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> The description field is a standard wordpress profile text field

That’s not the same as a BP profile field. They are two separate beasts.
You need to find the code, perhaps in your theme, that is adding that field on profiles.

> How could I place a BuddyPress profile field on the profile start page
You need to edit the home template for profiles.
And it sounds like that is already being done by some code on your site.
Find it and you should know how to change it to show a BP profile field for bio.

By default, BuddyPress does not have a short description and link on profile pages, afaik.

By short description do you mean Biographical Info?
If so, you should replace short description with a BuddyPress profile field.
Then they can edit it in their profile.

If short description is created by some other plugin or code,
then replace it with a BuddyPress profile field.

@joeobi15 uisng group_id parameter you can list all members of a group https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/loops-reference/the-group-members-loop-bp_group_has_members/

Hi, that double opt in column is not part of buddypress. Usually these are relating to newletters or similar so you will need to check your other plugins.

Here is another approach. I dont like it at all because you cannot check a custom post type (you dont have the activity object). But it works.

function me_filter_bp_activity_item_id_before_save( $item_id ) { 
    if ( !empty(bp_get_current_group_id()) ) $item_id = bp_get_current_group_id();
    return $item_id ; 
}; 
         
add_filter( 'bp_activity_item_id_before_save', 'me_filter_bp_activity_item_id_before_save', 10, 1 );

BTW: The value 1 seems to be the default blog ID.

In this thread @imath explains that:

Custom Post Type Support for Activity

Hi Everyone,

This has not been resolved as of the current version I have which is 5.0. Looking at the changelog for all versions of Buddypress since version 5, I still see no reference to the 8093 ticket, indicating that it has not been addressed.

Any update on this issue would be great.

If your theme hasn’t changed buddypress too much then its most likely something like this:

body.bp-user.buddypress{
	background: #000!important; /*change #000 to your color*/
}

Otherwise its usually a good idea to check with the theme’s customer service instead.

Perhaps you could get closer to an answer in here https://buddypress.org/support/topic/disable-leave-group-and-request-membership-buttons/

Sure. You could bundle them together by using an example shown here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/get-member-type-broken/

Here’s the code

function using_mt_register_member_types() {
	bp_register_member_type('Teacher', array(
		'labels' => array(
			'name' 		=> __('Teachers', 'using-mt'),
			'singular_name' => __('Teacher', 'using-mt')
		),
		'has_directory' => 'teachers', //url slug
	));
}

add_action('bp_register_member_types', 'using_mt_register_member_types');

You’d then find that particular type in your-website.com/members/type/teachers/. You can add as many types as you’d like with the above example.

I’ve been looking for a solution and found a lot of dead ends….

Possible hook. Though Not sure if it works.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5/bp-themes/bp-default/functions.php#L112

There is this unanswered post
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-disable-join-group-option-on-public-group/