How to get a list of BuddyPress’ actions.

Feb 7, ’10 3:39 PM
Author DJPaul Categories BuddyPress

As part of research for a new version of my Achievements plugin for BuddyPress, I need a list of all the BuddyPress action names.

For non-developers, actions are the hooks that WordPress & BuddyPress launches at specific points during execution, or when specific events occur. This allows plugin developers to hook into these events and do whatever they want.

It took me a while, but here’s how you can use the terminal (on Mac or Linux) to find all BuddyPress’ actions.

grep -r -h "do_action( '[aA0-zZ9+]*' )" . | awk -F "['']" '{print $2}' | uniq
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Comments

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  1. Edward de Leau,
    18/02/2010 at 21:06

    When I activated your plugin none of the “javascript” option in the admin area worked anymore e.g. dragging of widgets, the “screen” button at the top and so on. I took me some to figure out what it exactly was. So I just wanted to share this with you.

    • DJPaul,
      18/02/2010 at 22:09

      Hi Edward
      Do you mean Welcome Pack? If so are you able to try version 1.63 and see if problem still exists?

  2. Tom,
    01/03/2010 at 21:02

    Will you update the Achievements plugin for Buddypress 1.2?

    • DJPaul,
      01/03/2010 at 21:20

      Hi Tom

      Yes, I am working a new version currently. I’m rewriting big chunks of functionality rather than just updating for BP 1.2, so it looks like it will be a few weeks until I have a beta ready.