Comments on posts don't appear in Buddypress activities

[ClearConscious]

It appears that comments on posts are not posting in the activities for Buddypress. From the research I've been doing it appears that this is supposed to be a built in feature. As of now registered users who comment on posts don't have that activity appear on the activity streams.

[IndustrialThemes]

Please test this on the default buddypress theme and see if the comments appear in activity so we can confirm that it's the theme rather than the plugin.

[ClearConscious]

Will do. I'll post my results shortly.

[ClearConscious]

Went ahead and switched themes, disabled all plugins and that doesn't seem to resolve the issue. I think this might be specific to Buddypress, since people are complaining about it, without anyone coming up with a fix. I have seen issues specific to custom post types, could that be part of the issue?

[ClearConscious]

This might be helpful with your expertise: http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/08/12 ... in-bp-1-5/

[ClearConscious]

This information also looks useful: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/ques ... tivity-loo

[IndustrialThemes]

Aha, very interesting! So, the issue is with comments made to ONLY custom post types (review types), right? Comments on regular posts ARE displaying in your activity? If this is correct, please confirm. Also, try adding this function to your functions/custom.php file. You can just put it at the very end of the file before the closing ?> tag:

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  function bbg_record_my_custom_post_type_comments( $post_types ) {
      $post_types[] = 'dolphin'; // Add your custom post type name to the array. If you have a post type called 'dolphin' then you have a weird plugin
      return $post_types;
  }
  add_filter( 'bp_blogs_record_comment_post_types', 'bbg_record_my_custom_post_type_comments' );


Please let me know if that does indeed solve the problem so I can update the theme. Thanks for your help with this issue!

[ClearConscious]

Nope, comments are not displayed. But I was trying to make some leads with this issue. I'm not sure if the theme treated posts technically as a custom post type. Would the custom post name, just be whatever I named it in the settings? Thanks for your help!

[ClearConscious]

The code you provided also didn't work, unless I'm missing something :/

[IndustrialThemes]

No, the custom post type name would have "os_" prefixed and it wouldn't have any uppercase characters. For instance, if you named your review type "Movie" the technical name according to the theme would be "os_movie"

[ClearConscious]

Applied os_video_game_review and that didn't seem to work. None of the comments are displaying still on the activity walls.

[ClearConscious]

Code I'm using:

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function bbg_record_my_custom_post_type_comments( $post_types ) {
      $post_types[] = 'os_video_game_review'; // Add your custom post type name to the array. If you have a post type called 'dolphin' then you have a weird plugin
      return $post_types;
  }
  add_filter( 'bp_blogs_record_comment_post_types', 'bbg_record_my_custom_post_type_comments' );

[IndustrialThemes]

try os_video_game instead (unless you actually added the word "review" in the name of your review type)

[ClearConscious]

Nope using the full name I put in the code.

[IndustrialThemes]

Hmm, must be an issue with that function then. It was worth a shot. I'll keep my eye out for if I come across any solutions to this. I would recommend asking further questions on the bp support forums...

[ClearConscious]

Yeah I'm thinking this is something theme related as it's not playing nice with Achievements for Wordpress either. Won't unlock some of the achievements, like posting a comment.

[ClearConscious]

Yeah I switched over to the BP-Default theme and achievements popped up fine. So it seems that something on the theme is blocking achievements and from the comments appearing on Buddypress streams :/

[IndustrialThemes]

Well these are definitely separate issues. I'm still not convinced the first one is a theme issue since you haven't been able to test commenting on custom post types to see if they show up in the activity stream on any other themes, and I came across that information that others have posted about this being a buddypress problem. However the second issue could be theme related, it's just hard to know since Made uses so many plugins and has so much code. I'm not sure how the achievements plugin is supposed to work, but I wonder if it uses custom post types (in which case Made's custom post types could be interfering - or rather the other way around). Do any of the achievements work for you? If so, which ones work and which ones don't?

[ClearConscious]

I've made a post on the Wordpress forums which cover some of the achievements not working: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/list ... ?replies=9

A lot of them do work really well though.

[ClearConscious]

I also have a list of functioning achievements on here: http://theparanoidgamer.com/achievements/

[IndustrialThemes]

Sweet, so the achievement system itself works, it's just a matter of some of them not getting "triggered" at proper times...