Add bp_has_activities param to exclude profile activity

[tobyhawkins]

When setting up a sitewide feed I have found it useful to remove personal activity (i.e. profile based activity) from the feed, focussing on group/public activity across the site. Thought I'd suggest it here to see what people thought about adding the option.

Since item_id in wp_bp_activity will be 0 if an activity item is on someone's profile I have added

'non_profile' => false,

to the defaults in the get() function in bp-activity-classes.php

And then

if ( $non_profile ) $where_conditions['non_profile'] = 'a.item_id > 0';

To the where conditions in the same.

I've then added the defaults/variable handling to all the other relevant functions:

bp_activity_get()

in bp-activity-functions.php

__construct()
bp_has_activities()

in the BP_Activity_Template class in bp-activity-template.php

My apologies if there is a simpler way to do this that I've missed, or if this is too specific to be of general use.

[boonebgorges]

tobyhawkins - Thanks very much for the suggestion. Your use case is totally valid, but the request is, as you suggest, a bit too specific to be appropriate for BP.

However, what you're looking to accomplish will be very doable once #4988 is in BP (probably for BP 2.2). We're still working on the exact syntax, but the precise logic of your suggestion patch would probably look something like this:

bp_has_activities( array(
    'filter_query' => array(
        array(
            'item_id' => 0,
            'compare' => '>',
        ),
    ),
    // ...
) );

Please monitor that ticket for updates, and feel free to chime in with additional thoughts. Thanks!

[tobyhawkins]

Grand, thanks. Will do.