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Huh, $activities_template is a cool variable. It gets you part of the way there (or all the way there, if you are willing to get complicated).

For example, to get “Admin said:” , you can use $activities_template->activities[0]->display_name (for the first activity item; to get the whole list you would have to do a “foreach” loop).

You can get Content of Forum Post the same way. View Full is already in /entry.php, and Delete is an admin option that comes up as part of <?php bp_activity_action() ?>

It is more problematic when it comes to TOPIC NAME and GROUP NAME, since you would have to reverse engineer the pre-baked $activities_template->activities[0]->action string. I would probably do something like:

1. check $activities_template to see if the current item is a forum post

2. if so, run php string functions to strip out the hyperlinked TOPIC NAME

3. and also run php string functions again on the same string to strip out the hyperlinked GROUP name

Would that solve it?

You can alter the action variable using php string manipulation functions. I would start with trim(), which might be all you need to get rid of the boilerplate text.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.trim.php

Excellent hint Boone but the codex link you posted is a page not found.

No idea if this is useful, but I’ll post it for reference.

You can remove the meta links and time since in the activity_action via a filter (put the functions in your functions.php of your theme):

function remove_activity_meta( $content ) {

return '';

}

add_filter( 'bp_activity_permalink', 'remove_activity_meta' );

add_filter( 'bp_activity_time_since', 'remove_activity_meta' );

add_filter( 'bp_activity_delete_link', 'remove_activity_meta' );

You can then add the time since wherever you want using:

<?php echo bp_core_time_since( bp_get_activity_date_recorded() ) ?> ago

The method I talk about above – using a filter on groups_activity_new_forum_topic_action – will only work for future activity updates. It doesn’t change the display of anything that’s already written in the database.

I was having the same issue and saw this thread while researching it.
Not sure if this is the “best way” to solve this but it worked for me with minimal core change and that’s what I was looking for.

In bp-activity-templateargs.php goto the function named bp_insert_activity_meta copy this entire function to your functions.php file….rename this function to “fb_insert_activity_meta” or whatever you prefer.
Below and outside of this function add the line add_action ( ‘override_insert_activity_meta’, ‘fb_insert_activity_meta’);
Now back to the bp-activity-templateargs.php….goto the function named bp_get_activity_action() and change this:
if ( !empty( $action ) )
$action = bp_insert_activity_meta( $action );

to this:
if ( !empty( $action ) )
{
if(has_action(‘override_insert_activity_meta’))
{
do_action(‘override_insert_activity_meta’, $action);
}else
{
$action = bp_insert_activity_meta( $action );
}

}

This will basically override the function and allow u to change the content there with minimal change to the core as far as I can see.

@ehegwer – this was just answered the other day in the forums and filtering the output – do a quick search.

How I can modify bp_activity_action to show only post title & author?

@apeatling

“Andy Peatling said 8 months, 4 weeks ago:
No idea if this is useful, but I’ll post it for reference.

You can remove the meta links and time since in the activity_action via a filter (put the functions in your functions.php of your theme):

function remove_activity_meta( $content ) {
return ”;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_activity_permalink’, ‘remove_activity_meta’ );
add_filter( ‘bp_activity_time_since’, ‘remove_activity_meta’ );
add_filter( ‘bp_activity_delete_link’, ‘remove_activity_meta’ );

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How i can remove also a “say:”, “publish new post:” phrases?