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* 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.

* A way to select which filters and views are available in activity/, and persistently set the default activity feed view (from the admin panel)

* live activity updates

* A reply by PM hook into bbpress

* Better options for users to self delete

* Improved management/rethink of the tabs on profile pages (because this rapidly piles up as you add in plugins) : “Activity Profile Messages Friends Following Followers Location Groups Blog Forums Events Gallery Settings Links” Is not viable for a one line menu bar – this is maybe a display issue, but…!

* be able to pass a function to the members loop, thats called to determine the display order (e.g. so I can easily order by City or age or any xprofile field)

Maybe these are already there, but these are the things that are bugging me as a non-expert dev right now…

As an example, if you wanted to align-right the “active time ago” text you could put this in your theme’s style.css

.item-meta .activity {
    float: right;
}

As I said though, there are many ways to do it depending on your exact needs. text-align: right is an example. Make the parent element position: relative; and then use position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; is another. The best approach will all come down to what you’re trying to achieve visually overall.

@barboncaves
Have you tried disabling Show Avatars in WordPress Admin > Settings > Discussion? ( – the avatars section is lower down the page )

You might need to customise your child theme’s style sheet. Using bp-default the following might be useful:

.activity-list .activity-content {
    margin-left: 25px;
}

I haven’t checked anywhere else…

@uabassguy

BP has no post, it’s WP. 😉
BP has no rating system, so you need to create it first or use a rating plugin for the blog posts. And probably the votes won’t show up in the activities. I’m afraid that what you want will need some custom coding. 😉

Can’t help you more, but here are some usefull resource.

The codex Activity Loop page.

Some advice to modify the Activity

A detailed tutorial, by @imath

A configurable activity widget

@tse11
Patience please! Deactivate the plugin you was using for redirecting and try this in bp-custom.php https://codex.buddypress.org/plugin-development/bp-custom-php/ :

function bphelp_redirect() {
  if( is_user_logged_in() && is_super_admin && is_home) {
    // redirect to dashboard code
    bp_core_redirect( get_option( 'home' ) . '/wp-admin/' );
  }else {
      if( is_user_loggedin() && !is_super_admin  && is_home) {
    // redirect to activity code
    bp_core_redirect( get_option( 'home' ) . '/activity/' );
      }
   }
}
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'bphelp_redirect', 1 );

@tse11
Search the forum. This has been covered before! You could create a conditional to do this. Basically an if and else statement. You would need to include is_super_admin in the conditional check and the user would be redirected appropriately. For instance:

function bphelp_redirect() {
  if( is_user_logged_in() && is_super_admin ) {
    // redirect to dashboard code
  }else {
      if( is_user_loggedin() && !is_super_admin ) {
    // redirect to activity code
      }
   }
}
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'bphelp_redirect', 1 );

This would go in bp-custom.php:
https://codex.buddypress.org/plugin-development/bp-custom-php/

Putting this in the functions or bp-custom.php files did not work.

I finally managed to get the admin and any other user excluded from the members directory by modifying the bp_had_members query that was already in my members-loop.php file.

<?php if ( bp_has_members( bp_ajax_querystring( ‘members’ ).’&exclude=1,3,25′ . ‘&type=alphabetical&per_page=30’ ) ) : ?> <!– &exclude= user_ids of the people you want to exclude –>

By adding just this, it also removed the users from the total members count.

Note: I do not use friends or activity feeds on my site, so I have no idea if it hides from them, but I suppose it wouldn’t.

I have been looking high and low for the answer to this with my limited PHP knowledge… and wanted to share it back so other people could learn from it too.

And credit where it is due, this post led me to the answer.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/member-parameters-not-working-with-bp_ajax_querystring/

hi @joesell89,

first, remove this wrong
add_filter( 'bp_get_total_member_count', 'bp_core_get_total_member_count' );
from your bp-custom.php. Correct references are in this file: bp-core-template.php

See if things went well.

Pay attention to the cotes. In your example this line has another typo as the the one used for the function.

The mySql errors are due to mailchimp and wp slim stats plugins. Control first the slim stats settings or search for this problem on the plugin support forum.
Debug by deactivating both, and check if the errors remain.

I need this too.

I used to customize my member profile pages using the legacy template file, “profile.php”.

Now I’m flummoxed as to how I should proceed applying the same modifications in 1.8.

@villnoweric
Just remove Home from the menu, then add activity to your custom menu. Then change the navigational label to “Activity Feed” or whatever you wish!

@villnoweric
Try this it is a slightly modified snippet I did earlier but fits your requirement. Follow the instructions in the code.`
// PLEASE NOTE FOR THIS TO WORK:
// Before adding this code to bp-custom.php
// https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/bp-custom-php/
// you will need to create a new page in the dashboard and name it
// something like “Dummy Page” for example or any name you choose.
// Do not add this page to your menu because it is just a dummy page
// for the redirect. Then go to Dashboard/Settings/Reading.
// Under “Front page displays” select “A static page.” Then use the
// “Front page” drop-down menu to select the page you created. In my
// example for instance I selected “Dummy Page” for my front page.
// Done! Now logged out visitors get redirected to the register page,
// and logged in users get redirected to the activity stream.

/* Redirects to profile upon login, and logged out users are redirected to register page */
function bp_help_redirect_to_profile(){
if( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_front_page() ) {
bp_core_redirect( get_option( ‘home’ ) . ‘/activity/’ );

}else {
if ( !is_user_logged_in() && !bp_is_register_page() && !bp_is_activation_page() )
bp_core_redirect( get_option( ‘home’ ) . ‘/register/’ );
}
}

add_action( ‘get_header’, ‘bp_help_redirect_to_profile’,1 );
`