This new plugin, BP Lotsa Feeds, is meant to address the issue. It activates RSS feeds for just about everything in BuddyPress, from an individual member’s sitewide comments, to new group memberships for specific groups, to individual forum topics.

Read more about the plugin on its home page, and follow its development on Github. Thanks to Red Rover for sponsoring a cool plugin.

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INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS

• Networkwide comments by an individual member (/members/username/activity/comments/feed)
• Networkwide blog posts by an individual member (/members/username/activity/blogposts/feed)
• Activity updates by an individual member (/members/username/activity/updates/feed)
• An individual member’s friendship connections (/members/username/activity/friendships/feed)
• Forum topics started by an individual member (/members/username/activity/forumtopics/feed)
• Forum replies by an individual member (/members/username/activity/forumreplies/feed)
• All forum activity by a member (a combination of the previous two feeds) (/members/username/activity/forums/feed)

INDIVIDUAL GROUPS

• A group’s activity updates (/groups/groupname/updates/feed)
• New forum topics in a given group (/groups/groupname/forumtopics/feed)
• Forum replies in a given group (/groups/groupname/forumreplies/feed)
• All forum activity in a given group (a combination of the previous two feeds) (/groups/groupname/forums/feed)
• A group’s new members (/groups/groupname/membership/feed)

FORUMS

• Individual forum topic posts (/groups/groupname/forum/topic/topicslug/feed)

You can make any of these feeds inaccessible by defining the corresponding DISABLE constant in plugins/bp-custom.php or wp-config.php, e.g.

define( 'BPLF_DISABLE_GROUP_UPDATES_FEED', true );

See bp-lotsa-feeds.php for the proper constant names.

Hooks and filters are in place so that you can add custom feeds and feed templates.

Follow the plugin’s development at http://github.com/boonebgorges/bp-lotsa-feeds

Instructions

1. Upload the bp-lotsa-feeds directory to your WP plugins folder and activate

Thanks to Red Rover, the sponsor of this plugin.

Download the plugin here.

BP Lotsa Feeds has been downloaded 948 times. Are you using this plugin? Consider a donation.

Version history

1.0 – September 28, 2010

Initial release

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The plugin can be used to pull items from any RSS feed and add them to your BP activity stream, with customizable text. It’s feature-light right now (and requires some hand-coding to work) but it’s still pretty much the coolest thing ever. I will update it to be better when I get around to it.

Get BP External Activity here.

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The plugin imports RSS feeds every hour. You may find that you need to decrease your Simplepie cache time to make it work:

add_filter( 'wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime', create_function('$a', 'return 600;') );

reduces the RSS cache to ten minutes, for example. Put that in your bp-custom.php file if you are having problems with the plugin.

At the moment, the plugin uses the Author field from the RSS feed to look for a matching author in your WP database. If it doesn’t find one, it uses the unlinked text ‘A user’, as in ‘A user edited the wiki page…’.

Instructions

1. Upload the bp-external-activity directory to your WP plugins folder and activate
2. Open loader.php and replace the sample feed data with your own. Read the inline documentation carefully.

Future versions of the plugin will have a real admin interface (no PHP knowledge necessary), more sophisticated matching of feed authors with BP members, and the ability to attach feeds to groups.

Thanks to Andy Peatling, whose External Group Blogs served as the inspiration for a good part of the code.

Download the plugin here.

BP External Activity has been downloaded 974 times. Are you using this plugin? Consider a donation.

Version history

1.0 – May 25, 2010

Initial release

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This morning I wrote a bit of code to add that kind of functionality to group activity streams. There are three functions, each of which goes in your plugins/bp-custom.php file.

First, adding the checkbox to the activity box. Notice that it only shows up when you’re on a group page.

function cac_email_activity_checkbox() {
	if ( !bp_is_groups_component() )
		return;
	?>

	<label for="cac_activity_mail">
		Email this update to all group members?
		<input type="checkbox" name="cac_activity_mail" id="cac_activity_mail" value="mailme" />
	</label>
	<?php
}
add_action( 'bp_activity_post_form_options', 'cac_email_activity_checkbox' );

Second, handling the data when it gets to the server and sending the emails. Obviously, you’ll want to change the text of the email to match your own site and your own preferences. The line “remove_action( ‘bp_activity_after_save’ , ‘ass_group_notification_activity’ , 50 );” is there to prevent an email notification from being sent if you’re using the Group Activity Notification plugin, a big official release of which is coming soon :)

function cac_email_activity_handler( $activity ) {
	global $bp;

	if ( $_POST['mailme'] == 'mailme' ) {

		$subject = sprintf('[CUNY Academic Commons] New update in the group "%s"',  $bp->groups->current_group->name );

		$message = strip_tags($activity->action);
		$message .= '

';
		$message .= strip_tags($activity->content);

		$message .= '

-------
';

		$message .= sprintf('You recieved this message because you are a member of the group "%s" on the CUNY Academic Commons. Visit the group: %s', $bp->groups->current_group->name, $bp->root_domain . '/' . $bp->groups->current_group->slug . '/' . $bp->groups->current_group->slug . '/' );

		//print_r($message);

		if ( bp_group_has_members( 'exclude_admins_mods=0&per_page=10000' ) ) {
			global $members_template;
			foreach( $members_template->members as $m ) {
				wp_mail( $m->user_email, $subject, $message );
			}
		}
	}

	remove_action( 'bp_activity_after_save' , 'ass_group_notification_activity' , 50 );
}
add_action( 'bp_activity_after_save', 'cac_email_activity_handler', 1 );

Finally, you’ll need some Javascript to make the AJAX activity submission work correctly. This is really just a copy of what’s in the bp-default JS file, with a few added lines to make it work.

function cac_email_activity_js() {
	if ( !bp_is_groups_component() )
		return;
	?>
	<script type="text/javascript">

	var jq = jQuery;
	jq(document).ready( function() {
jq("input#aw-whats-new-submit").unbind('click');
			/* New posts */
	jq("input#aw-whats-new-submit").click( function() {
		var button = jq(this);
		var form = button.parent().parent().parent().parent();

		form.children().each( function() {
			if ( jq.nodeName(this, "textarea") || jq.nodeName(this, "input") )
				jq(this).attr( 'disabled', 'disabled' );
		});

		jq( 'form#' + form.attr('id') + ' span.ajax-loader' ).show();

		/* Remove any errors */
		jq('div.error').remove();
		button.attr('disabled','disabled');

		/* Default POST values */
		var object = '';
		var item_id = jq("#whats-new-post-in").val();
		var content = jq("textarea#whats-new").val();
		var mailme = jq("#cac_activity_mail:checked").val();

		/* Set object for non-profile posts */
		if ( item_id > 0 ) {
			object = jq("#whats-new-post-object").val();
		}

		jq.post( ajaxurl, {
			action: 'post_update',
			'cookie': encodeURIComponent(document.cookie),
			'_wpnonce_post_update': jq("input#_wpnonce_post_update").val(),
			'content': content,
			'object': object,
			'mailme': mailme,
			'item_id': item_id
		},
		function(response)
		{
			jq( 'form#' + form.attr('id') + ' span.ajax-loader' ).hide();

			form.children().each( function() {
				if ( jq.nodeName(this, "textarea") || jq.nodeName(this, "input") )
					jq(this).attr( 'disabled', '' );
			});

			/* Check for errors and append if found. */
			if ( response[0] + response[1] == '-1' ) {
				form.prepend( response.substr( 2, response.length ) );
				jq( 'form#' + form.attr('id') + ' div.error').hide().fadeIn( 200 );
				button.attr("disabled", '');
			} else {
				if ( 0 == jq("ul.activity-list").length ) {
					jq("div.error").slideUp(100).remove();
					jq("div#message").slideUp(100).remove();
					jq("div.activity").append( '<ul id="activity-stream" class="activity-list item-list">' );
				}

				jq("ul.activity-list").prepend(response);
				jq("ul.activity-list li:first").addClass('new-update');
				jq("li.new-update").hide().slideDown( 300 );
				jq("li.new-update").removeClass( 'new-update' );
				jq("textarea#whats-new").val('');
				jq("#cac_activity_mail").removeAttr('checked');

				/* Re-enable the submit button after 8 seconds. */
				setTimeout( function() { button.attr("disabled", ''); }, 8000 );
			}
		});

		return false;
	});
	});

	</script>
	<?php
}
add_action( 'bp_activity_post_form_options', 'cac_email_activity_js', 999 );

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Read more about it, along with a bunch of warnings, here.

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Check it out here.

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This plugin, BP MPO Activity Filter, does just what the name suggests: it filters BuddyPress activity feeds (wherever bp_has_activities appears) and filters the output based on the privacy settings of the source blogs. For example, if a blog is set to be visible only to logged in members of the community, BP MPO Activity Filter will only display activity items corresponding to that blog (both posts and comments) to users who are logged in. Sitewide administrators will have an unfiltered activity stream.

I borrowed the idea, and a little bit of the code, from this plugin. Because of incompatibilities with the way earlier versions of BP stored activity item data, this plugin will not work properly with installations of BP 1.1.3 or earlier (nor will it work on data created on that version of BP, even if the core software is updated).

Download the plugin here.

BP MPO Activity Filter has been downloaded 1,678 times. Are you using this plugin? Consider a donation.

Version history

1.0 – February 7, 2010

Initial release

1.0.1 – February 22, 2010

Added code to ensure that plugin is not loaded before BuddyPress is

Updated readme file to include more information on compatibility with BP < 1.2

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The plugin has been tested on version 1.1.3 of BP, as well as the 1.2 release candidate. If you want to use the plugin for 1.1.3 or lower, you will need to uncomment the first few add_action and add_filter lines in the plugin file.

Technical caveat: Non-logged-in commenters have BP user_id 0. When BP creates the activity stream, it decides whether or not to show the Delete button by checking to see whether the user_id for the currently logged in user is the same as the user_id of the person to whom the comment belongs. Presumably, though, you don’t want non-logged-in viewers of the activity stream to be able to delete items from the activity stream at all. BP’s core code is not currently set up to make it easy to remove these buttons, so I employed an ugly fix. If you have changed your theme significantly from the default, you might have to adjust the filter bp_nonmember_comment_content (near the end of the plugin) to remove the button properly.

Download the plugin here.

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Version history

1.2.1 – April 15, 2010

Added checks for spam status

Fixed bug that made approved comments from site members appear twice (Thanks, Andrius!)

1.2 – April 6, 2010

Adapted to BuddyPress’s new comment activity recording method

Comment approval now posts to the activity stream as well

1.1 – February 22, 2010

Normalized file structure to latest BP standards (bp_init)

Fixed problem with deprecated bp_post_get_permalink

1.0 – February 7, 2010

Initial release

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