Hi Joy,
Thank you for the question.

There is no straight forward way to achieve it.
The class BP_XProfile_Field_Type_WordPress_Biography does not offer any way to change the markup from text editor to use wp_editor instead.

There are solutions like extending this class and overriding edit_field_html and then using the filter bp_xprofile_get_field_types to use the new class.

Or, TinyMCE can be enabled using javascript.

But the best way is to request BuddyPress team for it. They only need to do a minor change to make it work exactly like multi line text area and that would be better and maintainable approach.

Regards
Brajesh

Hi,
I am sorry, I have been guilty of ignoring your post. Though the intention was always to look into the code and assist but as time passed, I just kept missing it.

The problem you have mentioned is result of how Activity Plus works.

1. When an activity is deleted, we delete all the media inside that activity.

The real problem is Activity plus does not store any data about who uploaded a file. It uses activity id as the owner object to determine actions for embedded media.

This is a problematic approach but we did not design this. We forked this plugin(when It was abandoned by WPMU Dev) to keep supporting the existing user base. Our plugin(MediaPress) handles this kind of situation a lot better as the media ownership information is available.

Now, the question is:- Is it insecure. Probably not out of the box as users won’t be able to copy paste markup into the activity, so can not claim ownership over other’s media.

But when you use a plugin like re-share, it can copy the content of the original post and which the current ownership check, It fails to detect the real owner.

I am sorry but I do not see any solution unless the media is stored in wp attachment. But that will not happen as this is a plugin in long term maintenance and should not be used on new sites in favour of BuddyPress Attachment plugin.

I had a look at the report plugin and I could not find a way to skip certain activity types. So, I will suggest moving to BP Attachment or MediaPress(temporarily as we are currently not sure about MediaPress’s future with BP Attachment).

Regards
Brajesh

Hi Tamar,
Thank you.
I am glad it worked as expected.

Regards
Brajesh

Hi Melanie,
Hope you are doing well.

I am sorry that we could not assist you earlier. Ravi had assigned it to me but I missed.

First of all, I would like to clarify that your use case has no relation to Featured members. Are you able to achieve it for default BuddyBoss members directory? I don’t believe that the above snippet would work.

You can limit/filter using ‘xprofile_query’ for profile fields. It works similar to the meta_query args in WP_Query.(e.g you can pass multi dimensional array of field, comparison operators,

The problem is BuddyBoss does not support xprofile_query in the bp_has_members() (BuddyPress does). So your code needs fine tuning at 2 places.
1. We will hook to bp_core_get_users() and
2. we will update your function to use xprofile_query

Here is the updated code from your example(Your first part is fine for adding filter, It is the logic part).

// Function to modify the members query based on the selected filter
function modify_members_query_for_only_a( $query_args ) {

	$type = $query_args['type'];
	if ( $type === 'only_a' ) {
		$query_args['xprofile_query'] = array(
			array(
				'field'   => '1',
				'compare' => 'RLIKE',
				'value'   => '^a'
			)
		);
		//$query_args['field_id'] = '1'; // Adjust 'field_1' to the actual first name field key
		//$query_args['meta_value'] = 'A%';
	}

	return $query_args;
}

// Hook to apply the filter to the members query
//add_filter( 'bp_after_has_members_parse_args', 'modify_members_query_for_only_a' );
add_filter( 'bp_after_core_get_users_parse_args', 'modify_members_query_for_only_a' );

I have left the old parts to show you the change.

Please give it a try and let me know if it works for you or not?

Regards
Brajesh

Hi Tosin,
Thank you.

I do not see a clean way to support custom visibility for posts, at least which are limited to a certain group of people. If we do so, we need to consider privacy in activity as well and BuddyPress lacks custom privacy.

It is not difficult to limit a posts visibility to certain groups, It is the other consideration that complicate it.

I am sorry but we do not plan to add any custom visibility in the plugin itself. Once BuddyPress adds follower support, we can supply you with some code to enable follower in the drop down. But marking a post as follower only will mean the activity entry for it will be set to hidden and I am not sure what will happen with the activity entry of blog comments for those posts.

Regards
Brajesh