MatthewByrom

There is the comment issue. Basically the only thing I needed to change to add the comments to the Digests were to change the lines that only looked at groups.

However, I agree that it’s down to that, as when I turn comments off again the problem goes away (though we don’t get any comments at that point).

I did have to add some bodged horribleness to bp-activity-subscription-digest.php to remove duplicates. However, if the latest version of GES does that without my changes, then I’d rather use that & maintain a fighting chance of being able to keep up with updates etc without a lot of fiddling.

Many thanks for the link & advice, r-a-y. I’ll give it a try & let you know how it works.

Cheers Scott. I appreciate that.

Right, we had a developer do some functionality for us, but then ceased to exist.

The Developer added created some code in the file bp-activity-subscription-digest.php to pull the associated comments & present them with a post:


$post_id = $item->secondary_item_id;
$args = array(
'post_id' => $post_id, // use post_id, not post_ID
'count' => true
);

$count_comments = get_comments($args);

if($count_comments > 0):

$item_message .= "<div style=font-weight:bold;'>Follow Ups To Post</div>";

$args = array(
'post_id' => $post_id // use post_id, not post_ID
);

$comments = get_comments($args);

foreach($comments as $comment) :
$item_message .= "Comment by: " . $comment->comment_author . ' ' . $comment->comment_content . "<div style='padding: 10px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-style: dotted; margin-top:10px;'></div>";
endforeach;

endif;

Initially, this looks fine.

The issue with the above solution is of course that, once a digest fires, that post is no longer logged in wp_usermeta & so therefore if anyone posts a comment to that post after the digest, it will not be added to the next Digest.

Looking in wp_bp_activity, I can see that comments are being recorded as type “new_blog_comment”, so the Posts being made must be Blog Posts (apologies for the confusion, I’m having to hunt this stuff out myself & there’s lots to this website that I wasn’t involved in)

Also the component is listed as Blogs, not Groups – So that’s got to change, according you your response earlier. The Developer we hired didn’t do anything with that, it seems.

The comments are being recorded by a plugin called Pods. I’m guessing that plugin changes what is added to the activity stream.

Looks like we’ve got to find a new developer to help.

Is anyone on these forums aware of a firm or developer that can be employed to add functionality to BPGES?

I’ll pass it on.

Comments currently appear to be added to the Activity Stream, just not in the digest. There must be some additinal information required to put them in the correct group.

Thanks for the pointers.

Hi Scott,

Apologies for the tardy response.

Becs made the functionality freely available on this post. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the advice, mattyrob.

Sounds like a bridge too far. Time is against me on this one too.

Thanks for letting me know. Appreciate the advice.