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As BuddyPress is just a plugin that sits on WordPress it shares the same media gallery as that. Now, perhaps you want more functionality than that?

Are you passing a userid or getting the userid? It would need you to as I said put a value in $userid.

That sounds like possible a theme or plugin issue – a slightly weird one but could you in order to determine let us know a bit more about your set up. Are you using multisite? What theme are you using? Have you tried deactivating all plugins to see if it still does the same behaviour?

@crewpass This is an old topic which has been resolved sometime ago. You’ve posted at https://buddypress.org/support/topic/join-group-button-missing-from-groups-directory/#post-146019 so please continue there. Closing this thread.

Hi,

you have some plugins who can do that.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-docs/  – for the whole site

http://lenasterg.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/buddypress-group-documents-for-bp-1-5-and-wp-3-3/ – group by group

(was initially created by Peter Anselmo and now adapted to work with BP 1.5.5+ )

Check out http://buddydev.com/buddypress/blog-categories-for-groups-plugin/ where you can set the category “surf” for that group

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