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Add new activity when using wp_create_user?

Laz
Participant

@lazharichir

8 years, 10 months ago

Hi there,

My website has several optin forms that I moved from being mailchimp to actual signups to my website (and I then automatically send these to MailChimp.) This is done! Users enter full name and email, i create the account (generate random pwd that i email them) and it works perfectly.

Users created that way (most of my users) are not appearing a new registered users in the activity stream. Only those who use the full signup page appear on the activity stream.

How can I change and make sure the users I create programmatically (using wp_create_user) also appear in the activity stream?

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shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

8 years, 10 months ago

They need to have a last_activity entry in the activity table.
Try:
bp_update_user_last_activity( $user_id, bp_core_current_time() );

Laz
Participant

@lazharichir

8 years, 10 months ago

Doesn’t work. When wp_create_user is called, it clearly doesn’t alert BuddyPress to generate a new new_member activity. Is there any hook or any function to call to create that?
shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

8 years, 10 months ago
wp_create_user returns the user id if there are no errors.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_create_user

So try:
```
$user_id =  wp_create_user( // etc );

if( is_wp_error( $user_id) ) 
    echo $user_id->get_error_message();
else
    bp_update_user_last_activity( $user_id, bp_core_current_time() );
```
Laz
Participant

@lazharichir

8 years, 10 months ago

No no, that works and I use that IF statement in my own function. But adding a last activity doesn’t make the user show up in the activity stream.

Perhaps we should use a function to add thag event (new user) in the activity stream database?!

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

8 years, 10 months ago

Sorry, I was answering an oft-asked question re showing up in members loop.

You can add an activity item:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_activity_add/

You could create a custom action, but it’s more work.
Try using activity_update as the action

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