Hi Brajesh

Thank you for getting back to me.

“BuddyPress does not have any generic favourite API. There is way to re-use it other than re-implementing it.”

Surely BuddyPress allows users to favourite/like activity entries? Even MediaPress has the bp_activity_favorite_link function in the entry.php template? Of course, there may be good reasons why this wouldn’t work as a solution for “favouriting/liking” MediaPress uploads but surely you would agree it does exist?

“For the time being, I will suggest keeping WPUlike.”

Assuming this is the better solution, for now I am still using the solution as shown here – https://buddydev.com/mediapress-like-unlike-button-for-photos-videos-etc-with-wp-ulike-plugin/ but the like button doesn’t appear either in the lightbox nor on the single media page. I’m using the latest versions of MediaPress, WP ULike and BuddyPress. I’ve tried changing themes, I’ve tried switching to Legacy instead of Nouveau but nothing makes any difference.

I’m really not sure what to try next. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

With many thanks in advance.

Hi Brajesh

Ah OK… that does make more sense now. Of course, you can also favourite/like bbPress topics (albeit not replies) but I’m now starting to wonder if that’s controlled completely separately from BuddyPress activity likes…

The annoying thing is that the site I’m working on updating is very focused on members sharing their photos and implementing SOME way for other members to react to them is a really critical functionality of the whole site!

It’s great to hear there might be something in the future that will improve the situation but for now I guess I’ll just have to dig into WPULike a bit more and see if I can figure out why it’s stopped working with MediaPress.

With many thanks for your insight as always.

Regards
Nik

Well… it actually proved to be much easier than expected and don’t know why I didn’t think of it before.

Just in case anyone else comes across this thread with the same problem, I just substituted the wp_ulike_put_posts function in your code for a shortcode instead and everything (so far) seems to be working perfectly (including creating an activity entry and syncing likes between the lightbox and the single media page) eg.

function mpp_wpulike_show_button() {
    
if( function_exists( 'wp_ulike_put_posts' ) ) {
        // echo wp_ulike_put_posts('');
 	echo do_shortcode("[wp_ulike]"); 
 }
    
}

Regards
Nik