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How to pull blog category in activity loop?

@aljuk

Member

13 years, 9 months ago

In the Activity stream, blog post activity displays as “XYZ wrote a blog post”

I’d like to display “XYZ wrote a blog post in ” followed by the name of the blog category containing the post (I’m using one cat to a post).

I’ve tried various syntax including `get_the_category($post->ID)` and declaring `global $post` but the closest I’ve gotten to a solution is “XYZ wrote a blog post in Array”.

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@aljuk

Member

13 years, 9 months ago

Got it:

`global $post;
$category = get_the_category($post->ID);
$cat_slug = $category[0]->slug; // gets the slug
$category = $category[0]->cat_name; // gets the name
$postslug = basename(get_permalink()); // gets the post permalink`

@gunju2221

Participant

13 years, 9 months ago

Glad you got it!

Although you didn’t hook it into the activity filter yet.

as I remember it was something in the function class:

`function filter_gettext($translation, $text`

@gunju2221

Participant

13 years, 9 months ago

Ah! Found it. Knew it https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/change-wrote-a-new-blog-post-text/

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