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I was pretty amazed that something like the activity stream on front page issue could exist especially as it seems such a core part of WP/BP and not exactly hidden, and more it worries me that it’s left to kindly souls as r-a-y rich! and rvenable to try and find a solution and before anyone says it.. no it’s not a given that this is how projects work

To some extent if you are planning on rolling with BP there is little point in waiting for ever more and a day for a 100% stable release as there is unlikely to be such a thing for quite a while, it’s the nature of the methodology in use and for very reminiscent of the early days of WP. 1.2.4.1 and WP 3.0 is holding up pretty well yes there are issues but you’ll have to bite the bullet at some point

Sad, that every time you get the courage together to update any part of a BuddyPress installation, the whole system explodes. (OK, you can say: “There are hack in Trac!” – seriously: come on!) I was hoping, these problems would be tested more thoroughly in the meantime but I am losing faith in BuddyPress here. Was hoping to recommend BuddyPress to actually be used soon – but how can one recommend a system that very well may crash and waste huge amounts of support-time at each upgrad?

W3 Total Cache, but not its Page Caching with BuddyPress.

Welcome Pack doesn’t touch that email; it only does some of the core BuddyPress emails in the current version. Erich’s asking about a WordPress email.

Very odd although apparently not uncommon:

I used the excellent bp-template-pack plugin and am now up to step three (the plugin “skipped” step two). This is the step where the plugin identifies what index files I need to edit to match the structure. But for some reason none of my edits are taking. I am ftping the edited php files back to my theme directory but it almost seems like buddypress is pulling from somewhere else, is that possible? I went as far as deleting my /activity/index.php file and somehow the activity page still shows up. What can I be missing here? I’ve seen a few other posts about similar “edits” not “showing up”. Any ideas on what to troubleshoot would be greatly appreciated.

I am using the (http://tinyurl.com/cpmq9u) Magazeen theme and wordpress 3.0 and buddypress 1.2.4.1 and template pack 1.0.2.

Thanks!

well, that is the first thing I could come up with @hnla

@erich73 – try the welcome pack plugin, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

Sorry, I should of mentioned I have already run the theme through BP Compatibility. The theme displays ok until you look at any buddypress related page where the sidebar will display under the page.

I understand I have to fix the alignment by matching the structure of page.php to the child theme pages (e.g /activity/index.php, /blogs/index.php). So how do I go about matching the structure?

Here is the page.php file

http://www.makingtrails.com/page.txt

If you want the redirect to happen after only the new user’s first log in, use the Start Page feature of Welcome Pack.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

Run this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

@dennis_h huh, i just noticed load more is no longer working too… is that in trac?

as for all the forum vs activity – i’m still hacking away at an activity stream discussion to replace bbpress. i hit a snag and more important projects came up so i’ll try and revisit it soon.

i still think the activity stream is the core of buddypress – if you can wrangle it and tone down the duplicates (ie, for blog comments/posts/forums topics/posts remove the excerpt and just make it a one liner with a permalink to blog and comment) – xxxxx user left a comment on blog xxxxxx. That is the nice thing about BP – change whatever you want.

i also have another advanced plugin – this would replace blog comments with the activity stream (though i don’t know how this works with a wpmu setup – single it works great)
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-as-blog-comments/

I am attempting to convert a theme called Blocks (Version 3) but these theme looks too complex for me? Could someone have a quick look and tell me what I need to do?

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/blocks

Thanks!

I dropped @rvenable‘s fix into my functions.php file for my child theme and it worked like a charm. Thanks yall.

Well it would work that is one of the methods to manipulating what appears as front page built into WP. The point to this thread was attempting to find a solution to the actual issue, ones meant to be able to set the activity stream from the backend but can’t, the thread arrives at a temporary solution to this.

Hey guys, I just wrote a simple work around for this. Its working for me.

1. Create a Page Template for the Activity Stream
2. Create a Page with the Page Template (now that page shows the activity)
3. Use that page as the front page (This is normal for wp and works)

That’s it. see it here – http://millionclues.com/problogging/wordpress-tips/fix-for-buddypress-activity-stream-not-showing-up-on-homepage/

@menel001 see if this helps – http://millionclues.com/problogging/wordpress-tips/fix-for-buddypress-activity-stream-not-showing-up-on-homepage/

How to apply the patch? Where to apply?

Many thanks @r-a-y. :***

Hello everyone. I am having a slight problem with the budypress plug in. It wants to take over my website and change the face of it.
I am looking to install a social network as part of the wordpress blog, not in place of it. I would like it to reside in mydomain.com/buddypress or something like that. I am a Star Trek podcast and we want to create a social network like we had on ning, but if we have to migrate to an alternative, why not just take it in house and host it on our own server. So basically when you go to my home page which is at http://www.LouTrekShow.com you can see a link to our social network which would be http://www.LouTrekShow.com/buddypress and then the social network will pop up where people can hang out.
Is it possible to do this with buddypress??
Thank you.

Create a WordPress page and apply a page template first.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

Do not use a PHP plugin like ExecPHP unless you really have to.

You’re passing the parameters wrong.

if ( bp_has_activities( 'object=groups&primary_id=2') ) : bp_the_activity();

You can either create a shortcode plugin that uses the BP activities loop, or create a PHP page template with the activities loop with the group parameters passed into it:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

Hello,
I’ve using the buddypress template pack and I still have this message:

BuddyPress is ready. You’ll need to activate a BuddyPress compatible theme to take advantage of all of the features. We’ve bundled a default theme, but you can always install some other compatible themes or upgrade your existing WordPress theme.

What changes do I need to make to get rid of this message.

Thanks in advance.