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How to display Activity Stream in BuddyPress
On 19, Feb 2010 | 19 Comments | In | By Mike
First, be sure that you’ve got both WP/WPMU and BuddyPress installed properly. Then, to display the Activity news feed on the homepage of your BuddyPress installation, go into the Dashboard, then Settings and click on the Reading sub-menu link. Once there, select Activity Stream from the dropdown menu for the Front page display settings and make sure you have A static page selected. Press the Save Changes button and see your changes.
If you want your BuddyPress blog to be on on a page named News, for example, go to the Dashboard, then Pages and click on the Add New sub-menu link. Give the page a name by entering a title and then press the Publish button. Then, go to Settings then Reading and select your News page from the drop-down menu for Post page. Press the Save Changes button and see your changes.
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thanks. it was really very very helpful. trying to make a social network on my site todaysfunda.com
thanks again
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I was about to quit buddypress, until i found this very simple post. i thought i was having an installation issue. Thank
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Mike,
Thanks! I had wanted to do exactly that… putting the activity stream on the homepage. Our birding site continues to take shape! Loving BuddyPress! -
im trying to do something similar
i want my activity+blog combined.i want a seperate blog,
but those blogs have catagories
i also have videos and songs i upload
i want the activity stream to show them all (isnt that what its supposed to do anyway?)
but when i write something in the blog,
i want it to be in teh activity stream,
and when post something from the post-box on the activity stream, i want it to be posted AS A BLOG IN A SPECIFIC CATEGORY.
how does one do this? -
@skillful – you can create a separate blog by logging into the Dashboard as the Super Admin and then go to Super Admin >> Sites >> Add New. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be able to write as many posts to your hearts content and it will be automatically fed into the Activity Feed on your BP homepage… I’m pretty sure it’ll include post thumbnails, too, whenever your post includes a picture. If you want to create a status update with a video/image to display in the Activity Feed, you’ll have to use this plugin… http://buddypress.org/community/groups/oembed-for-buddypress/. As to doing thing backward, ie. creating a status update as a blog post, it’s not currently a feature of BP, to my knowledge at least. There may be some plugin that will do this but, by and large, people will most likely create a post through the write panel, if they’re already putting out an the effort to write several paragraphs. The only other way I could think of that may simulate something like this would be through this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/.
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i just dont seem to have the options you mentioned in the reading settings
“Once there, select Activity Stream from the dropdown menu for the Front page display settings and make sure you have A static page selected.”
for me the reading settings start with “Blog Pages shown the most” – the upper part is missing.
can you imagine why ?
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@Martin – My best guess is that you might not have Super Admin/Admin privileges. If you go to your own user profile, you might have to upgrade yourself to that level.
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thanks,,,
nice tips…. -
On the new stall, it returns: “The page you were looking for was not found.”
Hrm…
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Hiya,
I found this useful to in developing my site. Like the comments above though I wish I could have more on the landing page other than activity.A intro welcome message, site description at the top of the page for instance would be great for me. (maybe with a X cancel out option would be cool) or even a two column set up with free text to one side and a activity summery to the other.
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Hi Mike!
Graet tutorial. Anyway, can you give me an advice? I need to have activity stream and blog stream as widget on the main page. Have you any idea how to do this? -
@DavidH – Try this plugin for your welcome message … http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-popup/
@Tomas – Thank you! I’d recommend using this plugin http://buddydev.com/buddypress/buddypress-sitewide-activity-widget-for-buddypress-1-2-and-above/ for your sitewide activity stream and using the native RSS widget to pull in your blog stream (the rss address would be something like http://yourdomain.com/feed/)
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Excelent! You saved me a lot of time. Thanks again!
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Hey Mike,
Interesting, before I began my search in seeking help to display my activity stream on my home page. I did what you’re suggesting. However, I’m still getting the 404 page not found message. What else can it possibly be? I wanna believe that I’ve tried everything but I know I don’t know something here!
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thank you so much for this info you rock dude
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