@bruce-hazard glad you resolved this on your own. Yes, in any new WP/BP installation, bp-default theme is best theme to use while check out if everything’s functioning as expected 
@kristian86 I’ve altered the title of this topic from “Altering the activity stream” to “Altering the activity stream page” per your post above. Major difference.
If you’re using a child theme of the bp-default theme, copy https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.6.1/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/index.php , make revisions and upload file into wp-content/themes/yourchildthemefolder/activity/ folder. Some amount of HTML/CSS/PHP required.
@kenn_icuk WP/BP versions? Is your installation hosted locally or on shared hosting or VPS, etc? Windows or Linux? Are you using bp-default theme or a custom theme?
@mumbaipav you have activated the BP template pack plugin and need to complete of fix wrong implementation of Step 3 compatibility process. So as mentioned above
Open up your theme’s header.php file, copy all code, paste in pastebin.com, click submit and post the generated URI here. Do the same for index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php
I’ve looked through wp-content/themes/mytheme/members and wp-content/themes/mytheme/forums but I still can’t find the files that control the header, sidebar and footer information for the Member Forums at site.com/members/username/forums/
Thanks for reply James, I’m using Basic Theme from Elegant Themes, I added buddypress by BP Template Pack.
Unfortunately the code You’ve given above didn’t help. Any other Ideas??
Please test by switching to the BP-Default theme. Does it work? If so, it’s a bug in the theme that you’re running — contact its author for support.
opps my bad! forgot that the form’s enctype attribute has to be set. if i edit the `wp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-themesbp-defaultmemberssinglemessagescompose.php` file to set the forms enctype then it works. but then another problem, how do i set it through my plugin so that i dont have to go and edit that file manually. or is if possible in the first place? any work around?
Hi @Chouf1,
I have been googling for the past 2 hours, so I thought I might finally give the forums a go.
I am already using my own theme – I have my sidebar-buddypress.php ready to insert code I need to add these links. Once I have the links I’m ok with styling it. I don’t think I need to set up a widget as I can directly edit the php file in Coda.
The problem is, I don’t know what the code is and that is what I’m looking for.
Hope that clarifies it a bit more.
Hi @pjtna,
There are many ways to accomplish what you want, depending essentially of your php/html knowledge.
First thing you have to do anyway is to create a child theme.
Second, IMO, the easiest would be to create a widget with help of the TextWidget delivered with WP and phpexec plugin. This plugin allows to insert php, css and HTML into the TextWidget. No need then to hack into the sidebar file.
Note: you can search on this forum with Google. Use `buddypress.org: your search terms`
This would bring you many answers.
And apologize if I push an opened door 
So this is what happens when you haven’t set your Activity page in the Buddypress pages setup.
I’m sorry !
this has to be somethinng I’ve done right!
Sorry
We are experiencing the same set of problems. BP WP theme, it’s a soccer ball being kicked around but no one has any answers to date
The default BuddyPress theme there is a folder called buddypress/_inc/
This folder includes a file called global.js. That file controls the appearance of the post submission button. I checked and it doesn’t appear that your theme has that js file. I haven’t done much work with the template pack so can’t say whether or not it has this, but the missing js is why it isn’t loading.
You could get around this by adding the following to the bottom of your theme’s CSS:
`#whats-new-options { height: 40px; }`
Hope that helps!
Did you run the BP setup?
@Roger Yes I did try disabling all plugins. I should have mentioned that.
Also, if I return to my backed up version of Buddypress, the activity returns.
Have you tried deactivating all your other plugins apart from BuddyPress? If not try that in conjunction with the default theme. If that works, you know the problem is in your plugins rather than a corrupted database / installation.
@Roger Thanks for the advice. I’ve got my theme developers looking at it now. I actually have a development site in place now so as to prevent this in the future. In the dev site everything works fine. So, It’s a matter of tracking down some little bug somewhere to fix the issue. Hopefully mysitemyway.com dev can help me find the solution. They have tremendous support over their but I came here first thinking it might be a Buddypress issue. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
-Matt
OK. Site is back. Upgraded WordPress. “Restore” did bring back BP 1.5.6. per above Not sure at this point if I will attempt BP upgrade to 1.6.1. But at least the site is working again.
Good guidance from portion of this forum focused on installation problems which reminded me to “activate” BP and then gave access to BP default theme!
Again, thanks for help.
Thank you (merci) mercime. I thought with my restore that I was going back to 1.5.6, but maybe not.
My goal would be to restore with the BP default theme.
Question – if I delete BP and then upload anew, would that make the BP default theme available to me? More importantly, would I lose existing data? I should probably know the answer to this question but I am learning by doing.
I was excited to see the CUNY people working on “Commons in a box.” Maybe I should wait for that? I have six or eight other groups that would like a communications platform like this one so want to get it right. This one kind of a prototype.
Again, thanks for your help.
Why do you want to remove html code when you don’t know what genrate it ?
That said, the profile textarea’s content is in the DB (xprofile tab from memory)
But you have to find what plugin genrates the double insertion. The unique solution is to proceed like i explained previously.
First activate the bp-default theme with no plugins except BP and create a new profile field for testing.
If the field shows correctly, you have to update the Huddle theme (you can use Template Pack plugin to do this easily).
If the problem remains, you have to reactive one by one your plugins.
Hello,
there is probably an error in the WP’s spanish translation. Or you use a plugin witch have an old version of tyniMCE.
Are your language settings correct ? View in wp-content and in the dashboard.
Are your plugins compatible with WP 3.4.1 and BP 1.5/1.6 ?
Debug by deactivating them exept BP and use bp-default theme during the tests.
If you find nothing, you have to search in plugins languages .po file with a text editor like notepad+ and track all special caracters and all html tags you will find in it. Sometimes > or < are forgotten by translators…
Begin pehaps by Achievements as you mentionned it in relation with profiles…
You can also try to reactivate the old BP admin bar to see if that you have the same error.
Put this in a bp-custom.php file into your plugins folder:
`add_filter( ‘bp_use_wp_admin_bar’, ‘__return_false’ );`
In the default setup your update form action would go to ‘http://yourdomain.com/activity/post’, which is then intercepted by the activity action functions, processed (i.e. the new update is added), and redirected back to the original activity screen.
In your case, your theme would appear to be not coded correctly (or less likely a clash with one of your plugins) — you should raise a support question with your theme designer.
Okey, will try it out! But nothing will change if i change back to my current theme that i have now?
If I could just ask a few questions to narrow this down please.
Do you have a link to see on your site what is going on? Are you using a mobile plugin to switch the design to something when you are using Mobile? What theme are you using?
