BuddyPress.org

A few more details

1. Which version of WordPress are you running?
V5

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install?
We access the wordpress site online

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version?
No, it’s a new website, build within the last two months

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.
Yes, however we installed buddypress early on in the website’s creation.

6. Which version of BP are you running?
Version 4.1.0

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?
11 plugins (some were installed after the issue first occurred.

• Akismet Anti-Spam v4.1
• AMP v0.7.2
• bbp style pack v4.0.3
• bbPress v2.5.14
• Contact Form 7 v5.0.5
• Custom Twitter Feeds v1.2.10
• Flamingo v1.9
• Jetpack by WordPress.com v6.8.1
• MultiLine files for Contact Form 7 v1.2
• Peter’s Login Redirect v2.9.1 (after issue in an attempt to fix)
• The Events Calendar v4.7.1

9. Are you using the standard WordPress theme or customized theme? 10. Which theme do you use ?
Standard theme – Ixion v1.1.5-wpcom

11. Have you modified the core files in any way?
No

12. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?
Not that I know of

13. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?
bbPress v2.5.14

14. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
Not sure how to access this

15. Which company provides your hosting?
Wordpress

Ohhh, GOT IT!!

looks like this code is exactly what is needed….i pasted it into a custom plugin and wa-la…credit goes to the fabulous @prashantvatsh! he replied in the support forum on his plugin (the ‘BP Custom Functionalities’ plugin)…like super quick, with the correct solution to me needing to restrict access to a user’s OWN profile. brilliant!

here’s that support thread:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrict-access-to-users-own-profile/

and here’s the code from prashant that i wound up putting into a custom plugin file and uploading to my site:

add_action( 'wp', 'bp_own_profile_member_redirect' );
function bp_own_profile_member_redirect(){
	if(bp_is_user()){
	    global $bp;
	    $current_user_id = (int) trim($bp->loggedin_user->id);
	    $member_id  = (int) trim($bp->displayed_user->id);
	    if (!current_user_can('manage_options') && $current_user_id == $member_id)
	    {
                //Only admins can view their own profile
	        wp_redirect(site_url()); //you can set any URL here
	        exit;
	    }
	}
}

thanks again for all your help, @venutius — your help was fundamental to me figuring out the next steps (how the BuddyPress avatars exist and how to get those avatars to show what i wanted without messing with bbPress code)…i am truly grateful for all your assistance!

@venutius if i could juuuust get BuddyPress to use the same avatar that bbPress uses, that would solve basically everything

that way i could use a plugin that changed the bbPress avatar, and then any change in bbPress’s avatar would show as the avatar for BuddyPress too

know how to do that?

@venutius agree…..

thing is, in bbPress there are plugins that easily, and in a lightweight fashion, allow for custom avatars for users

users can go to their profile in the dashboard and change it

now, because i also restrict access to the dashboard for users that are not admins, this works. it works because i am then the one, then, that can change the avatars for individual users this way, without having to allow users to change their own avatars, and without enabling the creation of user profiles in BuddyPress

simple dimple

but for some godawful reason, even though this means that bbPress avatars can be changed this way via various plugins, BuddyPress doesn’t accept the same change

i would think that bbPress is not that different, coding-wise, from BuddyPress

buuuuut hell, i don’t know 😀

if BuddyPress allowed the customization to happen like bbPress does, of individual avatars from the user dashboard, that would be great

isn’t there a way to allow BuddyPress to use a bbPress avatar? so i could use the plugin that changes the avatar in bbPress, and then any changes to a bbPress avatar…BuddyPress would show the same avatar???

@venutius glad to have helped — and awesome on updating the page, thanks!

btw, i’ve shut off user profiles; i do not want my users to be able to update their profiles at all….this is not a social site i’m building, even though buddypress is built with the idea that it resembles something along the lines of facebook…

my site is going to have groups for the sole purpose of discussion, but not for socializing; i’ve deliberately shut off user profiles so users can’t even see them

so enabling ‘extended profiles’…wouldn’t that require that i go to the user profile to update an avatar for a user? i’ve disabled that…so even if i were to turn on ‘extended profiles’ how would i be able to upload a user avatar for each user?

as to that plugin, it works GREAT to shut off gravatar access; it shows the blank BP default image person thing….but even when i pair that plugin with other plugins that allow avatar customization, only bbPress avatars are affected with other plugins; BuddyPress doesn’t work with other plugins that try to get local avatars to show — even if i’ve already shut off the Gravatar display with that fab plugin you linked to (‘disable user gravatar’)

Thanks!! Will do! I really like buddypress and bbpress, just gotta get a handle on the trouble makers. ????????