[Plugin: BuddyPress Groupblog] Adding an entry to group activity stream.

Luiz, we actually have a template function for that, get_groupblog_group_id( $blog_id ), so no need to hook into meta.

Only now there is still the original post recorded in the activity stream. This causes duplicates in the sitewide stream. We could set hide_sitewide to true, but that would fork comments and activity post interaction.

The best way is to delete the original activity item and let the new group activity item be the boss. I tried a few things, but am overlooking something.

Do you see anthing:

/**
 * bp_groupblog_record_publish_post_activity( $post_id )
 *
 * Record the blog activity for the group.
 */
function bp_groupblog_record_publish_post_activity( $post_id ) {
	global $bp, $blog_id;

	$post = get_post( $post_id );

	$group_id = get_groupblog_group_id( $blog_id );
	if ( !$group_id ) return;
	$group = new BP_Groups_Group( $group_id, true );

	$activity_action = sprintf( __( '%s wrote a new blog post %s in the group %s:', 'groupblog'), bp_core_get_userlink( $post->post_author ), '<a href="' . get_permalink( $post->ID ) .'">' . attribute_escape( $post->post_title ) . '</a>', '<a href="' . bp_get_group_permalink( $group ) . '">' . attribute_escape( $group->name ) . '</a>' );
	$activity_content = bp_create_excerpt( $post->post_content );

	/* Record this in activity streams */
	$r = groups_record_activity( array(
		'action' => apply_filters( 'bp_blogs_activity_new_grouppost_action', $activity_action, $post->post_content, &$post ),
		'content' => apply_filters( 'bp_blogs_activity_new_grouppost_content', $activity_content, $post->post_content, &$post ),
		'primary_link' => apply_filters( 'bp_blogs_activity_new_grouppost_primary_link', get_permalink( $post->ID ) ),
		'type' => 'new_groupblog_post',
		'item_id' => $group_id,
		'secondary_item_id' => $post->post_author,
		'hide_sitewide' => 0
	) );

	// Delete activity stream item
	bp_blogs_delete_activity( array( 'item_id' => $blog_id, 'secondary_item_id' => $post_id, 'component' => $bp->blogs->slug, 'type' => 'new_blog_post' ) );

}
add_action( 'publish_post', 'bp_groupblog_record_publish_post_activity' );
add_action( 'bp_blogs_remove_post', 'bp_groupblog_record_publish_post_activity' );

Luiz Armesto who are YOU! You are truly amazing, are you active with BuddyPress in any other way? I’m very impressed, thanks for helping out with this major issue. This will appear in the next update along with other new features and themes.

I will also make sure to give you credit for this find.

Greetz,

Marius Ooms

Thanks for the work and your team, it is a blessing! You’ll be glad to hear that we have lots of improvements, new features and theme updates coming within the week. I think you will really like it. You will probably want to wait for the new pot file as well regarding translation.

Let me know if you find any more issues or would like other things implemented and we will look at them.

Greetz

Sorry to exhume this.
I’m wondering how I might go about adapting this so that the blog posts of members of a group (that is, posts to their own blogs, not the group blog) are also integrated into the activity stream?

By the way, I posted a fix to the groupblog subdomain issue over on the buddypress site.

Yes, there is a thread here:
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-groupblog/forum/topic/fix-for-subdomains/

In short, the blog name is not available from the path value when using subdomains – it’s necessary to get it from the domain value instead.

By the way, I’ve customised the External Blog plugin to easily add feeds from all the group members’ blogs. They’re displayed as a list with checkboxes, in addition to the standard text box for external feeds. If anyone’s interested, let me know.
I’ve excluded any blogs which are also group blogs – as I’m worried about groups getting feeds from other groups in case a feedback loop is set up. (i.e. groups are subscribed to each other.) I’m not sure what would happen but I’m guessing that the internet would eat itself.

Excellent, thanks.