Make your BuddyPress Sitewide Activity Stream Friends Only

By default, the site wide activity stream on a BuddyPress site contains all the updates/activities from the whole site. If your site is aimed at being more social type, you may want to make this page list friends only activity, to provide a more personalized feeling. It was asked on our Forum by Israel, and here I am presenting the code to you all.

function buddydev_friends_only_activity_args( $args ) {

	if ( ! bp_is_activity_directory() || ! is_user_logged_in() || ! empty( $args['scope'] ) ) {
		return $args;
	}

	$user_id = get_current_user_id();

	$user_ids = friends_get_friend_user_ids( $user_id );

	// include user's own too?
	array_push( $user_ids, $user_id );

	$args['user_id'] = $user_ids;

	return $args;

}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_activities_parse_args', 'buddydev_friends_only_activity_args' );

function buddydev_friends_only_activity_args( $args ) {

if ( ! bp_is_activity_directory() || ! is_user_logged_in() || ! empty( $args['scope'] ) ) {

return $args;

}

$user_id = get_current_user_id();

$user_ids = friends_get_friend_user_ids( $user_id );

// include user's own too?

array_push( $user_ids, $user_id );

$args['user_id'] = $user_ids;

return $args;

}

add_filter( 'bp_after_has_activities_parse_args', 'buddydev_friends_only_activity_args' );

Put this code in your bp-custom.php or your theme's functions.php and the sitewide activity stream will only list activities from current user and his/her friends.

9 Responses to Make your BuddyPress Sitewide Activity Stream Friends Only

Tosin #
How can I make BuddyPress Sitewide Activity Stream list followers only activity. What is the code that will support the buddypress follow plugin.
- Brajesh Singh #
  Hi Tosin,
  instead of friends_get_friend_ids you can use bp_get_follower_ids as shown here
  https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/blob/master/_inc/bp-follow-functions.php#L281
  Hope that helps.
  - Dawood #
    Amazing, worked Best in my Case.
    Thanks for brilliant work
    - Brajesh Singh #
      You are welcome 🙂
Nathan Pinno #
Does this snippet support the users I'm following as well, or how would I modify it to also show the activities of the people I'm following?
- Brajesh Singh #
  Hi Nathan,
  This snippet is for friends. It can be easily modified to use with the follow plugin.
  You will need to use bp_get_following_ids instead of the friends_get_friend_user_ids
  ash shown here
  https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/blob/master/_inc/bp-follow-functions.php#L314
  If you want me to put the complete code, please do let me know. I will post that.
  Thank you
  Brajesh
  - Madhavi Thakur #
    Hi, the above code works pretty well. But I even want to display all buddy press members activity in a page called global page. Is this possible to display only me and friends activity is one page and in other page all buddy press member activities..
NM #
Hi Brajesh, when there is only 1 friend or 1 follower connection…there is an error –
array_push() expects parameter 1 to be array. What do you suggest?
- Brajesh Singh #
  Hi NM,
  I am not sure about the follower but the function "friends_get_friend_user_ids" will always return an array even when there are no friends. Please do check if something is filtering and causing any issue.