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I made the same discussion here and someone posted a helpful link. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/forcing-groups-to-show-forum-first-instead-of-activity-wall-forcing-profile-first-instead-of-activity/

bp-custom must be created first by yourself to exist !
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/

@thealchemist @zkwc

This is a great find! I asked that very same question not too long ago:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-profile-the-default-tab-without-editing-wp-config/

Even posted an enhancement suggestion in trac where I was led to believe it can’t be done.
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/3007

Now I find the reference in the link supplied by @zkwc and, lo and behold, it looks like it CAN be done.

I can’t wait to test this out in my new BuddyBuilder theme framework.
If it works well, I’ll incorporate the idea in so users can select ANY one of the default subnavs as group home.

Glad I could help you all find the information. @pcwriter if you find that it works PLEASE let me know. I am somewhat savvy when coding but not savvy enough and I’m scared to try it for fear of breaking my site. Wuss, I know. Buddy used to give admins the option of showing the ‘wall’ or ‘activity’ or not and now that feature is gone and it’s confusing ALL, not just some, of my users. And they never know where to post, the forum or activity.

@thealchemist @zkwc @djpaul

Hurray!

The code snippet works just fine in functions.php. That’s good news for a theme designer: no worries about a theme overriding a user’s custom configurations in bp-custom.php.
Now I’m off to add “Group Landing Page” as an option in my new theme. It’ll be incorporated with the theme’s “Alternate Header” option too.

Then I’ve got to adapt the code to work with member profiles. My initial attempts have failed, but I’ve been known to be persistent at times

For future reference, here’s the code snippet to add to functions.php or, if you have created it, bp-custom.php.
You can see it in action here: http://rspacesandbox.org/ Click any group.

`function redirect_groups_to_forum() {
global $bp;
$path = clean_url( $_SERVER );
$path = apply_filters( ‘bp_uri’, $path );
if ( bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $bp->bp_options_nav ) === false )
bp_core_redirect( $path . $bp->bp_options_nav . ‘/’ );
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘redirect_groups_to_forum’ );`

@pcwriter @thealchemist

woohoo! that worked for my forums too! i am one happy camper. now hopefully my forums will stay clean! yay!

anyone know the code for profiles? would one just replace “profile” for “group” in the code for forums? thinking that there would be MORE to that, but I’m all ears.

thank you for testing @pcwriter !

@TheAlchemist if you’re seeing php scripting outputed by the browser then you have possibly left out php tags wrapping the function? depends on how your functions.php is arranged but generally as it tends to contain various disparate functions and snippets of code including markup php tags tend to be opened and closed on a per item basis.
@pcwriter There appears to be a bit of confusion over two separate requirements here; this sniipet of code is quite old and I think was actually written by r-a-y and perhaps ought to have been duly attributed! the function always did work in functions.php quite happily and I’ve been running it since early last year so it’s been around a while, your original request was for the profile tab a component and the ticket you raised for the constant to be defined in functions.php which in theory and practice is impossible as constants are pre-defined set values and have to be set before BP loads thus they can only work in wp-config or bp-custom.