Activity stream: Tweak activity action for blog comments

[hotforwords]

In the activity stream of Buddypress when connected to Wordpress, the wording is as such:

Someusername commented on the blog post Blog Post Name 4 minutes ago · View · Delete

The clickable name of the Blog Post Name should take you to the blog post, currently it takes you to the comment, which is what the View link does, thus creating redundancy.

It's an easy fix:

On line 428 of bp-blogs.php change:

$activity_action = sprintf( __( '%s commented on the blog post %s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( $user_id ), '<a href="' . $comment_link . '">' . $comment->post->post_title . '</a>' );

to

$activity_action = sprintf( __( '%s commented on the blog post %s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( $user_id ), '<a href="' . get_permalink( $comment->comment_post_ID ) . '">' . $comment->post->post_title . '</a>' );

[johnjamesjacoby]

Confirmed. Meant to fix this for 1.2.4 but missed it.

[r-a-y]

Let's move this up!

[r-a-y]

Patch based on hotforwords

[johnjamesjacoby]

I would rather us come up with a new phrase to include both links, than only include a link to the blog post. This is tricky because comments don't have titles.

I say this because I think when you read the activity, if you click the link then your intent is more than likely to read the comment, not the blog. But... We shouldn't assume anything either.

I was going to try to stuff this into 1.2.5, but I think it needs more thought.

[r-a-y]

If you're reading from the activity stream, the blog comment is already in the recorded activity content!

I guess we could move it to BP 1.3. Could use feedback from the community.

[johnjamesjacoby]

(In [3116]) Fixes #2401 props hotforwords and r-a-y

[johnjamesjacoby]

Ran into this today on a client site, and I think this makes perfect sense.

The activity action will stay the same, since you want to "view" the comment in real time, but the link to the actual blog post should link you to the blog, not the comment.

Fixed. Thanks everyone!