Activity permalink router

[r-a-y]

A user noted that activity permalinks redirect from:

example.com/activity/p/xxx

to

example.com/members/admin/activity/p/xxx

This is the case whether a group activity update is made as well.

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Could the activity permalink stay the same without using the owner's user domain prefixed in the slug?

Or, what would be great is if activity permalinks could take the form of the component that is using it.

For example, if a group activity is posted, the group slug would form part of the activity permalink.

eg. example.com/groups/my-group/activity/p/xxx

[cnorris23]

I observed this too, but I believe it's been fixed in recent changes to trunk. I'll try to confirm later, unless r-a-y knows the status.

[r-a-y]

This isn't fixed; some work was done but wasn't completed.

I have a patch coming in a bit.

[r-a-y]

The attached patch finishes the job by routing group activities under the group permalink.

eg. example.com/activity/p/1/ is a group update

This now gets routed to:
example.com/groups/my-group/activity/1/

Includes new group activity permalink template. Could iterate this template to better show off the group. I basically copied permalink.php from /members/single/activity/

This patch will nullify #3210. Also read #3210 for info on why "show_hidden" is used.

[DJPaul]

In dev chat, we decided to put this into a future release -- possibly to review in 1.4 timescales -- as it's very late in the 1.3 cycle to add a new template file, which would encourage other component authors to route their activity items in the same way (not necessarily a bad thing), and duplicate the permalink.php for each component (a bad thing).

[davidtcarson]

preview of what it looks like

[DJPaul]

This still would be cool if someone wants to revitalise the patch.

[boonebgorges]

I'm a bit unclear on the purpose of the ticket. Is the goal to make URLs more semantic for better SEO? Or just because it's prettier? What's wrong with the activity/p/123 style?

[r-a-y]

Sorry for the late reply!

The original point was that the code for group activity permalink routing is actually in the codebase:
​https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.0/bp-activity/bp-activity-actions.php#L71

But was never completed.

It's still a neat idea for group activity items to reside under the group URL rather than the user, but I'm wondering if there is any interest?

For some additional context, a long time ago, I was planning on doing a lightweight group bulletin board based off of the activity stream component. This ticket would have been useful so group activity permalinks get routed under a group's URL.

[DJPaul]

@r-a-y What do you think about this nowadays?

[DJPaul]

We're closing this ticket because it has not received any contribution or comments for at least two years. We have decided that it is better to close tickets that are good ideas, which have not gotten (or are unlikely to get) contributions, rather than keep things open indefinitely. This will help us share a more realistic roadmap for BuddyPress with you.

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