Hi Phill,

Please follow the steps and let me how it goes

1. Configuring in Admin section. Please update Blog category for settings under setting menu.
2. Please find ‘Blog Categories’ menu under group’s manage tab from front-end and assign the category to that group.

Thank You
Ravi

Hi Leo,

It is difficult to navigate the user to the page from where the post was published as it is a custom form and can be called on any places. But we can edit it from BuddyBlog edit form. Please modify the code for registering custom form

function buudydev_post_form() {

    $settings = array(

        'post_type' => 'post',
        'post_author' =>  bp_loggedin_user_id(),
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'tax' => array(
            'category' => array(
                'include' => array( 61 ), //category ids
                'view_type' => 'checkbox',
            )
        ),

        'current_user_can_post' => is_user_logged_in(),
        'show_categories' => true,
        'allow_upload' => true
    );

    bp_new_simple_blog_post_form( 'my_custom_form', $settings );

}
add_action( 'bp_init', 'buudydev_post_form', 4 );

with this code

 function buudydev_post_form() {

    $settings = array(

        'post_type' => 'post',
        'post_author' =>  bp_loggedin_user_id(),
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'tax' => array(
            'category' => array(
                'include' => array( 65 ), //category ids
                'view_type' => 'checkbox',
            )
        ),
        'custom_fields'				=> array(
             '_my_custom_form' => array( 'type' => 'hidden', 'id' => 'my_custom_form', 'name' => 'my_custom_form', 'default' => 'my_custom_form' )
        ),
        'current_user_can_post' => is_user_logged_in(),
        'show_categories' => true,
        'allow_upload' => 1
    );

    bp_new_simple_blog_post_form( 'my_custom_form', $settings );

}
add_action( 'bp_init', 'buudydev_post_form', 4 );

Also we need to override the buddyblog form template by copy “buddyblog/template/buddyblog/edit.php” file to your theme folder “buddyblog/edit.php” after copying, modify the following section

   $form = bp_get_simple_blog_post_form( 'buddyblog-user-posts' );
                            
    $form->show();

with

  $form_id ='buddyblog-user-posts';

    $post_id = bp_action_variable( 0 );
    
    if( ! empty( $post_id ) && ! empty( get_post_meta( $post_id, '_my_custom_form', true ) ) ) {
        $form_id ='my_custom_form';
    }

    $form = bp_get_simple_blog_post_form( $form_id );

it will load over custom form instead of BuddyBlog Form.

Hi Leo,

Welcome back. I will get back to you shortly on this.

Thank You
Ravi

Hi Leo,

Please check the following code in your bp-custom.php file and let me know if it is working or not.

function buddydev_add_new_activity_type( $allowed ) {
    
    $allowed[] = 'mpp_media_upload';
    return $allowed;
    
}
add_filter('bp_editable_activity_allowed_type', 'buddydev_add_new_activity_type' );

Thank You
Ravi

Hi Leo,

Thank You for confirming. I am glad that i could help.

Thank You
Ravi