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@Avi M I have not tested it with sub-domains sadly. I will see if I can get a test environment for that as well. If anyone else can chime in on subdomains issues, feel free.

@Mike Thanks…let me know what could be useful to add. Group activity streams will come, but I’m not sure how exactly yet. Therefore I included a custom groupblog activity loop on the group blog page.

Hi Guys,

Still haven’t been able to find a solution to this problem and would love to figure this out.

Here’s an update on the what’s working and what is not:

The initial problem was the username wasn’t being displayed at the end of the member’s links which was causing the links to redirect to the homepage. This problem was sitewide EXCEPT when on the forum topics (weird). By adding define( 'BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE', true ); to /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php, I was able to get the username to display at the end of the member’s links inside the Member’s list, but by doing so, it is now causing the problem to occur on member’s links on forum topics. The problem is also still occurring in the activity streams.

Any help?

Thanks!

Oh dear not the response I was hoping for

So it is an issue and frankly a horrendous one, blogs are offered to users as fully functioning ones.

Sadly it’s not necessarily a straightforward matter to upgrade, at the moment I would have to run the backwards-compatibility plugin as I have got the community up and running based on a child theme overriding bp-sn file where necessary, in tests on local dev install upgrade to 1.2 I had to do a fair bit of work to get the existing theme running again and to rework styles to accommodate the new activity stream layout.

Thanks for the quick response though DJPaul I have to now figure how we proceed as too many aspects of the 1.x are demonstrating problems and I’m beginning to wish we had been able to wait for 1.2 to be released.

One point of interest though on another of the many test installs I keep running and one that I have kept pretty close to the production site in plugins and customizations this issue doesn’t arise and I can create pages quite happily so this can’t simply be a inherent BP issue but triggered by some action or plugin but don’t see what at this stage.

<?php bp_has_activities(‘per_page=25’);

while ( bp_activities() ) : bp_the_activity(); ?>

<div><?php bp_activity_content() ?></div>

<?php endwhile; ?>

This worked. Frankly the lack of documentation and my lack of time is making this a nightmare to code…

I did it! Jesus Christ, took me more than 4 hours to find that one line. It’s in activity-loop.php. Now, that was the easy part.

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( 'action=activity_update' ) ) : ?>

that’s how it’s supposed to look if you want to hard code the filter to one specific value. The hard part was finding out the proper argument for the bp_has_activities function. Well, now I got it. But seriously, why are you making it so hard for users to modify?

Anyway, thats how it looked before editing:

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) ) ) : ?>

I tried using the docs for buddypress, specifically this page:

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

But is it outdated, or is it just the wrong page for what I was looking for?

so here’s a tweaked version and the latest in my custom tab efforts, fyi:

// passes MyClass scope into ajax query for custom Class Year activity filter

function bn_ajax_querystring_activity_filter( $query_string, $object, $filter, $scope, $page, $search_terms, $extras ) {



global $bp;



if ( !is_user_logged_in() || $object != 'activity' )

return $query_string;



$args = array();

parse_str( $query_string, $args );

$args['object'] = $bp->groups->id;



switch ($scope){



case 'myclass':



$slug = "usma-". bp_get_profile_field_data( array('field'=> 'Class Year', 'user_id' => $bp->loggedin_user->id));

$groupid = BP_Groups_Group::get_id_from_slug($slug);

$args['primary_id'] =  $groupid;

break;



case 'mycadetco':



$slug = bp_get_profile_field_data( array('field'=> 'Cadet Company', 'user_id' => $bp->loggedin_user->id));

$groupid = BP_Groups_Group::get_id_from_slug($slug);

$args['primary_id'] =  $groupid;

break;



case 'mybranch':



$slug = sanitize_title(bp_get_profile_field_data( array('field'=> 'Branch', 'user_id' => $bp->loggedin_user->id)));

$groupid = BP_Groups_Group::get_id_from_slug($slug);

$args['primary_id'] =  $groupid;

break;



default:



return $query_string;

}



return http_build_query( $args );

}

add_filter( 'bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring', 'bn_ajax_querystring_activity_filter', 1, 7 );

and the action:

function bn_add_activity_tab() {



if ( !is_user_logged_in() )

return false;

?>

<!-- default item-list-tabs activity-type-tabs



<ul> -->



</div><!-- default item-list-tabs activity-type-tabs -->



<div class="item-list-tabs activity-type-tabs" id="bn-tabs">



</ul>

<ul>

<li id="activity-myclass">

<a>" title="<?php _e( 'Activity for my Class Year', 'buddypress' ) ?>">

<?php printf( __( 'My Class', 'buddypress' ) ) ?>

</a>



<li id="activity-mycadetco">

<a>" title="<?php _e( 'Activity for my Cadet Company', 'buddypress' ) ?>">

<?php printf( __( 'My Cadet Company', 'buddypress' ) ) ?>

</a>



<li id="activity-mybranch">

<a>" title="<?php _e( 'Activity for my Army Branch', 'buddypress' ) ?>">

<?php printf( __( 'My Branch', 'buddypress' ) ) ?>

</a>



<?php

}

add_action( 'bp_activity_type_tabs', 'bn_add_activity_tab', 1, 2 );

A few things to note:

1. use the WP function sanitize_title() if you have a field that might return more than one word e.g. the group ‘Military Police’ returns ‘military police’ but transforms into ‘military-police’ (a pretty slug0 which gives you a correct slug now.

2. I added addl markup to force my new tabs into their own element.

3. Don’t be shy to make suggestions and keep improving this technique. I think many will use it to customize their installs.

Just to add more detail: this is what renders the activity stream on the homepage. Commenting out the small amount of code in home.php doesn’t seem to do anything. Commenting this out in functions.php seems to break things.

Is there a way to either eliminate the option to set what appears on your homepage, thus giving you complete control over what appears there (and maybe building/adding a special “Activity” page to replace it), or to amend this function in some way that let’s you call modify how it renders?

function bp_dtheme_show_on_frontpage() {

$settings = get_option( 'bp_dtheme_options' );



if ( empty( $settings['show_on_frontpage'] ) || 'blog' == $settings['show_on_frontpage'] )

return 'blog';



return 'activity';

}

I completely understand the easy-to-use, out-of-the-box logic behind the setting for what appears on your homepage, and it’s certainly Facebook-like, but I’m using the default template to build out a full site that needs to have a unique hompeage with other content elements. The activity stream is a small part of it, and I’d like to have it there in some way, but certainly not as prominent as it is now.

This is the code that’s in home.php (all of it):

<?php

/***

* Should we show the blog on the front page, or the activity stream?

* This is set in wp-admin > Appearance > Theme Options

*/



if ( 'blog' == bp_dtheme_show_on_frontpage() )

locate_template( array( 'index.php' ), true );

else

locate_template( array( 'activity/index.php' ), true );

?>

The comment obviously notes the intention of activity stream OR blog, but what about ‘neither’? I’m going to work on this later, but one idea I have is to try to add a third option of “custom”, which would pull something like “custom.php”. Sound right? Something else?

Thanks in advance!

I got the site running the latest trunk version.

I lost out in 80 USD it seems for the custom template (maybe)

I’m having issues with the forums loading now. It’s saying page not found.

See here, https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/forums-not-showing-up-after-trunk-update

OK, went in and selected the same theme for

http://community.urine-therapy.org/testing2/ that

http://community.urine-therapy.org/testing3/ uses,

but the changes I made to sidebar.php have affected testing2 and not testing3. I’m actually pretty sure I am using the same theme on both of these test member blogs. Maybe I have to go in and reselect the theme for the changes to take effect? I don’t know on that one.

Now, why don’t

Blog

Members

Groups

Forums

Blogs

work in either testing2 or testing3?

Basically, I just want those links to go to the links of the main site.

Is the logic that I make a blog and people come and make blogs and each blog gets members and sub members?

Basically, what I am going for is:

Members join and make a profile page and a blog.

They can post but not make pages

Their posts appear in sitewide activity

When you visit their blog you see only the member’s posts

There are no sub-sub members (members don’t have members)

There are no sub-sub-blogs members only get one blog and that’s it

I am starting to make some changes, but I really don’t know why just yet.

Have you tried scattering alert statements to see where in the ajax process things are getting hung up?

I can’t find a function in ajax.js with “delete-activity”, the class on the delete button, so I don’t no where to put that test. Is that function supposed to be there?

In the 1.0 version of my site I had no classes at all on the delete link (custom theme). Deleting an item does not have fancy Ajax; the page reloads with “Wire message successfully deleted” in <div id=”message”>.

At least that works! I’d like to just recreate that for my 1.1.3 version.

So I tried removing the following:

class="item-button delete-activity confirm"

from the delete button link in bp-activity-templatetags.php.

That kills the ugly “Are you sure?” popup, but it then goes to “Page Not Found’ and when you go back to the page the item is still there. So it also kills the delete process…

Next trying to spot the differences with the process in version 1.0…

How do those wpnonce links work? What do they do? There’s nothing about them in the codex.