I am new to BuddyPress WordPress development and believe there is a solution to the workaround I have created and am looking for insight.

I have altered the format of the activity output through the core bp plugin in bp-activity/bp-activity-template.php at the function bp_activity_action(). All that was done is a reformatting of the activity from a straight line output to a stacked output for group and document posts.

It seems that this should be a filter application but am not sure if I must create a plugin in order to add a new filter or if I can add and apply the filter in my theme somewhere.

Thanks in advance.

[@boonebgorges Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

I’m not sure what you mean by reformatting “to a stacked output”, but you can definitely modify the output of bp_activity_action() without modifying the core BP files. In your theme’s functions.php, try a function like the following:

`function holt_modify_action( $action, $activity ) {
// $action is the unmodified action text produced by BP.
// $activity is a structured object with information about the activity
// Use those two values to concatenate whatever value you’d like, and then return it like this:
return $my_action;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_action’, ‘holt_modify_action’, 10, 2 );`

[@webdevmatt Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

This was exactly what I was looking for @boonebgorges. That approach is perfect. As for a “stacked output,” we stacked the output activity as opposed to keeping it inline eg.
default =
[user] posted and update in the group [group name]
stacked=
User: [user]
Group: [group name]

Thank you again.

[@boonebgorges Keymaster 14 years, 3 months ago]

Cool. Glad it works!

[@chouxpastry2002 Participant 14 years, 2 months ago]

hello sir,

Can you please guide me how to use this function to filter ‘user joined’ and ‘user created’ a group from groups activity.

Awaiting your response.

Sam.