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.

Thank you. I will have an update. Will be testing on my other system and will get back to you.

Thank you
Brajesh

Hi Rodolfo,
At the moment, BP Simple Front end post editor does not support post excerpts. It is possible to add extra content section using custom fields though.

Would you like to add extra content section using custom field for now? I will add the excerpt support in simple front end post plugin in future.

Thank you
Brajesh

The MediaPress audio/video cover upload is complete now and available on github. Working on next.

Hi Jan,
Tank you and my best best wishes for you for the new year too 🙂

There is a new ticket going on BuddyPress trac
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6795

That will make it easy to handle the activity stream integration of posts/post types.

In the mean time, I have been continuously enhancing blog categories plugin( changes are not available on Buddydev but is available on our git repository). I certainly look forward to add the activity stream capability soon too.