Hi. Thanks for the reply.

There is a problem with that way featured images are handled in BuddyBlog, they get attached too late and by that time the activity recording is already complete, so including the Featured thumbnail will require some other trick,

That’s what someone else that looked into this said — that the order of how things are being triggered is what’s making it not work correctly. Unfortunately I only had this person’s help for a limited time, and he could not figure out a solution while he was with me.

I just wanted to know if this is very important for you or not?

It’s VERY important.
Like I mentioned, my entire BuddyPress site revolves around the activity feed (as many BuddyPress sites do). The activity feed mentions need to be distinct — otherwise there’s no point in having them. And if you don’t have them…then how do people know about new things that have been added?

You have a typo in your code

I didn’t write this code, but others helped.
I’m not sure it was a typo, though. I changed it to your version (new_blog_post), but then the activity didn’t show up at all after publishing! I changed it back to “blog_post” and now it shows in activity again.

However, this is what it looks like when publishing from the front end:

As you can see, it’s very generic and boring. If there were a bunch of these type of activity posts in a row, you would not be able to distinguish any of them from each other — and no one would want to have to click through all of them to see if there’s something of interest to them or not. In reality, the typical behavior of most users would probably be to just ignore them all. And if that happens…why have the mentions at all?

If I publish a BuddyBlog post through the back end, however, then I get an activity post like this:

Now THAT is way more interesting, no? It gives the members some context at least.
It’s showing an excerpt (instead of title which I was hoping), but that’s fine. (Title AND excerpt would be even better).
As long as it’s SOMETHING, as well as the featured image, then that would make it perfect. This gives people an idea of what the post may be about, and gives them a reason (or not) to click on it and find out more.

This version only appears if a post is added in the back end — OR — if an already published post gets “updated” in the back end.
Neither of which is an option, as members will NOT have access to the backend at all on my site.

If there’s ANY way to allow for a better activity feed mention, then that would make adding the BuddyBlog function worthwhile! I also think others who use this plugin would benefit a lot from this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by Rojo.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by Rojo. Reason: fixing typos

Thank you, Brajesh – it is much appreciated!!!