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To debug, try disabling any custom code snippets or plugins that interfere with the activity stream.

LiIttle something i learned as a newb.
Activate your forum next thing you’ll want to do is then go to your settings you’ll see forums on the bottom

You’ll see archive slug and Single Slugs rename in the forum base and then in the forum slug below aswell. Because forum actually conflicts with the sitewide forum. let’s say name your sitewide forum bulletin board or support. The group forum natively is the forum on the header menu. Which you can later rename..

Now you want to make a topic go to topic in the forums. Click you’ll see “all forums” and “new forum”
I would click new forums, here you name a topic of interest. let’s say general discussion name your topic and below give a basic Description(optional).

Now you want to save it you’ll then see a link look at the link copy it. but only copy

http://www.example.com/support

Next thing you’ll need to do which is the final step. Go to the appearance section. You’ll see menu which is you site navigation menu. You’ll have a few things you have to do here.

First make sure you make a custom menu or which now the main theme allows you to or you can make a custom menu name.

look at the section on the top left corner a drop-down you click whichever theme is named or you select as your menu save .
Now go down to custom links remember that link you copied earlier(http://www.example.com/support) paste it in there and name it click add to menu.

Now you have a list you can now rearrange move or even create a drop-down menu on. What i did have activity /members /group and with forums i renamed that “group forum directory” moved that slightly to the right which creates a Drop-down, then the site wide forum which i named support or whatever you want to call it. Now save. DONE!!

Go to your site homepage and everything should be there. Best of luck!!

hi! I’m having the same problem using the theme Custom Community, which plugin was making conflict for you? thx for the help!

Buddypress 1.5 new patch is a nightmare. I cannot see my activity, members or groups. I feel so low. I think we might need to revert to the previous version. I cannot access even my dashboard. They changed the colour of the header to lighter blue after many people might have customised the rest of the pages to match. What they should have done is put in another section for lighter blue so that you have the choice to change it. It is very stressful after putting in a lot of work and hours. They really need to investigate Buddypress thoroughly before releasing the patch

@modemlooper Did you all ready got this working because i need a custom group homepage

with out a activity stream just plane text or a image banner

Are you using a custom theme, child theme or bp-default theme?

@gregfielding – Hi! I’m running into similar problems. I defined a seperate loop (for announcements, more important than other updtaes) to be displayed on the top of the page. But when I add an update in the ‘normal’ loop, the same update is also added to the custom loop on top, even though it doesn’t match the filter set to that loop.

Did you manage to solve your problem? Is it a case of making sure all IDs and Classes are different, so AJAX call doesn’t reach the custom loop? Any help or pointers would be highly appreciated!

create a file bp-custom.php and add to /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php

add this code to file:

`<?php
define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘profile’ );
?>`

To change other settings read this page: https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

I know what the problem is, but not necessarily how to solve it.

These JS rich text editors work by hiding the HTML textarea, and hijacking the form submit process; when you submit the form, the CKeditor takes the content of its custom editor and puts it into the hidden textarea before the form is submitted for processing. The problem with the activity update form is that it’s submitted with ajax rather than with a regular HTML form submission (which requires a page load).

TinyMCE has a method called .triggerSave() that you can call manually on an event (such as (‘#whats-new-submit’).click()) that will do this content shuffling without a regular form submit. It’s possible that CKeditor has something similar.

@r-a-y – hey man thanks for being a great help here to the community. I’ve been reading most of your posts in the forums over the past several hours fighting with my permalinks in activity streams.

I saw your .htaccess redirect post for mismatch 301 and tried it but I think I need it customized for activity streams?

In my example, certain activity posts are just going to the front page of my site rather than the post itself, they’re all coded like: http://www.site.com/activity/p/0001 when you click ‘view’ it just goes to the home page

Pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to get them to refresh or something. My permalink structure is /%post_id%/%postname%

It’s making me crazy lol

delete activity
`
<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>

`

and groups link

`<li class=”selected”>
<a href="//” title=””>
`

Or, you might consider changing main navigation to a custom menu http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/01/goodbye-headaches-hello-menus

@r-a-y @kateM82 what you guys suggested for “favoriting” posts from across a network worked great… but it doenst hold good with bp 1.5 beta 2… i still have the same code in bp-custom.php in the plugins folder… and i still have the same code in single.php… when i mouseover the link it does show me a “post id”… so thats not the problem.. and it does say… domain.com/activity/favorite/POST_ID/xxx …. so what then is the problem!? Could it be that in 1.5 beta 2… u have to assign a “page” for activity… and thats why its not working right?

If you think it’s a theme, you could try emptying functions.php to remove any custom code in there?

you can simple put the followung code into your theme function.php without editing core file.

/*Change the number of activity items to show per page */

`function my_custom_query_filter( $query_string ) {
$query_string .= ‘&per_page=11’;
return $query_string;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring’, ‘my_custom_query_filter’ );`

worked for me

couple of old classic links there

@andrewbuzz the table aspect for layout has been mentioned, but I really need to just labour a point, tables for layout are absolutely not the way to markup pages, it’s taken a few years to get everyone on board with this but nowadays you wil no one creating layouts this way. I suspect that you have ‘designed’ your layout in PS? and then have used a tool such as DW? to construct a layout.

I would urge you to stop and reconsider before you go too much further, table layouts are highly inflexible, next to impossible to re-factor (one of the main points with CSS-P ) not search engine friendly and a whole heap of other reasons.

Are you preparing this layout for a client or is this an existing layout the client has come to you with?

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community?topic_page=6&num=15#post-86316

Derived from the above link, I use the following in a bp-custom.php file to exclude users that are not logged in from seeing the activity or members areas.

if( ! bp_is_blog_page() && ! is_user_logged_in() )
bp_core_redirect( $bp->root_domain .'/'. BP_REGISTER_SLUG );
}
add_action( 'get_header', 'sh_walled_garden' );

In bp-custom.php the above needs to be placed in a plain text file with “ at the end of the file….

== I think i have the activity in between the sidebars and looking OK. ==

Confirming that it’s looking good

== I just have the admin bar width issue to figure out ==

The adminbar in that permalink page is styled like so in bp-default adminbar.css
` body#bp-default.activity-permalink #wp-admin-bar .padder {
min-width: 960px;
max-width: 960px;
}`
I see you have a fixed width of 1000px for your site. So if you have custom.css listed after the @import of adminbar.css, just add this
` body#bp-default.activity-permalink #wp-admin-bar .padder {
min-width: 1000px;
max-width: 1000px;
}`
but if you use stylesheet listed before @import of adminbar.css, you’d have to add `!important` to your min-width and max-width

You should also correct the width of the site when in permalink view
` body.activity-permalink {
min-width: 960px;
max-width: 960px;
}`
change to 1000px

Create a file called bp-custom.php – it will go in your plugins directory.

Put this code in it:

function visitor_intercept(){
global $bp_unfiltered_uri;

if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
if ( ($bp_unfiltered_uri[0] == BP_MEMBERS_SLUG) || ($bp_unfiltered_uri[0] == BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG) ) {
bp_core_redirect( get_option('siteurl')."/some-page" );
}
}
}
add_action( 'wp', 'visitor_intercept', 3 );

Change “same-page” to where ever you want to send them or remove to send them to front page.
Note: this may not work if you are using BP 1.3

Terrible advice in this thread from people recommending edits to core bp files — any changes to them will be lost next time you upgrade Buddypress. Never edit core. Use the custom query filter instead.

Thank you all for posting this! I’ve been reading for hours and this has fixed my issues.

I’m running BP on a network install and want ALL subdomains to have use of BP. It was working on the main install but as I created subdomains, the BP pages (Activity, Members, etc,) was giving me 404 errors. I went down the htaccess rabbit hole for a while and gave up. Started at the beginning and reading thru all the forums that looked related and found this.

@WesCleveland – The bp-custom.php works like a charm so far. Thanks for posting your solution.