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Please don’t use my customization of Boone’s code above. It seems to be causing a failure of the Activity Stream, at least for me. Have not figured out why yet.

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

I totally agree with this. It’s quite confusing. I think more than a rewording of the text is needed.

Perhaps you can give people a series of simple steps they should go through to complete setting up their membership?

Step 1: Activate your membership

You give them instructions to visit their email account then click on the activation link in the email.

When they click on the activation link they’re taken to the next step page…

Step 2: Customize your avatar

They do this then press the button to complete, then they’re taken to the final step…

Step 3: They’re then directed to the activity page, at the top of this page could be a message to tell them their account is now active and they can start posting.

This 3 step process gives people a clear path to follow taking them to the page where they can then see what’s going on and begin taking part.

Each step page is nice and simple.

What do you think?

Can you please explain how to do this?

I’d like to have a custom landing homepage (preferably just a wordpress “page”) with general information for non-logged-in users… then if the user is logged-in the homepage defaults to the activity stream (and becomes the “Home” menu link). i.e. when logged-in the custom landing page is unaccessible.

Thank you! This is very powerful.

I customized it to exclude blog comments and forum comments:

if ( $activity->type == ‘new_blog_comment’ || $activity->type == ‘new_forum_post’) {

First note: AWESOMEMILICIOUS!

2nd note: Posting new blogposts works great! I can add new posts/photos and videos on the blog page and you get a nice growl like notification when you post something.. This is some serious next level stuff!

The magazine theme layout looks cool, but I feel it’s bit overwhelming for certain users. especially on lower resolutions I feels a bit crammed, with the 3 column recent posts, etc. But I think that’s something personal, and you already said that you’re working on different layouts. I’ve tried to view a different layout in my blog, but could not find the settings. But my suggestion for a third theme would be:

http://emberapp.com/bowromir/images/untitled-8/sizes/o

This is quite simple but powerful enough.. I don’t know if you can add custom text boxes/widgets, but I think that would allow user to be creative with their blog. I forgot to offer a search/archive widget, but that would be handy as well.

3rd note: To avoid confusion I would probably rename Status Update in the groupblog to something like News Update or Blog Update, so that it does not get mixed up with a status/activity update in BuddyPress. To be honest I think that the P2 status update does not add much to it, because a group admin can easily post a status update in the group itself. I understand it’s a added feature in the P2 theme, but I think BP handles it very well.. This is also something personal though

4th: Maybe allow the user to switch to a full markup mode or tiny editor to have more control over longer posts. You already mentioned bringing everything to the front end, but maybe you can solve this by opening a lightbox with the full featured posting of the WP backed (and then remove the navigation in the admin, so the users only sees the posting area). This might be complicated and/ore messy, but it would make for a better user experience.

I’m really really impressed with the current plugin so far and I can’t wait to try it on my site. Thanks so much for sharing this Marius and the rest of YWAM!

While this is an elegant hack, it just occurred to me that this is not optimal if you want to preserve an individual user’s ability to check blog comments in an activity stream. If I read the code correctly, it prevents blog comments from triggering an activity update in the database, so blog comments never get recorded as an activity.

If that’s true, then it would be preferable to still RECORD the activity, but simply not DISPLAY it in the activity loop. Unfortunately, from this codex tutorial, it seems like the “filter” options only allow you to SHOW one type of activity (rather than filtering OUT one type of activity):

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

This is the code for pagination:

<div class="pagination">

<div class="pag-count"><?php bp_activity_pagination_count() ?></div>

<div class="pagination-links"><?php bp_activity_pagination_links() ?></div>

</div>

It is already on that page, but it wrapped in <noscript> tags. Just remove those tags and should be good for the top of the page. Just repeat that code somewhere at the bottom, preferably just before the <?php else : ?> statement.

To remove to “load More” tab remove or uncomment the following code on that same template:

<?php if ( bp_get_activity_count() == bp_get_activity_per_page() ) : ?>

<li class="load-more">

<a href="#more"><?php _e( 'Load More', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>   <span class="ajax-loader"></span>

</li>

<?php endif; ?>

Also look at this codex page, it could be helpful to show you a number of things:

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

Hey @modemlooper;

I’d like to know how you do that… I’m trying to alter the layout of the updates on our (child theme) activity stream page at http://www.hypergripe.com/activity/ so that when a blog update is mentioned, the permalink to the blog post is on the next line and bolded, or in an h3 tag or something to look like a blog title – (the way the code is now the second link does not have a css identifier, and adding css to that specific link is impossible – i think).

I tried to alter the core bp-blogs.php file on line 433 and line 468, where it SEEMS the code for the activity stream is getting generated, but when I change this line:

$activity_action = sprintf( __( '%s wrote a new blog post: %s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int)$post->post_author ), '' . $post->post_title . '' );

to this:

$activity_action = sprintf( __( '%s wrote a new blog post: %s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int)$post->post_author ), '
' . $post->post_title . '' );

then upload it, there is no change on the activity stream page….

I’m baffled. Ya, I know I’m changing core files – I’ve customized a few core files but have made a schedule of changes for future updates – or until there are gentler fixes.

Thanks in advance – your participation in other threads has been very helpful!

I’m looking for this too. I don’t want any blogs to display in the activity feed on a custom page.

I’m using this to limit the number of posts shown at a time to 5 and I don’t want it to be filled up with my blog posts.

<?php if ( bp_has_activities(‘per_page=5’) ) : ?>

I’d settle for someone telling me how to only display 5 status updates.

Ok, here’s where I’m at so far. I found out what BP uses to determine if a WP user is a BP user. There is NOT a separate table for BP users. A WP user is considered a BP user if that user has performed ANY “activity”. The BP Members page displays ONLY users that have done something in BP.

For example, when a new user registers, an activity is created saying that user registered. The standard WP user meta table (wp_usermeta) gets a record added for that User ID called “last_activity” and the meta value is the current date and time. Once a user has a last_activity record, then they are displayed in the BP Member directory. You’ll notice that in the Member directory it shows the total users, which should be your total number of WP users, but it also says “Viewing member 1 to x (of x active members”.

I have verified this by manually adding a record to the user meta table for one of my users that registered before I was running BP. That person now shows in the BP member directory.

Now I also see code in BP that attempts to update (or create if not found) the user’s last_activity meta record every 5 minutes while they are logged in. This is so that BP can show how long ago a particular user was “active” for various pages and widgets. I tested this by logging in as another WP user (non-BP user) and it added the record and now displays that person in the list. It also seems to have added that user’s full name in the BP custom profile field table (wp_bp_xprofile_data).

So without doing ANYTHING, our BP member directory will grow as users log in to our site. This probably isn’t a bad thing because if there are users that registered a long time ago for some reason and don’t plan on ever coming back, why list them in the directory?

However, I may still go ahead and try to figure out the best way to programatically add records for all the WP users. My site is new and since I only have 221 users, I’d like to have them added to BP, if for no other reason than for better testing of the plugin before I roll it out. I currently have BP activated, but have hidden all the menus so user’s don’t really know how to get to any of it. My site is at http://xtremelysocial.com if you want to check it out. Just go directly to a BP URL, such as http://xtremelysocial.com/activity/. I’m jacking around with adding BP support to my highly customized WP theme right now so if the formatting looks whacky, that’s why.

I’ll post an update if I work something out programatically to add all the WP users to the BP member directory.

Ray – thanks for the input. I managed to get that far myself (after trying every other combination) and seein another of your posts. Very helpful.

My remaining problem is this, everything is redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

1. Which version of WP/MU are you running?

WP 2.9.2

2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install?

directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?

sub-directory

4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? If so, from which version?

no, not on MU

5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.

yes

6. Which version of BP are you running?

plugin – Version 1.2.1

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

no – fresh install

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?

yes, but it doesn’t matter, I deactivated every plugin except Buddy Press, same behavior

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?

I have tried using custom themes as well as the default BuddyPress themes

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?

no

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

no

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

it came with it built in, but I haven’t turned it one yet…

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

no errors

14. Which company provides your hosting?

HostGator

I have installed BuddyPress in a development environment so that I can test its functionality. It is located at this address http://www.irreia.org/dev (which is a copy of my live blog.

I can successfully navigate to the several pages that are created by BuddyPress:

http://internationalresidentialrealestateinvestorsassociation.org/dev/activity/

http://internationalresidentialrealestateinvestorsassociation.org/dev/groups/

http://internationalresidentialrealestateinvestorsassociation.org/dev/members/

But if I try to use the admin bar, I can’t get to any page – all pages are redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

I have two members Admin and Carl Chapman, who show up as listed on the main member page, but the hyperlinks to their individual pages are redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

It is the same for any other ‘sub-page’… all are redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

I’m completely stumped. What am I doing wrong? What’s happening and how do I fix it?

I think I am having the same problem or at lease very similar.

1. Which version of WP/MU are you running?

WP 2.9.2

2. Did you install WP/MU as a directory or subdomain install?

directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?

sub-directory

4. Did you upgraded from a previous version of WP/MU? If so, from which version?

no, not on MU

5. Was WP/MU functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.

yes

6. Which version of BP are you running?

plugin – Version 1.2.1

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

no – fresh install

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated?

yes, but it doesn’t matter, I deactivated every plugin except Buddy Press, same behavior

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes?

I have tried using custom themes as well as the default BuddyPress themes

10. Have you modified the core files in any way?

no

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

no

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

it came with it built in, but I haven’t turned it one yet…

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

no errors

14. Which company provides your hosting?

HostGator

I have installed BuddyPress in a development environment so that I can test its functionality. It is located at this address http://www.irreia.org/dev (which is a copy of my live blog.

I can successfully navigate to the several pages that are created by BuddyPress:

http://internationalresidentialrealestateinvestorsassociation.org/dev/activity/

http://internationalresidentialrealestateinvestorsassociation.org/dev/groups/

http://internationalresidentialrealestateinvestorsassociation.org/dev/members/

But if I try to use the admin bar, I can’t get to any page – all pages are redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

I have two members Admin and Carl Chapman, who show up as listed on the main member page, but the hyperlinks to their individual pages are redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

It is the same for any other ‘sub-page’… all are redirected to the ‘home’ page of the blog.

I’m completely stumped.What am I doing wrong? What’s happening and how do I fix it?

You have to create a new WordPress Page called “Blog” and then go into “Settings > Reading” and switch the front page mode to static with the “Blog” page selected as your “Posts page”. I think it will use the index.php template. Do you have a custom homepage?