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You can write your own customised BuddyPress website (theme) to achieve this:

Please check the codex reference I gave you – it has all the details on how to write your own custom (filtered as you want it) activity loop.

Also check under docs on this site for details on how to write your own bespoke website theme.

@kimprasannanielsen welcome to the help forum, firstly the forum is not a coding service as such we can’t do the work for you but will help you where you get stuck.

If you find an aspect confusing then please explain what stage you are at and what you’re stuck with and someone with experience of using the template pack will hopefully be able to guide you along.

If however you do want professional help then rather than post your email address here post a request on the jobs board group for help getting this sorted.

Yes, there are already filters for this in the default theme.

Also, take a look at: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

Hi @bowromir,

This has the makings of a good debate, (and nothing to do with “get non activated users”.. Someone close this thread!)

I want to argue with you, refute your points, etc., etc. – but in reality, I tend to agree with a lot of them.

You are right, this site is very poor when it comes to finding information – even, as you point out, “how to” information (tricks… I hate that word!) that you know you read just a few days ago.

I’ve seen little constructive feedback, desire or direction from Automattic on this. So, I understand the motivation to create a separate site that attempts to do the job of presenting technical “how to” information well (and easily searchable).

I’m a little uncomfortable though about mixing your commercial side (themes) in the same site as the community resource, but accept there are arguments each way. I don’t know much about Adii and WooThemes, but suspect a lot of their content is self generated, or produced by their theme users. Where I worry about the ethics is if things are simply taken from this site (or others) and represented as “another great trick brought to you by Bowe”.

Ok, enough of hijacking this thread – and @travel-junkie‘s excellent snippet. Let’s talk separately sometime.

Hi @rogercoathup,

Woow you almost make me feel guilty now! You make a few valid points, and I think the “problem” is that bp-tricks.com currently shows a big homepage offering my theme, while the actual community is not yet online. This might give you the impression it’s purely about business and making profit, and that is certainly not the case. It’s hard to defend myself when I only have a pre-order page to show, but if you read my reply here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/bp-slick-probably-the-best-bp-theme-ive-ever-seen/#post-73078 you hopefully have a better idea of what I’m trying to do.

I’ve been on this forums for a long time, and I’ve come across so many awesome tips and tricks which are only seen by a few, and lost for so many. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked for a tricks which I KNOW is here somewhere, but impossible to find back. That’s how BP-Tricks was born, and it will hopefully become a very nice resource for buddypress users. No ads, only BuddyPress related content, and no subscription models or anything like that. If you want to purchase a premium theme you can, and you’ll receive support for that, but it will not be promoted with ads or constant posts about why you should buy a Premium Theme or anything.

I hope that BP-Tricks becomes something like WooThemes or NetTuts.. have a huge bunch of cool resources and free stuff, while at the same time providing good support and nice designs/themes for people who wish to use that service. I personally have no problems with these kinds of services as long as you strike a balance between offering awesome stuff for free, and asking some money for certain services (in my case a Theme).

This has become quite a long reply sorry for that

@paulhastings0 – are you suggesting we should copy good code snippets from these forums across to a 3rd party site that will sell themes? That’s sounds like a lot of freely acquired content and SEO for what’s ostensibly a commercial business.

I’m generally happy to submit and publish code to help people on these forums (and for them to use how they see fit, commercial or otherwise). It will occasionally be abused, and there are spam sites that will trawl and re-publish as their own work, and we can’t prevent that.

However, if I thought it was being republished blatantly with little added value, as you suggest, as an offering from another business, I would be much more reluctant to publish it in the first place.

The main juice is the filter.

What you’ll want to do is disable the current filter and write a conditional to activate the filter (depending on where you want it to be enabled).

Let’s say you wanted to disable oEmbed from the home page, something like the following will work in your theme’s functions.php:

`remove_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content_body’, ‘ray_bp_oembed’, 9 );
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content’, ‘ray_bp_oembed’, 9 );

if( !is_front_page() ) {
// re add the filters
add_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content_body’, ‘ray_bp_oembed’, 9 );
add_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content’, ‘ray_bp_oembed’, 9 );
}`

You might have to play around with the conditional to get it right, but hopefully this gives you an idea.

*Word of warning: I’m restructuring the plugin, so these filters will need to change for v0.6.

Okay, so I’ll probably create a plugin for this in the coming week or two. Please remind me if I don’t get to this!

@dougjoseph – Your ideas have been discussed before.

Read this blog post on BuddyDev.com to post on a user’s profile (mirroring the functionality of bp.org):

Using activity as wire in Buddypress 1.2 themes

@janismo We use the Favicon Rotator plugin with our child theme: http://archetyped.com/tools/favicon-rotator/

@pcwriter: Thanks Patrick! Glad the screenshots sold the deal for you, I hope to not disappoint you, there’s a bunch of other stuff which hasn’t even been showed yet!

@skolbloggense: I’ll install CoureWare on my local install and see how it looks and behaves.. If it’s coded with the default theme in mind, it should behave pretty well.. If it contains LOTS of custom css and templates, it might mean that I’ll look into on a later date.. Depending on the work involved that might mean a special version of the theme to be released with custom templates, and to keep the code clean for people who are not using CourseWare. I need to study the amount of work involved to see if it can be a free download, or that it comes with a small price (like the MultiSite and s2member version). It is a good suggestion, and since Courseware is an important plugin for a lot of education based communities, it is something that will be right on top of to-do-list

I’ll report back to let you know how it behaves! Thank you for your pre-order

@fahadm150

Recipe for your success:

Wordpress for basic framework https://wordpress.org/download/ (Free)
Buddypress for community https://buddypress.org/download/ (Free)
s2member plugin for membership http://www.primothemes.com/post/product/s2member-membership-plugin-with-paypal/ (Free or Pro versions)
Videopress for awesome video functions http://videopress.com/ ($59.97/year) also available as a plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video/ (videos hosted at wordpress.com)

Hope this helps!

@amanson I think its something in the roadmap for a future release. If you’re talking about activity updates take a look at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-activity-stream-ajax-notifier/ probably the closest you’ll get.

you could do something really similar to what you’re talking about with using P2 Theme. especially if you need it for tomorrow.

I have preordered, and I would love to see it work with BuddyPress Courseware, they also have archivements I think…

@Bowe

Damn! After looking through the screenshots, I want one!
Just sent you my contact info through the pre-order form.
Very, very cool stuff. Thanks!

haha thanks @linusf that’s the biggest compliment I can get. I’m currently working very hard sorting all the little styling issues and setting up the support section+documentation. Then I need to create huge amount of Achievements for people to earn for submitting tricks, and then it’s ready for launch! I have quite a few small tricks, and hopefully others will be submitting their tricks soon.

Thanks for your interest and you can view some screenshots of the BP-Slick admin theme options here: http://bp-tricks.com/buddypress-slick-screenshots/.

I find myself constantly refreshing the site for it to go live. I guess I am a little bit tooo eager for my own good

The whole concept looks absolutely gorgeous, I cannot wait to read more about all the features availiable.

Keep up the good work!

You should be able to edit your sidebar.php in your child theme and change the ‘standard divs’ to your custom divs/css.

Had a look at some of the theme’s im using and really cant give you an example as it wouldn’t make sense. Also try looking in your functions.php as you could also play around with divs/css.

@groan , by “links” I actually mean BuddyPress URL paths such as “http://yoursite/…/groups/”. BuddyPress recognises a few of these (activity, groups, members, forums) and I believe these are directories in BuddyPress themes. Under unix operating systems (I’m installing on Linux) you can create “symbolic links” or “symlinks” which are like shortcuts to other directories. My solution was to “hack” such links into the “mobile_pack_base” and “mobile_pack_blue” themes, linking to the corresponding directories under the BuddyPress Default theme. And it worked. (I was a bit surprised) The lines starting with dollar signs are linux commands. If you don’t have command line access you may be able to create symlinks using ftp or something else, I’m not sure. If you’re on Windows I have no idea what to do.

PS. In retrospect I should have created a new and independent theme derived from “mobile_pack_base” which then included all of the symlinks. Or perhaps WordPress has a better way of doing such links that would work across platforms. I’m pretty new to WordPress.

the content has a border in the CSS if you are using a child theme then you need to add a border:none;

This looks like a classifications listing website? Why not look at classipress? I don’t think buddypress activities would work in this case, even a simple wordpress loop might work better here… frontend editor isn’t available without some workaround and plugins but I think its coming in the next release of wordpress… classipress theme has a frontend editor