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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:
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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).