No need for this hack anymore as there is an option in he BuddyPress admin to limit group creation
removing the button from the groups index page alone will not stop your members from being able to create groups…
have you seen this…to limit group creation to admins
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/limit-group-creation-to-admin/
If you just want to hide the button…maybe something like
`<?php if (is_user_logged_in() && current_user_can('administrator'))
>
your button stuff
`
Get xprofile field result, run it through an if, and just get the avatar out of your images folder of your theme. No buddypress avatar functions needed.
@Debra if you went back to the older version and it works, you may want to report it here (same as your login on this site)
@Xevo
Hmmm try this
go to this, scroll to the bottom of the page and then click on page 2 or 3
Are you able to access those pages?
@etivite Then you better throw away your privacy agreement first. 
Thanks, @acurran, I was looking for the code too and tried your suggestion but got an error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDWHILE in /home/domain/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/members-loop.php on line 68
on line 68 there is
I don’t know how to get it right here. Does somebody know solution to this?
Any progress on this? some things are moving really slow or AT ALL with buddypress …
We need the option to DEACTIVATE a user please, not delete!
I don’t want them to be able to come next day and register with the same credentials and start the crap again.
Anyone?
Thanks
I’ve only added one custom function:
define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG’, true );
Which hacks did you include? Some functions may be transferred to your active theme’s functions.php (not wp-config.php) but some need to be in bp-custom.php because of the load order.
There has been quite a lot of discussion about ‘privacy’ in buddypress since v 1.5.1 came out.
For instance, there is the walled garden technique: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/privacy-3/#post-113808
Different menus for logged in or out users: here or this
Or try search…
Deleted it all again, reinstalled it all again. The only thing that can be causing the issue buddypress php files.
mercime – should I look elsewhere for help… I understand if you’re too busy to help and hate to bother ya.
Could the hacks that are supposed to go into the bp-custom.php file be placed in the wp-config file instead?
Bump. I am looking for the same solution.
This can be closed, it’s a known issue with a better fix already submitted. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3696
Posted the issue at s2Member.
However, I deactivated s2member and the Buddypress admin was still in the admin panel as opposed to the network panel.
When I erased the bp-custom.php file, the admin moves back to the network panel, but then there’s no Buddypress on the sub-sites.
Thanks.
No, I haven’t posted it there yet. Will do so asap.
Re your premium theme: did you install the BP Template Pack plugin to make it compatible with BuddyPress or is it one of themes which is aleady “buddypress-ready” (has activity, groups, members, etc folders in theme folder)?
If it’s the second one, then the theme might not been updated for BP 1.5.1 yet. Change to bp-default theme to check if behavior is corrected. If so, contact theme author.
Compare your theme’s members-loop.php with that of bp-default theme’s https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.1/bp-themes/bp-default/members/members-loop.php#L72 where your theme should have this hook “
Joseph – How did you make out with that? I’m trying to do the same thing with Traject and having no luck.
@blogsabout that is not default behavior indeed. Did you set pretty permalinks already in Settings > Permalinks? Are you using the bp-default theme?
I know this is pretty old, but the issue still exists. It may be “intended behavior”, but that doesn’t mean it’s “desirable behavior”.
I was working on a somewhat atypical install of BP that was using groups for membership/subscription control, and only using the main forum listing, not individual group forums. Not having stickies working here was a BIG problem!
Anyway, for all those interested in hacking out a solution, look no further. In the buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-template.php file, edit the defaults at the top of the bp_has_forum_topics function. (Line 268).
Change $do_stickies = false; to $do_stickies = true;
(This is in reference to version 1.5.1)
