How to get a list of BuddyPress' actions.

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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

Published by Paul Wong-Gibbs

Engineering Director at Indigo Tree, with the responsibility to define and delivery the technical roadmap, product vision, and strategy for scalability. With 12+ years experience as a Senior WordPress Engineer and - more recently - Engineering Director, I've specialised leading WordPress development projects and REST APIs for enterprise clients, such as international banks, newspapers, magazine publishers, charities, and all kinds of SMEs. I have a keen interest in understanding projects holistically, improving processes by how things are built, and helping colleagues achieve success. https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-gibbs-wordpress/

9 thoughts on “How to get a list of BuddyPress' actions.”

  1. 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.

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    1. 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.

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  3. Hi Paul,

    Is your achievements plugin source in a svn/git repo somewhere? I’ve been writing something very similar – well, almost identical – and I’ll probably merge the two. I’ve already been looking at fixing the reference to deprecated/removed buddy press functions.

    Cheers,

    AD

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  4. Paul,

    Cool – do you have an eta or a todo list or whatever? I can lend a hand if I know what direction you’re going in.

    AD

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    1. Sounds great — as soon as I finish up my current client projects, i’m going to dive in and focus only on Achievements, so I’ll do a post when that happens to update.

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