}
*/

/*————————————————————–
2.0 – Responsive media queries (mobile styles)
————————————————————–*/
/*————————————————————–
2.1 – MAXIMUM width of 720 pixels (phones landscape)
————————————————————–*/

@media screen and (max-width: 720px) {

/*
.just_an_example {
color: black;
}
*/

}/* don’t delete this closing bracket */

/*————————————————————–
2.2 – MAXIMUM width of 380 pixels (phones portrait)
————————————————————–*/

@media screen and (max-width: 380px) {

/*
.just_an_example {
color: black;
}
*/

}/* don’t delete this closing bracket */

/*————————————————————–
2.3 – MINIMUM width of 721 pixels (tablets+)
————————————————————–*/

@media screen and (min-width: 721px) {

/*
.just_an_example {
color: black;
}
*/

}/* don’t delete this closing bracket */

/*————————————————————–
2.4 – MINIMUM width of 1040 pixels (desktops and laptops)
————————————————————–*/

@media screen and (min-width: 1040px) {

/*
.just_an_example {
color: black;
}
*/

}/* don’t delete this closing bracket */

You can put this function in your theme functions.php or bp-custom.php

It will prevent the creation of activity entries for the items in $exclude
It will only do that going forward – it won’t remove existing entries.

You need to find out what the activity type(s) is for achievements and add it to the exclude array.

function dont_save_various_activities( $activity_object ) {
 
    $exclude = array( 'friendship_created', 'new_member' );

    if( in_array( $activity_object->type, $exclude ) )
        $activity_object->type = false;
 
}
add_action('bp_activity_before_save', 'dont_save_various_activities', 1, 1 );

You can read more on this great codex page by imath
https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/bp_activity_add-2/

@cuisire_ceo It depends but found the following most useful after googling so much to only come up with garbage past dated scraped/syndicated content.

The most important question is what the Purpose for Your BuddyPress Use/Community. The only way I have wrapped my head around it is to work backwards but with that said…

Heres What I consider some of the Best Round Ups and Buddy Pep to Follow:

Tammie Lister @mercime http://wordpress.tv/?s=tammie have some great talks and also have just googled for any slides from the various presentations. If not able to see video.

Also check out her book that only seems most current: https://buddypress.org/2013/11/buddypress-theme-development-by-tammie-lister/

Boone Gorges @boonebgorges http://wordpress.tv/speakers/boone-gorges/ and most notable this presentation: http://wordpress.tv/2013/12/10/boone-gorges-herding-cats-with-the-buddypress-activity-component/
or anything Boone from Youtube via WordPressNYC great example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPpU3ySo5q0 in understanding of GROUPS.

Of course John James Jacoby jjj @johnjamesjacoby (sorry jjj: he rambles often:) but found this useful in just using a simple profile I believe this is the session maybe others can reference it “WordPress Profiles” http://wordpress.tv/2013/10/04/john-james-jacoby-everything-you-want-to-know-about-bbpress-and-buddypress/

So you probably thinking Wow but you have not answered anything on installing 🙂 Believe me it helps so much to think big picture of your whole community than start working backwards as single page/components to map similarities to constructed it.

This is one of the most useful tutorial of theme I had purchased which the developer went MIA but it was an AHA moment for me. Because Buddypress are Custom Post Types thats Relational Data/Fields
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc3Er4S4EeQ & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7b9TFw6ZAQ
. I know what you thinking this is not my intent or not relevant. Start watching #2 at 2:16 to think in context of Simalirty.

Finally, The only other best other video tutorial that just a setup instruction. I have found online was BuddyBoss (don’t even own the Theme) http://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PL5kBYJSuuvEj3KqG_lnAa9MxpZumjtTdY

and Mathis on VIMEO. The biggest problem is finding the resources in a central location so I have to track down.

I hope that helps as resources. It really would depend on how you see your community of your people and how its relational in context

@slips111

The Load More button is dependent on the markup (HTML) of the page. If you’ve customised the group activity page HTML then that might be why it doesn’t work any more.

@biswadip

Using some custom sql is probably the simplest approach for gathering old entries.

But if it’s in the activity stream, those entries should be pushed off the first page very soon so perhaps you can justify not bothering ? 🙂

Hi @rayela, since your original question never got answered I thought I’d give you an answer:

As you discovered, you can disable all activity feeds for your entire site by unchecking the “activities” component on the BuddyPress settings Components tab, but as you mentioned this results in a blank home page which isn’t good.

Unfortunately, you cannot fix this without writing code because there are no easy options to do this with BuddyPress (I feel your pain, I quit programming for a reason).

You will need to create a functions.php or bp-custom.php as mentioned above to add custom code to. This function will redirect it so that the forum tab is the “home page” for your group and remove the “home” tab so that it’s no longer visible:

function redirect_group_home() {
  global $bp;
  $path = clean_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
  $path = apply_filters( 'bp_uri', $path );
  if (bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['slug'] ) === false ) {
    if ($bp->groups->current_group->is_user_member || $bp->groups->current_group->status == 'public') {
      bp_core_redirect( $path . 'forum/' );
    }
  }
  
  $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home'] = false;
}

add_action('bp_init', 'redirect_group_home');

I’m not sure if you’re still active here but I felt after your amiable responses you deserved a real answer.

Better customisation options of the activity stream: ie to be able to define a set of “or” filters for content type, and who. So (with plugin support) I can define a feed to include things from “me or friends or followers” showing “topics and topic replies and posts and new users” (and ideally be able to have a permalink to this with no other fluff on display). The current activity feed selectors are a mess and don’t provide what most people want to see.

Should be nummer 1.

And I don’t even want lots of new features to the activity stream but first just an easy way to customize the default lay-out would be so much pleasant!

All BP pages are very easy to customize, move code around to give the page an unique feeling but when it comes to the activity stream the code is very fixed.

There are about 50-75 Premium BuddyPress themes online for sale and 99% of them have the same activity stream page-layout. While all those premium theme developers can do lots of customization to all other pages the activity stream is like Twitter’s Bootstrap to BuddyPress it always tells you it’s a BuddyPress website without looking at the code.

Yes this is very easy to do.

Adding the featured image of a wordpress post into a buddypress activity stream can be done by doing one of the following. I’d like to add that I had trouble finding out how to do this at first and it took a lot of searching. The first copypasta I have for you was actually found on these very forums. However, due to so many people asking this question (and not getting answers) it is buried and very difficult to find. So without further ado please enjoy…

You can either edit the activity page activity/entry.php or just copy paste the following function into your functions.php file.

function icondeposit_bp_activity_entry_meta() {
 
    if ( bp_get_activity_object_name() == 'blogs' && bp_get_activity_type() == 'new_blog_post' ) {?>
        <?php
        global $wpdb, $post, $bp;
        $theimg = wp_get_attachment_image_src(  get_post_thumbnail_id( bp_get_activity_secondary_item_id() ) );
        ?>
        <img src="<?php echo $theimg[0]; ?>" >
 
    <?php }
 
}
add_action('bp_activity_excerpt_append_text', 'icondeposit_bp_activity_entry_meta');

If you want further customization, I recommend editing activity/entry.php