BuddyPress Codex

Want to change the default BuddyPress “Activity” (activity stream) to “Dashboard”, or “The Activity Center”, or anything other than “Activity”? Here is how: Create wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php, and put the following: You may also want to change all labels associated by following these instructions: “Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs“.

Intro WordPress added oEmbed provider support in v4.4.0, allowing users to easily embed posts by copying a WordPress post URL and pasting it into the WordPress editor. WordPress 4.5.0 made further enhancements to the embed template for easier customization for theme developers. In BuddyPress 2.6.0, we are piggybacking off this functionality and enabling oEmbed provider […]

This page shows all the activities recorded in the groups you have joined. Filter to Show: Everything (default) Updates Group Updates Group Memberships New Groups Topics (if bbPress is activated) Replies (if bbPress is activated) ⇒ Next: Profile → View ⇐ Previous: Activity → Friends ⇐ Back to Member Guide

This panel shows all of your friends’ activities throughout the site. Filter to Show: Everything (default) Updates New Sites (if on Multisite installation) Posts Comments Friendships (if Friendships are enabled) New Groups (if Groups are enabled) Group Memberships (if Groups are enabled) Group Updates (if Groups are enabled) Topics (if bbPress is activated) Replies (if […]

This is a list of all the items (posts, comments, friendships, etc.) you have “favorited” in your Groups’ Activity Streams, the Sitewide Activity Stream, or even your own Personal Activity Stream. Filter to Show “favorited items” in: Everything (default) Updates Posts Comments New Groups (if Groups are enabled) Group Memberships (if Groups are enabled) Group […]

This page shows all the @ mentions you received throughout the site. Filter to Show @mentions in: Everything (default) Updates New Sites (if on Multisite installation) Posts Comments Friendships (if Friendships are enabled) New Groups (if Groups are enabled) Group Memberships (if Groups are enabled) Group Updates (if Groups are enabled) ⇒ Next: Activity → […]

This page is the record of all your activities throughout the site listed in chronological order. If you’re logged in, there’s a status update box before the activity stream where you can post what’s on your mind. Filter to Show: Everything (default) Updates New Sites (if on Multisite installation) Posts Comments Friendships (if Friendships are […]

Starting with BuddyPress 1.7, extended support for Akismet‘s anti-spam checking was integrated into the Activity Streams component. If you’re using Akismet, BuddyPress will seamlessly and silently send activity stream updates through for scanning, and prevent spammy ones from being made visible to your community based on the very same discussion settings you use for comments. […]

Note: This guide is for use with BuddyPress 2.2+. Any public registered post type can be tracked into the activity streams once it has been published. Here are the different options to add the “buddypress-activity” support to a public post type. Activate the Blogs component ( aka Site Tracking ) If you activate the Site […]

bp_activity_set_action() is used to set activity actions. bp_activity_set_action() should only be invoked through the ‘bp_register_activity_actions’ action. Usage Parameters $component_id The unique string ID of the component the activity action is attached to. Possible values can be one of the BuddyPress optional components or an optional component the plugin is creating : ‘activity’ ‘blogs’ ‘friends’ ‘groups’ […]