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Just to clarify what’s happening here:

The search results page I’d like to see is the standard WP one – i.e. showing matching blog posts. This is what happens when the home page is set to show latest posts (in Appearance > Customise > Site front page), which is fine. However my site’s home page is set it to show the default Buddypress Activity page, and now the search results (i.e. a URL of the form http://www.site.com/?s=query) shows matching activity updates. This applies whether I’m using a custom theme or the default Buddypress theme. Is there any way this can be configured so that this page shows matching blog posts instead?

True, but I was thinking of using the FitText.js plugin to prevent usernames from going to a second line when they become longer at this index page.
While working with min-heights on each element I try to control each member ‘widget’ having the same overall height.

I would like to use BuddyPress as an upgrade (redesign) of an exciting bbPress site that has been broken from upgrading from bbPress 1.0 -> 2.0.
This site offers news articles, video + audio Post Formats and support trough bbPress but has grown into some very active ‘online-public-bar’ where people like to post a lot of Off Topic stuff mainly on the forum-side of the of the website while the homepage (news) is often overlooked.

Using the Groups section for all Off Topic forum discussions and use the bbPress forums module only for real On Topic support would make this website more social and getting more people involved though the Activity-stream.
Plus I could make a custom audio-postformat (Podcasts) query on the BP Groups page to list all latest Podcasts.

Redesign of the Groups section. Replacing the Avatar for an icon that will be the same through the entire site and people will recognize it as Off Topic stuff.
Maybe the font-size, spacing and coloring is still a bit off but I’ll look at this at the end, right now it using the Global styles.

Oh and I was able to get one of my pages out of “lockdown” temporarily.

http://www.cbpmag.com/activity/

Thank you for the response. I created a file named bp-custom.php in the plugin folder and added the code specified above into it. Unfortunately,it didn’t work!
However,it works when I add the same code into wp-config.php file.
Only issue that I find with this method is that it always redirects the logged in users to profile page bypassing the activity update. I would like to be redirected to activity updates after loging in. All I need is to show up the profile page when the profile avatar or the user name is clicked ,in the Members page. Can it be done anyway?

Hello,

In fact I’d like to have two distinct behaviours for people who visit http://fablab-lannion.org home page :
– simple visitors should show the carrousel
– logged-in users should show a personal, customized view, that would notably contain a filtered activity flow that concern them.

Is that more clear ?

OK. So i found a partial solution.

I tried adding the below pasted snippet to my bp-custom.php file inside my plugin folder and it worked for the activity page. I dont want to sound like a complete noob but can someone tell me how do i replicate this for the members and group page?

I tried variations of the code to support _groups_component and _members_component but that didnt work.

/* Prevent logged out users from accessing bp activity page */
function nonreg_visitor_redirect() {
global $bp;
if ( bp_is_activity_component() ) {
if(!is_user_logged_in()) { //just a visitor and not logged in
wp_redirect( get_option(‘siteurl’) . ‘/wp-login.php’ );
}
}
}
add_filter(‘get_header’,’nonreg_visitor_redirect’,1);

1. Which version of WordPress are you running? – 3.6 (but the problem was there before upgrading from 3.5.2)

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install? – N/A

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? – N/A

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version? – 3.5.2

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. – N/A

6. Which version of BP are you running? – 1.8.1

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? – 1.8

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones? – Many but I have tried disabling them all except Buddypress and the problem is still there.

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? – Customised theme but problem is persistent even with Twenty Twelve theme.

10. Have you modified the core files in any way? – No

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?

<?php
// hacks and mods will go here

function activity_publish_custom_post_types($cpts) {
   $cpts[] = 'page';
   $cpts[] = 'attachment';
   return $cpts;
}

add_filter ( 'bp_blogs_record_post_post_types', 'activity_publish_custom_post_types' );
add_filter ( 'bp_blogs_record_comment_post_types', 'activity_publish_custom_post_types' );

add_filter( ‘bp_get_total_member_count’, ‘bp_core_get_total_member_count’ );

?>

12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? – 2.3.2

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

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[31-Jul-2013 23:00:48 UTC] WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE meta_key = 'entry_id' AND meta_value = '211'' at line 1 for query SELECT site_id FROM  WHERE meta_key = 'entry_id' AND meta_value = '211' made by require('wp-blog-header.php'), wp, WP->main, WP->parse_request, do_action_ref_array, call_user_func_array, GFPMoreStripe::parse_request, GFPMoreStripe::cancel_subscription, do_action('gform_subscription_canceled'), call_user_func_array, GFPMoreStripe::downgrade_stripe_user, GFUserData::get_site_by_entry_id
[01-Aug-2013 04:22:39 UTC] wpMandrill Error: Error : 
[01-Aug-2013 04:22:39 UTC] 2013-08-01 04:22:39 wpMandrill::sendEmail: Exception Caught => Invalid API Key

[01-Aug-2013 04:22:39 UTC] blah@blah.com ([blah blah] Password Reset)

[01-Aug-2013 16:08:26 UTC] WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE meta_key = 'entry_id' AND meta_value = '217'' at line 1 for query SELECT site_id FROM  WHERE meta_key = 'entry_id' AND meta_value = '217' made by require('wp-blog-header.php'), wp, WP->main, WP->parse_request, do_action_ref_array, call_user_func_array, GFPMoreStripe::parse_request, GFPMoreStripe::cancel_subscription, do_action('gform_subscription_canceled'), call_user_func_array, GFPMoreStripe::downgrade_stripe_user, GFUserData::get_site_by_entry_id
[02-Aug-2013 13:43:45 UTC] wpMandrill Error: Error : 
[02-Aug-2013 13:43:45 UTC] 2013-08-02 13:43:45 wpMandrill::sendEmail: Exception Caught => Invalid API Key

[02-Aug-2013 13:43:45 UTC] 
wpMandrill::wp_mail_native: blah@blah.net ([blah blah] First Order)

[02-Aug-2013 17:07:36 UTC] wpMandrill Error: Error : 
[02-Aug-2013 17:07:36 UTC] 2013-08-02 17:07:36 wpMandrill::sendEmail: Exception Caught => Invalid API Key

[02-Aug-2013 17:07:36 UTC] 
wpMandrill::wp_mail_native: blah@blah.net ([blah blah] First Order)

[02-Aug-2013 21:57:15 UTC] wpMandrill Error: Error : 
[02-Aug-2013 21:57:15 UTC] 2013-08-02 21:57:15 wpMandrill::sendEmail: Exception Caught => Invalid API Key

[02-Aug-2013 21:57:15 UTC] 
wpMandrill::wp_mail_native: blah@blah.com (Welcome to blahblah!)

[06-Aug-2013 03:54:52 UTC] WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WHERE meta_key = 'entry_id' AND meta_value = '265'' at line 1 for query SELECT site_id FROM  WHERE meta_key = 'entry_id' AND meta_value = '265' made by require('wp-blog-header.php'), wp, WP->main, WP->parse_request, do_action_ref_array, call_user_func_array, GFPMoreStripe::parse_request, GFPMoreStripe::cancel_subscription, do_action('gform_subscription_canceled'), call_user_func_array, GFPMoreStripe::downgrade_stripe_user, GFUserData::get_site_by_entry_id
[06-Aug-2013 13:23:34 UTC] WordPress database error Unknown column '$autopurge_interval' in 'where clause' for query DELETE ts FROM wp_slim_stats ts WHERE ts.dt < UNIX_TIMESTAMP(DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL $autopurge_interval DAY)) made by do_action_ref_array, call_user_func_array, wp_slimstat::wp_slimstat_purge

14. Which company provides your hosting? – OVH.com

15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? – Apache

Thank you @mercime for your reply. I have disabled all plugins and used a fresh Twenty Twelve them and the problem is still there. Thanks in advance.

Problem solved. There was a conflict with other js libraries so I removed them and used only the ones that come with the default BuddyPress theme.

Now I have a separate issue where the Activity feed is not filtering when I select a filter. It works well in the Groups or Members page but not in the main “activity” page (or in my case “Newsfeed”). I’m going through each page in my custom theme and comparing it to the default theme to make sure I didn’t forget to include something. Hopefully I’ll figure it out soon!

@hnla, since you have been patient with me so far, Hugo, can you help me with my initial question of the Activity streams? I found the following and made notes in my forum help area on my site:

I want to disable replies on the Activity Streams because they do not carry through to the original post in the Group Forums.

My notes on how to do this:

Post on why this is confusing: http://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/your-members-might-be-confused-activity-stream-comment-vs-group-forum-reply/

Discussion about this on GitHub: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/73

Solution by boonebgorges (one of the BuddyPress authors):
Putting this line in your functions.php or bp-custom.php file will disable all activity stream commenting:

add_filter( ‘bp_activity_can_comment’, ‘__return_false’ );

Note on bp-custom.php file:
Creating your file

bp-custom.php does not exist by default. If you don’t have a file located at /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php, go ahead and create a blank file with the following:

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< ?php
// hacks and mods will go here
?>
Next, save the file as “bp-custom.php” and verify that this file is located at /wp-content/plugins/.

Now, when you encounter a forum thread telling you to put a code snippet in bp-custom.php, you’ll know what to do!
See: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/bp-custom-php/

Action:
How is this done? Do I go to my control panel and create a file there?