Hi Herve,

1. Please see https://buddydev.com/buddypress/disallowing-activity-recording-for-components-or-some-activity-types-in-buddypress/

2. You will need to replace the table and the year for each of the following instructions.

a). List all activities for a user

SELECT * FROM 'wp_bp_activity' WHERE YEAR(date_recorded) = 2016

b). Delete for a year

DELETE FROM <code>wp_bp_activity</code> WHERE YEAR(date_recorded) = 2016

c). List orphan activity meta

SELECT * FROM <code>wp_bp_activity_meta</code> WHERE activity_id NOT IN( SELECT id from wp_bp_activity )

d). Cleanup the orphan meta

DELETE FROM <code>wp_bp_activity_meta</code> WHERE activity_id NOT IN( SELECT id from wp_bp_activity )

All the above actions are destructive and it is strongly suggested to take database backup before them. Also, Manually deleting activity will cause other complications.

3. The less interesting needs to be quantified. How do you define something less interesting?

Regards
Brajesh

Hi Herve,

1. It is just to let you know how it works. By failing to save, the type is excluded from saving.

2. I will not suggest using the code snippet you have posted. It is inefficient. You should not run t on each request. If you do it using cron or other task and run once a day, that will be fine.

3. Do you want to exclude ‘friendship_created’, ‘new_member’ ‘updated_profile’ ?

Regards
Brajesh

Hi Herve,
Here is the code for three

/**
 * Exclude BuddyPress activity types form listing.
 *
 * @param array $args activity args.
 *
 * @return array
 */
function buddydev_exclude_activity_types( $args ) {

    // do not modify if the scope is laready set.
	if ( ! empty( $args['scope'] ) ) {
		return $args;
	}
    // exclude the activity types if scope is not set.
	$args['filter_query'] = array(
		array(
			'column'  => 'type',
			'value'   => array( 'friendship_created', 'new_member', 'updated_profile' ),
			'compare' => 'NOT IN'
		)
	);

	return $args;
}

add_filter( 'bp_after_has_activities_parse_args', 'buddydev_exclude_activity_types' );

Hope this helps.

Regards
Brajesh

Hi Herve,
My code was not for disabling filter, It was to filter out the activity list and exclude those types.

Your code for hiding filter is incorrect.

You will need to use something like this

/**
 * Remove activity filters in all context.
 * 
 * @param array $filters filters.
 *
 * @return array
 */
function buddydev_remove_activity_filters_from_dropdown( $filters ) {
    $hidden = array(
            'friendship_accepted,friendship_created',// yup, use it as single key to hide Friendship.
            'joined_group',
            'new_blog_comment',
    );

    foreach ( $hidden as $key ) {
        if( isset( $filters[$key] ) ) {
            unset( $filters[$key]);
        }
    }

    return $filters;
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_activity_show_filters_options', 'buddydev_remove_activity_filters_from_dropdown' );

Add the keys to hidden and they will be filtered out.

PS:- I will be helping out with the other topic but need some time on that. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to rethink on that issue and provide code.

Regards
Brajesh