Topic: Including post categories in the activity stream

Including post categories in the activity stream

ewebber
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@ewebber

10 years, 8 months ago

Hi, I would like to include the blog post categories in the activity stream meta. Anyone know how I can do that?

so instead of: ewebber wrote a new post, Scooter Router: routes from Hackney about 16 hours ago
It would say: ewebber wrote a new post, Scooter Router: routes from Hackney in the categories scooter clapton about 16 hours ago

I’m running WP 3.8.1 and BP 1.9.2
My site is at http://www.yeahhackney.com

Thanks

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ewebber
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@ewebber

10 years, 8 months ago

Just adding a comment so I can sign up to replies

Henry Wright
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@henrywright

10 years, 8 months ago

Hi @ewebber

You can do that by filtering bp_blogs_activity_new_post_action

ewebber
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@ewebber

10 years, 8 months ago

Thanks for responding, any chance you know of a tutorial for this, my php knowledge is pretty lacking.

Henry Wright
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@henrywright

10 years, 8 months ago

I’m not aware of an exact tutorial but to give you an overview of what needs to be done…

You can use wp_get_post_categories() to get a list of categories for a particular post.

For more information on how to use wp_get_post_categories(), see:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_post_categories

add_filter() will let you hook your filter function to bp_blogs_activity_new_post_action

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filter

More info on WordPress filters:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Filters

ewebber
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@ewebber

10 years, 8 months ago

Awesome, thanks Henry
ewebber
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@ewebber

10 years, 8 months ago
I have now done this by adding:
```
if( $post->post_type == 'post' ) {

$activity_action  = sprintf( __( '%1$s added the post, %2$s in the categories %3$s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), '<a href="' . $post_permalink . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>', get_the_category_list( ', ', '', $post->ID ) );

}
```
Into my filter for recording posts and custom post types
Henry Wright
Moderator

@henrywright

10 years, 8 months ago

Using get_the_category_list makes displaying the categories very simple! Nice find.

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