Modifying default widgets
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OK I have spent this weekend working on modifying the default BP widgets. Some have been harder to customise than others.
I am having lots of trouble getting the site activity midget changed to how I want it.
bp-blogs.php, bp_blogs_format_activity().
return array(
'primary_link' => $blog_url,
'content' => apply_filters( 'bp_blogs_new_blog_activity', sprintf( __( '%s created a new blog: %s', 'buddypress' ), $user_link, '' . $blog_name . '' ) . ' <span class="time-since">%s</span>', $user_link, $blog_url, $blog_name )
);
This bit
<span class="time-since">%s</span>is where I’m up. I am assuming the %s goes through another sprinft() call on page generation. I need to know where and how, as it generates output like this which I need to change: & 10 minutes agoPlease help
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function bp_activity_content_filter( $content, $date_recorded, $full_name, $insert_time = true, $filter_words = true, $filter_you = true )
It’s in bp-activity-templatetags.php. Sitewide activity widget calls that for all content being displayed. It updates the ‘time since’ %s placeholder.
That should be the spot to modify it like John suggested. He does pretty well with notepad++.
“somwhere around line 151” is a pretty exact somewhere.
I’m fooling around with NetBeans IDE 6.5. It has it’s moments of usefulness.
I’m not really sure what others use for their development processes, but I’ve had good luck with Notepad++, SmartFTP, WinMerge, WinRAR, and TortoiseSVN.
I’ve also used Eclipse but I’ve never NEEDED to use it, so I don’t really know how to take advantage of it the way I probably should. I’ll check out NetBeans since you mention it.
The one reason I feel I’m flying blind a little bit is because I really have no way to trace any functions back without manually opening files and checking out what they do. I suspect that an IDE will probably alleviate some of those problems for me.
I really would like to try and setup Eclipse as my IDE of choice, but it’s actually so amazing and probably capable of doing so much cool stuff that I just can’t figure it out and haven’t had the time to sit down and try.
Plus I always have like 4 website projects open at one time, and SmartFTP lets me browse as many remote and local connections as I need to have open at a time. It’s a funny feeling being an old dog that wants to learn new tricks some days.
djpaul, if this is still a question in your mind, turn the light back on. This has degenerated into off topic banter.
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