Title: BP External Activity
Author: Boone Gorges
Published: <strong>May 27, 2010</strong>
Last modified: May 27, 2010

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
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# BP External Activity

 By [Boone Gorges](https://profiles.wordpress.org/boonebgorges/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bp-external-activity.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-external-activity/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-external-activity/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-external-activity/#installation)
 * [Development](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-external-activity/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-external-activity/)

## Description

Allows admins to import data from an arbitrary RSS feed into their BuddyPress sitewide
activity stream

The plugin imports RSS feeds every hour. You may find that you need to decrease 
your Simplepie cache time to make it work:
 add_filter( ‘wp_feed_cache_transient_lifetime’,
create_function(‘$a’, ‘return 600;’) ); reduces the RSS cache to ten minutes, for
example. Put that in your bp-custom.php file if you are having problems with the
plugin.

At the moment, the plugin uses the Author field from the RSS feed to look for a 
matching author in your WP database. If it doesn’t find one, it uses the unlinked
text ‘A user’, as in ‘A user edited the wiki page…’.

## Installation

 1. Upload the bp-external-activity directory to your WP plugins folder and activate
 2.  a. Open loader.php and replace the sample feed data with your own

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“BP External Activity” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Boone Gorges ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/boonebgorges/)
 *   [ CUNY Academic Commons ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cuny-academic-commons/)

[Translate “BP External Activity” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bp-external-activity)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-external-activity/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bp-external-activity/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bp-external-activity/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bp-external-activity/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **16 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-external-activity/)
 * Tags
 * [activity](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/activity/)[buddypress](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/buddypress/)
   [external](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/external/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-external-activity/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Boone Gorges ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/boonebgorges/)
 *   [ CUNY Academic Commons ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cuny-academic-commons/)

## Support

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