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Thanks for your help with this but I am still not sure what I need to do. The function I posted was just an example that I had found from an earlier forum, I do not need to add videos and pictures to the activity stream.

I need to add details of a custom post type every time a custom form is submitted from the frontend by a user. The custom post type is “Files”. Below is a class for the form and it is within the CMB (custom meta boxes) plugin folder. Can you advise on how to implement the code to record these forms posts in the activity stream?

class uploadForm {

    // Set prefix
    public $prefix = '_cmb_'; 

    /**
     * Construct the class.
     */
    public function __construct() {
        add_filter( 'cmb_meta_boxes', array( $this, 'cmb_metaboxes' ) );
        add_shortcode( 'cmb-form', array( $this, 'do_frontend_form' ) );
        add_action( 'init', array( $this, 'initialize_cmb_meta_boxes' ), 9 );
       /* add_action( 'cmb_save_post_fields', array( $this, 'save_fields' ), 10, 4 );*/
        add_action( 'save_post', array( $this, 'save_fields' ), 10, 4 );
       /*add_filter( 'bp_blogs_record_comment_post_types', 'add_activity' );   IS THIS CORRECT?  */ 
    }

    /**
     * Define the metabox and field configurations.
     */
    public function cmb_metaboxes( array $meta_boxes ) {

        /**
         * Metabox for the "Memorials" front-end submission form
         */
        $meta_boxes['upload_files_metabox'] = array(
            'id'         => 'files',
            'title'      => __( 'Upload files', 'cmb' ),
            'pages'      => array( 'Files' ), // Post type
            'context'    => 'normal',
            'priority'   => 'high',
            'show_names' => true, // Show field names on the left
            'fields'     => array(
                array(
                    'name'       => __( 'File description', 'cmb' ),
                    'desc'       => __( 'File title or description', 'cmb' ),
                    'id'         => $this->prefix . 'title',
                    'type'       => 'text',
                ),
                array(
                    'name'     => __( 'Project stage', 'cmb' ),
                    'desc'     => __( 'select stage (optional)', 'cmb' ),
                    'id'       => $this->prefix . 'category',
                    'type'     => 'taxonomy_select',
                    'taxonomy' => 'stages', // Taxonomy Slug
                ),
                array(
                    'name' => __( 'Link to website', 'cmb' ),
                    'desc' => __( 'Add url to website (optional)', 'cmb' ),
                    'id'   => $this->prefix . 'url',
                    'type' => 'text_url',
                    'protocols' => array('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'mailto', 'news', 'irc', 'gopher', 'nntp', 'feed', 'telnet'), // Array of allowed protocols
                    // 'repeatable' => true,
                ),
               array(
                    'name' => __( 'Upload image', 'cmb' ),
                    'desc' => __( 'Upload an image or enter a URL.', 'cmb' ),
                    'id'   => $this->prefix . 'image',
                    'type' => 'file',
                ),

              array(
                  'name'         => __( 'Upload files', 'cmb' ),
                  'desc'         => __( 'Upload or add multiple images/attachments.', 'cmb' ),
                  'id'           => $this->prefix . 'file_list',
                  'type'         => 'file_list',
              ),
              array(
                'name' => __( 'oEmbed', 'cmb' ),
                'desc' => __( 'Enter a youtube, twitter, or instagram URL. Supports services listed at <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds">https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds</a>.', 'cmb' ),
                'id'   => $this->prefix . 'embed',
                'type' => 'oembed',
             ), 
            ),
        );

        return $meta_boxes;
    }

    /**
     * Shortcode to display a CMB form for a post ID.
     */
    public function do_frontend_form() {

        // Default metabox ID
        $metabox_id = 'upload_files_metabox';

        // Get all metaboxes
        $meta_boxes = apply_filters( 'cmb_meta_boxes', array() );

        // If the metabox specified doesn't exist, yell about it.
        if ( ! isset( $meta_boxes[ $metabox_id ] ) ) {
            return __( "A metabox with the specified 'metabox_id' doesn't exist.", 'cmb' );
        }

        // This is the WordPress post ID where the data should be stored/displayed.
        $post_id = 0;

        if ( $new_id = $this->intercept_post_id() ) {
            $post_id = $new_id;
            echo 'Thank You for your submission.';
        } 

        // Shortcodes need to return their data, not echo it.
        $echo = false;

        // Get our form
        $form = cmb_metabox_form( $meta_boxes[ $metabox_id ], $post_id, $echo );

        return $form;
    }

    /**
     * Get data before saving to CMB.
     */
    public function intercept_post_id() {

        // Check for $_POST data
        if ( empty( $_POST ) ) {
            return false;
        } 
         
        

        // Check nonce
        if ( ! ( isset( $_POST['submit-cmb'], $_POST['wp_meta_box_nonce'] ) && wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['wp_meta_box_nonce'], cmb_Meta_Box::nonce() ) ) ) {
            return;
        }
        
        // Setup and sanitize data
        if ( isset( $_POST[ $this->prefix . 'title' ] ) ) {
                       
          
            //add post data to database    
            $this->new_submission = wp_insert_post( array(
                'post_title'            => sanitize_text_field( $_POST[ $this->prefix . 'title' ] ),
                'post_author'           => get_current_user_id(),
                'post_status'           => 'publish', // Set to draft so we can review first
                'post_type'             => 'file',
            ), true );

            // If no errors, save the data into a new post draft
            if ( ! is_wp_error( $this->new_submission ) ) {
                
                return $this->new_submission;
                
               
            } 

        }

        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Grant temporary permissions to subscribers.
     */
    public function grant_publish_caps( $caps, $cap, $args ) {

        if ( 'edit_post'  == $args[0] ) {
            $caps[$cap[0]] = true;
        }

        return $caps;
    }
    
   
    

    /**
     * Save custom fields and uploaded files 
     */
    public function save_fields( $post_id, $post  ) {

            if($_POST['_cmb_category'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_category', $_POST['_cmb_category'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_url'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_url', $_POST['_cmb_url]'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_image'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_image', $_POST['_cmb_image'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_image_id'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_image_id', $_POST['_cmb_image_id'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_file_list'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_file_list', $_POST['_cmb__file_list'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_embed'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_embed', $_POST['_cmb_embed'], true );
            }
       

    }

    /**
     * Initialize CMB.
     */
    public function initialize_cmb_meta_boxes() {

        if ( ! class_exists( 'cmb_Meta_Box' ) ) {
            require_once 'init.php';
        }

    }
    
    /**
     * Add to buddypress activity timeline. - HOW???
     */
    public function add_activity($post_types) {

       /* $activity_id = bp_activity_add( $args );
        
        return $activity_id;*/

       /*   $post_types[] = 'file'; 
          return $post_types;*/
    }  
    

} // end class

$uploadForm = new uploadForm();

Thanks danbp,

You think Buddypress is the right way to go ??

With point 2 i mean, that at the start of each month every user has to upload a new picture.
So this will be custom development i guess!

We are only going to use the member (wall)pages, kinda like a facebook wall. Is it possible to somehow get the elements like activity, photo’s, documents and messages on 1 page without the tabs?

1. I just did it to test, the original code you provided was for pages – having established that it worked I then had an entry in the activity, in the admin it showed ‘Published a new page’ – i then changed the post type to my custom one and set my action id and notice in the admin it said ‘Unregistered action – new_blog_page’ in the Action Column for the page test entry – I realised this was the ‘action_id’ from your original code so new the code worked. It just does not work when I set my CPT for some reason. The CPT does create an activity entry but using the default message.

2. It is registered using Easy Custom Post Types plugin, however I have another CPT in my child theme (services-type.php) and the same thing happens for this post type.

3. This is possible for the CPT in my child theme but not the one’s created using the ECPT plugin – I will test with this disabled and perhaps migrate the CPT’s into the child theme if I find that it is causing the conflict.

Sorry!

Indeed, the New Post generates an activity item with ‘user wrote a new item’ – if a then change the CPT to ‘page’ but leave the action ID as my custom one the WordPress Admin and the Frontend both show my custom activity message! my code is below – the %3$s makes sense as I not running multi-site:

// Don't forget to add the 'buddypress-activity' support!
add_post_type_support( 'sd_article', 'buddypress-activity' );
 
function customize_page_tracking_args() {
    // Check if the Activity component is active before using it.
    if ( ! bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {
        return;
    }
 
    bp_activity_set_post_type_tracking_args( 'sd_article', array(
        'component_id'             => buddypress()->activity->id,
        'action_id'                => 'new_sd_article',
        'bp_activity_admin_filter' => __( 'Neuer Artikel veröffentlicht', 'custom-domain' ),
        'bp_activity_front_filter' => __( 'Artikel', 'custom-domain' ),
        'contexts'                 => array( 'activity', 'member' ),
        'bp_activity_new_post'     => __( '%1$s hat den neuen <a href="%2$s">Artikel</a>', 'sozialdynamik' ),
        'bp_activity_new_post_ms'  => __( '%1$s hat den neuen <a href="%2$s">Artikel</a>, on the site %3$s', 'sozialdynamik' ),
        'position'                 => 100,
    ) );
}
add_action( 'bp_init', 'customize_page_tracking_args' );

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I hope this is clearer!! :0)

@henrywright Thanks! Here is what I did:

edited /wp-content/plugin/buddypress/bp-activity/activity-template.php

Found the activity loop and changed $defaults = array(
‘display_comments’ => ‘stream’

That puts all comments on the top but only the comments are pulled to the top. What I really wanted was the entire conversation is pulled to the top.

Also, I think what I have done is crude and somehow, not ‘proper’. For instance, when I update buddypress plugin, all my changes will be gone.

How do I make sure that the changes remain?

Also, I have gone through https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_activity_add/

But still am nebulous about:
You can add items to the activity stream using bp_activity_add(). You’d write a custom function and hook it to the relevant action which fires when a group message has been posted (see a)

Can you elaborate?

Lastly, the codex page talks about adding new activity to database. I hope, it makes sure that one gets to see messages posted to only those groups one is authorized to see.

PS – When I crack it, is there any way I can contribute to the codex so other newbies like me have access to the stuff? How?

Thanks!

@djpaul – I’m not sure if it was working on the previous server; I THINK something related to mod_sec settings on that server was causing problems for the site, so I had to move it. Weird things started happening… changing widgets order would not save properly (found a work around by entering accessibility mode in screen options) – also custom menu settings would not add pages to the custom menu – could not figure out why.. so moved to new server.. now widgets save and stuff.

@danbp – I do use a bp-custom to make a user’s profile default show their profile instead of activity tab. (Wish I knew how to get rid of the “BASE” showing there!) – but I don’t think anything else is doing any custom pagination loop stuff in bp-custom or theme functions or anything.

not seeing anything in server error log.

not sure how to check for css or js errors.. like using the w3c validator? or is this a java console debugger thing I have heard about?

Not sure what to put, my_bp_activities_per_page_5_on_groups_activity (would that be the proper first line of the code? (or where (bp-custom?) – to modify groups display. Trying to understand that page you referenced and the trac codes.

when I tried adding – it does show a new page of groups, but only displays 2 groups, yet under that is says “Viewing 8 – 14 of 211 groups ” – strange.

Thanks for your quick response, @danbp. I did not include the support information, because I just needed an answer to my simple question; didn’t think anyone would be able to help me with my actual issue, since I am using Simple Press and not bbPress.

Simple Press has a BuddyPress plugin, that integrates some of the functionality of their forums into the BuddyPress activity, and allows the forum owner to elect to use the BuddyPress profile, for example, over the SP one. But I am not seeing any forum posts in activity. I contacted them, but I also was not seeing the forum tab like I see here. I was here for a separate issue, and noticed that forum tab, so I opened this topic to ask about the tab.

Maybe that tab disappears if bbPress is not active, I’m not sure, but I really thought I remembered with the bbPress forums that my member’s posts were mixed in with all the other sitewide activity, and I don’t remember ever seeing a forum tab. I’m on my second BuddyPress supported theme; the first was Custom Community, and now I’m using Matheson.

I’m familiar with how to set up BuddyPress, but thanks for the links. Here is the rest of the info, in case it helps:

1. Which version of WordPress are you running? 4.0

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install? If this is either or, than it’s a directory install

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? Again, not sure of the question. My url points to the root wordpress folder, but that folder is not in the root of my server, but a few folders in.

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version? Have had WordPress and upgraded every release for a couple of years

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. Yes.

6. Which version of BP are you running? 2.1.1

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? 2.1.0? I don’t know, the same: Have had BuddyPress for at least a year, upgrade it as releases come out.

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?

(Ones followed by asterisk are not active, since I’m not committed yet to Simple Press. Others I’m getting around to testing, or only use occasionally. Yes, I know it’s a lot.)

Add New Default Avatar
BadgeOS *
bbp buddypress profile information *
bbPress *
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab *
bbPress Go To First Unread Post *
bbPress Stay Checked *
bbP Signature *
Black Studio TinyMCE Widget
BuddyPress
BuddyPress Groups Extras *
Content Aware Sidebars *
Email posts to subscribers *
Google Analytics by Yoast
iFlyChat
LenSlider *
Link Library
NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster
Posts for Page Plugin
Quick Chat
Simple: Press
Simple: Press v5 Importer
Simple social share
SlideDeck 2 Lite *
Social Login
Stop Registration Spam
Subscribe/Connect/Follow
T(-) Countdown
ToTop Link
Ultimate Posts Widget *
Video Thumbnails
WangGuard
WordPress SEO
wp-Monalisa
WP Ads Within Contents *
WP Custom Login
WP Overview (lite)
WP Symposium Toolbar

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? I am using Matheson, a theme listed as working with BuddyPress, and it is further customized via css by myself.

10. Have you modified the core files in any way? No.

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? I don’t think I have that file.

12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? bbPress is deactivated, using Simple Press.

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files. I’ve searched to try and find these, and I have no idea how to find them.

14. Which company provides your hosting? 1and1

15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? If this might be relevant, I will try to find out. Think it’s Linux.

Hi,

Sorry i need a bit more help as I failed to get it to work. So I created a bp-custom.php under wp-content/plugins

and added the following below, however my activity-stream page was still accessible without login

<?php
// hacks and mods will go here
function wirelab_check_activity_login() { 
  if( ! is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_activity() ) {
    wp_redirect( '/wp-login.php' ); 
    exit;
  }
}
add_action('bp', 'wirelab_check_activity_login');
?>