Hi there,
Are you talking about a category assigned to a WordPress post? Or are you looking to assign categories to activity posts and filter on that?
Sorry,
Wasn’t clear enough. We have many different WordPress post categories on our blog.
My goal is go get updates on new posts and comments from one category only.
Thanks a lot
That would be pretty difficult to do, or at least it’s not trivial. The issue is that the function used to populate the activity page does not have the ability to filter based on post settings, so you’d have to create a function to do that. Probably you’d end up overloading the activity page and displaying your own custom activity loop which took into account the post taxonomies.
function buddydev_disable_category_post_from_activity_recording( $enabled, $blog_id, $post_id, $user_id, $comment_id ) {
$category_id = 1;
$taxonomy = 'category';
if ( has_term( $category_id, $taxonomy, $post_id, $comment_id ) ) { // I could use has_category() but has_terms can be a better example for future customization.
$enabled = false;
}
return $enabled;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_post_pre_publish', 'buddydev_disable_category_post_from_activity_recording', 10, 4 );
I was able to filter new posts with the code above but not sure how to use it for comments as well
Thanks a lot, @Venutius!
That’s great! I was thinking you wanted to record the activity but just not display it and got stuck in treakle, glad you found that hook.
Yes, but it is blocking new post updates only.
If someone leaves a comments it shows up in the activity feed. Any way to tweak it for that?
Thanks a lot!
Plamen
If anyone is looking for similar functionality the code below worked just great for me:
function buddydev_disable_activity_blog_comment_recording_conditionally( $enabled, $blog_id, $post_id, $user_id, $comment_id ) {
// use $post_id to decide.
// set $enabled= false; to stop recording comment.
if ( ! in_category( 'category', $post_id ) ) {
$enabled = false;
}
return $enabled;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_post_pre_comment', 'buddydev_disable_activity_blog_comment_recording_conditionally', 20, 5 );
Just change “category” with the name of the category you want to get updates from.
