Hi, in my Buddypress 1.5 install, the activity stream shows truncated updates (excerpts). There is a “[…]” after the truncation, but no active link.

This was listed as a feature here: http://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-1-5/
and this ticket documents the development of it: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2635

But it doesn’t show up.

Does this need to be enabled somewhere? Is it a bug?

(My site: http://storyaday.org)

Thanks!

[@storyaday Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

FYI I’m not the only one who’s noticed this: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-buddypress-group-forum-extras-readmore-activity-link-broken-in-forums-for-bp-15?replies=4#post-2788023

"Read More" option for forum updates that appear in the activity stream

[@storyaday Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

Any chance of an answer on this?

[@storyaday Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

Anyone?

[@mercime Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

@storyaday change to bp-default theme and check if issue is corrected. If so, contact your custom theme author about the issue.

[@storyaday Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks.

I tried what you suggested and the problem is still there. If someone posts to a forum inside a public group, that activity shows up on the activity stream truncated but with only the “[…]”, but no link.

(“Read more” does show up if someone posts in just the group’s stream. But if it’s in a forum topic in that group, no link.)

[@hnla Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

? you seem to be referring to a bbPress issue given the link above; forum posts and indeed WP blog posts truncate without a link, BP activity updates however are fine and have an active read more link.

The feature you refer to doesn’t mention forums or posts

> Add truncation for long posts; adds a “read more” link which dynamically loads the full text (#2635, #3203).

Perhaps if you perceive the behaviour as wrong you could open a trac ticket?

[@storyaday Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks for responding.

I’m not clear what your answer means though (sorry, not a developer). Are you saying that Buddypress.org only controls the parts that go into the activity stream and no-one here deals with the way the forum posts are truncated and displayed in the Activity stream?

Is there another place I should be asking about this, then?

Thanks again,
Julie

[@storyaday Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

I don’t understand. Could someone clarify?

1. I want to know why the truncated link (“…”) at the end of posts in the activity stream do not have an active link. They’re just text. They should link to somewhere.

2. I want to know how to fix this.

What do I need to do? Who do I need to talk to? How do I get hold of them?

[@storyaday Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

Oh and I can’t open a development tracker ticket because the link above this post (https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket/) gives me this page:

Error: Forbidden TICKET_CREATE privileges are required to perform this operation

[@jerryasemota Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

I’m also looking for a fix for this.any helppppppppppppppp?