BuddyPress activity stream is explained on Codex:
Activity Streams
It’s a feature for internal purpose. In other terms, an activity log(journal) of your site/network only.
Site tracking has a similar target (inform users), but oriented for statistics to search engines (like Google Analytics), advertisement & banner service, ping & trackback and other things happening with help of cookies. It’s used for external purpose and need generally a plugin to be managed.
If you are referring to the Site Tracking component – it is confusing.
A lot of the BP documentation refers to it as the Blogs component.
If you activate the Site Tracking component from the BuddyPress component’s Administration screen, the ‘post’ post_type will automatically have the “buddypress-activity” feature enable. So if you create a post, an entry will appear in the activity stream.
Comments about the post will also generate activities or, if you chose to “Allow the activity stream commenting on blog posts” from the BuddyPress settings Administration screen, comments will be synchronized with the activity stream.
@shanebp, I am unable to get comments to show up in my activity feed.. I even set up a staging environment, running only Buddypress with 2015 theme…. Still no comments! 🙁
Creating a post adds a row to the activity table, but commenting on that post doesn’t do anything.. Any thoughts??
I have made sure that I have buddypress properly configured to track post comments, but it isn’t working on my live site, or the staging environment that is running default wordpress theme and only one plugin, Buddypress..
Your help is much appreciated
Are you sure you have both the Site Tracking component from the BuddyPress component’s Administration screen AND the “Allow the activity stream commenting on blog posts” from the BuddyPress settings Administration screen selected ?
Create a new post and then comment on it.
Thanks @shanebp for these clarifications.
So I understand Site Tracking is some kind of “sub-component” of Activity Stream.
If Activity Stream is disabled, enabling Site Tracking is useless.
yes, sorta a misplaced admin option. its not a component at all. should be a setting and only show if activity is enabled.
