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@rogercoathup I have another strange issue, I’m using a front end editor so users can create blog posts http://perishablepress.com/user-submitted-posts/ I modified that using some recommended code so that the image attached will be set as a post thumbnail. Which works as it should the image is there with the post when I check the post and it appears everywhere I call for the post thumbnail such as the home page. The only place it doesn’t appear is in the Buddypress activity stream next to the excerpt. Interestingly if I go and edit or update a post that I originally created with the front end editor, the thumbnail suddenly appears in the buddypress activity stream as it should. Any thoughts on what might be going on?

ahhh elementary my dear Roger, I’ll mess around with the code see what I can do. Thanks.

I can’t believe I’m going through this all because buddypress doesn’t support post thumbnail. An it’s not the only issue I’m having either. Buddypress is great providing you don’t want to change anything expect a few colours.

I have found a solution if you are using gravity forms… I just need to know who to add the post id into the form submission function because atm it just uploads the image to the actually form page

add_action(“gform_pre_submission_2”, “gform_registration”);

function gform_registration( $form_meta ){

// $post_id gets set here by some code I have removed for clarity

// If there is a logo, attach that file and make it the post featured image

if($_FILES) {

//WordPress Administration API required for the media_handle_upload() function

require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/file.php’);

require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/image.php’);

require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/media.php’);

$media_id = media_handle_upload(‘input_3’, $post_id);

my_set_post_thumbnail( $post_id, $media_id);

}

}

// This function will be obsolete once WP 3.1 is release since that includes

// an identical function name set_post_thumbnail

function my_set_post_thumbnail( $post, $thumbnail_id ) {

$post = get_post( $post );

$thumbnail_id = absint( $thumbnail_id );

if ( $post && $thumbnail_id && get_post( $thumbnail_id ) ) {

$thumbnail_html = wp_get_attachment_image( $thumbnail_id, ‘thumbnail’ );

if ( ! empty( $thumbnail_html ) ) {

update_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘_thumbnail_id’, $thumbnail_id );

return true;

}

}

return false;

}

@thinkluke –

A couple of points:

1. You are passing the post_id into your my_set_post_thumbnail() function – so don’t know why don’t just use that, rather than doing a get_post with that id, and then trying to use the ID from that post. Similarly, with your thumbnail ID.

2. Naming your variable $post may be causing some conflict with the global $post – at the very least, it makes your function difficult to read

You need to create / edit the bp activity item for that post directly in your gravity forms filter.. As you are not saving / updating the post, so missing the default bp hook that does the activity admin for you

Sorry I would search for it myself on buddypress however the search is broken..just returns me to the home page.

Roger, This is the code I have thus far….

add_filter(“gform_post_submission_1”, “set_post_thumbnail_as”, 10, 2);
function set_post_thumbnail_as($entry, $form){

//getting first image associated with the post
$post_id = $entry[“post_id”];
$attachments = get_posts(array(‘numberposts’ => ‘1’, ‘post_parent’ => $post_id, ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘post_mime_type’ => ‘image’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’));
if(sizeof($attachments) == 0)
return; //no images attached to the post

//setting first image as the thumbnail for this post
update_post_meta( $post_id, ‘_thumbnail_id’, $attachments[0]->ID);

// update bp activty stream content.
$activity_id = bp_activity_add( array( ‘id’ => $post_id, ‘content’ => ‘$attachments’ ));
}

I understand the activity post id is different from the wordpress post id? How can I get this activity post id. Also is it okay I am using the post-submission gf filter? Is it just this simple with the correct activity add code?

Can you please help me? I’m really stuck and almost thinking of scrapping the project just because I suck at buddypress and PHP.