Incompatibility with "Buddypress activity plus" plugin

[Norm]

The plugin works perfectly when posting text on a friends wall but as soon as one tries to add media with the Buddypress activity plus plugin then the update is regarded as a normal status update on the activity stream and not as a update on someones wall. I think this is a new issue because i think it used to work before a recent update to “BuddyBoss wall”

[Alyssa]

@namrons ah yes, the good old BP Activity Plus paradox. See previous fix here I have confirmed still works: https://www.buddyboss.com/support-forums/topic/the-problem-with-the-wall-of-a-friend-buddypress-activity-plus/#post-25603

That’s the best we can do because the BP Activity Plus form is not meant to be able to be on the profile page. The wall allows this but BP activity plus does not have the functionality to realize this is a profile page and add the mention to it. BuddyBoss does this on the backend with php, but since we aren’t in the business of fixing plugins this is the best solution I can offer you.

[Norm]

Awesome! Thanks, that works for me.

[Alyssa]

Great, thanks for the follow up!

[Craig]

The remedy fix link you provided above has thrown a 404 not found error. Could you repost the fix or possibly tell me how to remove the form box on other peoples profiles?

I like your wall plugin but its very inconsistent when generating previews from links, video urls, and images. here is a list of things I came across while testing every feature of the wall.

ON YOUR PERSONAL WALL OR NEWS FEED

1. post video/photo url with no text or description you will get a fully Embed video or photo which you can play video from wall and with photos get a larger image.

2. post video/photo url and add text or description, it becomes a preview link and shows meta preview but when clicking on the video or photo it sends you to youtube or photo hosting site, making you leave the social network.

3. If you copy and paste a link/video/photo url first and write a description after the url nothing will show at all accept the written url in text form.

4. hitting the x button on preview before posting wont remove the meta preview after posting

6. editing a post and removing video/photo/link url – does not remove meta preview or video from the post. You can only edit the text of the post.

Other walls –
1. if you post on other members wall a video/photo link with or without text, its only meta preview, doesn’t show embeds at all.

2. If you just post a video link it wont show anything but a text link, it will just be a url.

3. If you write text or description then add video link, it will generate meta preview

4. Photos will not embed at all, just shows a meta preview

[Craig]

PS. All the things mentioned above. I did NOT have activity plus installed, I only went to activity plus after finding out the 10 problems above. With activity plus the wall is far more stable with embedding videos and photos and links.

If I cant find a solution to have activity plus work with your wall, then I’m just gonna have to return it. They have individual plugins out their that add facebook like, commenting, @ mentions, meta previews, and video/photo embeds, all the features your wall has. Yes the boss wall is more convenient than finding 6 stable working plugins but at this point its not worth the $40 bucks I paid for it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Alyssa]

@craigseidl Here is the fix again, I was able to access the page without issues.

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
   if ($('.user-nicename').text().length > 2 && !$('.my-account').length ) {
    var test_str = $('.user-nicename').text();
    var start_pos = test_str.indexOf('@') + 1;
    var end_pos = test_str.indexOf('@',start_pos);
    var usrid = test_str.substring(start_pos,end_pos)
     $('#whats-new').val("@" + usrid + " " );
   }                                     
});
</script>

Place it in your footer.php file before the </body> tag

I am working on your other questions with our developers currently. If any of these are deal breakers for your site then you should probably initiate a refund now becuase it will probably be longer than one month until we get any of these issues fixed and even then I can guarantee which ones will be fixed but I can assure you we will work on them.

[Craig]

TJ thank you so much! I’ll give it a try, I know you guys work very hard on everything and $40 bucks is practically nothing compared to hiring a custom php coder, I don’t expect overnight results, I’m just glad your support team takes the time to respond to these issues. I’m impressed that I seen an update today on the plugin that handled a couple of the things on the list!

I’m sorry about the way I worded that last post, I was 14 hours in on fixing all the bugs on my site and I was just frustrated. I didn’t want to deter other users from purchasing this, that was not my intention.

For anyone looking for great upgrades on your wall, this is a quick simple solution. I’m just very picky when it comes to the small stuff and I had the bar raised high for my users experience. This really does add great functionality to your buddypress wall.

Respectfully,
Craig Seidl

[Norman]

@tjchester the code recommended above is no longer working for me after updating to the latest boss version. Can you please recommend a tweak to get it working again? Thanks!

[Alyssa]

@awestrucktv you shouldn’t need the code anymore but I’m unable to replicate the issue. Posting to a friends wall works perfect with BPAP. Perhaps it was some updated code on our end that the next update will fix. We have some urgent issues we are working on to release soon. Test after the next release and get back to me if it is still an issue.

[Norm]

Hi @tjchester kindly check again and confirm. When posting text to a friend’s wall there is no issue for me but when posting media to a friend’s wall using BPAP it does not appear on the friend’s wall as expected but appears as an activity update on your own personal wall.