[@deadbeat007 Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

That makes sense, thanks! Do you have any idea how I’d find the username from the activity item’s text? Would it be easiest to search for any text preceded by a “@”?

[@deadbeat007 Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

B) new activity items going forward

The premise of my client’s site is basically Twitter, but for quotes. A user can enter a quote that their friend said, then tag their friend (assuming the friend has an account) and attribute the quote to them.

The quote will then appear in the activity stream, along with the tagged user’s avatar and username.

I figured BuddyPress would be my best bet for this, since it allows users to add friends and @mention other users, but now I’m a bit lost as to how to manage what my client it looking for.

[@deadbeat007 Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

Good point, Henry — I’ll have to rethink the layout. In the meantime, I was wondering if you could answer one more question for me:

If a post in the acvitity feed has an @mention, is there any way to pull the username and avatar of the mentioned user?

Thanks!