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Hi i’m sorry. It must be because i’m french, but i’m not sure to understand what you reported 🙁

If i “rephrase” like this :

When adding the buddypress-activity support for my custom post type and specifying custom action strings arguments i don’t manage to have my custom strings displayed into the activity stream but instead the default action string eg : user wrote a new item

Would it be ok with your description of the trouble ?

%3$s should do something if your config is multisite. Is your config multisite ?

I would also prefer to show the page title as is shown when a blog is posted as supposed to just showing “User has posted a new ‘item’” – perhaps a %4$s can be added???

This would require some more activity meta. I haven’t included this part in core, so you’ll need to add a filter to achieve your goal. But let’s try to fix things step by step. I’m going to investigate on the “rephrase” i’ve just done.

My first impression is i’m a bit surprised as i’m using Post type activities for one of my plugin and everything seems to be ok… See this image :

1/ I don’t understand why you are switching to the page post type ?

2/ Where is registered the sd_article post type ?

3/ if you’re the one registering the post type, maybe you should define the BuddyPress activity support directly when registering it. eg:

function plugin_registers_post_type() {
	$args = array(
		'public'   => true,
		'labels'   => array(
			'name'                     => __( 'Artikel', 'your-plugin-textdomain' ),
			'singular_name'            => __( 'Artikel', 'sozialdynamik' ),
			'bp_activity_admin_filter' => __( 'Neuer Artikel veröffentlicht', 'sozialdynamik' ),
			'bp_activity_front_filter' => __( 'Artikel', 'sozialdynamik' ),
 			'bp_activity_new_post'     => __( '%1$s hat den neuen <a href="%2$s">Artikel</a>', 'sozialdynamik' ),
 			'bp_activity_new_post_ms'  => __( '%1$s hat den neuen <a href="%2$s">Artikel</a>, on the site %3$s', 'sozialdynamik' ),
		),
		'supports'    => array( 'title', 'editor', 'buddypress-activity' ),
		'bp_activity' => array(
			'component_id' => 'activity',
			'action_id'    => 'new_sd_article',
			'contexts'     => array( 'activity', 'member' ),
			'position'     => 100,
		),
	);
	register_post_type( 'sd_article', $args );
}
add_action( 'init', 'plugin_registers_post_type' );

Just like it’s explained here: https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/post-types-activities/#adding-the-buddypress-support-and-specific-labels-at-post-type-registration

At What priority does Easy Custom Post Types hooks ‘init’ ?

You need to be sure the post type has been defined before using bp_activity_set_post_type_tracking_args() so change ‘bp_init’ to ‘init’ and try to add a very late priority, eg:

// Don't forget to add the 'buddypress-activity' support!
add_post_type_support( 'sd_article', 'buddypress-activity' );
 
function customize_page_tracking_args() {
    // Check if the Activity component is active before using it.
    if ( ! bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {
        return;
    }
 
    bp_activity_set_post_type_tracking_args( 'sd_article', array(
        'component_id'             => 'activity',
        'action_id'                => 'new_sd_article',
        'bp_activity_admin_filter' => __( 'Neuer Artikel veröffentlicht', 'custom-domain' ),
        'bp_activity_front_filter' => __( 'Artikel', 'custom-domain' ),
        'contexts'                 => array( 'activity', 'member' ),
        'bp_activity_new_post'     => __( '%1$s hat den neuen <a href="%2$s">Artikel</a>', 'sozialdynamik' ),
        'bp_activity_new_post_ms'  => __( '%1$s hat den neuen <a href="%2$s">Artikel</a>, on the site %3$s', 'sozialdynamik' ),
        'position'                 => 100,
    ) );
}
add_action( 'init', 'customize_page_tracking_args', 1000 );

This can be done using a specific filter. I’ll look at it soon. Glad the first step is achieved 🙂

Interesting discussion 🙂

First i’ll explain why i’m using bp_is_active( 'activity' ) : it’s just an extra check to be absolutely sure the activity component is active. I do it because BuddyPress is a set of components you can activate / deactivate from the BuddyPress settings. So if the activity component is not active, no need to add Post Type activities. And when you develop a BuddyPress plugin, you need to remember there can be configs that deactivated the component you are extending.

Second, about the contexts argument. In this codex page https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/post-types-activities/ i’m describing a bit his role
Here https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/activity-dropdown-filters-in-templates/ i’m talking about the way we are getting the activity types since BuddyPress 2.1 And finally reading this page https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_activity_set_action/ you will see the interest of the contexts argument.
In short the contexts argument is a way to control where you want an option (activity action) to be displayed. For instance if you want to include an option into the single group’s home page dropdown filter you do contexts => array( 'group' )

In the case of a post type, i think in most cases there’s not a great interest to have the activity filter in the group’s single home page because in most cases the post type have been created out of a BuddyPress group (mainly in WP Admin actually). That’s why in my example i suggest to use 'contexts' => array( 'activity', 'member' ), ‘activity’ means display the dropdown option into the activity directory and ‘member’ display it into the member’s profile. The ‘member’ context is interesting in the case of Post Types activities because a post type is always created by a user_id.

Now with the question “could it be possible to display Post type activities into a given group’s stream ?” we must understand this part 'component_id' => 'activity' Here you are defining the component you want the Post type activities to be linked to. So you could say cool! lets put ‘groups’ to have activities in groups. But here you’d be wrong because all generated activities would be displayed in the first group the one having the id #1 (If multisite it could give another illusion…) Why id #1, because it’s the id of the blog where was created the post type. So you would need to have a different value depending from which group the post type was posted. As in core we don’t include a feature to post a post type from a group, by default we are setting the item_id field to the current blog.

Unless you want to arbitrary display the activity in one particular group, i’d say this need should only concern Plugins extending the Groups component. Of course it’s possible, and i’ve done it for one of my plugin.

I hope my explanations will help you @youmin.

Thanks imath, that’s awesome. But this is only one part of my question and another part is Displaying CPT on group home page instead of activity .
Example : like most plugins do injecting CPT by making sub nav menu ( may be by registering as a new component or with a slug ) or on both activity and group.

@imath thanks for the above code which “adds the post type title into the link in replacement”

But i need to change one small thing in that code but i dont know how.

Here is my code in bp-custom.php —

add_post_type_support( 'job_listing', 'buddypress-activity' );
function customize_page_tracking_args_job() {
    // Check if the Activity component is active before using it.
    if ( ! bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {
        return;
    }
 
    bp_activity_set_post_type_tracking_args( 'job_listing', array(
			'component_id' => 'activity',
        'action_id'                => 'new_job_listing',
        'bp_activity_admin_filter' => __( 'Published a new Job', 'text-domain' ),
        'bp_activity_front_filter' => __( 'Job', 'text-domain' ),
        'contexts'                 => array( 'activity', 'member' ),
        'activity_comment'         => true,
        'bp_activity_new_post'     => __( '%1$s posted a new Job: <a href="%2$s">Job</a>', 'text-domain' ),
        'bp_activity_new_post_ms'  => __( '%1$s posted a new Job: <a href="%2$s">Job</a>, on the site %3$s', 'text-domain' ),
        'position'                 => 100,
    ) );
}
add_action( 'init', 'customize_page_tracking_args_job', 999 );

Here is the result…
PathPoint-SSB posted a new Job: Job 5 hours, 53 minutes ago

Here is what it looks like after I use your code to insert the Title of the Job
pathpoint posted a new Receptionist/Administrative Assistant 5 hours, 49 minutes ago

As you can see, it changes the Users name and also I cant change this part “posted a new”. I would like it to read “posted a new Job: ”

Any ideas?

Thanks for any insight on this,
Aaron

Yes… the post type is registered by another plugin “Wp Job Manager”. I am new at coding so if i find a script and it actually works “i use it” even though there may be a more correct way.

I also have another plugin “The Events Calendar” that has post type of ‘tribe_events’ and i am trying to do the same thing as the Job post type.

I also don’t understand the difference between using “text-domain” and “custom-domain” for the bp_activity_admin_filter ?

I used info from this Topic/Discussion here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/cant-seem-to-get-bp-2-2s-post-types-activities-working/

Here is my full code in bp-custom for Jobs and Events post types…

//The 'WP Job Manager' post type
add_post_type_support( 'job_listing', 'buddypress-activity' );

function customize_page_tracking_args_job() {
    // Check if the Activity component is active before using it.
    if ( ! bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {
        return;
    }
 
    bp_activity_set_post_type_tracking_args( 'job_listing', array(
			'component_id' => 'activity',
        'action_id'                => 'new_job_listing',
        'bp_activity_admin_filter' => __( 'Published a new Job', 'text-domain' ),
        'bp_activity_front_filter' => __( 'Job', 'text-domain' ),
        'contexts'                 => array( 'activity', 'member' ),
        'activity_comment'         => true,
        'bp_activity_new_post'     => __( '%1$s posted a new Job: <a href="%2$s">Job</a>', 'text-domain' ),
        'bp_activity_new_post_ms'  => __( '%1$s posted a new Job: <a href="%2$s">Job</a>, on the site %3$s', 'text-domain' ),
        'position'                 => 100,
    ) );
}
//'The Calednar Events' post type 
add_action( 'init', 'customize_page_tracking_args_job', 999 );

add_post_type_support( 'tribe_events', 'buddypress-activity' );

function customize_page_tracking_args_event() {
    // Check if the Activity component is active before using it.
    if ( ! bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {
        return;
    }
 
    bp_activity_set_post_type_tracking_args( 'tribe_events', array(
			'component_id' => 'activity',
        'action_id'                => 'new_tribe_events',
        'bp_activity_admin_filter' => __( 'Published a new Event', 'text-domain' ),
        'bp_activity_front_filter' => __( 'Event', 'custom-domain' ),
        'contexts'                 => array( 'activity', 'member' ),
        'activity_comment'         => true,
        'bp_activity_new_post'     => __( '%1$s posted an Event: <a href="%2$s">Event</a>', 'custom-domain' ),
        'bp_activity_new_post_ms'  => __( '%1$s posted an Event: <a href="%2$s">Event</a>, on the site %3$s', 'custom-domain' ),
        'position'                 => 100,
    ) );
}
add_action( 'init', 'customize_page_tracking_args_event', 999 );

Finally have time to reply….

THANKS!! for taking the time to help me. Very grateful.

so simple that all that was needed is the brackets [Job].

Hi @imath

I am sort of loosing my hair since I updated to the latest version of buddypress.
had searched the forum a few months back and put a LOT of time into custom coding that the activity will read my custom post types. I put that code in my functions.php file and was really happy with everything- each activity had it’s own text and it was really nice.

I am not a coder, just building my site, and now, since this update, all my work is gone- all I get is the generic “posted a new item”, and a link to the post- not even the name of the post. I have 3 custom post types, and I need them all to be unique.
I don’t know what to do now, how to start over?

Can I just cancel the new custom post support and go back to my own code?
Please help.

Hi @imath, thank you so much for writing back. For some reason I didn’t get the notification, and was depressed over the site for a month. Today I decided to finally face the issue again, and what a nice surprise!

So my code is:

add_filter( 'bp_blogs_record_post_post_types', 'inspired_record_more_types' );
function inspired_record_more_types( $types ) {
     $types[] = 'projects';
     $types[] = 'sfwd-courses';
     $types[] = 'uig_image';
        return $types;
}

add_filter('bp_blogs_activity_new_post_action', 'record_cpt_activity_action', 1, 3);
function record_cpt_activity_action( $activity_action,  $post, $post_permalink ) { 

   if( $post->post_type == 'projects' ) {
	$activity_action  = sprintf( __( '%1$s created a new project, %2$s  ', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), '<a href="' . $post_permalink . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>' );
   }
if( $post->post_type == 'sfwd-courses' ) {
	$activity_action  = sprintf( __( '%1$s added a new workshop, %2$s  ', 'buddypress'  ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), '<a href="' . $post_permalink . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>' );
   }	
if( $post->post_type == 'uig_image' ) {
	$activity_action  = sprintf( __( '%1$s added a new image, %2$s  ', 'buddypress'  ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), '<a href="' . $post_permalink . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>' );
   }
   return $activity_action;
}

function bbg_record_my_custom_post_type_comments( $post_types ) {
      $post_types[] = 'projects'; 
      return $post_types;
  }
  add_filter( 'bp_blogs_record_comment_post_types', 'bbg_record_my_custom_post_type_comments' );

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.

Awesome!

Just completed it!!

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