Update for bp-forum

The "shared link" comes from a news aggregation site powered by a premium theme onenewspremium.

See http://ericulous.com/onenews/   and hover over a link

You will see a tooltip with sharing links

On a test local install i have had the tooltip adapted  to share the links on a multisite

See image  http://imgur.com/6ggv89f

Clicking on the ruby brings up http://imgur.com/jE3hUzD and clicking on "Home Place" effects the transfer and so far so good the transfer is inserted as a post in the users pblog - its the buddypress part that appears not to follow through. Posts inserted this way are not recorded in activity.

Hence my interest in bp_activity_add

The relevant code is an entry in the file  simplepie_wordpress_2.php *(of this theme) to place the image.
(see http://pastebin.com/cmmt26e2  for complete file and go to/ find Social Icons to see the code below)

<a class="addthis_button" addthis:url="' . $permalink . '" addthis:title="' . esc_attr($title) . '"><img src="http://tsourclace.dev/wp-content/themes/styleruby-news2/includes/images/inwsrbyblgs2.png"></a>

and

Then there is is another file I have had an addition made

see http://pastebin.com/iwBqQkNB


* this appears to be an slightly reconfigured version of  the file simplepie_wordpress_2.php from the plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/simplepie-plugin-for-wordpress/


Frankly, while I would really really like to be able do this -  it is a bit (or way) over the top!!
Why ?
Because actually visiting the links and using bp-bookmarklet (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-bookmarklet/)  (just truly unbelieveably awesome)  by imath is the complete solution.

Still if you can shed any light, getting these posts recognised in activity, or using bp_activity_add to insert them in activity, i would be absolutely thrilled!