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You are asking about WP functions on a support forum for BP

What are you actually trying to do? There may be BP method.

The function is failing as you likely haven’t called the global variable $current_user or get_currentuserinfo#()
but you should read the WP codex on how to access this data.

All the info you need is in the codex pages:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_current_user

Do you mean blog posts? Because blogroll has a special mean in WP sites https://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Blogroll

Are you referring to post thumbnails or featured images in posts? Did you check if your theme supports post thumbnails?

So enthused with that fact, Boone stated it twice

This feature is coming in BuddyPress 1.3, which is coming quite soon.

This feature is coming in BuddyPress 1.3, which is coming quite soon.

Some hosts require an extra plugin for wordpress email to work….

I have used https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ successfully, but thereare others…

Well I think that Elgg is probably more suited for what you’re trying to achieve. The other option is to completely move across to wordpress & buddypress and convert your current site. Not sure how much work would be involved though, depends on how big the site is I guess.

If you’re website doesn’t currently run off wordpress I think you maybe over complicating this somewhat.

There are a number of social networking solutions available for php that have activity streams and such and would probably be easier to implement.

Try checking out Elgg http://www.elgg.org/features.php
It’s open source too.

Roger, This is the code I have thus far….

add_filter(“gform_post_submission_1”, “set_post_thumbnail_as”, 10, 2);
function set_post_thumbnail_as($entry, $form){

//getting first image associated with the post
$post_id = $entry[“post_id”];
$attachments = get_posts(array(‘numberposts’ => ‘1’, ‘post_parent’ => $post_id, ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_mime_type’ => ‘image’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’));
if(sizeof($attachments) == 0)
return; //no images attached to the post

//setting first image as the thumbnail for this post
update_post_meta( $post_id, ‘_thumbnail_id’, $attachments[0]->ID);

// update bp activty stream content.
$activity_id = bp_activity_add( array( ‘id’ => $post_id, ‘content’ => ‘$attachments’ ));
}

I understand the activity post id is different from the wordpress post id? How can I get this activity post id. Also is it okay I am using the post-submission gf filter? Is it just this simple with the correct activity add code?

Can you please help me? I’m really stuck and almost thinking of scrapping the project just because I suck at buddypress and PHP.

Please would you clarify what exactly you mean by “[posts] in BuddyPress”? When I read that, I immediately think of writing blog posts, which is part of WordPress core.

better late than never

How can I make wordpress shortcodes work anywhere in buddypress?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invite-anyone/ has nice email support. I haven’t built Facebook or Twitter integration, though it’s something I’d like to do in the future.

I had the same problem with the wordpress admin menus in ie9 and online (linux) sites but not on local (vista) sites. Once I viewed and played with the menus in firefox they worked as expected in ie9…. I hope others using the same sites would not have to go through the same process…

Also the buddypress upgrade didn’t show up unless I ran add new plugins first….