How did you create your activity feed? If you temporarily disable all 3rd party plugins except WPML, do you still see the issue?
Could you please update your WPML plugin to the latest version 4.6.3, and add-ons to benefit from the latest bug fixes and improvements? This may not necessarily resolve your problem, however, in order to troubleshoot the issue best, we need to work on the latest code available.
You can check the latest released versions under "My Account -> Downloads" on this site. Instructions to update can be found here: http://wpml.org/faq/install-wpml/
Please remember to back up your database first before you proceed! You can use a plugin for this if you like (example: http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/)
Let me know if the issue persists after an update has been done.
Sorry for the delay, we had issues upgrading WPML on our staging.
The activity feed is created by the BoddyBoss theme. On staging, where we do most of the testing, everything is disabled except BuddyBoss and WPML. BuddyBoss cannot be disabled for this use case, as we need the activity feed.
After upgrading WPML and disabling everything, we still have this issue.
I can provide you with the testing credentials to our staging so you can play with it yourself.
We just released new WPML plugins. Could you please update your WPML plugin to the latest version 4.6.4?
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Thank you for providing information. Your hosting or the key doesn't allow me to update WPML plugins automatically.
Please reconnect the staging site with the newly generated key to further update the plugins. You would also have to update WP itself and the current theme to the latest versions.
I checked and learned about the issue you have faced.
The issue appeared to have already been considered and escalated to the compatibility team to find the best approach. Making the activity feed filter posts by language requires changes in BuddyBoss and further development.
Our compatibility team is planning to get in touch with the author regarding it. Currently, there is no known workaround.
This process may take a while, depending on different factors. It can also not be handled if the author is not cooperative or interested.
You will be notified in this support ticket when we have news. I appreciate your understanding.
Yes, it is possible to fix it with the custom code, but there is no straightforward solution, which means not just a matter of a simple WP or WPML hook. Let me explain.
BuddyBoss uses it is own database table called wp_bp_activity. In this table, the BuddyBoss plugin stores every user activity. E.g.
It does not have any language information. They should include data in some other way (possibly JSON data) to support that. This requires some changes in BuddyBoss.
Thank you for the details, Andrey!
I think the activity should contain some link to the underlying post as a relationship, so all the information about the post should be available already...
Once I found a way to determine the activity language, which hook should I use to apply filtering to the activity feed?
I think WPML should have some code for this, which is used for the news feed. If it's possible, could you point to that code?
- If talking about class WP_Query {}, suppress_filters should be false to filter the posts (by default, it is false). As mentioned before, I do not think the feed uses WP_Query, but it is its own table.
Below is my question to the BuddyBoss support team. If you think it's not what I am looking for please let me know.
> Thank you for providing these details. Actually, I don't need translation, I need filtering, so the pseudocode should look like this:
add_filter('before returning activities to the FE', function ($activities) {
$selected_lang = $POST['lang'] || wpml_get_default_lang();
$activities = array_filter($activities, function ($activity) {
$post = bp_get_post_of_activity($activity);
if (!$post) {
// This is a regular activity, do not filter out.
return true;
}
return $post->lang == $selected_lang;
});
return $activities;
})
> So, in short, I need to know the name of the filter ('before returning activities to the FE') and the function `bp_get_post_of_activity`.
