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.
Looks like I am going back to using Mingle more user friendly.
I use the add-on for theme compatibility and most stuff is still screwed up.
I will keep checking in on the progress thou.
Works well for me. Thanks!
@karmatosed I’m going to try this trac you speak of. I will submit these ideas to this place and get over my fear of getting punted.
I submitted a ticket just today…and I’ll submit this and the last idea you mentioned to do this for. 
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
I see… I think we are talking about a different plugin and functionality.
I’m talking about this one: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-profile-privacy/
And it’s complete functionality is listed on the roadmap for 1.5
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).
Is there anyone that has any other ideas about this? I still cannot get it fixed, it doesn’t happen with anything other than BuddyPress, I am using BP for a major part of my website that is due to launch by the end of this year. I would really like to get this working…
Please help?
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
Shoulld I replace that with a new function? What do I need to do?
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Well, `bp_core_add_root_component()` is most likely responsible for creating the zillions of extra pages, so getting that sorted made my plugins work 70%, so it should be a good starting point…
It ought to continue to work. I don’t think we made any changes directly in the Group Extension stuff. If you can’t figure it out, check where you’re hooking into BuddyPress (try earlier) and/or report on BuddyPress.trac.WordPress.org
@Caderial are you using caching on the site at all?
I have not Upgraded because i am waiting for it to become a bit more reliable lol as when i tried to upgrade it broke my forums and BP install. So yes still those versions.
So far i have tried:
-Reverting to buddypress default theme
-Turning off all my plugins and reactivating them one by one. (both default and Default BP theme)
-Using BP profile as homepage ( which worked for the immediate login but when they click Home at the top they are seeming logged out until refresh again)
I also turned on and off and cleared my cache and cookies and am still encountering this problem with myself and several other users.
any suggestions?
== if I DON’T want users to have their own blogs? ==
Install BP on single WP
== more of a Digg format where the suggestions with the most votes go to the top and vice versa. This would be on one page, and then users can vote on other pages of other topics with a certain amount of votes. ==
Check out the BuddyPress Like plugin – not exactly what you want but as a starting point.
Hmm something doesn’t quite sound right there. Just as a sanity check are you testing using the default theme with noi plugins bar BuddyPress?
