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That would be pretty difficult to do, or at least it’s not trivial. The issue is that the function used to populate the activity page does not have the ability to filter based on post settings, so you’d have to create a function to do that. Probably you’d end up overloading the activity page and displaying your own custom activity loop which took into account the post taxonomies.

Hi there, some answers:

1. You can change the layout of profiles by overloading the profile files and css, see: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/theme-compatibility-2/ it’s possibly a bit advanced for you right now but all the files in the plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/your-bp-theme/buddypress can be copied, modified and loaded from your child theme directory. Similarly you can overload the css to make styling and layout changes.

1b. The default is for horizontal navigation unless you’ve changed it in Customizer>>BuddyPress.

2. The BuddyPress extended profile is editable from the front end, and avatar too. It’s only the wordpress profile that’s enditable in admin and most BP sites don’t use that as t’s really set up for authors.

3. I recently posted the code to combine all the profile activity feeds into 1, https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-combine-activity-tabs-to-one/

4. https://wordpress.org/plugins/cb-change-mail-sender/

5+6 are bbPress questions, for the best answer you should post on their forum https://bbpress.org/forums/

7. Assuming you have set up the groups directory page and enabled group creation by users in Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options, users will have the option to create groups on the Groups directory page and also from the Groups menu of the WordPress toolbar ( top right hand side of the screen, hover over your avatar image, drop down will appear one option will be groups.

In Nouveau, you can set the activity stream to appear on the Home tab.

Click ‘Groups default front page’ which will open the WP Customizer.
Remove the check from the ‘Enable custom front pages for groups.’ checkbox.
Then click ‘Publish’ at the top of the page.
The ‘Home’ tab is still the default tab and it should show the Activity Stream.

Then you’d need to overload your child-themes template file for the homepage, but getting the activity on there would need quite a bit of coding.

BP was designed to be customised with plugins, it’s not unusual for a BP site to have several tens of plugins and maybe more.

I think based on your requirement that for your ultimate requirement you will need some custom coding. This is due to you wanting to add weighting to the likes.

One option would be to enable new blog posts to appear in the BuddyPress activity stream. That would automatically allow BuddyPress users to favorite the activity and for it to appear in their list of favorites in their profile. However you won’t easily be able to add your weighting since the BP favorites system dones not have this functionality. But that’s the same for any existing plugin. The potential downside is that the BP Activity stream is not just posts (which would have to be enabled with a bit of code).

There are also a number of WordPress post specific likes plugins, however these don’t give you a profile page with a list of your likes and the same issue remains that they would not support you weighting.

If it was me, I’d probably look to use a plugin such as BuddyPress Like as a basis for my solution. I’ve not looked in detail at this plugin but I’m assuming it adds the ability to like posts and display a list of likes in the users profile. That would serve as a good basis for what I was looking to do. It would then need some modification in order to support your specific weighting mechanism. The complexity of that task would depend on exactly how you want your weighting mechanism to work and the technique you use to account for it when displaying the likes list.

If you are not an experienced developer, you may be better off hiring such a person.

Until you write some code and ask specific questions about it, here are some general pointers…

Take a look at how the activities are restricted on a group activity page.

There are some codex pages that provide info:

Add custom filters to loops and enjoy them within your plugin

Activity dropdown filters in templates

Hi,
Before deciding to redirect from sitewide activity to user’s own activity you should know the difference between them and then decide.

– On the sitewide page a user can see activity from whole site(including his won/friends/his groups and any non related member of the site)

– On profile, a user can see his/her won activity as well as friends/groups etc but activities of group they are not member of or activity of users they are not friends with, won’t be visible,

If you still want to redirect from sitewide activity to user’s own activity, You may use the following code.

/**
 * Redirect logged in user's from sitewide activity page to profile activity.
 */
function buddydev_redirect_sitewide_activity_to_profile_activity() {

	if ( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_activity_directory() ) {
		bp_core_redirect( bp_loggedin_user_domain() . bp_get_activity_slug() );
	}
}

add_action( 'bp_template_redirect', 'buddydev_redirect_sitewide_activity_to_profile_activity' );

PS:- you can put the code in your theme’s functions.php or in the wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php

Best Regards
Brajesh

You should be using the current versions of WP and BP.

It sounds like your site is running some custom code that deletes or does not display activities with timestamps out of a certain range.

Look at the admin page to see if those activities are actually deleted or just not being shown on the front-end: .../wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-activity

Deactivate any custom code re activities on your site.