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@xxxtristamxxx
What do you mean member icon? Can you provide a screenshot? Please list what WP/BP versions, theme, and plugins you are using.

@xxxtristamxxx
They would have to have activated and logged into the account for them to see BP content using my plugin so no, just registering would not unblock the BP content. There is really no way of differentiating who is a spammer and who is not once they are logged in so it would be up to you to moderate. Good luck!

@xxxtristamxxx
Try: https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/
Full disclosure, I am the plugin author.
Good luck!

@xxxtristamxxx

I get a white screen with:

This error (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error) means that the website you are visiting had a server problem which prevented the webpage from displaying.

This is often caused by a php programming error or conflict which will show up in the sites ( apache ) error log or maybe by putting the site into debug…[Read more]