UAU Ready
Description
The Social Activity add-on adds an activity feed to Ultimate Member profiles, allowing members to publish public posts, attach photos, embed YouTube and Vimeo videos, comment, like, and reply to comments, as well as mark clickable hashtags. It’s designed for community sites that want to turn static profiles into an active social feed, with privacy controls that let each user make the feed public, restricted to members, or visible only to followers.
Key Features of Social Activity
- Photo post feed
Members create posts on their own profile or on another user’s profile, attaching an image to the text. - Comments, likes, and replies
Each post supports likes, comments, and threaded replies linked to other comments. - Clickable hashtags
Posts tagged with a hashtag are grouped on a tag page when clicking the term. - YouTube and Vimeo embed
Video links pasted into the post become an embedded player directly in the activity feed. - Global and personal feed shortcodes
Displays the site’s overall feed or the logged-in user’s feed on any page via shortcode.
Benefits of Social Activity
- A more active community
A continuous feed gives members a recurring reason to come back and follow what others are doing. - Profiles with their own life
The profile stops being a static card and becomes a showcase of the member’s participation. - Privacy in the hands of the member
Each user decides whether the feed is public, for members only, or for followers only. - Distributed moderation
Reporting posts on the front-end helps the admin identify abuse without having to manually scan everything.
Who Is Social Activity Intended For?
- Anyone running online communities in Ultimate Member and wants to encourage direct conversation between members.
- Anyone managing hobby clubs, fan clubs, or vertical networks (photographers, gamers, readers) that request interaction-rich profiles.
- Anyone operating a members area with courses and wants to add discussion among students without installing BuddyPress.
How to Download Social Activity
The Social Activity is available for download here on Ultrapack. After downloading the .zip file, install it in Plugins > Add New > Upload plugin, select the file, and activate it with the Ultimate Member already present on the site. The Activity tab starts appearing on members’ profiles right after activation.
Online communities built with Ultimate Member gain, with Social Activity, an extra layer of social feed that previously required BuddyPress or a separate network. The combination of photo posts, video embeds, hashtags, and comment replies keeps the member coming back to the site to follow others’ activity, and the granular privacy controls respect those who prefer a more reserved profile within the same community.
Frequently asked questions
Is Ultimate Member Social Activity GPL-licensed?
Yes. Ultimate Member Social Activity is distributed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). You may legally use, modify and redistribute it on as many sites as you want.
Can I use Ultimate Member Social Activity on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install Ultimate Member Social Activity on as many sites as you want. Only automatic updates through Ultrapack Auto Updater have a limit: from 3 to 80 sites, depending on the plan.
How much does Ultimate Member Social Activity cost at Ultrapack?
Ultimate Member Social Activity costs US$2.99 as a single purchase, and it is also included in the subscription plans starting at US$12/mo (VIP I).
Does Ultimate Member Social Activity include updates?
Yes. The current version of Ultimate Member Social Activity is 2.4.0, published at Ultrapack on Dec 27, 2025. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is Ultimate Member Social Activity scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of Ultimate Member Social Activity goes through a malware scan (ClamAV and YARA rules, at UltraHub) before it is published.
What are the requirements for the plugin Ultimate Member Social Activity?
Requires WordPress 6.2 or higher and PHP 7.0 or higher. Tested up to WordPress 6.9.
What changed in this version
Version 2.4.0
- IMPORTANT: THIS VERSION HAS BACKGROUND DB UPGRADE. PLEASE MAKE SITE'S BACKUP BEFORE UPDATE
- Enhancements
- Tweak: Updated posting Activity wall posts and comments.
- Using WordPress native oEmbed providers for the link that can be embedded. Deprecated `_shared_link`, `_video_url`, `_oembed`, `_video_oembed_data` postmeta for the activity posts.
- Using WordPress native `the_content`, `the_excerpt` and `comment_text` filter hooks to prepare content for displaying.
- Using UM core function `UM->shortcodes->emotize` to convert old-style emoji, but for another use WordPress native `convert_smiles` on the hooks above.
- Updated hashtag parsing function to wrap the hashtags to proper UM links.
- Updated action hooks `um_activity_after_wall_post_published` arguments.
- Updated action hooks `um_activity_after_wall_post_updated` arguments.
- Updated action hooks `um_activity_after_wall_comment_published` arguments.
- Updated action hooks `um_activity_after_wall_comment_reply_published` arguments.
- Updated action hooks `um_activity_after_wall_comment_updated` arguments.
- Updated action hooks `um_activity_after_wall_comment_reply_updated` arguments.
- Deprecated using unsecure HTML tags in the post content. It's only possible to use the tags allowed via `wp_kses_post` function.
- Tweak: Updated the friends/followers mention in the social activity wall.
- New filter hooks `um_activity_insert_post_args` and `um_activity_update_post_args` for parsing mentions in the activity posts. Deprecated old `um_activity_insert_post_content_filter` and `um_activity_update_post_content_filter` filter hooks.
- New filter hooks `um_activity_insert_comment_args` and `um_activity_update_comment_args` for parsing mentions in the activity post comments.
- New action hook `um_activity_new_mention` is used for sending Real-time Notification after users mention. Deprecated `um_followers_new_mention` and `um_following_new_mention` and `um_friends_new_mention` action hooks they were merged to the new one for better performance.
- Added: Edit Activity Post Edit link to wp-admin.
- Added: Background DB upgrade for the old posts/comments. Since update to 2.4.0 version all your old posts/comments will be upgraded to the new content displaying but keep their original content in the postmeta/commentmeta.
- Added: Site Health information.
- Tweak: user-wall.php partially migrated to the new template single.php that has a legacy version for old activity posts in the `templates/legacy/single.php` path.
- Tweak: WPCS enhancements.
- Bugfixes
- Fixed: Recalculate and assign/un-assign the hashtags during the activity post/comment update/deletion.
- Fixed: `shorten_string` function to make the Activity post excerpt when words count truncation setting is enabled.
- Templates required update
- clone.php
- comment.php
- comment-reply.php
- comments.php
- user-wall.php
- Deprecated
- Deprecated: Displaying activity post content in wp-admin for better performance.
- Deprecated: `um_activity_insert_post_content_filter` and `um_activity_update_post_content_filter` filter hooks.
- Deprecated: Using unsecure HTML tags in the post content. It's only possible to use the tags allowed via `wp_kses_post` function.
- Deprecated: Obsolete scripts and functions.
- Deprecated: Old functions to handle the post/comments content, but they are still there to handle the old posts that until upgrade to the new content displaying in DB.
- Finally deprecated: Obsolete 'safe_style_css' because requires at least >= 6.2.
- Cached and optimized/minified assets(JS/CSS) must be flushed/re-generated after upgrade
Version 2.3.9
- Added: Filter hook `um_activity_content_remove_links` that can avoid the removing embedded links from the content text.
- Added: accept HTML argument to the uploader field.
- Fixed: Customizing of the file upload size limitation handling. Use this hook for customizing `um_activity_upload_images_stream_maximum_file_size`.
- Fixed: Comment time displaying.
- Fixed: Image handling logic and possible fatal errors.
- Tweak: Removed legacy `do_shortcode` fallback across plugins.
- Templates required update
- edit-post.php
- Cached and optimized/minified assets(JS/CSS) must be flushed/re-generated after upgrade
Version 2.3.8
- Tweak: Using `wp_is_mobile` instead of old UM core "MobileDetect" library
- Fixed: Comment time displaying
- Templates required update
- comment.php
- comment-reply.php
Version 2.3.7
- Added: Compatibility with Ultimate Member 2.9.0 and Action Scheduler for email sending
- Fixed: Image uploading on the wall
- Fixed: "Load textdomain just in time" issue
Version 2.3.6
- Added: Hooks for 3rd-party integrations
- Fixed: Displaying the activity form posting for the not logged-in user
- Tweak: WPCS enhancements
- Tweak: Added Ultimate Member as required plugins
Release notes published by the developer.
How to install
Automatic updates: this item is updated by the Ultrapack Auto Updater. With it installed, the new version shows up in your dashboard like any other WordPress update (how to set it up).
This item is an add-on for the Ultimate Member plugin. Installed on its own it throws no error, but it does not work either.
- Install and activate the Ultimate Member plugin before this one.
- Download the file
um-social-activity.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
- Select the file
um-social-activity.zip, click Install Now and then Activate.
Requirements: Requires WordPress 6.2 or higher and PHP 7.0 or higher. Tested up to WordPress 6.9.
- Both stay active at the same time. Deactivating the Ultimate Member plugin turns this add-on off with it.
- An add-on settings usually show up inside the main plugin screens, not in a menu of their own. If you find nothing new in the dashboard after activating, look there before opening a ticket.
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