how to change BuddyPress Gallery by news without losing st

Hi,

I would like to display in the home, instead of updates budypress news of a certain category. Without losing the current formatting/layout. How can I do this?

Hi,
Unfortunately it's not possible, because it's GK BuddyPress Gallery plugin which allows to use only members photos as a data source.

Hello,

This theme indeed relies a lot on Buddypress. I needed the functionality and so I decided to make my own widget. It is based on GK_Buddypress_widget.

Edit the names and classes according to your liking.
Create a file latestblogposts.php in the theme folder (or a subfolder).
It takes data source as a category.

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<?php
/*
*
*/

add_action( 'widgets_init', function(){
     register_widget( 'NBRC_LatestPosts' );
});

class NBRC_LatestPosts extends WP_Widget {

  /**
   * Sets up the widgets name etc
   */
  function __construct() {
    parent::__construct(
      'nbrclatestposts', // Base ID
      __( 'NBRC Latest Posts', 'text_domain' ), // Name
      array( 'description' => __( 'Widget to output latest posts in a category.', 'text_domain' ), ) // Args
    );
  }

  /**
   * Outputs the content of the widget
   *
   * @param array $args
   * @param array $instance
   */
  public function widget( $args, $instance ) {
    // outputs the content of the widget
    extract($args, EXTR_SKIP);
   
    $title = apply_filters('widget_title', empty($instance['title']) ? __( 'Latest Blog Posts', GKTPLNAME ) : $instance['title'], $instance, $this->id_base);
   
    echo $before_widget;
    echo $before_title;
    echo $title;
    echo $after_title;

    $blog_category = empty($instance['blog_category']) ? 'latest' :  $instance['blog_category'];
    $total_amount = empty($instance['total_amount']) ? 4 : $instance['total_amount'];
    $photo_width = empty($instance['photo_width']) ? 310 : $instance['photo_width'];

    $category_query_args = array(
        'category' => $blog_category,
        'posts_per_page' => $total_amount
    );
    $category_query = get_posts( $category_query_args );

    if(!is_numeric($total_amount)) {
      $total_amount = 0;
    } else {
      $total_amount = intval($total_amount);
    }
   
    $width = 3000;
    $new_width = $total_amount * $photo_width;
         
    if($new_width > 3000) {
      $width = $new_width;
    }

    $amount_page = 4;

    ?>
    <div data-cols="<?php echo $amount_page; ?>" style="width: <?php echo $width; ?>px">


    <?php if ($category_query == null) : ?>
      <h4> <?php echo ('There has been no recent activity.'); ?></h4>
    <?php else : ?>
      <?php foreach($category_query as $post):
       
        if(has_post_thumbnail( $post->ID )) {
         
          $image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'single-post-thumbnail' );
         
        }

        ?>

        <figure style="width: <?php echo $photo_width; ?>px">
          <img src="<?php echo $image[0]; ?>" alt="<?php _e('View full image'); ?>" />
          <figcaption>

            <small><?php echo $post->post_title; ?></small>
           
            <p><?php echo $this->activity_text($post->post_content, 15, false); ?></p>
           
            <a href =""><?php _e('Read more...'); ?></a>
          </figcaption>
        </figure>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
    <?php endif; ?>

    </div>
   
    <?php
    echo $after_widget;
  }

  function activity_text($input, $amount, $text_end) { 
    $output = '';
    $input = strip_tags($input);
    $input = explode(' ', $input);
   
    for($i = 0; $i < $amount; $i++) {
      if(isset($input[$i])) {
        $output .= $input[$i] . ' ';
      }
    }
   
    if(count($input) > $amount) {
      $output .= '&hellip;';
    }

    return $output;
  }

  /**
   *
   * Outputs the HTML code of the widget in the back-end
   *
   * @param array instance of the widget settings
   * @return void - HTML output
   *
   **/
  function form($instance) {
    $title = isset($instance['title']) ? esc_attr($instance['title']) : '';
    $blog_category = isset($instance['blog_category']) ? esc_attr($instance['blog_category']) : 'latest';
    $total_amount = isset($instance['total_amount']) ? esc_attr($instance['total_amount']) : 4;
    $photo_width = isset($instance['photo_width']) ? esc_attr($instance['photo_width']) : 310;
  ?>
  <div class="gk-bp">
    <p>
      <label for="<?php echo esc_attr( $this->get_field_id( 'title' ) ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Title:', GKTPLNAME ); ?></label>
      <input class="widefat" id="<?php echo esc_attr( $this->get_field_id( 'title' ) ); ?>" name="<?php echo esc_attr( $this->get_field_name( 'title' ) ); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo esc_attr( $title ); ?>" />
    </p>

    <!-- Category Select Menu -->   
    <p>
        <label for="<?php echo esc_attr( $this->get_field_id( 'blog_category' ) ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Data source:', GKTPLNAME ); ?></label>

        <select id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('blog_category'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('blog_category'); ?>">
            <?php foreach(get_terms('category','parent=0&hide_empty=0') as $term) { ?>
            <option <?php selected( $instance['blog_category'], $term->term_id ); ?> value="<?php echo $term->term_id; ?>"><?php echo $term->name; ?></option>
            <?php } ?>     
        </select>
    </p>
   
    <p>
      <label for="<?php echo esc_attr($this->get_field_id('total_amount')); ?>"><?php _e('Total amount of statuses', GKTPLNAME); ?></label>
     
      <input class="short" id="<?php echo esc_attr( $this->get_field_id( 'total_amount' ) ); ?>" name="<?php echo esc_attr( $this->get_field_name( 'total_amount' ) ); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo esc_attr( $total_amount ); ?>" />
    </p>
   
    <p>
      <label for="<?php echo esc_attr( $this->get_field_id( 'photo_width' ) ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Photo width (px):', GKTPLNAME ); ?></label>
      <input class="short" id="<?php echo esc_attr( $this->get_field_id( 'photo_width' ) ); ?>" name="<?php echo esc_attr( $this->get_field_name( 'photo_width' ) ); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo esc_attr( $photo_width ); ?>" />
    </p>
  </div>
  <?php
  }

  /**
   *
   * Used in the back-end to update the module options
   *
   * @param array new instance of the widget settings
   * @param array old instance of the widget settings
   * @return updated instance of the widget settings
   *
   **/
  function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) {
    $instance = $old_instance;
    $instance['title'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['title'] );
    $instance['blog_category'] = strip_tags($new_instance['blog_category']);
    $instance['total_amount'] = strip_tags($new_instance['total_amount']);
    $instance['photo_width'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['photo_width'] );

    $alloptions = wp_cache_get('alloptions', 'options');
    if(isset($alloptions['nbrclatestposts'])) {
      delete_option( 'nbrclatestposts' );
    }

    return $instance;
  }
}

?>



Add the following to functions.php file at the end

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$found = locate_template( 'path/to/latestblogposts.php', TRUE, TRUE );


Edit the file extensions.css file
Instead of class 'widget_gk_buddypress', change it into your class name as
'widget_phpwidgetid'

From my code it will be 'widget_nbrclatestposts'

or copy the same to override.css file

Edit gk.scripts.js file in js folder and find and replace widget_gk_buddypres class to same.


Hope this will give you a head start.

Regards,
drtechie