Backslashes get lost in activity wall

[Anton]

Hi in the bbpress forum I wrote following text:
a new bbPress test $a=b\cos\alpha$

but this gets displayed on the wall as
a new bbPress test $a=bcosalpha$

However when I post the same on the wall then it is displayed properly.

Looking into the the databases it becomes clear why

Text from bbPress is stored in wp_bp_activity as
a new bbPress test $a=b\cos\alpha$

whereas text entered on wall is stored as
a new BBossWall test $a=b\\cos\\alpha$
although typed with only one \ and subsequently also rendered with a single backslash

Can you please issue an update, or tell me what file to modify and how, that correctly inserts the extra slashes so that the text is rendered correctly on the wall.

[Anton]

Sorry guys, this is not a BuddyBoss problem but a BuddyPress Activity Stream problem.

[Varun Dubey]

Hi @antonv, BuddyPress have content filter for activity wall. You can check inside BuddyPress Support forums.
Regards
Varun Dubey

[Anton]

Hi @vapvarun, my software skills are somewhat limited. Can you point me in the right direction and give me the filter name marked as ???????????

function my_correction_function(){ ... }

add_filter("???????????", "my_correction_function")

what I want to achieve, is that before the wall is displayed, my_correction_function() is run.

[Varun Dubey]

Hi @antonv, you can add these to your child theme functions.php

remove_filter( 'bbp_new_reply_pre_content',  'bbp_filter_kses', 30 );
remove_filter( 'bbp_new_topic_pre_content',  'bbp_filter_kses', 30 );
remove_filter( 'bbp_new_forum_pre_content',  'bbp_filter_kses', 30 );
remove_filter( 'bbp_edit_reply_pre_content', 'bbp_filter_kses', 30 );
remove_filter( 'bbp_edit_topic_pre_content', 'bbp_filter_kses', 30 );
remove_filter( 'bbp_edit_forum_pre_content', 'bbp_filter_kses', 30 );

Regards
Varun Dubey

[Anton]

Hi @vapvarun, thanks for that, however I do not want to change the way bbpress works, Your suggestion is changing the bbpress filters.

I need to add something between bbpress and buddypress. That is, buddypress reads the bbpress entry, then I want to filter, and after that buddypress stores the text in the database wp_bp_activity

[Anton]

Hi @vapvarun, OK ignore above, I managed to solve it, found the solutions bbpress/includes/extend/activity.php

I need to:

add_filter('bbp_activity_topic_create_excerpt','my_own_text_filter')
add_filter('bbp_activity_reply_create_excerpt','my_own_text_filter')

[Varun Dubey]

Great 🙂