Topic: [Resolved] How to disable activity commenting

[Resolved] How to disable activity commenting

Meini
Member

@meini

13 years, 8 months ago

How can I stop people from commenting on the activity pages whilst still showing the summary from the forum and other activites etc.?

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@mercime
Participant

@mercime

13 years, 8 months ago

BuddyPress > General Settings “Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?:”

Meini
Member

@meini

13 years, 8 months ago

Thanks @mercime
Yes, I tried that, but it does not seem to have any effect. Users still have the option to type and post something in the “What’s new…” box

@mercime
Participant

@mercime

13 years, 8 months ago

Copy activity/index.php from bp-default to your child theme, and delete lines 12 – 14
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/index.php#L12

Meini
Member

@meini

13 years, 8 months ago

Thanks mercime, so far I haven’t been able to get it to work. For some reason it does not “pick up” the information in activity/index.php in the child theme. I’ll have to do some more testing I guess, but so far, what you say makes sense, but nothing else does at the moment.

r-a-y
Keymaster

@r-a-y

13 years, 8 months ago

You could also create a blank php file for /activity/post-form.php in your child theme.

@mercime
Participant

@mercime

13 years, 8 months ago

Whichever method you use, Meini – r-a-y’s method is better make sure you follow the folder structure of the file you copied from parent theme.

e.g. for r-a-y’s method, the post-form.php should be in this structure in server:
wp-content/themes/yourChildThemefolder/activity/post-form.php

Meini
Member

@meini

13 years, 8 months ago

Hey thanks folks – it’s working! The form does not appear any more and I can still see all the activities. I used the “blank post-form.php file” method…
I appreciate your support.

davelopware
Member

@davelopware

13 years, 1 month ago

I’ve done a tweak to post-form.php that allows admins and moderators of a group to post directly into the activity stream, but prevents anyone else from doing it (in my case I want members of the group to use the Forums for discussion).

More details available including the code and how to install it are here: http://daveamphlett.com/2011/10/12/buddypress-activity-streams-vs-forums/

Note: this is just for BuddyPress 1.5

olivier147
Participant

@olivier147

12 years, 1 month ago

Hi’ davelopware,

Your tweak seems exactly what i need but the link (http://daveamphlett.com/2011/10/12/buddypress-activity-streams-vs-forums/) is unreachable.
Is there a place i could donwload it ?

thank’s in advance.
Best regards

Donald McIntyre
Participant

@donmcint

12 years, 1 month ago

Hello! I need to disable the the post-form only for the Site Activity page, but let everyone post on the groups, their profiles, friends, and everywhere else. Does the blank post-form.php solution achieve this?

Thx!