Activity Streams

Activity streams aggregate all of your activities across a BuddyPress installation.

Enabled BuddyPress components make use of the activity stream component, which means any sort of activity can be recorded. Blogs posts, new friendships and blog comments are among the most popular activities recorded. Furthermore, custom components can also hook into the activity streams, meaning any sort of data can be tracked and recorded.

Following are the the pages rendered in the front end of your site when the Activity Component is activated.

  1. Sitewide Activity Stream
  2. Member Activity Stream
    and if the Groups Component is active:
  3. Group Activity Stream

Sitewide Activity Stream Sitewide Activity Stream

Shows all activities throughout the site or network (if multisite)

Sitewide Activity Stream on BP Default Theme. Click on image to enlarge.

Sitewide Activity Stream on BP Default Theme. Click on image to enlarge.

    Sections

  • RSS feed
  • Selectbox: Show: Everything (default), Updates, Posts, Comments, New Groups, Group Memberships, Friendships, New Members
  • Status Update – visible to all logged in members only
    • Text Area box
    • Post In – Selectbox: Member’s Profile Page or to one of Membes’s Groups
    • Post Update button
  • Following buttons/links are visible to logged in members only
    • Comment button
    • Reply to Comment link
    • Favorite button or Remove Favorite button
    • Delete button – visible only to Super/Site Admin.

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Member Activity Stream Member Activity Stream

Shows the Member’s activities throughout the site.

    Sections
    Member Activity Stream on Twenty Twelve Theme. Click on image to enlarge.

    Member Activity Stream on Twenty Twelve Theme. Click on image to enlarge.

  • Personal – Shows your activities throughout the site. The status update form and following buttons are visible for logged-in members only.
    • Selectbox – Show: Everything (default), Updates, Posts, Comments, Friendships, New Groups, or Group Memberships
    • Status Update – visible to all logged in members only
      • Text Area box
      • Post In – Selectbox: Member’s Profile Page or to one of Membes’s Groups
      • Post Update button
    • Comment button
    • Reply to Comment link
    • Favorite button or Remove Favorite button
    • Delete button
  • Mentions – Shows a list of all @mentions for you. The following buttons are visible for logged-in members only.
    • Selectbox – Show: Everything (default), Updates, Posts, Comments, Friendships, New Groups, or Group Memberships
    • Comment button
    • Reply to Comment link
    • Favorite button or Remove Favorite button
  • Favorites – Shows a list of all items you clicked as “Favorite”. The following buttons are visible to the member only.
    • Selectbox – Show: Everything (default), Updates, Posts, Comments, Friendships, New Groups, or Group Memberships
    • Comment button
    • Reply to Comment link
    • Favorite button or Remove Favorite button
    • Delete button
  • Friends – Shows Activity Streams of your friends. The following buttons are visible for logged-in members only.
    • Selectbox – Show: Everything (default), Updates, Posts, Comments, Friendships, New Groups, or Group Memberships
    • Comment button
    • Reply to Comment link
    • Favorite button or Remove Favorite button
  • Groups – Shows the Activity Streams of the groups you’ve joined. The following buttons are visible to the member only.
    • Selectbox – Show: Everything (default), Updates, New Groups, or Group Memberships
    • Comment button
    • Reply to Comment link
    • Favorite button or Remove Favorite button

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Group Activity Stream Group Activity Stream

Shows the specific Group’s Activity Stream which is the default Home tab for any group.

Group Activity Stream on the Twenty Thirteen Theme. Click on image to enlarge.

Group Activity Stream on the Twenty Thirteen Theme. Click on image to enlarge.

    Sections

  • RSS feed
  • Selectbox: Show: Everything (default), Updates, Group Memberships
  • Status Update – visible to all logged in members only
    • Text Area box
    • Post In – Selectbox: Member’s Profile Page or to one of Membes’s Groups
    • Post Update button
  • Following buttons/links – visible to logged in group members only
    • Comment button
    • Reply to Comment link
    • Favorite button or Remove Favorite button
    • Delete button – visible only to Group Admin, Group Moderator and Super/Site Admin.

⇒ Related: Activity Stream Management Screens