Hello Sunnybuddy,

Welcome to the BuddyDev forums. Please let me know which theme or BuddyPress template pack you are using so that I can help. Also, let me know if you are using Youzify yes or no.

Regards
Ravi

Hello Sunnybuddy,

Thank you for the acknowledgement. As you said you are using the older BuddyPress which is why there is no activity search form in the latest version you can find it on the Activity directory page. But to check whether activity search is supported on your setup just try to add “?s=text-to-search” with the URL on the directory page and check whether it shows results or not. If it shows the expected result you can create a search form using HTML and make it searchable.

Please give it a try.

Regards
Ravi

Hello Sunny,

Thank you for the acknowledgment. Please place the following code in the “bp-custom.php” file or your active theme “functions.php” file.

add_shortcode( 'bp-activity-search-form', function ( $atts ) {

	if ( ! function_exists( 'bp_get_activity_directory_permalink' ) ) {
		return '';
	}

	$atts = shortcode_atts(
		array(
			'label'     => __( 'Search Activities', 'bp-custom' ),
			'btn_label' => __( 'Search', 'bp-custom' ),
		),
		$atts
	);

	ob_start();

	?>
	<div class="bp-activity-search-form">
		<?php if ( $atts['label'] ) : ?>
			<h4><?php echo esc_html( $atts['label'] ); ?></h4>
		<?php endif; ?>
		<form action="<?php echo esc_url( bp_get_activity_directory_permalink() ); ?>" method="get">
			<input type="text" name="s">
			<input type="submit" class="button" value="<?php echo esc_attr( $atts['btn_label'] ); ?>">
		</form>
	</div>
	<?php

	return ob_get_clean();
} );

Please use the shortcode “[bp-activity-search-form]”. It only works with the activity directory page. Please give it a try and let me know.

To more info on “bp-custom.php” check here: https://buddydev.com/docs/buddypress-guides/what-is-bp-custom-php/

Regards
Ravi