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@mattmct: Or you could use conditional statements in a custom template. It would go something like this:

http://pastebin.com/EbBhUtaC

@hnla, @nuprn1

The constant is supposed to set the default tab that is active when you visit a profile.

In my case, although I’ve made activity the 3rd tab, it is still the default active one when I visit the profile.

Defining BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT in wp_config.php is now working for me – provided I use my new slug (‘account’) instead of ‘profile’. Also, as @nuprn1 points out – it won’t work if you cut and paste the code from this thread (because the quotes are mangled).

Thanks for the help on this guys. Much appreciated.

Ok… I cut and pasted the code, and that had introduced some control characters that messed everything up.

However, the routine to change the tab order is not working for me… I went for the following:

function ka_change_profile_tab_order() {
global $bp;

$bp->bp_nav = 10;
$bp->bp_nav = 20;
$bp->bp_nav = 30;
$bp->bp_nav = 50;
$bp->bp_nav = 60;
$bp->bp_nav = 70;
}

add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘ka_change_profile_tab_order’, 999 );

But, that results in some strange markup being created:

A new tab is displayed at the start with no content –
[li id=”-personal-li”]
[a id=”user-” href][/a]
[/li]

and the profile and messages tabs are not in the right order. I get the following rendered:

nonsense (see above) – messages – profile – activity – groups – following – settings

I’d just create a custom page template and create a RSS feed from a filtered, BuddyPress activity loop that only outputs blog posts.

Here’s a guide that will help you create the custom RSS page template:
http://yoast.com/custom-rss-feeds-wordpress/

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

*Set the action to “new_blog_post”

Hi,

I advise doing this in your own child theme:

You’ll have to modify the /activity/index.php file. In there you can change your activity stream loop to just return status updates, and you can also remove the dropdown filter.

This page gives some guidance on modifying the activity stream loop, including the filter you’ll need just for status updates:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

Cheers,
Roger

@boonebgorges the load more link has shown up at the bottom in the activity feed, the list currently has 13 entries. I’d like to cap it at somewhere between 5 and 10, and then extend the list to another 10 each time the load more-link is hit.
I have removed the custom php-file temporarily, but while testing this I found that when I clicked the link it wouldn’t do anything, was just sitting there and accepting clicks without loading more.

And this page details how to change the default tab:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

Good luck… let me know if it works!

The reference in the two posts above yours is saying that the simplest approach is to edit the file entry.php in the /activity folder of the theme; this would be preferably done as a child theme i.e a copy of the files in a new theme directory you would then be looking for lines such as:

<a href=”<?php bp_activity_comment_link() ?>” class=”acomment-reply” id=”acomment-comment-<?php bp_activity_id() ?>”><?php _e( ‘Reply’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?> (<span><?php bp_activity_comment_count() ?></span>)</a>

and removing them or placing some form of conditional statement around them – I removed all links for a copy of entry.php which I pulled onto a custom frontpage but allowed the links for the activity stream as a directory view.
It’s a little long winded but straightforward

I just tried to duplicate your problem on my local install, but couldn’t.
Perhaps something else is interfering and causing the redirect?

Are you using any BP plugins that handle redirection?
Anything in your .htaccess file? Any custom code in your theme’s functions.php?

If that fails, you can always set another WP page as the default front page. Then see if the redirect still occurs.

i believe that is just adding in the @simon.goodchild automatically to the message – (though not a plugin and unique to this site – but could be done via some custom coding as the current method is just ‘mention this user’)

Ice-cream sundaes! Oh yes! Actually, that’s one direction Drupal has been going (not the ice-cream, sadly), which is the eventual simplification of data storage. The biggest problem now, I think, is that developers map their views to data, and vice-versa. Drupal stores everything and anything as a ‘node’. So a node can contain one word, a site link, a story, a page, images, files, or any combination of all by having nodes within nodes. Its Views module then allows you to say how nodes are displayed; as blocks (widgets), pages, in tables, rows, any kind of custom layout.

What I’m visualising at present is a way of doing things like BP’s activity stream, where data is any kind of node you like, and you decide whether nodes can overflow or are cut (eg., large images), displayed all at once or shown as a bite (eg., stories/pages and small excerpts with ‘read more…’) etc. You then just decide whether each site page appears as a single page, a list of related nodes kinda bloggish, a list of related nodes a-la activity stream, etc. A couple of clicks could create a stream, a shopping page, or whatever you wish. Users then have BP style filtering links, so they can view everything the view shows, just friend’s contributions, just their groups, etc. Off-site information can be pulled in via links as well, and displayed as the same kind of node (similar data, just a different source). Wrap all that around an individual member with a profile and roles/permissions, and you have the most powerful and adaptable social network there is.

As I say, you can do that with Drupal, but gawd is it time consuming for a large project. I like the way WordPress is going, and if BuddyPress follows suit in the simple and easy to use stakes, the two combined will be amazing.

Hi peeps. I’m having a similar problem, but not sure if its exactly the same thing, my activity page is not the first page, nor do I want it. I’m using a custom theme designed in Artisteer, and the activity is not showing up. If I use the default buddypress theme, then the activity shows up.

Any ideas?
http://spaceoflove.co.za

Thanks