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Facebook only shows updates in it’s group activity streams. I think they should get rid of the non filtered group filter and start out with just updates.

Andy, can you give a code example on how to do this?

@modemlooper @scotm – Check out the Filtering Options at https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/. For example, if you want the main site activity stream to show only updates, use something like this in functions.php of your theme:

function my_custom_query_filter( $query_string ) {

global $bp;

if ( bp_is_activity_component() && !$bp->displayed_user->id )

$query_string .= '&action=activity_update';



return $query_string;

}

add_filter( 'bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring', 'my_custom_query_filter' );

Play around with that conditional statement and the query string arguments to make the activity stream show what you want it to show.

you could use bp_create_excerpt to truncate the messages (either before they are saved – see my post above or when pulled out in the theme)

@scotm – Hm, I have a dev environment just like that and it works fine. Maybe in a bp-custom file instead. Create a file called bp-custom.php in your plugins directory. Make sure you have php delimiters at the beginning and end of the file, and put the code above in between them. So the whole file would be:

<?php

function my_custom_query_filter( $query_string ) {

global $bp;

if ( bp_is_activity_component() && !$bp->displayed_user->id )

$query_string .= '&action=activity_update';



return $query_string;

}

add_filter( 'bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring', 'my_custom_query_filter' );

?>

Yikes. Make sure you’ve taken it out of the functions.php file. The same function name cant exist in two places.

Hmmmm…so you’re saying that a plugins/bp-custom.php file with only that as the content whitescreens an installation that works perfectly without it? Are you sure you copied over the opening/closing delimiters? Or have you duplicated them maybe? I’ve tested it on three different installations and it’s working on all of them. (Sorry for the problems btw!)