Topic: Create News Feed like Facebook

Create News Feed like Facebook

@avaiya

Participant

6 years, 9 months ago

Hi there,
I just started using BuddyPress for my membership site 2 weeks ago. Is there a way to have a page, kind of like the Home page of Facebook, where you see a news feed of everyone’s posts in the membership?

I see that under each person’s Profile, there’s an Activity feed, but that only shows the activity of that person. I want members to be able to see the activity of everyone, all in one place.

Thanks!

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@venutius

Moderator

6 years, 9 months ago

I think there’s a few ways of achieving this, for one thing there’s a bunch of plugins that change the default activity feed in the members howmepage. Take a look at https://buddydev.com/plugins/facebook-like-user-activity-stream-for-buddypress/ That would make a good start.

Another way is to Overload the activity-loop page in BuuddyPress, this basciall does what the plugins do, but without a plugin. You can take the default page from the plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/activity-loop.php and change the way the activity filters work for your site. It’s a bit more advanced but there’s plenty of forum posts about doing it.

@avaiya

Participant

6 years, 9 months ago

Thank you @venutius! I will pass this along to my web guy and we’ll implement it. Much appreciated.

quick question:

If we do the option to overload the activity loop will it be possible to have:

-An activity feed showing activity from all members on our Home Page
AND
-On a members personal profile page, it just shows their personal activity stream?

@venutius

Moderator

6 years, 9 months ago

Yes you can do that, you can set new default filters for the activity to be shown.

@owencarver

Participant

5 years, 4 months ago

BuddyPress does not have this as a default option in the activity feed settings?

@owencarver

Participant

5 years, 4 months ago

I saw the “Youzer” plugin has a full-site activity feed like facebook, at http://www.mysite.com/activity/.

@songdove

Participant

3 years, 9 months ago

Look up Wbcom Designs – Shortcodes & Elementor Widgets For BuddyPress in the wordpress.com plugin database. I used this to make a main feed with the activity shortcode they offer. But sitename.com/activity does it as well without any additional plugin.

@jakub0ne

Participant

3 years, 9 months ago

youzer plugin is really nice!

@vapvarun

Participant

3 years, 9 months ago

You can also try https://wbcomdesigns.com/downloads/buddypress-newsfeed/