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There are some resources re disabling gravatars in BP.
Here’s one, untested by me but at least will give you hints:
http://bp-tricks.com/snippets/completely-disable-the-use-of-gravatars-on-your-buddypress-site/

I can deactivate all plugins and then reactivate, but I’m new to WP and not sure if doing so would re-set all of the settings for each plugin.

It shouldn’t, assuming your plugins are well coded. The vast majority of the time doing this causes no problems. But you don’t know 100% until you try it.

You might want to back up your database first just to have a copy to revert back to. It’s a good policy to do that anyways. I use: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dbmanager/
You can set it to do daily or weekly backups to your server of your database. Pretty sweet.

As for your theme, that theme (Solitudo) looks like it has a ton of theme options. I’m guessing some PHP customization in there is breaking BuddyPress output. You may have to just dig in and deactivate/reactivate parts of the theme (at the code level) until you get things to work if you feel comfortable doing that. Specifically the functions, or functions in PHP files that are possibly called by the core functions.php file – I haven’t used that theme myself so not sure how it’s set up. Every theme is different so there isn’t some quick answer unfortunately.

Hope that helps.

Probably a JS conflict on your site. buddypress.js has some code that expands that textarea when you click into it, which works in Chrome/FF out of the box normally. I imagine a theme or plugin is in conflict. Some plugins do interact with the post box using JS.

this still seems to be an outstanding issue with BuddyPress (at least for me).

Terabrite’s solution did fix the problem for me. pretty painful thou.

clicking inside the textarea did not cause the button to show. at least for me, using Chrome or Firefox.

Hi @sooskriszta

Thanks for the ticket reference, i’m actually building a list of tickets around the need to attach media to components.

I think what @boonebgorges says in comment of your ticket is really important :
“… it’s not impossible that some simple media capabilities would one day be built into BP. … If anything were to be included, it would have to be done very carefully, working closely with teams like the BP Media team to determine how we could build something minimal in BP that could be scaffolded by other plugins.”

I totally agree with him. Although i feel there’s a lot of expectations having features incorporated in BuddyPress, doing it carefully and in a way that would help other plugins is very important.

When you say “Photos are the biggest attraction in social networking”, sometimes it’s not the case : for instance in the corporate world, the document really matters more.

As i’ve said in last wednesday’s dev chat : “Media is a great challenge. I have some ideas about it, mainly around the concept of attachments for other components”

In BuddyPress, the groups component and the members component are dealing in a way with media using the core avatar functions. It can be a good start to see how to provide a quickest way for community administrators to view/manage all these media in a media Administration screen, in a group/member administration screen etc.. I think that building this can help us to extend it to other media capabilities.

Thanks a lot for the alert. Have a lovely day.

css problem

#buddypress div.dir-search {
margin: 0 !important;
}

After much screwing around, i recommend Social Login. it seems to integrate well with BuddyPress…

Try deactivating all other plugins, then activate BuddyPress on its own. See if that solves it. If so, it’s a plugin conflict. Then you can reactivate all other plugins one by one until it breaks again, and then you’ll know which one is the culprit.

If deactivating all other plugins doesn’t solve it, then try switching themes to see if that’s the cause.

Hi,

for autocreatation you can create a small script who do that ( check buddypress default data how create demo groups )
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-default-data/

And buddypress-groupomatic plugin can make the autojoin group for members depending fields.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-groupomatic/

Hope this can help you !

hi @aemadi,

Click on ” Screen Options ” ( on the top right of menu page ) then check Buddypress :).

I mis-read your question sorry. I found a solution which lets users only view other users profiles if they are a friend of that user. The admin can see all members regardless of them being his/her friend.

I put the function in my functions.php:

 // BuddyPress create conditional if friend
function flatportal_bp_is_friend() {
global $bp;

if (friends_check_friendship( bp_loggedin_user_id(), bp_displayed_user_id() )  )
return true;

return false;
}

and created a custom header file with this at the top:

// Global $bp variable holds all of our info

global $bp;
// The user ID of the currently logged in user
$current_user_id = (int) trim($bp->loggedin_user->id);
// The author that we are currently viewing
$author_id  = (int) trim($bp->displayed_user->id);
if ($current_user_id !== $author_id && !current_user_can('delete_others_pages') && !flatportal_bp_is_friend() )
{
wp_redirect( home_url() );
exit();
}

Then in header php (using multiple headers)

elseif ( bp_is_user()):
get_header('restrict-profile');

If they are not a friend they will be redirected to the home page or wherever you want them. I suppose you could re-direct them to a “you are not a friend of this user” page if you wanted.

These are probably questions better asked on bbPress forum – remember although bbPress integrates with buddyPress it is a standalone plugin.

I doubt however you need to overload all the files as above.

I would strongly urge you to first have a good read through what articles we currently have in the codex to familiarise yourself with basic setup & operation:

Getting Started

Then if you have further questions post back with a full outline of your setup – check the forum stickies which tell you what information to provide in order to gain help here.

Hi,

I have the same problem. When we click the notifications link, a blank page is showing.

Wordpress version : 3.8
Buddypress : 1.9

Pls help me