HTML Code filtering through on Recent Site Wide Posts for Buddypress

How annoying :)

I know what you need to do - well, need to ha feature plugin.

Which will most likely be a core BP hack?

Anybody, ahem, want to help out with what that hack might be?

Hiya,

Open up the recent global posts widget and look at lines 170 and 174. You'll see sections of code similar to this:

strip_tags( $post['post_content'] )

Replace those bits with this:

$post['post_content']

Basically you're removing strip_tags().

Thanks,
Andrew

Thanks!

I'm using bp 1.1.2.

@Richie_KS, is hacking the core files the only way to do it, or can that be dropped in mu-plugins?

I'm trying to avoid as many core hacks as possible as I always seem to miss what I've done when I upgrade.

Hiya,

I think I was confused about the issue at hand when I posted that. I thought you were using our global posts widget but after re-reading your post just now I think you may have been referring to a BuddyPress widget. Let me know if this is the case.

Thanks,
Andrew

Sorry about that then. Just ignore everything I've said!

Thanks,
Andrew

hi georgef

add this to your functions.php..not sure which one?..either site wide post or site wide activity

Strip html for recent sitewide post

//FILTER HTML FOR BP RECENT SITEWIDE POST WIDGET
function strip_recent_sitewide_post() {
global $post;
//start stripping the code
$post_output = $post->post_content;
$post_output = strip_tags($post_output);
$post_output = preg_replace('|\[(.+?)\](.+?\[/\\1\])?|s', '', $post_output);
//start count word and output excerpt
$post_output = substr($post_output,0,250);
$post_output = substr($post_output,0,strrpos($post_output,' '));
$post_output = $post_output . " ";
//return the output
return $post_output;
}
//apply to bp_create_excerpt without hack core
add_filter( 'bp_create_excerpt', 'strip_recent_sitewide_post' );


Strip html for site wide activity
//FILTER HTML FOR BP RECENT SITEWIDE ACTIVITY WIDGET
function strip_recent_sitewide_activity() {
global $post;
//start stripping the code
$post_output = $post->post_content;
$post_output = strip_tags($post_output);
$post_output = preg_replace('|\[(.+?)\](.+?\[/\\1\])?|s', '', $post_output);
//return the output
return $post_output;
}
//apply to bp_activity_content without hack core
add_filter( 'bp_activity_content', 'strip_recent_sitewide_activity' );


let me know if it work ok...my demo sitewide activity did not had the embed video etc like yours:)

cheers

Hey Ritchie_KS,

Thanks, now we are getting somewhere.

I have 2 plugins: additional tags and also one called less_filter so that I can use javascript on my site.

THat could probably be the problem?

I will remove those and see. Otherwise, css sounds like a better option.

Thanks,

George

I really don't get this!

Tried the code above. Didn't work.

Also removed the 2 suspecting plugins, additional tags and less filters and made no difference.

Videos and pictures keep feeding through to both widgets.

I know you guys have explored a gazillion options, but any idea what else could be doing this?

Thanks,

George

can you list the plugins used?..the 2 plugin you mention maybe
attached in zip here if can...

I have removed the less filters plugin, the only one left that (I think) can do that is the additional-tags plugin which is from here.

Should I upload all my active plugins?

- disable the 2 plugin you mention
- make a new post with text and img and video included in post

Just did a new post and bang, video is stretched all over the sidebar again.

I've added your scripts in the functions as well.

I'm lost with this.

If you think a plugin might be the problem I'd just remove all plugins except BP temporarily to see if that fixes it. If it does then you know it's a plugin.

I honestly have no clue what causes it, but that is probably the best place to start. Has anyone else experienced the same problem?

I'm starting to think people just haven't noticed, or there widgets aren't aligned next to each other like mine.

I've seen a few sites that have pictures etc feed through.

Maybe I need to restructure my site or something.

Hi,
I'm actually facing the same problems, using bp-social theme; pictures and videos are feeding through the widgets: I would prefer both recent post & activities widgets to show just text+link.

The filter to strip recent site wide post works; but not for the sitewide activities i.e. images are still being displayed.

I used the code below from buddypress site to filter the sitewide activity and it works ok now.

function get_activity_flatline( $content ) {
$striptags = array("<p>", "</p>");
$content2 = str_replace($striptags, "", $content);
$content3 = substr($content2, 0, strpos($content2, '<span class="time-since">'));
return $content3;
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_activity_content', 'get_activity_flatline' );

Hiya,

Open up the recent global posts widget and look at lines 170 and 174. You'll see sections of code similar to this:

strip_tags( $post['post_content'] )

Replace those bits with this:

$post['post_content']

Basically you're removing strip_tags().

Thanks,
Andrew

I am trying to do this for the Global Posts Feed Widget and it isn't working. If renders my site blank. Any suggestions?

This is what my code looks like after your suggestion:

if ( $options['recent-global-posts-display'] == 'title_content' ) {

echo '' . substr( $post['post_title'], 0, $options['recent-global-posts-title-characters'] ) . '';

echo '';

echo substr( $post['post_content'] ), 0, $options['recent-global-posts-content-characters'] );

} else if ( $options['recent-global-posts-display'] == 'title' ) {

echo '' . substr( $post['post_title'], 0, $options['recent-global-posts-title-characters'] ) . '';

} else if ( $options['recent-global-posts-display'] == 'content' ) {

echo substr( $post['post_content'] ), 0, $options['recent-global-posts-content-characters'] );

echo ' (' . __('More') . ')';

}

I also tried this by eliminating all of the () on the recommended lines and it still renders
What should the code exactly look like?