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The Homepage link previously went direct to mysite.com and all my pages or blogs were at mysite.com/pagename.

Now all the new BuddyPress pages go to mysite/wordpress/buddypresspage That’s OK

All my previous pages and blogs still go to mysite/pagename That’s OK

The only problem is my ‘Homepage’ which was showing my most recent blogs but now shows mysite/wordpress

To be honest, I don’t know what would have happened if I’d gone to mysite/wordpress before, because nothing ever went to it!

Just worked out that if I change ‘Settings – Reading’ to ‘Static Page’ instead of ‘Latest Posts’ then the ‘Home’ Link will go to it, so will use that as a work around for now. Would still like to get my home page back to ‘Latest Posts’ though.

I have checked the above instructions. I’m using the above code and my site is sorted except for the ‘Home’ Page.

All my links, BuddyPress and the pre-existing WordPress links all open on the correct page except the ‘Home Page.

I’m using BuddyPress default theme and when I activated it. it created a ‘Home’ tag that goes straight to the Mysite/WordPress folder and lists its content.

I’ve created a static ‘Home’ page, and this to has created a ‘Home’ tag in the header that does actually go to the home page.

So, currently, I’ve got two ‘Home’ links in my header, an incorrect one taking me to a folder list, and a correct one taking me to my home page.

Is there a way of getting rid of the default home page, just leaving me with the new one I’ve created?

All I need now is for the ‘Home’ link in the header to point to mysite.com it currently points to mysite/wordpress

Anyone know how I change this?

The bp theme header shows

<div id="header">



<h1 id="logo"><a>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php bp_site_name() ?></a></h1>



<ul id="nav">

<li<?php if ( bp_is_front_page() ) : ?> class="selected"<?php endif; ?>>

<a>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>

So presumably (says she with little knowledge) I need to change this to something else?

Sorted. Thank you r-a-y for pointing me in the right direction.

I created a child theme, copied the header files into it. Changed the above two lines so they pointed to mysite.com instead of mysite.com/wordpress that they were originally pointing to.

Thank you once again.

I’m really pleased with your help, and with the result.

Sue

Only add it in one location. gian-ava has it in his /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php (note the path), so remove the snippet from your functions.php.

Its small, but I posted it in the pastbin anyway.

http://pastebin.com/sUTTdXik

Stupid question to ask now, I know, but do I have to activate bp-custom.php like a regular plugin?

Ray thanks so much for the help, you really have no idea how much sleep I’ve lost over this!

No problem, Tmort.
Sometimes all that’s needed is a hard refresh!

And no, you don’t have to activate bp-custom.php

@ffemtkl – what version of BP are you using? I think BP 1.2.4 might have fixed the issue.

The code looks like it’s working for the member profiles, but not the site activity page.

@ffemtkl – that’s because you probably have some whitespace at the end of the PHP closing tag. Delete anything after ?> and see if that fixes your problem.

@r-a-y – hey man thanks for being a great help here to the community. I’ve been reading most of your posts in the forums over the past several hours fighting with my permalinks in activity streams.

I saw your .htaccess redirect post for mismatch 301 and tried it but I think I need it customized for activity streams?

In my example, certain activity posts are just going to the front page of my site rather than the post itself, they’re all coded like: http://www.site.com/activity/p/0001 when you click ‘view’ it just goes to the home page

Pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to get them to refresh or something. My permalink structure is /%post_id%/%postname%

It’s making me crazy lol