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https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/
Disable the admin bar / buddybar at the top of every screen, put the code below into your wp-config.php at root of your WP install
`define ( ‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, true );`

== move the search to the menu bar ==
This can be done by ADDING the following to your style.css — you might need to add/delete some pixels here and there, adjust to taste

“#header {
margin-bottom: 20px;
padding-top: 15px;
}

#header h1 {
bottom: 50px;
width: 100%;
}

#nav {
max-width: auto;
left: 20px;
right: 300px;
}

#header #search-bar {
top: 80px;
width: 300px;
}`

Pay no attention to Stacy. The person gives potentially harmful advice.

What you should try doing is re-installing BuddyPress. Re-upload a fresh copy and try again.

This issue has been brought up in the past.

You can disable the ability to use the activity stream to reply to forum posts by doing the following:

– Login to your WordPress install.
– Navigate to “BuddyPress > General Settings”.
– Under “Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?”, select “Yes” and save.

There is currently no other solution to sync activity replies to forum topics yet.

@gcortex – Uninstalling the forums component and removing the forums tab from the header are two different things.

If you want to uninstall the forums, login to your WordPress install and navigate to “BuddyPress > Component Setup”. Under “bbPress Forums”, select “Disabled” and then save the settings. Forums should no longer be enabled.

If you want to remove the forums tab from your header, since you’re using the Fishbook theme, you should edit the header of the Fishbook theme.

@italiancroydoner

I know I`m tooting my own horn here , but my BuddyBuilder theme enables you to allow user access to individual BP components and WP pages/posts depending on logged-in/logged-out status. It also provides an optional Site Lockdown feature with/without a Splashpage on the frontpage, and an optional custom redirect page if Site Lockdown is enabled. See the bottom of the right-hand column on this page for all the Privacy features available: http://buddylite.com/buddybuilder-options/

@brooker I followed the advice in this link and it worked. I, too, am using 1.2.8

http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/notification-wont-go-away

well, that (velomash) will not help much unfortunatelly .. nor will the required fields be cheked or the information for all group fields saved to the database!
Buddypress is so damn buggy on this one, wonder if they really thought of the purpose of implementing those fileds without proper connection to teh registration form; who the h* (sorry!) will go to fill in the fields if not requested upon registration?

This is not quite as straightforward as it ought to be (given that you want to keep the Log In button, which is rendered by the same function). Put the following in your plugins/bp-custom.php file:

function bbg_customize_adminbar_hooks() {
remove_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'bp_adminbar_login_menu', 2 );
}
add_action( 'bp_loaded', 'bbg_customize_adminbar_hooks', 999 );

function bbg_adminbar_login_menu() {
global $bp;

if ( is_user_logged_in() )
return false;

echo '<li class="bp-login no-arrow"><a>root_domain . '/wp-login.php?redirect_to=' . urlencode( $bp->root_domain ) . '">' . __( 'Log In', 'buddypress' ) . '</a></li>';
}
add_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'bbg_adminbar_login_menu', 2 );

Here’s a bit more about bp-custom.php, in case you haven’t used it before https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/

any reason you’re not just using the standard wp_insert_user() function? what does buddypress do that’s different than the standard wordpress signup?

I’m curious because I’m in the process of doing the same thing as the OP (although was planning on just using the default wordpress functionality, which I have working for my system – but the next step is to migrate the code so that it uses buddypress as well)…

http://www.bpinspire.com/ is definitely coolest site for getting some BP inspiration, didn’t know about this site…

@mercime ,thanks for sharing

hmm. this could be interesting, I wondered if Google Latitude can work with buddypress

Hmm unfortunately, that still did not work. Thanks for all your help thus far guys. Here is how my problem originated:

I recently transferred my site from the default ”/wordpress/” sub directory to my root directory. Everything works fine in BuddyPress except for the LOGOUT and LOGIN menu options from the BuddyPress menu bar (up at the top).

Upon looking at the URL that the logout and login tries to redirect to (in the tag), it still thinks it is in the ”/wordpress” subdirectory and the thus results in a Error 404 – Page Not Found problem.

I’ve search various ways to do this but people have either not have found a solution or seem to not have posted it. I originally thought I could just use the ‘Add All Nav Links to Admin Bar’ plugin (https://buddypress.org/community/groups/add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar/) and hide the Login and Sign Up options but unfortunately the “Log Out” still remains since it is under the ‘My Account’.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.