[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress] #3460: Support custom post types in activity stream

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#3460: Support custom post types in activity stream
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 Reporter:  boonebgorges  |      Owner:  boonebgorges
     Type:  enhancement   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  1.6
Component:  Activity      |    Version:  1.2.8
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 Right now, custom post types are not tracked in the activity stream - we
 do a check to make sure that 'post' == $post->post_type before posting
 activity items.

 This is fine for the blogs component, but we should have a more general
 solution for post types.

 I suggest a solution with two parts:
 - default support for all CPTs. That is, we hook to save_post and catch
 everything that is *not* 'post', and we do it regardless of whether the BP
 Blogs component is enabled. We can get the singular term for the post
 type, which we'll need to guess at the "Boone edited the x..." activity
 action, out of the post type labels.
 - Have an easy way to turn off support for activity tracking of post
 types. Though generally I know we like to avoid admin screens, I think
 that an all-purpose Activity admin panel would be useful in allowing
 admins to toggle activity tracking on *any* kind of activity. The list of
 activity types would be populated by all of our core activity types
 (activity_update, joined_group, etc), and also by the create/edit actions
 of all registered post types.

 At the very least, we will need filters to allow the latter to happen with
 plugins. But I think that this would be a popular enough feature (going by
 the 80% rule) that we should consider an options panel.

 Probably we would also want to include support in the activity filter
 dropdown for the create/edit actions for registered post type that has
 activity posting disabled.

 Once we get into the next dev cycle, I can work up a rough sketch of what
 I'm suggesting, in the form of a plugin. (at least the CPT stuff, anyway)
 I'd love to get feedback first, though.

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