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I have add 2 new columns in activity mysql table “video_category” and “video_subcategory”.

Adding new columns is not a good approach.

Did you try adding your ‘categories’ as a type via
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_activity_add/ ?

Hello @ARCangelGIRL, I’m facing the same situation and @shanebp solution worked for displaying the action I wanted in the activity stream. But the Load More button is loading all the actions, not just the one I created. I tried to filter the bp ajax querystring in many different ways but it didn’t work. The last try was this https://buddypress.org/support/topic/simply-trying-to-filter-the-bp_ajax_querystring-via-ajax/ .

This is the code I added at line 278 in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/lib/class_bpfb_binder.php to create the action. The credit for this code is @Juanma in WordPress.org forum. (couldn’t find the original thread). In this case I’m creating an action for images upload.

function ajax_update_activity_contents () {
  $bpfb_code = $activity = '';
  $aid = 0;
  $codec = new BpfbCodec;
  if (@$_POST['data']['bpfb_photos']) {
    $images = $this->move_images($_POST['data']['bpfb_photos']);
    $bpfb_code = $codec->create_images_tag($images);
    $type = 'bpfb_share_wall_photos';
  }

  $bpfb_code = apply_filters('bpfb_code_before_save', $bpfb_code);

  // All done creating tags. Now, save the code
  $gid = (int)@$_POST['group_id'];
  if ($bpfb_code) {
    global $bp;
    $content = @$_POST['content'] . "\n" . $bpfb_code;
    $content = apply_filters('bp_activity_post_update_content', $content);
    $user_id = $bp->loggedin_user->id;
    $userlink = bp_core_get_userlink( $user_id );

    $author = bp_core_get_userlink( $author_id );
    $activity_url = bp_activity_get_permalink( $item_id );

    $aid = $gid ?
      groups_post_update(array('conte nt' => $content, 'group_id' => $gid)) : 
      bp_activity_add(
        array(
          'action' => apply_filters( 'activity_update', sprintf( __( '%s shared a link', 'buddypress' ), $userlink ), $user_id ),
          'content' => $content,
          'component' => 'activity',
          'type' => $type,
          'user_id' => $user_id
        )
      );
      if ($aid) {
			ob_start();
			if ( bp_has_activities ( 'include=' . $aid ) ) {
				while ( bp_activities() ) {
					bp_the_activity();
					if (function_exists('bp_locate_template')) bp_locate_template( array( 'activity/entry.php' ), true );
					else locate_template( array( 'activity/entry.php' ), true );
				}
			}
			$activity = ob_get_clean();
		}
		header('Content-type: application/json');
		echo json_encode(array(
			'code' => $bpfb_code,
			'id' => $aid,
			'activity' => $activity,
		));
		exit();
	}
}

And this is the code that works for activity stream. It shows just the activities with this action, but when you click the ‘load more’ button it loads the regular stream.
<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&action=bpfb_share_wall_photos') ) : ?>

@ARCangeGIRL actually that’s my Plan B right now, until I find the solution to filter the ajax call (without hardcode)…

I just removed the load more icon and set the stream for ‘latest images’.

Thank you for your idea! Could you manage to make it work in search (with load more)?

@ARCangelGIRL I think you could make the $type receive the category + subcategory as an unique action. I don’t know how you’re passing the category/subcategory trhough POST, but could try something like:

function ajax_update_activity_contents () {
  $bpfb_code = $activity = '';
  $aid = 0;
  $cat = $_POST['category'];
  $subcat = $_POST['subcategory']
  $codec = new BpfbCodec;
  if (@$_POST['data']['bpfb_photos']) {
    $images = $this->move_images($_POST['data']['bpfb_photos']);
    $bpfb_code = $codec->create_images_tag($images);
    $type =  $cat . $subcat;
  }
...

Then in search you could make the dropdown select again for the category and subcategory and use the code:
<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&action=' . $category . $subcategory) ) : ?>

But for me this is not working with ajax though…