activity unable to display text within bracket

[intimez]

Leaving a comment inside a bracket will not show up in the activity stream of buddypress.

wordpress comment shows: this is a test comment for [testing123]
buddypress activity shows: this is a test comment for

[wordpress2.9.2+buddypress1.2.4.1]

[johnjamesjacoby]

Bumping to 1.3. There's a do_shortcode conflict somewhere, but with all the filters involved I don't want to go messing with them in a point release.

[boonebgorges]

2420-1.diff changes the way that the excerpt is created. The problem with this solution is that it will allow shortcodes to be processed, which could cause a number of issues (with formatting, with unclosed tags in the case of multi-part shortcodes, etc). Anyone have thoughts?

[DJPaul]

Certainly can't let regular users embed shortcodes into activity stream items.

[r-a-y]

Bug appears to occur with indirect activity entries only -- blog post, blog comment, forum post. Not activity status updates or comments.

Tested on a forum thread on testbp.org.

Replying to DJPaul:

Certainly can't let regular users embed shortcodes into activity stream items.

Going slightly off-topic, but I definitely see benefits to using some shortcodes.

[DJPaul]

Shortcodes in activity stream items are already supported on the permalink pages, but not in the activity stream excerpts (yet? see #2707).

[DJPaul]

I'm about to commit a change to the shortcode stripping function to strip only registered shortcodes from the excerpts. This way, any text in square brackets which was not intended to be a shortcode reference will still show up.

[djpaul]

(In [4356]) Change bp_create_excerpt to use a WP core function for stripping registered shortcodes. Fixes #2420