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When you uninstall BuddyPress it does not delete the databases so reinstalling would not lose any data. However I don’t think that would help you very much if at all. Your issue will be with other plugins/customisations that have been added and these would not be removed just by reinstalling BuddyPress.

For a BuddyPress site there’s a few areas where a site can be customised:

By installing other plugins ( easily deactivated to remove those features)
By adding customised theme files in a child theme, in particular:
themes/child-theme/functions.php
themes/child-theme/buddypress/... – BuddyPress specific theme files that have been modified.
By adding a plugins/bp-custom.php file.

Any extra customisations in the functions.php file would have to be removed and the file re-saved to the child theme directory.
Files in the child-theme/buddypress directory structure can be isolated simply by changing their extension from php to old.
The bp-custom.php file can be isolated by changing it’s extension to .old

Anything in your child-theme directory would be ignored if you installed a new theme.

The rest is down to the configuration of the theme, BuddyPress and any other plugins you wish to use.

Take a look at plugins/buddypress/bp-members/screens/register.php this is loaded when the register form is submitted. There’s a hook in there do_action( 'bp_signup_validate' ); which you could use to implement your own validation.

In there you can set `$bp->signup->errors for the error you want to display if the validation fails for that field.

You should definitely have some BuddyPress options in the Tools page, one of these options is to reinstall the BP Emails and selecting that often fixes this problem.

I don’t know if you found one but I found this recently: https://wbcomdesigns.com/downloads/buddypress-hashtags/

I’ve added the ticked here:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8085#ticket

Is this not a wordpress issue as opposed to something in BuddyPress, if you can see the extended profile link in the Users list, that’s the only link BP adds to this view, role settings are WordPress.

Another option that PERHAPS MIGHT work

Have a separate home page for any group you want

Try making a page template called “front-slug-group-name.php” for each group (for which a unique home page is desired)

(“group-name” being the lowercase name of the group)

and put it in wp-content/themes/your-theme/buddypress/groups/single/

as in

wp-content/themes/your-theme/buddypress/groups/single/front-slug-group-name.php

Hi there Kenni,

Thanks for reporting this, would you mind raising it as an issue on Trac:

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

Then you’ll get confirmation when it’s fixed.

Ah got you, I can confirm clicking on blog based notifications does not clear the notification.

Could you raise a bug report on Trac?

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

Once you’ve done that I’ll add some comments about my own testing.

Ah got you, I can confirm clicking on blog based notifications does not clear the notification.

Could you raise a bug report on Trac?

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

Once you’ve done that I’ll add some comments about my own testing.

If I’m not wrong in new buddypress 3.x you can use the customizer to make it vertical.

Use this filter hook and write a function:
apply_filters( 'bp_members_format_activity_action_new_member', $action, $activity );
Found in : ...plugins\buddypress\bp-members\bp-members-activity.php

For example, untested:

function pixie_new_member_activity( $action, $activity ) {

    $user_id = $activity->user_id;

    // assuming the field names are State and City
    $state = xprofile_get_field_data(  'State',  $user_id,  'comma' ); 
    $city = xprofile_get_field_data(  'City',  $user_id,  'comma' ); 

    $userlink = bp_core_get_userlink( $user_id );
    $action   = sprintf( __( '%s from %s in %s became a registered member', 'buddypress' ), $userlink, $city, $state );

    return $action;
}
add_filter( 'bp_members_format_activity_action_new_member', 'pixie_new_member_activity', 10, 2 );

This is a general WP question and is not specific to BP.
There are many ways to do this – depending on your theme, your ability with code, etc.
There are some plugins that can help you.
We suggest you do a google search on your question without restricting it to BuddyPress and you will see thousands of results.