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[Resolved] Display Custom Post Types in Activity Feed

  • Hello, our company uses BuddyPress to power our website. To extend our StudioPress theme to work on BuddyPress, we use GenesisConnect. Our website, Vimrk.com uses custom post types called “videos” and “pictures”. I’ve tried various variations of code (Don’t have any of the snippets on me right now) in the functions.php file of the theme that I found googling. Sadly, I’ve had no success with anything. Does anyone have a snippet that they can confirm working to show custom post type post creations in the feed on the latest version of BP?

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  • Roger Coathup
    Participant

    @rogercoathup

    BuddyPress provides a filter to let you do this.

    If you look through the code for recording a post (hooked on save_post) in the bp-blogs component, you should be able to figure out how to use it.

    Still no luck using the code for bp-blogs in my functions.php:
    http://pastebin.com/evuFQE5H

    Edit: nvm, got it working, figured it out. Need to have BuddyPress aware of new content.


    4ella
    Participant

    @4ella

    Hello , can you please publish here your solution ? I would be glad to see my new custom post types in activity too, to create new custom post type “portfolio” I use gravity forms


    Roger Coathup
    Participant

    @rogercoathup

    Your solution: copying the whole BuddyPress function and changing one line is not the best way to do this.

    As I suggested earlier — that BuddyPress function has a filter for the post types it works with: bp_blogs_record_post_post_types

    All you need to do is register a filter that adds your custom post types to the array of post types.

    Here’s a better solution then: http://pastebin.com/VJ6pR9az


    shanebp
    Moderator

    @shanebp

    @azizmb

    This approach might be safer for most people.
    It adds to the recorded post_types instead of replacing them.

    `
    add_filter ( ‘bp_blogs_record_post_post_types’, ‘activity_publish_custom_post_types’,1,1 );
    function activity_publish_custom_post_types( $post_types ) {
    $post_types[] = ‘videos’;
    $post_types[] = ‘pictures’;
    return $post_types;
    }
    `

    And if you go thru the trouble of creating a CPT, why not filter the activity action so it isn’t the generic ‘…wrote a new post’. For example:

    `
    add_filter(‘bp_blogs_activity_new_post_action’, ‘record_cpt_activity_action’, 1, 3);
    function record_cpt_activity_action( $activity_action, $post, $post_permalink ) {
    global $bp;
    if( $post->post_type == ‘videos’ ) {
    if ( is_multisite() )
    $activity_action = sprintf( __( ‘%1$s created a new Videos post, %2$s, on the site %3$s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), ‘‘ . $post->post_title . ‘‘, ‘‘ . get_blog_option( $blog_id, ‘blogname’ ) . ‘‘ );

    else
    $activity_action = sprintf( __( ‘%1$s created a new Videos post, %2$s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), ‘‘ . $post->post_title . ‘‘ );

    }

    return $activity_action;
    }
    `

    Thanks. You’re right, the first approach would be safer for most people. I kept my approach because I didn’t want anything else besides videos and pictures showing in the stream. As for the second snippet, already got one working but didn’t get a chance to post it, so thanks a lot for sharing!


    Maxaud
    Participant

    @maxaud

    I’m curious, how can we add a sort option like the “mentions” tab for this custom activity?

    A way to view view strictly the activity for this custom post type.


    Cidade Sonho
    Participant

    @somdefabrica

    Thanks *-*


    esscott
    Participant

    @esscott

    I hate to have to ask, but where does the above code need to be inserted? Will it work in 1.7?


    shanebp
    Moderator

    @shanebp

    Put it in bp-custom.php – after you remove all the ‘br’ tags.
    https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/bp-custom-php/

    Should be fine in 1.7


    thecorkboard
    Participant

    @thecorkboard

    Thanks, @shanebp, that worked like a charm. The only issue I have is that it the content type is being posted with the “mini” class instead of as a normal size in the activity stream. Any thoughts on how to remove that class?


    richtelford
    Participant

    @richtelford

    I’ve been working on my first BuddyPress site last couple of weeks so stumbling around forum posts quite a lot.

    You’ve probably already found a fix @thecorkboard but I used the “bp_get_activity_css_class” to strip out the “mini” class when not required.

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