BuddyPress.org

Although I haven’t used it myself, I’ve read good reviews:

SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
https://wordpress.org/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/

Glad you got it working! 🙂

Or would get_query_var( 'upage' ) do the trick better?

Would this work?

global $members_template;
$paged = $members_template->pag_page;

You need both. You create the pages and BP fills them

@ubernaut looks like it to me too. Do these people have no shame?

Have you created the pages in the WP dashboard?

Hi @stefwilliams

Enhancement suggestions can be made here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

I’d agree with steps 1 to 3! With reference to 4, you could try installing a capcha plugin. It’s always better to stop spammers at the front door as opposed to trying to deal with them when they’re inside your house!

5. What else should be done at this stage?

Celebrate! 🙂

#element {
display: none;
}

Is how you’d hide a page element with CSS. See here for more info:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/

1. Have you disabled site tracking? Try going to the WP dashboard where you can disable and enable BuddyPress components and check that site tracking is enabled.

2. Maybe check entries are recorded when using a different theme? Twenty Thirteen is a good tried and tested one.

Hi @gamerclips

There seems to be a new entry posted on 17 Feb (a day ago)?

Member Z and Member Y are now friends a day ago

There is a plugin that will let you do that:

BuddyPress Username Changer

I didn’t think they were as I’ve read about the plans for rewrite rules in 2.0.

@hnla that must have been a rogue edit to that page in the Codex

Just had a response from Paul, he confirmed root profiles are here to stay. profiles.wordpress.org uses them!

@hnla Seems odd why somebody would want to make an edit like that?

I was getting worried there for a while – absolutely love root profiles! Good to know they’re not being deprecated. Panic over 🙂

Hi @aquapan

Have you thought about using multisite? This may or may not work for you – see the Codex for more info on it:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Hi @siteshack

Do you have a link to the question you posted?