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Filtering Activity Feed by Custom Category

btees
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@btees

5 years, 7 months ago

I’ve added Categories to Activities per this thread: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/add-category-field-to-buddypress-activity-4/

I see these categories turning up in the wp_bp_activity_meta table. I’m just not sure how to now filter my activity loop by these categories now.

Ultimately, I want a selection in the users profile to dictate what’s in their feed (e.g. only show me activity from my friends OR about this category) I’ve already got the activity feed filter by friends using: https://buddydev.com/support/forums/topic/friends-only-activity-stream/#post-1345

But right now I’m just looking for a steer on how to filter the activity loop. I’ll hopefully figure out how to make it a user option from there!

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shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

5 years, 7 months ago

Have you read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/add-custom-filters-to-loops-and-enjoy-them-within-your-plugin/
btees
Participant

@btees

5 years, 7 months ago
Thanks for that @shanebp

I’ve been trying to use something like the “Builds an Activity Meta Query to retrieve the favorited activities” part of that document combined with the feed merging solution offered in this thread:

how to combine activity tabs to one

But I can’t seem to wrap my head around it.

I’ve been trying to add the meta_query to my $retval like this:
```
array(  
        'meta_query' => array(
            array('meta_key' => 'bpcat',
			'meta_key' => $industry))
			
    ),
```
Where $industry is a variable associated with the viewers account like:
$industry = xprofile_get_field_data( 2, $user_id, false );

But I’ve also run it with a fixed value for testing ( 'meta_key' => $industry ), no joy either

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