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Ooh… good question, cozzie.

I don’t think there’s a parameter that combines both the “personal” and “friends” type.

For the avatar, I’m guessing you would need to either hack the “/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-templatetags.php” file or write a filter to override one of the existing ones in bp-activity, which would include the avatar.

It’s not that hard to add user avatars to the activity stream, but it involves core-hacking. So as always, be warned that you won’t be able to update your BP automatically after changing core funcionality.

This takes place in bp-activity-templatetags.php

This is what your could should look like at the moment:

function bp_get_activity_content() {

global $activities_template, $allowed_tags;



if ( bp_is_home() && $activities_template->activity_type == 'personal' ) {

$content = bp_activity_content_filter( $activities_template->activity->content, $activities_template->activity->date_recorded, $activities_template->full_name );

} else {

$activities_template->activity->content = bp_activity_insert_time_since( $activities_template->activity->content, $activities_template->activity->date_recorded );

$content = $activities_template->activity->content;

}



return apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_content', $content );

}

You’ll have to add these two lines of code at the end of the else-part

$content = bp_core_get_avatar($activities_template->activity->user_id) . $content;

return $content;

The first line adds the avatar-image, the second line returns the content.

Second line is necessary because the

return apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_content', $content );

in the last line of the function filters out any images.

Remember: The BP-Devs had something in mind when implementing this functionality, so you may encounter security-risks…

In bp-activity-classes.php try to add this line of code to the get_activity_for_user() function (There are a couple of very similar code lines, just add it after those)

$activities_formatted[$i]['user_id'] = $activities[$i]->user_id;

Also I just recognized that the hackdescribed in this thread won’t work in BP 1.0.3 as there were some core changes.

OK, I took a quick look at BP 1.0.3 and it should work like this:

In bp-activity-classes.php add

$activities_formatted[$i]['user_id'] = $activities[$i]->user_id;

just as described above.

In bp-activity-widgets.php search for the line

<?php echo apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_content', bp_activity_content_filter( $item['content'], $item['date_recorded'], '', true, false, true ) ); ?>

and change it to

<?php echo bp_core_get_avatar($item['user_id']) . apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_content', bp_activity_content_filter( $item['content'], $item['date_recorded'], '', true, false, true ) ); ?>

You don’t need the other changes described in my previous posts, so just roll them back.

WOW – great!!! That was what I was searching for!

Can you tell me, how to implement that in my Custom-Friends-Activity?

(I am using this to get the friends activity for logged in users to the start-page)

<?php if ( bp_has_activities('type=friends&user_id='.$user_ID.'&per_page=10&max=10&timeframe=-4 Weeks') ) : ?>



<div class="activity-list">

<ul id="activity-list">

<?php while ( bp_activities() ) : bp_the_activity(); ?>



<li class="<?php bp_activity_css_class() ?>">

<?php bp_activity_content() ?>

</li>



<?php endwhile; ?>

</ul>

</div>

Would be great – thanks!

@Jotem, Can you amend the code as a plugin,cos of BP updates ?

Awesome suggestions, this is helping me understand a bit about how this thing was put together. However, implementing any of the code suggested above,for me, results in all activities having exactly the same avatar. Colour me confused.

@Marius: You are my HERO!!! Works like a charm! and – yes, now I’m understanding also a little bit more, how stuff like that could work (as a non programmer…) THANKS ALOT!