Site Page Comments Don't Reach Activity

[clivoo]

I had BP working fine until I updated to latest BP and WP. I then lost all of my Activity comments from my blogs. I tried disabling plugins etc, reverting to buddypress default theme – nothing gives. I’ve done fresh installs on different servers with the same problem.

I think I’ve isolated the problem. Comments on PAGES don't seem to be being added to the Activity stream. All of my recent comments are comments to pages NOT TO POSTS. If I comment to a page it doesn’t appear, if I comment to an old post it does.

Also, network update doesn't add page originated comments either.

I think this happened with 16.0 but it might have been 1.6.1

[r-a-y]

By default, BP only records post comments into the activity stream.

To expand this to the 'page' post type, you might want to look at the code snippet in #4106.

Here's something to try in ​wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:

function bp_ticket_4784_record_custom_comment_post_types($cpts) {
   $cpts[] = 'page';

   return $cpts;
}
add_filter( 'bp_blogs_record_comment_post_types', 'bp_ticket_4784_record_custom_comment_post_types' );

Untested, but give it a shot.

[DJPaul]

Not entirely sure why we don't let page comments into the Activity stream?

[slaFFik]

Comments to default WordPress pages are still not tracked. I propose to include them by default.
Developers can easily filter them out if not needed.

[boonebgorges]

Previously: #3455, [4959]

The default set of post types for recording *post* activity and *comment* activity should be the same. I think it would be bad default behavior if page comments were posted to the activity stream, but pages themselves were not.

Recording 'page' data by default seems OK to me.

[CliveSoulHeal]

I posted the original 'complaint' at the top I use PAGES and I'd been using pages with my comments coming to the BP stream for years and years then it stopped. So, "I think it would be bad default behavior if page comments were posted to the activity stream" i.e. suddenly changing (in my terms) basic functioning that I relied on for years is extremely bad policy.

Just to remind you on every PAGE 'page' you are asked if you want commenting enabled, you can tick to have comments active. So, if anyone thinks that ticked comments on a page should NOT appear in the BP activity stream then you should also add in a TICK box asking if they want page comments to NOT BE POSTED (NOT the other way around which would require me to manually activate for literally 1000's of pages).

The "bp-custom.php" work around worked for me (thanks r-a-y) so I don't want anything that would cause that work around to 'NOW' NOT WORK once again in the future.

[boonebgorges]

Hi @CliveSoulHeal - I agree that we should not have changed the behavior, at least not without a warning. This was an oversight and an error in BP 1.6. Apologies on behalf of the BP team if it caused problems on your site.

The "bp-custom.php" work around worked for me (thanks r-a-y) so I don't want anything that would cause that work around to 'NOW' NOT WORK once again in the future.

Right. What's being suggested here is, essentially, to have your bp-custom.php behavior be the default.

[CliveSoulHeal]

That would be great for me @boonebgorges the only problem I can see is that some people will be relying on not having page comments appearing in the activity i.e. as it is now comments on pages would be sort of private / hidden? So, they'd suddenly find page comments appearing in the AS that they didn't want seen in public.

So, the best option would be to add a setting to the BP admin 'settings' page to switch adding page comments to the activity stream on or off? With the default as it is now?

[ketuchetan]

I have added 4784 patch.

Please review it and let me know if any changes on that.

Thanks,

[ketuchetan]

Added second one if the first is wrong.

[DJPaul]

@ketuchetan The second patch looks correct. Did you test it?

If you didn't, here's what I'd expect: on your test site, enable *all* BuddyPress components, then publish a blog *post*. Comment on that blog post, then visit the Activity page. You should see your comment in the Activity Stream.

Then, do the same but publish a *page*, and comment on that. Before the patch, the comment should not appear in the Activity Stream, and after the patch, the comment should appear.

[chiragpatel]

Hello @ketuchetan and @DJPaul,

I have tested this patch with below scenario:

Wordpress 4.7
Buddypress 2.7.3

I applied the code changes then I created a sample page and post the comment in reply but I can not see any comment in activity page.

Thanks,

[ketuchetan]

@DJPaul Can you please check once from your end it's working with you or not?

[Strothi]

Hey guys,

I've tested the initial code by @r-a-y as well as the proposed patches by @ketuchetan, but it doesn't seem to work. I realize that this seems to be scheduled for 2.9 release, but if you could point me to a solution in the meantime, I'd highly appreciate it!

Thanks so much in advance!

[djpaul]

In 11794:

Blogs: track Pages (post type) and comments in the activity stream.

Tracking Pages' comments in the Activity Stream used to be the default behaviour until a regression first introduced in BP 1.6(!).
This change now tracks Pages in the stream by default, and Page comments if a specific Page is set to allow comments.

Fixes #4784

Props ketuchetan for the initial patch.

[DJPaul]

r11799 reverts this. Something odd going on with unit tests, this needs investigation.