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I’ve got no advice the actual problem as I’ve only been banging my head against BuddyPress for about a week, but did you check to see that the update didn’t overwrite your changes? My understanding is that you need to use a child theme for file changes so that updates don’t overwrite them.

The last update of Custom Community seems to have a lot of problems. Unfortunately, that’s about as far as my knowledge of it extends. I’ve ended up just renaming and moving the activity tab.

I made it so that the “home” tab was named the “activity” tab, moved it over, and made the “forum” tab the first tab that users see when viewing a group. That way at least the first thing they see isn’t the activity feed for the group which is very overwhelming.

You can do this for each group individually using the BuddPress Group Extras plugin, but you’d have to do it one group at a time. Instead, I added some code to my functions.php in my child theme to do the same thing, but for all groups.

Below are the two functions I created. The first renames the activity tab and moves it over, the second forces the “forum” tab to be the first tab a user sees when visiting the group (unless the group has no forum in which case it still defaults to the activity tab).

//function to reorder and rename group tabs in buddypress
function whff_setup_nav() 
{

global $bp;

  if (isset($bp->groups->current_group->slug) && $bp->groups->current_group->slug == $bp->current_item) 
  {
     $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['position'] = 110;
	 
	 $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['name'] = 'Activity';
	 
}

} 
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'whff_setup_nav', 100000 );

//function to redirect group home pages to the forum tab instead of the activity tab
function redirect_group_home() {
  global $bp;
  $path = clean_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
  $path = apply_filters( 'bp_uri', $path );
  if (bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['slug'] ) === false && bp_is_active('forums') ) {
    if ($bp->groups->current_group->is_user_member || $bp->groups->current_group->status == 'public') {
      bp_core_redirect( $path . 'forum/' );
    }
  }
  
}

add_action('bp_init', 'redirect_group_home');

Hi! I must admit that I love buddypress. But the activity page has not been well thought for the common usage. I agree that being able to collapse comments easily would be a huge step forward for the plugin. It should actually be in the options. Another option that is a MUST is the possibility of making updates the default, not everything.
Without those, Buddypress is not going anywhere. With those buddypress would be a revolution.
I have looked for info everywhere and nothing worked for me. I really love the plugin, you guys are awesome but please consider those two elements as usability necessities. It’s not just details.
I am running with everything updated wordpress, buddypress everything. Please help, anyone, peers?

I didn’t take it away because it’s still useful, and with the filter options the general “noise” is much less. If you have a forum, it’s not the most used part of the network, the people who will be using my network are more focused on the forum. By making the forums the first thing they see and not the activity feed, it makes it so the activity feed is an extra feature and not the main focus of the group.