if an activity is hidden from sitewide its children (comments) are not hidden as well

[francescolaffi]

I think there is no way to reproduce this from the front end, I found this problem adding and updating activities through a plugin, this is how to reproduce with some code:

• create an activity using bp_activity_add() and the argument hide_sitewide set to false.
• post some comments to that activity (comments inherit the hide_sitewide flag)
• update that activity using bp_activity_add(), this time the argument hide_sitewide set to true.

-result: the activity is hidden from sitewide but the hide_sitewide flag is not updated in its children, so the comments are not hidden

[cnorris23]

I agree that it would be better to have this done automagically, but from looking at the code, I believe that everything is behaving exactly as intended. I'm still trying to fully grasp what's going on in this part of the code, but from what I can tell everything is as it should be. Until this functionality is purposed for the front end I'm guessing it's not going to get a whole lotta love. However, you can still get the hide_sitewide flag for the comment tree updated.

In your update function, you could do something like this:

// code leading up to bp_activity_add()
bp_activity_add( $args );

// $child_comment_args would be an array/object filled with all your arguments
if ( $child_comments = BP_Activity_Activity::get_child_comments( $parent_id ) {
   foreach ( $child_comments as $child_comment ) {
      // add check for existing child comment hide_sitewide value
      // if different, add new value to $child_comment_args
      bp_activity_add( $child_comment_args );
   }
}

This is essentially the same thing that would be done if it were to be added to core.

[DJPaul]

As noted all those years ago, you'd have to write code to run into this issue, but I think it's something we could support.