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Hey there! I have been working on this for the past 3 days and cannot for the life of my figure out where I am going wrong. I am trying to add an additional input field under the activity update content field. I found a few posts about it but they are from several years ago, I am wondering if they have been outdated with updates or something. Here’s what I’ve done.

1. Edit post-form.php with input fields

<input name="price" id="price" type="text" />

2. Edit global.js in the default theme folder

/* Default POST values */
		var object = '';
		var item_id = jq("#whats-new-post-in").val();
		var content = jq("textarea#whats-new").val();
		var price = jq("input#price").val();
		var location = jq("input#location").val();

		/* added in price and location values */

		/* Set object for non-profile posts */
		if ( item_id > 0 ) {
			object = jq("#whats-new-post-object").val();
		}

		jq.post( ajaxurl, {
			action: 'post_update',
			'cookie': bp_get_cookies(),
			'_wpnonce_post_update': jq("input#_wpnonce_post_update").val(),
			'content': content,
			'object': object,
			'price': price,
			'location': location,
			'item_id': item_id,
			'_bp_as_nonce': jq('#_bp_as_nonce').val() || ''
		},

3. Add the function in bp-custom.php

function add_trackmeta_to_activity( $content, $user_id, $activity_id ) {

    bp_activity_update_meta( $activity_id, 'price', $_POST['price'] );

}

add_action( 'bp_activity_posted_update', 'add_trackmeta_to_activity', 10, 3 );

I am not getting anything in the database. The solution is probably staring me in the face but my mind is so burnt out, I need a fresh pair of eyes to help me out.

Thanks for your time

Jake