Hi Markus,
My apologies for the delayed reply.

The plugin does not contain login window. It is easy to implement login but I haven’t done that due to design issues.

What do you think will be the best way to have it? How do you imagine for your community(I need design ideas here). please do let me know and I will do it.

Just did it
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6824 🙂

Thank you Joshua.
I looked at it. Looks perfect to me 🙂

Hi Joshua,
I have updated the code.
There was a logical issue where I used bpp_is_forum() that does not check for current forum just the post type. Have updated the code now.

Hi Peter,
After looking at our admin panel, It does not seem a good idea to allow checking the terms and there can be multiple taxonomies allowed and that can lead to a lot of confusion.

So, I am posting code snippet to make it work like you want here. You can put these snippets in your bp-custom.php or your theme’s functions.php

Step 1: decide the taxonomy and terms you want to limit users

function buddyblog_custom_get_allowed_taxonomy() {
	
	return 'category';//your taxonomy
}

function buddyblog_custom_get_allowed_term_ids() {
	
	return array( 1,2,23 );//your own set of ids for category
}

Change the values in these two functions as appropriate. We will use it in our next step.

Step 2: Limiting Users to post to certain terms only

/**
 * Limit User posts to selected category only
 * 
 * @param int $settings
 * @return int
 */
function buddyblog_selected_cats_only( $settings ) {
	
	$taxonomy = buddyblog_custom_get_allowed_taxonomy();//which tax we are limiting too , you must have selected it in the admin settings
	
	
	if ( $settings['tax'][ $taxonomy ] ) {
		$settings['tax'][ $taxonomy ]['include'] = buddyblog_custom_get_allowed_term_ids() ;//array of term ids in that taxonomy
	}
	
	
	return $settings;
}
add_filter( 'buddyblog_post_form_settings', 'buddyblog_selected_cats_only' );

That’s all, you don’t need to make any change in the second block as it uses the values from first block.

Step 3: Do it only if you want to limit certain posts to be linked on profile and not others

function buddyblog_filter_posts_permalink_preference( $pref, $post ) {
	
	$terms = get_the_terms( $post, buddyblog_custom_get_allowed_taxonomy() );
	
	
	if ( empty( $terms ) ) {
		//what to do when there are no cats attached
		//you decide
		return $pref;
	}
	
	$selected_term_ids = buddyblog_custom_get_allowed_term_ids();
	
	$term_ids = wp_list_pluck( $terms, 'term_id' );
	
	$has_selected_terms = array_diff( $term_ids, $selected_term_ids );
	
	//all or atleast one term found
	
	if ( empty( $has_selected_terms ) || count( $has_selected_terms ) != count( $term_ids ) ) {
		$pref = true; //yes show it on profile 
	} else {
		
		$pref = false; //dont show it on profile
	}
	
	return $pref;
	
	//return false if you don't want post to be linked to profile
}

add_filter( 'buddyblog_show_posts_on_profile', 'buddyblog_filter_posts_permalink_preference', 10, 2 );

In the above example, we are doing it based on the selected category. I don’t think it is a good strategy as we we are looking for the post terms before deciding permalink. There is a better solution using custom meta. We store a meta field( “_is_buddyblog_post”) whenever a post is posted/edited from front end(It was added in 1.1 and due to back compatibility I can not use in the plugin itself).

The simple way to filter permalink should to be to check if this meta exists and if yes, link to profile else link to normal like below

function buddyblog_filter_posts_permalink_preference2( $pref, $post ) {
	
	if( get_post_meta( $post->ID, '_is_buddyblog_post', true ) ) {
		//this was posted via buddyblog
		$pref = true;
	} else {
		$pref = false;
	}
	
	return $pref;
	
	//return false if you don't want post to be linked to profile
}

add_filter( 'buddyblog_show_posts_on_profile', 'buddyblog_filter_posts_permalink_preference2', 10, 2 );

You can play with the filter ‘buddyblog_show_posts_on_profile’ and decide which posts should be linked on the profile and which should not be.

Hope that helps.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by Brajesh Singh.