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How will you determine if the member is male or female?

Hi @sundev

No, it wouldn’t change. You would need to filter the text accordingly depending on the gender they specify in their gender profile field.

Hi @mfmsw2youth,

What is the exact text you’d like to change?

@sundev you would need to capture each member’s gender using a profile field. A radio button would do it.

Then once you have that information you could do a simple check when filtering the text.

e.g

if ( is male ) {
    // this must be a male so filter the text to say 'his'
} else {
   // this must be a woman so filter the text to say 'her'
}

Filtering the text is the second step. If you let me know *exactly* the text you want to change, i’ll try to find where it is in the BP core code and see if a filter is available.

Kindly help out Henry in fixing this filter my problem is not different I have created a profile field Namely gender using radio button in buddypress xprofile members now have opportunity to select their gender male or female. Happy new year friends.

Example:
“themeethurpe changed their profile picture 4 days, 12 hours ago”

In the above line of activity “themeethurpe” is a username of a guy who changes his profile picture, but as you can see, “their” above was surpose to be a singular pronoun “his” referring to a man not two or group of people. The same thing happens either for man or woman, I just wish buddypress could differentiate a man from woman in the activities stream using profile information just like facebook and other social network site instead of using plural pronoun “THEIR” for all.

I will like to change it to HIS for male,HER for female and their for female I’m comfortable with that.As Henry explain above i think using a filter code like this will do the work only if i know how to correctly apply it in the buddypress core. Please lend your support. Thanks

“if ( is a male ) {
// the filter will be ‘his’
} else if{
//is a female, the filter will be ‘her’
}
else {
// a group, e.g company; the filter will be ‘their’
}”

Oops return $entry should end with a semi colon eg

return $entry;

@Henry
hope it will be okay writing it like this for clearity in case of anything happen? Also do I need to put the php tag as shown below:

<?php

// filter gender field

function custom_activity_text_change_avatar( $entry, $user_id ) {
$gender = bp_get_profile_field_data( ‘field=Gender&user_id=’ . $user_id );

if ( $gender == ‘Male’ ) {
$entry = sprintf( __( ‘%s changed his profile picture’, ‘buddypress’ ), $userlink );
} else if ( $gender == ‘Female’ ) {
$entry = sprintf( __( ‘%s changed her profile picture’, ‘buddypress’ ), $userlink );
} else {
// the user hasn’t told us if they are male or female so do nothing
}
return $entry;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_xprofile_new_avatar_action’, ‘custom_activity_text_change_avatar’, 10, 2 );

?>

You rock Henry your code works perfectly. Thank you boss

@mfmsw2youth Thanks for letting me know.

I hadn’t tested the code. Please try this and let me know how you get on:

function custom_activity_text_change_avatar( $entry, $user_id ) {
    $gender = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Gender&user_id=' . $user_id );
    $userlink = bp_core_get_userlink( $user_id );

    if ( $gender == 'Male' ) {
        $entry = sprintf( __( '%s changed his profile picture', 'buddypress' ), $userlink );
    } else if ( $gender == 'Female' ) {
        $entry = sprintf( __( '%s changed her profile picture', 'buddypress' ), $userlink );
    } else {
        // the user hasn't told us if they are male or female so do nothing
    }
    return $entry;
}
add_filter( 'bp_xprofile_new_avatar_action', 'custom_activity_text_change_avatar', 10, 2 );

Hi Henry
that code looks great, but I dont need to change the avatar but I just want to put a little icon above avatar next to user name that reflects the user’s gender. So I came up with this idea of code, but it didnt work, could you please have a look why it doesnt work because you re expert coder maybe you can see some silly mistake I did that I cant see:

Thanx.

<?php
if ( bp_get_profile_field_data( ‘field=Gender&user_id=’ . $bp->loggedin_user->id ) == ‘Man’); {
echo ‘<i class=”icon-male”></i>’;
}
else {
echo ‘<i class=”icon-female”></i>’;
}
?>