You could do that. It is certain viable. If you have a activity stream within a user profile, maybe you could emphasise that more, so people use it?
Yeah That’s a good idea. Most of the users as of now use just the Main wall for viewing everything. Thanks for the tip and the response I was gonna start something tonight!
buddydev.com has two nice plugins that might do the brunt of the work for you. http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/ will force your users to their own profile upon login, and http://buddydev.com/plugins/facebook-like-user-activity-stream-for-buddypress/ will feed them content from the groups they are members of and people they are friends with.
@mrjarbenne Thanks for the links, But those are paid plugins and I am all about the open source! especially if it is for wordpress
@djpaul Hey was wondering if you might help me out with some idea concepts. I got the whole settings to work and added my own page to the nav bar, that part was easy. However I hit a topping point.
I thought it would be easier to check if an update was part of a group AND if the user is part of that group. However I am finding it difficult to check this.
I noticed that in the activity there is a item_id which if it is a group update it is the group Id … but is there any other way to check to see if the activity_update is a group other than this? What about changing the content type to activity_group_update or something… Right now I have this and it seems totally hackish and not good at all. Seems to work to check though but also is invalid for any other update other than a group one….
` global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
$hide_public_groups = get_user_meta( $current_user->ID, ‘hide_public_groups’ );
$hide_update = false;
if ( $hide_public_groups[0] == “yes” ) {
global $activities_template;
$group_id = $activities_template->activity->item_id;
$is_member_of_group = check_is_member_of_group( $current_user->ID, $group_id );
//echo $is_member_of_group;
if ( $is_member_of_group ) {
//this is working but is filtering out any other post
//need to check for if this is not a group post to just let it slide.
//maybe it is better to grab the groups_loop real quick and then just query for this specific group and then make sure it is public and is member….
//echo “no hide”;
//var_dump($group);
} else {
//echo “hide it”;
//$hide_update = true;
}
} `
Also just a note the check_is_member_of_group i stole from the class Bp_Groups_Member…
Any ideas anyone? I know this should be easier and I am way over thinking it.. It was late last night…
