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Same point to be reiterated as that which @mercime  mentioned above, is this issue happening with the BP-Deafult theme?

First thing that must be done when issues arise is revert to the default BP theme , if then the issue clears up you have an problem with your custom theme – custom themes are not necessarily a concern of this help forum though as this forums purpose is to provide help/guidance with the BP core application and it’s default theme.

In the first instance issues with custom themes must be taken to the theme author or that themes forum  – if one exists.

If, however, an issue persists then the next step is to disable the fifty nine plugins that are running as any one of those ‘May’ be causing a problem and that needs to be confirmed one way or another by the user – we can’t do that for them.

If having run through those steps an issue persists then it may well be a BP issue that needs attention.

@oddzuki

Can I ask if you worked out what the problem was? I am having the same problem. The join group button is missing from the group directory and also the group home page.

Which theme are you using?

Find that out, and edit in:  /wp-content/themes/your-theme/members/single/member-header.php

If you haven’t got your theme structure setup correctly – then you need to do that first of all — have a look at the advice on theme development, theme structures on wordpress.org.  The documentation on buddypress.org also has advice on building child themes from bp-default, and on adapting existing wordpress themes (see template pack pages).

Cool – just respond back if run into any issues and will see about helping to get back on track.

Just to be clear, what you are trying to do is display like the user avatar and other details on the author page? You can’t just use member-header as that looks at the ‘current user’. In this case the author page doesn’t have the right information for those calls to work.

What I’d suggest is you get the userid and use functions like these:

bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( 'item_id'=>$userid, 'width'=>150));

bp_last_activity( $userid );

That way you’re creating the member-header yourself. You could even have a template part to do this and just call that in the right place.

So you’re using the plugin BuddyPress Moderation? https://buddypress.org/support/forum/plugin-forums/bp-moderation/ I ask because you’ve put this in installing BuddyPress but think perhaps this may be to do with the plugin.

@rickkumar – I noticed loginradius have been spamming the Internet with fake users / testimonials for their product — so probably good to avoid that one.

If you are looking for another free solution – you can investigate HybridAuth.  That one’s a PHP library, rather than a plugin, so you’d have to do some coding, but on the positive side would gain a lot more flexibility.

you can activate accounts using the following plugin

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-pending-activations/

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/tag-filter/

You can find BuddyPress themes on the WordPress.org repo by using the search feature and choose the buddypress search filter

@jakewho yes but it involves the database. Are you comfortable with editing the database?

@jakewho you can allow them to automatcally login after registration which will set their status as “active”, allowing them to show up in the widget. If they complete activation but don’t login afterwards then they are not acounted as active until having logged in.

There is a plugin to automatically log users in after registration. You can find one on Buddydev and you can also google for it. I dont have it off the top of my head.

Plugin forums have been removed. This is no longer a place for support for third party plugins. legacy forums can be found on the front support page.

This issue with using plugins to create such a specific site as you wish is that you are placing bets on if a plugin will continue to work or be supported. This is why I suggest you may need coding skills.

Thanks everyone for posting about this issue.  I’ve also encountered this as well.

It’s definitely BuddyPress being a bit aggressive with its email filter.  I’ll post a new issue about this and hopefully we can address this for v1.7.

Update: ticket created

@johnjf What I’m getting from you is that you just want the logged-in members to be able to publish “blog posts” only and not create nor publish in “blog sites” (requires multisite/network).

You can implement that via the regular WP way -> Setting > General > new users as Contributors (you’d have to approve and publish every post submitted) or as Authors (can publish post right away). Then they can add posts in backend and you just add default Recent Posts Widget to sidebar to show latest posts.

Or, you don’t have to change the Settings in wp-admin and just add a post form in the frontend of the site for logged-in users via plugin with DIY customization http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-simple-front-end-post/ or via another plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-user-frontend/

It’s really badly named — very confusing.  You’re not the first person to not know that ‘send public message’ means post update on user wall.

On the bright side, by adapting Brajesh’s plugin for 1.6, you’ll have learnt a lot more about coding for BuddyPress

@mercime

EDIT – WP moderators have deleted the two posts.

 

Then we may as well follow suit?

‘send public message’ built in to 1.6+ provides this functionality — posting to another user’s wall