BuddyPress.org

Your solution: copying the whole BuddyPress function and changing one line is not the best way to do this.

As I suggested earlier — that BuddyPress function has a filter for the post types it works with: bp_blogs_record_post_post_types

All you need to do is register a filter that adds your custom post types to the array of post types.

@azizmb

This approach might be safer for most people.
It adds to the recorded post_types instead of replacing them.

`
add_filter ( ‘bp_blogs_record_post_post_types’, ‘activity_publish_custom_post_types’,1,1 );
function activity_publish_custom_post_types( $post_types ) {
$post_types[] = ‘videos’;
$post_types[] = ‘pictures’;
return $post_types;
}
`

And if you go thru the trouble of creating a CPT, why not filter the activity action so it isn’t the generic ‘…wrote a new post’. For example:

`
add_filter(‘bp_blogs_activity_new_post_action’, ‘record_cpt_activity_action’, 1, 3);
function record_cpt_activity_action( $activity_action, $post, $post_permalink ) {
global $bp;
if( $post->post_type == ‘videos’ ) {
if ( is_multisite() )
$activity_action = sprintf( __( ‘%1$s created a new Videos post, %2$s, on the site %3$s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), ‘‘ . $post->post_title . ‘‘, ‘‘ . get_blog_option( $blog_id, ‘blogname’ ) . ‘‘ );

else
$activity_action = sprintf( __( ‘%1$s created a new Videos post, %2$s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), ‘‘ . $post->post_title . ‘‘ );

}

return $activity_action;
}
`

I’m curious, how can we add a sort option like the “mentions” tab for this custom activity?

A way to view view strictly the activity for this custom post type.

I hate to have to ask, but where does the above code need to be inserted? Will it work in 1.7?

Thanks, @shanebp, that worked like a charm. The only issue I have is that it the content type is being posted with the “mini” class instead of as a normal size in the activity stream. Any thoughts on how to remove that class?