Newsfeed and Personal Tabs
This page explains what logged-in members see once BuddyPress Newsfeed is active, and how the two new sub-tabs work from a member’s perspective.
Where the tabs appear
Section titled “Where the tabs appear”The tabs appear on the member Activity page, which is at a URL like:
https://yoursite.com/members/username/activity/The standard BuddyPress activity sub-tabs (Friends, Groups, Mentions, Favorites) are replaced by two tabs:
- Newsfeed: a merged stream of all connected activity
- Personal: only that member’s own posts
Both tabs are also added to the WordPress admin bar under My Account > Activity.
The Newsfeed tab
Section titled “The Newsfeed tab”The Newsfeed tab aggregates activity from several sources into a single chronological stream. Which sources appear depends on which BuddyPress components are active on your site:
| Source | Required component |
|---|---|
| Member’s own posts | Always included |
| Friends’ posts | BuddyPress Friends |
| Group activity | BuddyPress Groups |
| Followed members’ posts | BuddyPress Follow or BP Activity Follow |
| Mentions of the member | BuddyPress Activity |
| Favorites | BuddyPress Activity |
If the Disable for Activity-Specific Tabs setting is on (the default), the individual sub-tabs (Friends, Groups, Mentions, Favorites, Following) are hidden from the member’s activity navigation. All of that content flows into the Newsfeed tab instead.
Members visiting another member’s profile see the Newsfeed and Personal tabs only on that member’s page. The tab that loads by default depends on the Default Tab Selection setting.
Activity post form
Section titled “Activity post form”If Enable Activity Post Form on Newsfeed is turned on (the default), the standard BuddyPress activity post form appears at the top of the Newsfeed tab when a member views their own profile. Members can post new activity updates directly from the Newsfeed tab without navigating away.
The post form is only shown to the logged-in member on their own profile page. It does not appear when viewing another member’s profile, and it does not appear to logged-out visitors.
The Personal tab
Section titled “The Personal tab”The Personal tab shows only the activity that the member themselves has posted. It is equivalent to the standard BuddyPress “Just Me” filter, separated out into its own tab.
The tab uses the URL slug just-me:
https://yoursite.com/members/username/activity/just-me/Logged-out visitors
Section titled “Logged-out visitors”Logged-out visitors who land on a member’s activity page do not see the activity post form. The rest of the activity stream (Newsfeed and Personal tabs) is visible according to your BuddyPress privacy settings.
Tab order
Section titled “Tab order”The Default Tab Selection setting controls which tab is shown first when a member lands on their activity page:
- Newsfeed first (default): the Newsfeed tab loads when visiting
/activity/. The Personal tab is available as a second tab. - Personal first: the Personal tab loads first. The Newsfeed tab is available as a second tab.
Mention notifications
Section titled “Mention notifications”When a member is mentioned in an activity post, the notification link points to their Newsfeed tab (or to the activity section root, depending on which tab is set as default). This keeps the member in the unified feed rather than jumping to a separate Mentions tab.
Note: mention notification link rewriting only activates if the internal tomerge setting includes mentions. This setting is not configurable through the admin interface in the current version and defaults to inactive, so mention notification links use BuddyPress defaults unless configured directly in the database.