Can someone point me to where I can make the activity stream show a new blog posts “thumbnail” picture? I seem to be looking in all the wrong places tonight.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 9 months ago]

The function you’re looking for is bp_activity_thumbnail_content_images() in bp-activity.php.

There’s a filter you can apply to that function – “bp_activity_thumbnail_content_images”.

[@jivany Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks r-a-y. I’m not sure that’s quite the filter I’m looking for. It seems to create a thumbnail from one of the images in the content.

I realize now that I just want to modify the activity stream excerpt that is displayed to insert the WP 2.9 the_post_thumbnail() call. Since the post thumbnail is not always guaranteed to be within the blog post content itself.

[@fdot Participant 14 years, 8 months ago]

jivany did you find any solution ? I would like to do exactly the same thing but with no luck.

I have try to make some change into that function : “bp_activity_thumbnail_content_images” but nothing was working.

If I try to add the_post_thumbnail(), it is not displaying any thumbnails

Any idea ?

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Giving this one a bump – as I want the feature!

The challenge: display the featured image (post_thumbnail) from the latest site blog posts

The solution that comes to mind is: an activity stream loop to extract the blog post activity; get the blog id and post id; switch to the blog; query based on the post id to get the post_thumbnail

However, the switch to blog route strikes me as quite inefficient.

Does anyone have a better solution to this? Oh, and of course, a perfect working infinitely flexible code snippet to share

Thanks, Roger

p.s. the function bp_activity_thumbnail_content_images is being passed the blog post content, so doesn’t have access to the feature image (post_thumbnail)

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@johnjamesjacoby – What are you thoughts on changing: bp_blogs_record_activity( ) to make use of the featured image if one has been set for the post, rather than trawling the content and thumbnailing images?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 4 months ago]

Good idea. It would probably need to write the thumbnail to the activity stream directly (same as it does now) but would include a thumbnail if there is one.

[@bowromir Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

I would like to to use this as well.. Since the post thumbnail is used more and more, it would be cool to include it in the activity stream entries.

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

@bowromir – I give a solution that uses the post thumbnail at the bottom of this thread: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/replace-activity-stream-blog-excerpt-with-the_excerpt

Cheers, Roger