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Restrict Commenting on Activity Stream to Certain Roles

notright
Participant

@notright

4 years, 7 months ago

Hi guys,

I have a Freemium BuddyPress site and so far I’ve had to disable the activity feed entirely. However, I feel like I’m missing out on a great way to keep people on my site.

Is there a way to restrict activity stream Commenting to Certain roles (of my paying members)?

I can already restrict public messaging but if comments are still allowed it’s pointless.

Thanks

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David Cavins
Keymaster

@dcavins

4 years, 7 months ago

Sure, you can add a filter to the bp_activity_can_comment filter point. It is designed to only allow comments on certain types of posts/objects, but there’s no reason you couldn’t take the current user into account in your filter.

You can read more about filters here:

add_filter()

The filter I’m talking about is here in the code:
https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/4.4.0/src/bp-activity/bp-activity-template.php#L2871

Here’s an example of a filter based on who should be able to comment:
https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/commit/f968ef5198b48273a477227876fbb1d94b108755

notright
Participant

@notright

4 years, 7 months ago

I don’t see the bp_activity_can_comment could it be reply?

jeffersonmidei
Participant

@jeffersonmidei

1 year, 2 months ago

WOW, Thanks, David… The problem is that I don’t know how to write this “add_filter” or where to write, but you gave me some hope and a place to start searching…

Thanks again…

If you have some examples of using this add_filter with bp_activity_can_comment, please, let me know…

Thanks one more time,

JM:.

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