[wasanajones]

for a time wp-spamshield was very good – but it conflicts with other plugins making headaches — no longer available

[wasanajones]

what is the face slap emoji ?

I have torn my site apart — reinstalling, deleting, researching, database row by row, 20 different SQL searches… completely and utterly defeated… I finally come to the conclusion that despite the site crashing during some settings changes, that maybe this isn’t really a conflict/data corruption buddypress issue… its a wordpress issue… so simple… it is hard to admit

Admin > Settings > Discussion > Show Avatars
(who knew ‘show avatars’ unchecked would remove the profile photo editor completely)

really…

[wasanajones]

well, that note was premature — the github version, is supposedly a couple years fresher, but it doesn’t work

[wasanajones]

FYI – don’t use Blog Author profile For BuddyPress from https://buddydev.com/plugins/blog-author-profile-for-buddypress/

they have a much more recently updated version on github
https://github.com/sbrajesh/blog-author-profile-for-bp

[wasanajones]

thanks @venutius, just so folks are clear (it took me awhile to unravel how it works) the blog-author-profile-for-buddypress plugin creates a Widget you can place in a widget area – my theme has an ‘after post widget’ area

author widget pulls extended profile data fields. nice.

[wasanajones]

you should be able to use robots.txt to prevent indexing of specific pages too.

not sure about member profiles — but I think a /members/* wildcard (properly written) should work

[wasanajones]

BuddyPress Activity Links Open in a New Tab

//BUDDYPRESS ACTIVITY FILTER 
 
function altlab_special_links_activity( $body ) { 
     $body = str_replace(' rel="nofollow"',' rel="nofollow" target="_blank"',$body);
 
    return $body; 
 
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_activity_content_body', 'altlab_special_links_activity', 15, 1 );

add to bp-custom.php — if you don’t know what that is, you should

[wasanajones]

thanks, good idea, but still haven’t found the cause.

[wasanajones]

asked and answered… not from the dashboard like a normal admin

but rather from the frontend… go to your group > manage …