[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@tux-kapono
Why would it be confusing unless you have several admins? Subscribers should not have access to how many registered users there are in the dashboard anyway. Unless those users are active participants wouldn’t it kinda mislead new legitimate registered users that there is more active members than what is truly there? Most likely the registered users that never logged in was either spam-bots or human spammers and most people fight that tooth and nail. If you have several admins then I would just communicate that to them.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@chase8705
You should always use a child theme instead of modifying the theme directly because if you update that theme then it will overwrite any modifications you made but if you made a child theme then the update will not effect modifications and all mods in the child theme will be preserved. Please see:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/
and
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@wpbp
I produced a small plugin that is geared toward automated spam attacks but I haven’t gotten any feedback as far as its effectiveness:
https://github.com/bphelp/bp-spam-killer
As far as spam attacks from real users I think there are helpful solutions out there but spammer hacker types will always find way to circumvent any prevention method so the best prevention as an admin is being active on your site.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@sooskriszta
Yes, that is the plugin. It would compliment the profile privacy that is already in place. I would love to see this added to the core. 🙂

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@sooskriszta
Well it would be a nice treat if It did come that early but I believe in setting realistic goals. Since others are adding ideas, I will add that I believe BuddyPress Activity Privacy plugin by @megainfo should be added to the core. It would be sweet if @megainfo would submit a patch. Anyway Cheers! 🙂

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@tracybyrne
Add this to bp-custom.php and it will create a nav menu item that will take the users to their profile.

add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_profile_link' );
function my_nav_menu_profile_link($menu) { 	
	if (!is_user_logged_in())
		return $menu;
	else
		$profilelink = '<li><a href="' . bp_loggedin_user_domain( '/' ) . '">' . __('My Profile') . '</a></li>';
		$menu = $menu . $profilelink;
		return $menu;
}

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

Just my two cents worth but why are you initiating a topic on something that is tangibly 2 years away? I suggest letting the natural flow progression happen unless you are an awesome developer that submits usable patches. I think the core team does a great job and overwhelming them with ideas of a 1.9 version is premature at this juncture.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@cappazushi
Matter of fact that particular users site moves at a snails pace so in reality whatever they did was garbage because who wants to wait for a site to load when it takes 2-3+ minutes?

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@cappazushi
Don’t listen to that BS. If that person that replied above that mentioned that plugin really wanted to help then they would period. That user is a phony and I will leave it at that!

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@haies
did you try the plugin I suggested. The code I provided is not my own so maybe the author @shanebp can chime in to help it work for you.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@tux-kapono
Forgot to mention that is the reason for the discrepancy in member numbers in dashboard and members directory page.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@tux-kapono
Actually even though their account is activated after clicking the link in the email they will not show up as members until they actually log in for the first time. Basically they have to show that they are going to be active participants on your site before they are acknowledge as being a member of it.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@nanaimomen
Put the code in either bp-custom.php or in your themes functions.php

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@marximusmg
There must be something different between the two sites if they are identical yet that plugin does not work on one of them. You may want to try to retrace your steps to identify what the difference is. Any different plugins, custom functions, etc.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@marximusmg
The only place I know to contact the author is on the plugins page support forum.
On the site that you are using it successfully are you using a different theme? If so you may want to try activating twenty twelve or bp-default to see if there is something in the theme that may be causing the issue.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@marximusmg
Are you aware that the unconfirmed plugin is for multisite? Pending activations has not been updated to work with anything past BP 1.6.4 so maybe you could contact the author on the plugins support page and maybe he will update for BP 1.7+
Good-luck!

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@mrsangeld
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@haies
You can add the below code to your themes functions.php or bp-custom.php
You can change “profile” in the below code to whatever page you need if profile is not the page you want the user to be redirected too.

function custom_login_redirect_to($user_login, $user) {
	bp_core_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . "/profile/" );
}
add_action('wp_login', 'custom_login_redirect_to', 10, 2);

There is also a plugin that you could try but it hasn’t been updated in over a year:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-login-redirect/

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@jaavid
I personally have not tested this for removing gravatars but you could try it:
http://bp-tricks.com/snippets/completely-disable-the-use-of-gravatars-on-your-buddypress-site/

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@janogu
BuddyPress now has profile privacy built in for individual field visibility. BuddyPress Activity Privacy plugin is great at controlling who see’s individual activity posts. https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp does a decent job of locking down BP pages for logged out visitors. BuddyMobile is great for providing users of mobile devices an app like version of BP. So in conclusion I would say BP privacy has come along way since 2010. It would be nice if more of those features were built into the core in future versions but I am not sure that it would be something the core team would undertake at this point in development. The plugins I mentioned are in the repository with the exception of Private Community For BP in which I provided the GitHub link. Hope this answers your questions. Cheers!

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@henrywright-1
Hey thanks for being a good sport. Sorry I felt inclined to show my sense of humor but I could not pass up the opportunity. On a serious note though, and I am sure you know that plugins are just functions with hooks that has required commented info at the top of the php file. That is really the only difference between a plugin and a function. I try to keep my custom functions in one file that I can deploy in most situations. I of course comment all the functions in case of hook changes etc., and if a hook changes then I comment out the function until I narrow down what needs to be recoded in regards to a hook. Not saying you don’t know this already or practice it, but maybe it will benefit others as we all go about harnessing the power of WordPress and BuddyPress. 🙂
Cheers!

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@henrywright-1
I have to disagree, a plugin coded well is no different than a function in a themes functions.php if a plugin introduces bugs then that can be nut cracking. On the other hand if you introduce code with syntax errors, and clashing functions then you have essentially cracked your own nuts. No pun intended! 🙂

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@patrykos360
Screenshot would help us see your issue. As @mercime suggested, you really need to read the codex in the link he supplied. It is straightforward and well documented there.

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@noercijunior
I don’t know where you got this bazaar idea but I tried it and I could not replicate the issue. Maybe it is your ISP because all F5 does is a hard refresh so maybe your ISP is somehow sensing it as a DOS attack because of all the concurrent requests to those sites servers. Sorry but I just could not replicate your issue!

[@bphelp Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

@echofoxtrot
This plugin works and is more complete as far as building a private community.
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp