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What is $imgUrlParts?

Just use WordPress’ get_avatar() function: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_avatar

This sounds like an email sent by the paidmembershipspro plugin, which BuddyPress has no control over. Have you contacted that plugin’s developers for support? Or posted on its WordPress.org support forums?

Is there a way to make activities register as a custom post type? If that’s not possible, is there a quick fix to make a plugin reference activities instead of posts?

Activities are not custom posts, nor are there any options in BuddyPress to let them do this. Either of these things would have to be custom development, and are probably harder t…[Read more]

I created a bug report: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7117

It’s an oversight on our part, dating back to the end of December 2012. Good spot noticing it. We’ll get it addressed, but it won’t be included in a release until BuddyPress 2.8 (end of year) — bad timing with that regard, unfortunately. 🙁

This is a good question.

That isn’t accurate, or fair. For starters, WordPress does not provide a user avatar UPLOAD option inside its user profiles in wp-admin. It’ll show the Gravatar image associated with the current user’s email address (“You can change your profile picture on Gravatar.”).

If your WordPress lets you upload a picture there with BuddyPress disabled,…[Read more]

It’s not really a Mailgun support problem. It’s just that BuddyPress requires a different email interface to what WordPress needs. I hope in time people will build these for BuddyPress, but for now, you’ll need a developer to build it out for you.

If you know PHP and the basics of how to build with WordPress, I can give you hints.

Use the Repair Tools under wp-admin Tools > BuddyPress. There’s one to reinstall emails.

Emails not sending in HTML means you probably have some plugin active that redeclares the wp_mail function — this doesn’t make sense to non-developers, I admit, but if you have any plugins that do things with emails for WordPress, that’s the likely candidate.

Sure does. But if you had 100 pictures on one page, that’d be the biggest cause of slowness for that particular page.

Use Chrome dev tools (the “Network” tab) to sample a few pages (home page, user profile, directory) and look at the size and see what’s happening.

As both sites are WordPress, you can, for example, share the wp_users table between separate WordPress installations, but all the BuddyPress profile data is stored in custom BuddyPress tables. The non-BuddyPress site will have no idea where or how to get the profile data from the BuddyPress-powered site.

You could, for example, copy the database…[Read more]

BuddyPress doesn’t support conditional profile fields (yet?). This is asked frequently but I can’t remember if anyone’s built a plugin that handles this. You might have to hack something together bespoke for your theme.

Regarding the second point, I’d recommend creating a custom field type, if you know PHP. It’s not too hard to do — I worked on…[Read more]

You’re correct. The relevant function is messages_new_message(): https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/bp-messages/bp-messages-functions.php#L130

You can set the BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE constant to get BuddyPress to accept user_login values on the message compose screen rather than the user_nicename. See…[Read more]

I can’t speak for all the BuddyPress development team but, personally, I would not recommend W3TC. There is a specific bug with its Object Caching implementation that breaks password resets on BuddyPress for some obscure reason we weren’t able to track down.

You need an Object Cache plugin, which will be backed by a Memcached or Redis instance,…[Read more]

My favourites are at buddyboss; they look great and are coded really well – http://www.buddyboss.com/themes/

It’s probably more your theme requires extra CSS to correctly display the image. If you can link to your site to a profile with an example cover photo, you stand a better chance of someone here helping.