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  • August 21, 2018 at 8:45 am #6520
    Michelle Morales
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    I have a question about my site on WordPress using Commons in a box. We use BuddyPress and have one main site, with various child sites. We have profile pages on the main site that feed from the child sites and show our members activity: https://futuresinitiative.org/members/mmorales/

    For one particular child site: https://futuresinitiative.org/mentors, we see no activity on our members pages, but we have members who are extremely active on the child site. This seems to be a problem for only this particular child site. Could someone please assist me?

    Thank you in advance!

    August 21, 2018 at 5:10 pm #6521
    Ray
    Keymaster

    Hi Michelle,

    Can you elaborate on the type of missing activity that should be visible on member profile pages? Are you talking about blog posts or something else?

    On the mentors site, I took a look at the latest post from one of the members:
    https://futuresinitiative.org/mentors/author/lmelendez/

    And the post is populated in their BuddyPress profile page:
    https://futuresinitiative.org/members/lmelendez/

    Are there instances where this isn’t happening correctly?

    —-

    Also, there appears to be a scrollbar bug on the site. If you view the Site-wide Activity page:
    https://futuresinitiative.org/activity/

    You can’t scroll down to view further content. Looks like the theme designer implemented a custom scrollbar that is preventing the scrolling from working correctly.

    The problem can be fixed by removing the following CSS declaration:
    html {overflow:hidden}

    I only tested this on a desktop browser, but I would probably suggest doing away with the custom scrollbar.

    August 22, 2018 at 8:46 am #6523
    Michelle Morales
    Participant

    Thanks for catching that bug!

     

    That’s exactly the type of activity I was referencing. It looks like it is working for some users but not for others. Lauren’s account looks correct, but when I look at for example the account of Alexis: https://futuresinitiative.org/members/alexispaulin/

    I see no activity, but she has posted on the mentors site: https://futuresinitiative.org/mentors/2018/03/28/do-black-lives-matter/

     

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by Michelle Morales.
    August 22, 2018 at 2:13 pm #6525
    Ray
    Keymaster

    Hi Michelle,

    If you recently turned on the BuddyPress Site Tracking component under “Network Admin > Settings > BuddyPress > Components”, then that only records activity for new blog posts into the activity stream. Unfortunately, this does not backfill older blog posts into the activity stream at the moment.

    You can try resaving Alexis’s post from the mentors WP admin dashboard and that should re-add the activity item into the activity stream. Let me know if that works or not.

    The other scenario I see is that Alexis or a site moderator might have manually removed the activity item from their activity stream, but this is just a guess.

    Probably the former is likely the cause, but I could use some verification.

    August 23, 2018 at 8:31 am #6526
    Michelle Morales
    Participant

    That component is activated, but I’m not sure when it was turned on exactly. I tried resaving Alexis’ post, but it still does not appear. I also tried creating a new post with a test account: https://futuresinitiative.org/mentors/2018/08/23/test-blog-post-activity/

    And this post doesn’t appear in the activity list either: https://futuresinitiative.org/members/michelletest/

    Could it be a difference in the settings on the different accounts? Where some will have activity and some won’t?

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by Michelle Morales.
    August 23, 2018 at 12:41 pm #6528
    Ray
    Keymaster

    Hi Michelle,

    In the mentors WP admin dashboard, can you go to the “Settings > Reading” page and tell me what is selected under the “Search Engine Visibility” setting?

    August 23, 2018 at 4:01 pm #6529
    Michelle Morales
    Participant

    Hey Ray,

    The following item is selected: Allow search engines to index this site

    Thanks!

    August 23, 2018 at 10:40 pm #6530
    Ray
    Keymaster

    Hi Michelle,

    My guess is that there is some custom code that is preventing blog posts from the mentors site from being recorded into the activity stream.

    It’s hard to tell without looking into your site. Ask your developer to check their code for any snippets that is interacting with the BuddyPress activity component. Common places for code snippets are the /wp-content/mu-plugins directory, wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file and the current theme’s functions.php file.

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