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Yes, it sure looks like it’s being loaded but it just keeps reloading the same page (the page that links TO the group). Well, after all that – I tried switching to Legacy Buddypress instead of Nouveau and now everything works as I would expect. I can (as an admin and / or a test user) post updates. Any thoughts on that? How long will I be able to run Legacy? Any ideas why these two totally unrelated sites and themes are having the same issue?

by the way….here’s a summary of what i did:

– used the code that venutius posted earlier from the BuddyPress codex page (the ‘Customizing BuddyPress Avatars’ codex page) to set a new default BuddyPress avatar

– turned on the ‘extended profiles’ and also enabled users to be able to upload avatars

– used prashant singh’s plugin, ‘BP Custom Functionalities’ to restrict listing of all profiles in the user directory — the directory is ‘still there’ but nobody is in it, lol

– used a 301 redirect (via the ‘Safe Redirect Manager’ plugin) to redirect anyone who goes to the member directory page to the front page of the site…so the page itself is now not even viewable (not even by Keymasters)

– used prashant singh’s snippet i pasted here to restrict all users from viewing their own profile…except Keymasters, who can view ALL profiles on the site, even their own (so the ‘users cannot see their own profiles’ doesn’t apply to Keymasters but this does apply to everyone else)

so happy. 😀

Ohhh, GOT IT!!

looks like this code is exactly what is needed….i pasted it into a custom plugin and wa-la…credit goes to the fabulous @prashantvatsh! he replied in the support forum on his plugin (the ‘BP Custom Functionalities’ plugin)…like super quick, with the correct solution to me needing to restrict access to a user’s OWN profile. brilliant!

here’s that support thread:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restrict-access-to-users-own-profile/

and here’s the code from prashant that i wound up putting into a custom plugin file and uploading to my site:

add_action( 'wp', 'bp_own_profile_member_redirect' );
function bp_own_profile_member_redirect(){
	if(bp_is_user()){
	    global $bp;
	    $current_user_id = (int) trim($bp->loggedin_user->id);
	    $member_id  = (int) trim($bp->displayed_user->id);
	    if (!current_user_can('manage_options') && $current_user_id == $member_id)
	    {
                //Only admins can view their own profile
	        wp_redirect(site_url()); //you can set any URL here
	        exit;
	    }
	}
}

thanks again for all your help, @venutius — your help was fundamental to me figuring out the next steps (how the BuddyPress avatars exist and how to get those avatars to show what i wanted without messing with bbPress code)…i am truly grateful for all your assistance!

@venutius i think you may have missed my last comment before your plugin suggestions…just want to make sure, are you suggesting i use the front end (user profile page generated in buddypress) to change each user’s avatar….or are you suggesting i use the back end (from the dashboard) to change a user’s avatar after i “disable user profile uploads and see if you can change the avatar yourself from the users profile page”…??

@venutius btw…..i’m referring to the part where you said, “see if you can change the avatar yourself from the users profile page”

do you mean i should try to change the avatar from the backend, the ‘user profile’ in the dashboard or the user profile page generated in BuddyPress?

@venutius thanks!

you mean the user’s profile page in the dashboard, or the user profile page that is in BuddyPress?

@venutius if i could juuuust get BuddyPress to use the same avatar that bbPress uses, that would solve basically everything

that way i could use a plugin that changed the bbPress avatar, and then any change in bbPress’s avatar would show as the avatar for BuddyPress too

know how to do that?

@venutius agree…..

thing is, in bbPress there are plugins that easily, and in a lightweight fashion, allow for custom avatars for users

users can go to their profile in the dashboard and change it

now, because i also restrict access to the dashboard for users that are not admins, this works. it works because i am then the one, then, that can change the avatars for individual users this way, without having to allow users to change their own avatars, and without enabling the creation of user profiles in BuddyPress

simple dimple

but for some godawful reason, even though this means that bbPress avatars can be changed this way via various plugins, BuddyPress doesn’t accept the same change

i would think that bbPress is not that different, coding-wise, from BuddyPress

buuuuut hell, i don’t know 😀

if BuddyPress allowed the customization to happen like bbPress does, of individual avatars from the user dashboard, that would be great

isn’t there a way to allow BuddyPress to use a bbPress avatar? so i could use the plugin that changes the avatar in bbPress, and then any changes to a bbPress avatar…BuddyPress would show the same avatar???

@venutius ok, will test that code….but even if that code works to change the default avatar in BuddyPress, how would i change the avatar for each user on a case-by-case basis?

please note: i will not be able to go to the user’s profile to change their avatar, because profiles are disabled. they do not exist.

i want to be able to change a user’s avatar, but not allow my users to be able to change their own avatar.

@venutius glad to have helped — and awesome on updating the page, thanks!

btw, i’ve shut off user profiles; i do not want my users to be able to update their profiles at all….this is not a social site i’m building, even though buddypress is built with the idea that it resembles something along the lines of facebook…

my site is going to have groups for the sole purpose of discussion, but not for socializing; i’ve deliberately shut off user profiles so users can’t even see them

so enabling ‘extended profiles’…wouldn’t that require that i go to the user profile to update an avatar for a user? i’ve disabled that…so even if i were to turn on ‘extended profiles’ how would i be able to upload a user avatar for each user?

as to that plugin, it works GREAT to shut off gravatar access; it shows the blank BP default image person thing….but even when i pair that plugin with other plugins that allow avatar customization, only bbPress avatars are affected with other plugins; BuddyPress doesn’t work with other plugins that try to get local avatars to show — even if i’ve already shut off the Gravatar display with that fab plugin you linked to (‘disable user gravatar’)

the direct link to the Codex page if anyone wants to see it:

https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/guides/customizing-buddypress-avatars/

@prashantvatsh if you happen to have any idea how to get BuddyPress to use local avatars and stop trying to use Gravatars…while also allowing for certain classes of users (subscriber, participant, administrator, keymaster, etc.) to have their own default avatar, i’d greatly appreciate it

Alright, I’ve downloaded my entire WP directory and searched for bp_members_screen_display_profile with Notepad++ Search in Files. But the only files showing hits belong to Buddypress.

F:\\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-members\classes\class-bp-members-component.php (3 hits)
	Line 329: 				'screen_function'     => 'bp_members_screen_display_profile',
	Line 346: 			'screen_function' => 'bp_members_screen_display_profile',
	Line 359: 				'screen_function'     => 'bp_members_screen_display_profile',
F:\\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-members\classes\class-bp-members-theme-compat.php (1 hit)
	Line 58: 			do_action( 'bp_members_screen_display_profile' );
F:\\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-members\screens\profile.php (3 hits)
	Line 15: function bp_members_screen_display_profile() {
	Line 22: 	do_action( 'bp_members_screen_display_profile' );
	Line 31: 	bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( 'bp_members_screen_display_profile', 'members/single/home' ) );

CRITICAL Cannot redeclare bp_members_screen_display_profile() (previously declared in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/screens/profile.php:22) in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/screens/profile.php line 32

How to go from here?

Best regards,
Alrik

Thanks!! Will do! I really like buddypress and bbpress, just gotta get a handle on the trouble makers. ????????