Activity stream is the centralized place for users to see everything that is going on in the community.
It can be set as a home page for your site by going in to WP Admin -> Settings -> Reading and selecting the static page, then choosing Activity stream page as a home page.
This setting will change the home page of your site and display the activity stream for users that are landing to your top level domain (ex. www.domain.com)
All of the items posted in activity stream respect the privacy option attached to them.
For example, if someone post something that is visible only to their friends, users who are not friends with the poster will not see that content.
Activity stream is divided in three (3) areas
Postbox is the most commonly used feature of the community as it allows users to post content.
It also allows selecting the privacy for the posted item, choosing a mood that will be displayed in stream item, or scheduling posts for the later date.
Pin a stream post when publishing or scheduling is available as well. Post can now be pinned until a specific time and date, after which the posts will unpin themselves. It’s possible to pin posts directly from within the postbox, including “pin until…” feature.
Filtering the activity stream to find the exact posts you’ve been looking for is possible with four (4) different options
1. General filter by:
2. Ownership filter
In this filter you can chose whether to show or hide stream items that you made.
3. Only pinned filter: If you have configured your Groups to only pin group posts inside groups – “pin only inside groups” is enabled, you can filter the stream to only see pinned posts – for easier management of pinned posts, as they show in one place. . Users are able to quickly overview the most important things in the community (including inside groups) without too much clicking or scrolling.
4. Search by keyword
If you wish to search activity streams by certain keyword, you can do that in third filter.
Available options are:
5. Filter by #Hashtags
Allows searching the stream items for the posted hashtags.
Every stream item is made out of four elements
Dropdown menu for the stream post contains the following options: