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So I partially fixed it but I think I need buddypress input for the following.

Here is what I did

I created a custom template from a copy of the page.php in the themes directory. Inside of that template was a call to comments_template(); which I removed from the custom template.

I then changed the “Members” page to use the new template with a name of “No Comments”

Now when I load http://jorgetorralba.com/members/ I get the desired affect without the comments and ping backs.

However, if I go one level deeper and click on a user name such as

http://jorgetorralba.com/members/cjtorralba/

The comments reappear. Same on Activity page even after changing activity to use the new custom templates.

Any idea ???

Hi, actually I’ve already added
add_post_type_support( 'recipe', 'buddypress-activity' );

to bp-custom.php in /wp-content/plugins. The recipes are counted in the “member activity stream”, but only the ones posted directly in the parent site, not the ones posted in the member’s blog.

I think it’s a pity you can’t use a “blog” as the user profile page, or at least give the user profile page, the same kind of customisation as a full blog install. I think this is more a “Facebook” kind of approach, everyone will have more or less the same kind of page, with minimal customisation option (I guess the header profile). But since WordPress already has a multisite option, and Buddypress already support multisite environment, have the chance to use the user’s blog as if it were his “user profile” would have been a huge facility.

Well as soon as I post it I figure it out.. go figure 🙂

In case anyone else is confused here’s what I did and I had no clue going into it.

Use this https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/ for a reference on what to name your files and where to put them. (.po and .mo files, trust me I did not even know what these were)

Download this editor/compiler here: https://poedit.net/download (it’s free!)
You will need this to create (compile) the .mo file (if you want to know what these files are google it, that’s what I did)

Use the buddypress link above and go to the “Translating with PoEdit” section, it will walk you through how to open the file with Poedit.
(This part “This will open a settings dialog and you will be asked to fill in some details such as project name which we’ll skip. Click on ‘OK’ and you’ll be asked to save your language file.” did not happen for me, it asked me my language and I selected English United States, choose what you desire.)

Now remember in my case I needed to change a few buddypress page titles.
Example: I wanted to change the buddypress title “Groups” to “Chat Rooms” –
While in Poedit with your .po file open, where you need to change it seems to be near the bottom of the file. Scroll down until you see something like this “Site-Wide Activity [component directory title]” (this was the first one for me). These are the buddypress page titles, this is where you can change them.

Click on the title you want to change, my case Groups, below you will see “Source text” this is where “Groups” is showing. In the text area under that you will see “Translation”, this is where I typed “Chat Rooms”, as this is the title I would like it changed to.

When finished Save your .po file. Back to Poedit, click File, select “Compile to MO” , save you .mo file as directed in the buddypress link above.
Follow the rest of the instructions in the link to upload your .po and .mo files.

I hope this helps out others who are new to buddypress! 🙂

@danbp thanks for your reply. its highly appreciated. I understand its bit unnecessary.

Am using a custom home page via BuddyPress Groups Extras. So on my site the home page for groups is gpages which doesnt have a slug in the URL which is great.

now my second tab is “Home” which i renamed to “Activity”. This is also fine. But the slug of Activity page is “home”. so when i click on the activity tab the URL in the broswer shows group/name/home.

I believe the previous versions of BP the home page was actually named as Activity right?

the only way i can fix this is via hacking the core BP file bp-groups-loader.php

// Add the "Home" subnav item, as this will always be present
			$sub_nav[] = array(
				'name'            =>  _x( 'Activity', 'Group screen navigation title', 'buddypress' ),
				'slug'            => 'activity',

Thanks once again

In buddypress, activity, members, group have a definite pages like ‘domain/activity’, ‘domain/members’, ‘domain/group’, respectively. Likewise I’m trying to create my own custom page like ‘domain/mycustom’.

For this purpose I referred John James Jacoby’s Post in here. The snippet used in that link didn’t work for me. I don’t know where I’m missing.

From that snippet, I found that $bp->current_component returns me an empty string.

@danbp : Thank You very much for your reply.

Even I’ve tried bp_current_component() and bp_is_current_component() functions with no success.

Actually this function works fine when used in default buddypress pages like domain/activity/. This returns me “activity”, which is exactly correct. But when I tried this in my custom page (domain/custompage), I’m getting an empty string.

Hi Henry Wright.
I pasted in functions.php
=/
This is my custom loop:

<?php do_action( 'bp_before_activity_loop' ); ?>
<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) ) ) : ?>
	<noscript>
		<div class="pagination">
			<div class="pag-count"><?php bp_activity_pagination_count(); ?></div>
			<div class="pagination-links"><?php bp_activity_pagination_links(); ?></div>
		</div>
	</noscript>
	<?php if ( empty( $_POST['page'] ) ) : ?>
		<ul id="activity-stream" class="activity-list item-list">
	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php while ( bp_activities() ) : bp_the_activity(); ?>
		<?php locate_template( array( 'activity/entry.php' ), true, false ); ?>
	<?php endwhile; ?>

	<?php if ( bp_activity_has_more_items() ) : ?>
		<li class="load-more">
			<a href="#more"><?php _e( 'Load More', 'buddypress' ); ?></a>
		</li>
	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php if ( empty( $_POST['page'] ) ) : ?>
		</ul>
	<?php endif; ?>
<?php else : ?>
	<div id="message" class="info">
		<p><?php _e( 'Sorry, there was no activity found. Please try a different filter.', 'buddypress' ); ?></p>
	</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php do_action( 'bp_after_activity_loop' ); ?>
<form action="" name="activity-loop-form" id="activity-loop-form" method="post">
	<?php wp_nonce_field( 'activity_filter', '_wpnonce_activity_filter' ); ?>
</form>

Fixed it!! Okay, for anyone who encounters this issue, the problem was that for some reason (I think perhaps how WP or my server is caching pages) the hooks I was choosing to target for the behavior weren’t working. So instead I added both functions to the “wp” hook, and now it works site-wide!

/* You can add custom functions below, in the empty area
=========================================================== */

function bp_guest_redirect( $name ) {
    if( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
        if ( bp_is_activity_component() || bp_is_groups_component() || bp_is_blogs_component() || bp_is_directory() || bp_is_user() || bp_is_members_component() ) 
            wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . '/new_member/' );
    }
}
add_action( 'wp', 'bp_guest_redirect', 1, 1 );
function bpfr_hide_rss_feed_to_nonreg_visitor() {
 if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) { 	
   remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed' );
   remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_personal_feed' );
   remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_friends_feed' );
   remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_my_groups_feed' );
   remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_mentions_feed' );
   remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_favorites_feed' );
   remove_action( 'groups_action_group_feed', 'groups_action_group_feed' ); 
    }
}
add_action('wp', 'bpfr_hide_rss_feed_to_nonreg_visitor'); 

My theme framework (WPZoom) also recommended I place theme modifying code in the functions/user/ pathway, so I modified functions.php there instead of using bp-custom. I think it would work either place, however.

Thank you!

hi @danbp
Actually, I want to display the “Most Favorited Count” in single activity group page in custom drop-down select option called “Most Agreed”. See Above Images.

['type'] == 'featured'
I wanted to compare option value inside the meta_query
<option value="featured"><?php _e( 'Most Agreed' ); ?></option>

I am not sure if it works. can you debug this for me ? or what code i need to add ?

@danbp, I have an issue..

I have “Most Agreed” option in single group page. but the query is not returning desired value.
can you look into this?

Here’s the Screenshot

and Here’s the code

if( class_exists( 'BP_Group_Extension' ) ) :

class bpgmq_feature_group {

public function __construct() {
$this->setup_hooks();
}
private function setup_hooks() {
$bp = buddypress();

add_filter( 'bp_ajax_querystring', 'custom_filter_ajax_querystring' , 999, 2 );
// you need to do it for the group directory
add_action( 'bp_group_activity_filter_options', array( $this, 'agreed_option' ) );

}	
public function agreed_option() {
?>
<option value="featured"><?php _e( 'Most Agreed' ); ?></option>
<?php
}

}

function custom_filter_ajax_querystring( $querystring, $object ) { 
#var_dump($querystring);
if($object != 'activity' )
return $querystring;

$defaults = array('type'=>'active','action'=> 'active','scope'=> 'all','page'=>1,'order'=>'DESC');

#exit;
/*if( $bpgmq_querystring['type'] != 'featured' ) 
return $querystring;*/
$bpgmq_querystring = wp_parse_args( $querystring, $defaults );
if( $bpgmq_querystring['type'] == 'featured' ){
$bpgmq_querystring['meta_query'] = array(array('key'=> 'favorite_count','value'=> 1,'type'=> 'numeric','compare' => '>='));

return apply_filters( 'bpgmq_filter_ajax_querystring', $bpgmq_querystring, $querystring );
}
var_dump($querystring);
}

function bpgmq_agreed_group() {
if( bp_is_active( 'activity') )
return new bpgmq_feature_group();
}

add_action( 'bp_init', 'bpgmq_agreed_group' );
endif;

Thanx in Advance

Hey Danbp,

Thank you for the quick responses and all your help. I tried playing around with your way but I’m not advanced enough for working with hooks and custom coding just yet.

I did find an easier work around that I just pasted into my bp-custom.php and it did the trick. But for other members trying to do this, you need to have the plugin http://buddydev.com/buddypress/show-buddypress-communitysitewide-activity-on-user-profile/ for this to work.

function bp_change_activity_subnav_default() {

	if ( bp_is_user_activity() ) {
	
		$args = array(
			'parent_slug' => 'activity',
			'subnav_slug' => 'all-activity'
		);
		
		bp_core_new_nav_default($args);
	
	}
	
}
add_action('bp_setup_nav', 'bp_change_activity_subnav_default', 5);   

I understand you guys aren’t getting paid for your services but now i’m just struggling on adding a “whats new” post form to the all activity page. Buddy dev had some directions on how to add it but I think its dated cause I couldn’t find the code that we needed to switch out. Is there a simple way to add a whats new post form to the all activity page? It would be awesome if it was simple enough to paste it into bp-custom.php.

Thanks again for everything you guys are great!

Yes it is related to “Messages > Starred”. There is nothing wrong with the new feature. It’s this function that I found online that’s causing a conflict.

/* ——————————Start BP Post in profile code for function——————– */
function importSomething(){
return include_once ‘bp-custom.php’;
}
add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘buddyboss_child_bp_nav_adder’ );
add_action( ‘bp_template_content’, ‘profile_buddyboss_child_loop’ );
bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( ‘bp_core_template_plugin’, ‘members/single/plugins’ ) );

function buddyboss_child_bp_nav_adder() {
global $bp;
$post_count = count_user_posts_by_type( $bp->displayed_user->id );
bp_core_new_nav_item(
array(
‘name’ => sprintf( __( ‘Posts <span>%d</span>’, ‘my-poems’ ), $post_count ),
‘slug’ => ‘Articles’,
‘position’ => 250,
‘show_for_displayed_user’ => true,
‘screen_function’ => ‘buddyboss_child_list’,
‘item_css_id’ => ‘articles’,
‘default_subnav_slug’ => ‘public’
));
}
function buddyboss_child_list() {
add_action( ‘bp_template_content’, ‘profile_buddyboss_child_loop’ );
bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( ‘bp_core_template_plugin’, ‘members/single/plugins’ ) );
}
/*——- This is end of the code for above function ———*/
function profile_buddyboss_child_loop() {
$myposts = get_posts( array(
‘posts_per_page’ => -1,
‘author’ => bp_displayed_user_id(),
‘post_type’ => ‘post’
));
if( ! empty($myposts) ) {
foreach($myposts as $post) {
setup_postdata( $post );
if (has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ) ):
$image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), ‘sidebar-smallthumbnew’ );
else :
$image[0] = “…/wp-content/themes/Starkers-Child-2/images/vidimage.jpg”;
endif;
echo ‘<li class=”sidebar mostpop post-‘ . $post->ID . ‘”><div id=”postimage”>ID) . ‘”></div><div id=”postinfo”>ID) . ‘”>’ . get_the_title($post->ID) . ‘</div>‘;
}
echo ‘‘;
wp_reset_postdata();
} else { ?>
<div class=”info” id=”message”>
<p><?php bp_displayed_user_fullname(); ?> has No posts.</p>
</div>
<?php }
}
/* This is end of the code for above function */
remove_filter(‘bp_setup_nav’,”);
function count_user_posts_by_type( $userid, $post_type = ‘post’ ) {
global $wpdb;
$where = get_posts_by_author_sql( $post_type, true, $userid, true);
$count = $wpdb->get_var( “SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts $where” );
return apply_filters( ‘get_usernumposts’, $count, $userid );
}
/* ——————————This is end of the code for post in profile above function——————– */

It adds a new button on the user activity page and when the Message-Starred button is clicked it takes the user the lists of post page that the above function creates. How can I stop that fro happening. I really want to keep the starred message function and I don’t want to lose the lists of WordPress post in the user Activity page.