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== i have the problem with the non-buddypress theme ==
If you want to use your WP theme with BP, you need to install the BP Template Pack plugin and go through the compatibility process.
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

Not exactly in sidebar but something you’d probably like http://buddydev.com/uncategorized/introducing-buddypress-live-notification-plugin-a-facebook-like-notification-plugin-for-buddypress/

Hi @anointed. If you were mentioned in that post https://buddypress.org/community/members/anointed/activity/mentions/

@linusf I tried that plugin, and while it installs cleanly in 1.5, it doesn’t seem to work. I don’t see any areas where I can set privacy options on my profile fields.

When I upgraded to 1.2.9, I experienced this same issue… I just discovered it from my upgrade to 1.5 bleeding… it’s appears to be a theme issue for sure…. I can disable all of my plugins/bp-custom.php and I still have this issue with my current theme…. when I switch to the default theme, the problem disappears…

So to recap… for me, not a plugin or custom.php issue, but a theme issue AND I am experiencing this in current stable of BuddyPress… I’ve asked @sbrajesh to look at this as I’m using his themes….

Just some more info to this.

Just use Buddypress Groups, and don’t put any content on the site outside of the private groups.

Just use Buddypress Groups, and don’t put any content on the site outside of the private groups.

I appreciate the contribution, but sometimes you can’t easily identify a person to determine if you should friend them (or find someone to send friend requests to) unless you view their profile.

Ultimately, I think we need per-field privacy controls.

Works well for me. Thanks!

Are you using pretty permalinks as required by buddypress? ( https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/#wp-configuration )

You can use as much or as little of BuddyPress as you want. So yes you can just use the membership components – avatar, profile, sign up.

If you want it considered to be part of the BuddyPress core then filing an enhancement ticket is usually the best route.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

If you have a patch for it smiley faces of happiness all around as that really rocks.

As a work around you probably want to look at some of the user limiting plugins / membership / privacy.

https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/?search=permissions

You mean like an avatar moderator? No solution springs to mind but perhaps something in this search would be helpful?

https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/?search=avatar

Sadly, that plugin does break with 1.5, and it is currently abandoned. The author stated someone else can pick it up.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/buddypress-privacy-1/

Hey @modemlooper, I juts posted a patch to that ticket. Would you mind installing it and then walking through an upgrade again? I think that the patch fixes the biggest part of the problem (did for me with Achievements, anyway).

I’ll work on providing a document with best practices for creating them. See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3422 for further discussion of the page creation problem.

== how can I do this using the default theme.==

1. Create a child theme of bp-default theme. – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

2. Copy over header.php from bp-default theme – https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.2.9/bp-themes/bp-default/header.php

3. Open up header.php and replace the following:
<h1 id="logo"><a href="" title=""></a></h1>
with
<h1 id="logo"><a href="" title=""><img src="/images/logo.png" /></a></h1>

4. Upload a logo.png or .jpg, etc. to your theme’s images folder