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Does this occur on the default theme? After you’ve disabled all plugins? Or have you customised your activity loop in some way? (looks like the activity stream item permalink/single page template)

@thealchemist @zkwc @djpaul

Hurray!

The code snippet works just fine in functions.php. That’s good news for a theme designer: no worries about a theme overriding a user’s custom configurations in bp-custom.php.
Now I’m off to add “Group Landing Page” as an option in my new theme. It’ll be incorporated with the theme’s “Alternate Header” option too.

Then I’ve got to adapt the code to work with member profiles. My initial attempts have failed, but I’ve been known to be persistent at times

For future reference, here’s the code snippet to add to functions.php or, if you have created it, bp-custom.php.
You can see it in action here: http://rspacesandbox.org/ Click any group.

`function redirect_groups_to_forum() {
global $bp;
$path = clean_url( $_SERVER );
$path = apply_filters( ‘bp_uri’, $path );
if ( bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $bp->bp_options_nav ) === false )
bp_core_redirect( $path . $bp->bp_options_nav . ‘/’ );
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘redirect_groups_to_forum’ );`

Create a new WP page with the verbiage you want to add.

You might want to create your new page with a custom page template:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

Then set this new page as your frontpage:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Reading_SubPanel

cool, let me know how it goes. im doing something similar, instead of the basic activity page, i want a custom page to show, and i give the user the option to navigate to their activity

cannot found bp-custom.php and there is a “favorite” when clicked it change to “remove favorite”, link show
http://xxx.com/activity/favorite/3/?_wpnonce=d6f0625717 but it did not save, when page refreshed it change back to “favorite” state.
any help, thanks in advance

Are you talking about the Home, About, Blog, Community, Extend, and Support tabs on buddypress.org? Those are WP Pages. In BP 1.3, there will be better support for having a setup like this that is totally customizable, but even now bp-default does something almost exactly like this.

The way that individual user navigation (profile, activity, groups, etc) is laid out on this site is just like it is in bp-default.

Or am I missing something?

Hi,
The reason it is happening perhaps hide_sitewide is not set to 1 for private activity. Most probably a conflict with some plugin as you already mention above. Can you check the database activity table to confirm that ?

Have you put the code
`
define(“BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT”, “profile”);
`
In wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php, It will make the profile accessible if put in bp-custom.php. yes,it simply change the default profile component(landing page on profile) from activity to xprofile.

I’m not sure which way is better, seems lots of people have done great jobs.
Here’s a tip I took as guiding to start my bp customizing journey : http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/

After registered the widgets and created the new page template, style the widget area. Create Pages you need to use for bp compoents (activity, groups, members, …) ,choose the new page template.
Use Custom Field Template plug in or other means to write contents and bp loops in the widget areas. Custom Field Template says its php code is experimental, but my blog doesn’t have problem with it.

Another way I want to try but not tried yet– copy bp componets pages and add widget in it. Not sure if this can be done or not.

Custom permalink structure shouldn’t matter, but have you tried resaving the permalink settings?
Also try disabling any plugins that might interfere with this. Including redirect and caching plugins.

As a last resort, you can always create a page template copying exactly what is in /buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/index.php and setting that as the front page…

I tried this method with Buddypress links, I want to make them my front page.

I got the links to show up on a custom page but the formatting is all screwed up and the share button seems to be broken. I think it is not loading the css file for the links or the added javascripts. How would I go about updating it so that it works properly?

This is what my custom template page looked like. I had to copy over the bp-links-default directory over to my-buddypress theme.

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Here is the actual page http://www.playbookit.com/frontpage

Anyone know how to fix this? I’ve been at it for a few days.

The code for the activity loop may be placed in the index.php page. Make sure you add the loop with the commenting enabled.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

It’s basically a page template using a forum topics loop.

Get acquainted with the forum topics loop!
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-forum-topics-loop/

Not sure if the “forum_id” can be comma-delimited. If so, you could specify specific groups to pull forum topics from.

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You could also possibly use the activity stream loop to gather topics of groups you’ve joined as well:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

You just need to create a new page with a custom page template and assign this new page as the front page:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page#Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

Once you’ve done this, “Activity” should automatically be added to the nav menu (I think!).

well, my idea was this:

reading through the forums and the codex I found a couple of settigns that seemingly can be used from wp-config.php BUT I don’t want to clutter it too much.
Alternatively I can use bp-custom.php or make a small plugin and pop it into mu-plugins.

here is my collection of lines, please let me know where I can find more (built-into BP as I know plugins also offer several of these). What is recommended for what? I try to use wp-config.php only for WP related stuff, mu-plugins only for stuff that really needs to be running on every page and functions.php for stuff specific for my theme (and in this case the main page)

`/*add user with ID as group admin, alternatively change to mod*/
define( ‘BP_RESTRICTGROUP_AUTOADD_ADMIN_USER_ID’, 1);
/* disable the admin bar*/
/*define( ‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, false);*/

/*customize all slugs*/
/*define( ‘BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG’, ‘activate’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG’, ‘activity’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_BLOGS_SLUG’, ‘journals’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_FORUMS_SLUG’, ‘discussions’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_FRIENDS_SLUG’, ‘peeps’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_GROUPS_SLUG’, ‘gatherings’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’, ‘chefs’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_MESSAGES_SLUG’, ‘messages’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘register’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_SEARCH_SLUG’, ‘search’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_SETTINGS_SLUG’, ‘settings’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_XPROFILE_SLUG’, ‘info’ );*/

/*customize more stuff*/
/*Put profiles in the root � http://example.org/username/*/
/*define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES’, true );*/

(btw. since I have decided upon the final theme to use, I guess I will be going via the functions.php route)

/*Change the default tab opened when looking at a user’srofile (default is activity):*/
/*define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘profile’ );*/
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Also if you want yo ucan give some more information about order of invocation?

I’m no longer on their pay plan, so they arent digging in deep for me.

I guess thats why I was hoping to get it resolved on here.

Er well while we’re willing to help there’s a limit to free support, but it’s not so much that that’s the issue it’s simply that we have exhausted what we can probably do without getting down and dirty with the actual site and files. You have an issue that shouldn’t be happening IF you have taken everything back to a clean install and default theme that is. It’s perplexing and I certainly don’t know what to suggest other to still think there’s some customisation or plugin at work causing issues – might not be a bp plugin!

As for asking whether there are files you can replace that is not a question that ought to be asked we have said and I think you have acknowledged that you must be testing with a clean install, core files should never have been modified if your child theme files were then that would be caught by using the default theme to test with – that theme as well as the core files should never be modified. If these conditions are met there is something very screwy going on and you will need to pay a developer to look the site over.

Considering that bp-custom.php doesn’t exist unless the developer creates it then if it is found that is likely to be the culpret.

As Roger says though this problem has to be the result of some customisation or plugin somewhere BP 1.2.5.2 onwards doesn’t show this issue in a vanilla install.

it’s almost certainly a problem with your setup, and nothing to do with the core BuddyPress code.

As I suggested, check your bp-custom.php file first of all – it goes in the /plugins folder – did your developer put any functions in there that modify the behaviour of your site?

p.s. are you sure you are using vanilla BuddyPress – you (or developer) haven’t modified any of the core files?

Take a look at this page for details on writing your own custom activity loop – paying particular attention to the scope and filter options: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/