We don’t really support wordpress.com here, they have their own support but my understanding is that you don’t get to install other plugins on the free plan.
When you uninstall BuddyPress it does not delete the databases so reinstalling would not lose any data. However I don’t think that would help you very much if at all. Your issue will be with other plugins/customisations that have been added and these would not be removed just by reinstalling BuddyPress.
For a BuddyPress site there’s a few areas where a site can be customised:
By installing other plugins ( easily deactivated to remove those features)
By adding customised theme files in a child theme, in particular: themes/child-theme/functions.php themes/child-theme/buddypress/... – BuddyPress specific theme files that have been modified.
By adding a plugins/bp-custom.php file.
Any extra customisations in the functions.php file would have to be removed and the file re-saved to the child theme directory.
Files in the child-theme/buddypress directory structure can be isolated simply by changing their extension from php to old.
The bp-custom.php file can be isolated by changing it’s extension to .old
Anything in your child-theme directory would be ignored if you installed a new theme.
The rest is down to the configuration of the theme, BuddyPress and any other plugins you wish to use.
Take a look at plugins/buddypress/bp-members/screens/register.php this is loaded when the register form is submitted. There’s a hook in there do_action( 'bp_signup_validate' ); which you could use to implement your own validation.
In there you can set `$bp->signup->errors for the error you want to display if the validation fails for that field.
You should definitely have some BuddyPress options in the Tools page, one of these options is to reinstall the BP Emails and selecting that often fixes this problem.
Is this not a wordpress issue as opposed to something in BuddyPress, if you can see the extended profile link in the Users list, that’s the only link BP adds to this view, role settings are WordPress.
I’ve created a plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-devolved-authority/ which allows you to devolve aspects of managing BP to other roles. That will enable you to do this. Note you will also need to grant “list_users” capability if you want them to do that from admin, but they should be able to edit from the front end.
One option would be to add a php widget and use a plugin to only display it in the groups pages then add some code which uses the bp_get_current_group_id() function to return the group id, which you could check in a conditional such as:
Are your group email notifications delivered using the Group Email Subscription plugin? This forum is the wrong place to raise issues on that. However I had the same issue and it was down to an upgrade they made that needed some manual intervention.
Go to Settings>>Group Email Subscriptions and see that the migration has not completed. There’s a button to manually try it again. You will have to select this a couple of times but in the end it should work fine.
