etivite :: \ē-'ti-və-tē\

For the people who might stumble upon this thread in the near future.. someone found a fix for showing the post_thumbnail:

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/replace-activity-stream-blog-excerpt-with-the_excerpt/

Nice one Rich! Fingers crossed Forum extras and moderation can play nicely with each other soon!

ahah! someone pinged me on twitter that bp-moderation was giving them some conflicts with restrict group creation. i haven’t installed it yet to see what is going on under the hood. think i will this week now, might be overriding stuff in a bad way. side note: as for the bp-custom vs functions – [...]

The culprit is BP Moderation – the new plugin by Francesco Laffi.

It must be conflicting in some way!

Rich, I take the above comment back! I have just installed it on a fresh site with no plugins and it works. I’m just gonna find the culprit now!
Give me 10 mins!

I added this to the bp-custom.php file I have in my plugins folder. Is that appropriate? I have added other functions in there in the past and it’s been fine but maybe I need to create a new file? I have tried with all plugins disabled too and still no joy. I’ll try it wth [...]

did you add this to the functions file?

i’ll have to dig into this more during the week. have you disabled all other plugins? try the default theme?

Hi Rich, Tried using the above code as is and it didn’t fix the issue unfortunately. Then I tried using the code without the if statement like this: function my_add_forum_privacy_sql() { { add_filter( ‘get_topics_fields’, ‘groups_add_forum_fields_sql’ ); add_filter( ‘get_topics_index_hint’, ‘groups_add_forum_tables_sql’ ); add_filter( ‘get_topics_where’, ‘groups_add_forum_where_sql’ ); } } add_filter( ‘bbpress_init’, ‘my_add_forum_privacy_sql’ ); I think that’s how it [...]

…and if the above does not work, just remove the if statement around the add_filter just to test it out.

into a functions/custom file

maybe something like this (the code above is already from buddypress core files)

Hey Rich, Right I’m back home now and going to try adding the add_filters. In which file am I adding them to and am I just pasting the code from above i.e. /* Only filter the forum SQL on group pages or on the forums directory */ if ( ( $bp->groups->current_group && ‘public’ == $bp->groups->current_group->status [...]

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I think that will be included as well.. I just need to make it easy to use… It would be best to make it a widget, but I don’t really know how to make it into a widget and make it easy for someone to add extra links to it.. So I think I’ll just [...]

The 2nd one worked.. thank you sir

ps: these smileys are awesome

Haha, just missed your reply! I’ll try that now!

Hmm… It is really weird, as I get this problem on 2 separate installs on 2 different servers now. It’s even stranger if you can’t replicate it also. The widget works on other pages too but just not the activity pages so at least we can isolate it but I too am at a loss. [...]

err nevermind – seems those filters are dynamically generated deep within bbPress.

Try hooking those 3 add_filter if on the activity component page (though I don’t know why they are restricted to just the group pages/forum directory)

A weird problem that I can’t replicate but I know the general area of concern with the functions. which is odd as it works fine locally and on this site (on the main page and activity page) bp_get_the_topic_permalink() and bp_get_the_topic_object_permalink and bp_get_the_topic_object_name some reason the vars stored in the global $forum_template $forum_template->topic->object_slug and $forum_template->topic->object_name is null in your instance. Looking in [...]

Any update on this Rich? Thanks!

bp_displayed_user_username() echos the output so you want bp_get_displayed_user_username()

though I don’t know the context of your code – also consider bp_get_loggedin_user_username

Thanks rich! I just edited my post though.. I thought I’d combine both questions I had.. woops I’ll see if I’ll get it to work.. If I can get it to work though I can add more custom post types to the stream.. nice! LOL.. that Arrogant Bastard beer is awesome… I need to [...]

you might have to decipher the information i posted in here: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/displaying-content-of-custom-field-in-activity-stream/ though with switching blogs for each activity item for a blog post would be processor intensive. A better way would be capturing the thumbnail during the activity stream add action and saving it in the activity meta table. (i need to look at [...]

my guess is end of the year for 1.3… but still waiting on 1.2.6.
http://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/

@bowromir Just seen the profile widget too on the top left! Oh man I NEED that!

@bowromir WOW, that site’s design looks pretty outstanding! Think You need to start releasing themes for me to buy!

Glad you got it to work! That tutorial should be there soon.. Working hard on the redesign: