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See this plugin, which is made for that:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-sitewide-activity-widget/

WP’s comment widget is for main blog comments, not activity comments.

BuddyPress is a plugin dedicated to members, not blogs. On a multisite install, each member can get his separate blog, without limitation. These member blogs are then refrenced on a blog directory. An each membrer profile will show a blog directory with that member’s blog(s).

Groups is a component to group members, not blogs. If you need a group blog, instead or in addition of individual member blogs, you can use BuddyPress Groupblog. Such blog will be for all group members and each group can have only one blog. But each group member can have his own blog. In this case, the network will have a main blog, group blogs and individual blogs.

Whatever solution you use, a blog is always part of WordPress and will work exactly like the main site blog where you installed BuddyPress.
This means that it’s the responsability of each member with a blog to admin his blog, even if the main site admin has priority and can allow/disallow plugins and themes. Usually disallowed, so members can only use what main site admin decided they can use.

Enhancement can be asked on Trac. Read here about user participation and contribution to BuddyPress.

Participate and Contribute

Omg I just had a whole wall of text written up and while researching a link from earlier I found this:

https://gist.github.com/jonasnick/6125869

and it made my comments show up in activity, hopefully it’s what others need. Why I had to fight with buddypress and search the net for hours to make wordpress comments work is beyond me. I still don’t know if it’s supposed to out of the box or not, which I’ve tested.

@collinkemp – in this kind of situation I either ftp in or get to cpanel file manager.. either download a copy of your wp-content folder with http://ftp.. or make a zip / compressed folder of your wp-content folder to have a backup.

Then go into your wp-content/plugins/
– delete rtmedia err “buddypress-media” folder. Check if site comes back.
– if not start deleting other plugins and checking.. and or
– delete the non-default themes your have in you wp-content/themes folder

This should get you back to basic wordpress and buddypress and default theme – then you should be able to get into your wp-admin section and go to appearance – themes and select one of the defaults..

you may figure out what the hiccup was during the delete and check process.

sometimes when my rtmedia updates I have to go into permalinks – change them, save, then change them back and save again.. don’t know why, but 50% of the time rtmedia updates causes a bunch of my static “pages” to be “404 not found” and the permalinks change then change back and save fixes it.. it’s a weird bloated plugin.. but glad it’s here.

Afaik there is nothing out to do this.

As start point, this snippet which let you hide a profile by user_id. Add it to bp-custom.php

function bpfr_hide_user_profile() {
global $bp; 
// hide user_id 35
if(bp_is_profile && $bp->displayed_user->id == 35 && $bp->loggedin_user->id != 35) :
   wp_redirect( home_url() );
   exit;
endif;
}
add_action( 'wp', 'bpfr_hide_user_profile', 1 );

Also, from here
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/temporarily-blocking-a-user-while-keeping-their-datanetwork/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-verified/

I’m wondering what is a username for you.

WP register only a user by username (aka pseudonym), email and password. BP add a Name field in which you can add anything: username, first or lastname. In the user table, there is also display_name, wich is the combination of first and last name from a WP user profile, before BuddyPress was installed or if you allow your users to enter the dashboard, and they start to play with their profile settings. IMHO, it’s better they haven’t that access when BP is activated. 👮

When on the members directory, you (connected or not) can search a member by using his username.

If you use WP’s site search from toolbar or the search widget (same thing), it doesn’t work, as members are not post types… 👣

For now, i’m unsure what you want to fetch. Do you mean display_name ?

All search forms available in BP are contextualized, as @henrywright expected.

A BP class can be extended, a core function with a filter can be extended. You simply add your own to it.
In other cases, like for bp_core_action_search_site function (in bp-core-classes.php)
there is an action and a filter. Wow. 💪

You can rewrite the whole function and use the action hook or only change a part of it by using the filter.

remove_action( 'bp_init', 'bp_core_action_search_site', 7 );
function my_custom_core_action_search_site() {
   bla bla bla....
}
add_action( 'bp_init', 'my_custom_core_action_search_site', 7 );

or
add_filter( 'filter_name', function_name');

Theorie here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-override-core-function/

But before hacking to deep, read here:

Members Loop

Maybe you could find some interesting things about include or search_tems options. 👀

If all this is too much for you, consider this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-global-search/

@prabin04, @henrywright
🚧 i’m really not an expert in matter of BP search, but thank you for your consideration.

shareit/wordpress/sample-page/groups/test this path looks strange.

In which directory are WP/BP installed ?

Configure BuddyPress

Each component page must stay blank and without any template models or parent page…
Permalinks must be enabled, using any option except “default”.

Consider this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-users/

Works like a charm from within user profile admin.
dashboard > users > username > modify and check Disable User Account

Search by username is not possible yet with the mentionned plugin.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-by-username

If you’re comfortable with coding, see this gist.

Site search source code is in bp-core-functions.php:2236

By post do you mean a WordPress post?

I’m not sure that the standard member search looks for usernames. @danbp can you shed any light on that?

You may need to use the BP Profile Search plugin.

@varun404 – first thing I would do is go to settings -> permalinks.. make note of what they are.
Then change them to something else.
save.
then change back to pretty permalinks.
save.

then check your url – is it working then?

if not.. then make sure you have created pages that bp needs, and associated them:

Configure BuddyPress

if that is all set write, I would check my htaccess to make sure it is writable and wordpress is indeed adding code to make permalinks work.

hi @tafmakura,

As first, did you activated Activity auto-refresh in BP settings ?
Second, as it concern a custom feature of yours, you have to check for ajax requests on your action post variable.
That said, there is a latency of 15 seconds before “load more” will show up a new activity. Not sure if this can be modified.

Seach on Trac for some hints about Ajax and activity.
Perhaps those tickets #5328, #6195 can help you.