Change BuddyPress Activity Stream From Default Everything to Other Updates
On a WordPress social network powered by BuddyPress, the Activity Stream records just about everything that happens on the site, blog posts, new friendships, blog comments, and more. Custom components can hook into it too, so any kind of data can end up tracked and recorded.
There are three BuddyPress activity streams:
1. Sitewide Activity Stream: shows all activity across the site or network.
A select box controls what shows: Everything (default), Updates, Posts, Comments, New Groups, Group Memberships, Friendships, New Members.
2. Member Activity Stream: shows a member’s activity across the site.
Tabs let you switch between Personal, Mentions (all @mentions for you), Favorites (items you’ve favorited), Friends (your friends’ activity), and Groups (activity from groups you’ve joined), each with its own select box.
3. Group Activity Stream: shows a specific group’s activity, which is also the default Home tab for any group.
By default, the select box for every one of these is set to “Everything.” To change that default, we built BuddyPress Activity Filter.
BuddyPress Activity Filter
Admins can set a default activity feed and customize which activity types show up, all from the plugin settings, no custom code required.
You can change the default from “Everything” to, say, “Post Updates,” and remove specific activity types from the site entirely. Before this plugin existed, doing any of this meant digging into custom code.
1. Select the activity to set as default (replacing “Everything”)
2. Choose which activity types to hide
3. Add a custom post type to the filter and choose where it shows, sitewide activity stream, group activity stream, or both
Features of BuddyPress Activity Filter:
- Customized activities listed on the front end
- Select which activity shows on the activity page by default
- Select which activity or activities to hide from the front-end activity list
Free! BuddyPress Activity Filter
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