[@2paulm Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

shane thank you for your help I figured it out while I was waiting and used this function

I added this to members-loop.php

if ( bp_has_members( include_only_subscribers() ) ) :

and added this to my themes function.php

function include_only_subscribers() {
  
  global $wpdb;  

    $query = "SELECT user_id FROM " . $wpdb->prefix . "bp_xprofile_data WHERE user_id IN (SELECT user_id FROM wp_usermeta WHERE meta_value LIKE '%subscriber%')";
  
  $custom_ids = $wpdb->get_col( $query );
  
  if ( !empty( $custom_ids ) ) {
    // convert the array to a csv string
    $custom_ids_str = 'include=' . implode(",", $custom_ids);
    return $custom_ids_str;
  }
  else
   return '';
}

it seems to be working I just used some info from https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/loops-reference/the-members-loop/

and modified to meet my needs.

please let me know if you see any problem with my approach and thank you so much for your response and help with this

[@2paulm Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

Anyone? please help if you can