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Ajax load more posts on BuddyPress member profile

Henry
Member

@henrywright-1

10 years, 6 months ago
I am using Michael Martin’s approach to load the next page of posts in WordPress via AJAX:

Load Next WordPress Posts With AJAX

This approach works very well on my tag and category pages.

My aim now is to display a list of posts on each BuddyPress member’s profile page and have the next page load via AJAX. The first part (displaying the list of posts) I can do like so:
```
$paged = ( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$args = array(
        'author' => bp_displayed_user_id(),
        'post_type' => 'post',
        'paged' => $paged
);

$query = new WP_Query( $args );
```
The part I am struggling with is getting the next page of results to load via AJAX – as outlined in Michael Martin’s approach. Michael’s approach works fine on tag and category archives so why not on the BuddyPress member profile page?

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Henry
Member

@henrywright-1

10 years, 6 months ago

OK got it down to the built in WP function next_posts() not taking into account the current component and current action parts of the URL.

The URL getting passed to the script is this username/page/3 whereas in BuddyPress we need username/current_component/current_action/page/3

Now my next problem is how to modify the link returned by next_posts() to add in the additional bit of the URL?

modemlooper
Moderator

@modemlooper

10 years, 6 months ago

why ajax? you will need a fall back if its disabled.

Henry
Member

@henrywright-1

10 years, 6 months ago

A couple of reasons but mainly to keep everything on one page. A load more button for posts is also consistent with the activity feed load more approach.

I was thinking the same about a fallback so I’ve added plain pagination to the page too – it gets hidden via the js so falls back nicely when js is disabled.

modemlooper
Moderator

@modemlooper

10 years, 6 months ago

Why not just create a custom activity feed for only blog posts?

Henry
Member

@henrywright-1

10 years, 6 months ago

I need the post list to stay updated e.g when a member updates a post, WP Query will display the updated title in the post list. With activity, the old entry will remain in the list and a new item will be written to the list as well.

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