I hope this tread of mine is not off the limit; if not then someone kindly try and respond to it. Brajesh, any other person, please respond to this tread, please.

Once again, thanks in advance.

Should somebody gracefully help me answer this question, please note that I only want all the restrictions mentioned above to be effective on personal activities, and not group or forum activities.

I tried looking into the hiding the likes and was able to achieve a result the nonconventional way which ofcourse is not advisable, that is by going directly into the buddyboss code “buddyboss-platform/bp-activity/bp-activity-functions.php/” right after line 1130 below $return_str = ''; and added the following code

/* CFW Site Admin, Staff, and Activity Owner should see all the likes, otherwise display only the particular user like */
	$jlw_cur_user = bp_loggedin_user_id();
	$jlw_activity_user = bp_get_activity_user_id();

	// CFW Check whether it is Admin, Staff or Activity Owner
	if ( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) || $jlw_cur_user == $jlw_activity_user ) {

and then I went down, somewhere around line 1204 or 1210, since few lines were added above.
Above the line that says return $return_str; and added the following code

} else { // CFW Closes the if statement and begin an else
		if ( 1 <= $like_count ) {
			if ( $current_user_fav ) {
				$return_str = __( 'You like this', 'buddyboss' );
			}
		}
	} // CFW Closes the else statement

This works for the like, The post owners and admin users see all the likes, while other users see only “You like this” is he/she did like it, or doesn’t see anything if he/she didnot like it; however, the restriction is being applied everywhere, including group posts etc.

I couldn’t make any progress on the comments, it seems just difficult.
Any help, and I will really appreciate.

Once again,
Thanks in advance

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by Catherine F. Weah.

Hi Brajesh,

Thanks a lot for the response, this is really a great forum.
The code works well on my local host, but is not working on my live server, however, I think it is caching issue, so I am going to give it some time to take effect, and will definitely let you know when it finally works.

Once again, thank you very much.