BuddyPress.org | Matt McFarland | Mentions https://buddypress.org/members/matt-mcfarland/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning Matt McFarland. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:47:37 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 3ca09a1231976f39fbd55b5a92a47fdb Renato Alves replied to the topic GUIDE: How to create your very own activity feed template from scratch(almost) in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/support/topic/guide-how-to-create-your-very-own-activity-feed-template-from-scratchalmost/#post-180238 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:16:19 +0000 @matt-mcfarland very great guide. It is really helpful for us not PHP developer who thinks that accomplishing something like that would be hard work to do.

If you may, I’d recommend working this tutorial better and adding it to the Codex page. You talked in your guide that something like this hasn’t in the Codex, so please, add to it. The…[Read more]

]]> ec8ae01c9c7b85b3e7efe565396950ec TPdaking#7782 replied to the topic Notifications tab still break site in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/support/topic/notifications-tab-still-break-site/#post-176373 Fri, 03 Jan 2014 23:21:23 +0000 @matt-mcfarland I switched to the parent theme and the same thing so dont know…will wait for update from theme author

]]> 2bcc31eaeff94716d5414bf0b5e77cec Henry replied to the topic I need to get just the content string and just the activity update string in the forum Installing BuddyPress http://buddypress.org/support/topic/i-need-to-get-just-the-content-url-and-just-the-activity-update-string/#post-176318 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 20:44:00 +0000 @matt-mcfarland glad to see you got this resolved!

]]> c91f082121cae4527571d3daf2253987 Henry replied to the topic I need to get just the content string and just the activity update string in the forum Installing BuddyPress http://buddypress.org/support/topic/i-need-to-get-just-the-content-url-and-just-the-activity-update-string/#post-175348 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 04:41:20 +0000 @matt-mcfarland
cc @modemlooper

I recently had to find activity item info outside the loop and came across a nifty little function bp_activity_get_specific() which can be used like so

$activity = bp_activity_get_specific( array( 'activity_ids' => $activity_id ) );
$activity = $activity['activities'][0];

You can then do stuff like echo…[Read more]

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