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I forgot one, you also need to remove the option from the Admin>>My Profile page, if you allow admin access for users:

add_action( 'bp_members_admin_xprofile_metabox', 'bpex_remove_user_profile_metabox', 20 );

function bpex_remove_user_profile_metabox() {
	
	if ( ! is_admin() ) {
		return;
	}
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
	foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
		if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
			remove_meta_box(
				'bp_xprofile_user_admin_avatar',
				buddypress()->members->admin->user_page,
				'side'
			);
		}
	}
}

This one is not that straight-forward there is a filter you can use as follows:

function bpex_role_disable_avatar_uploads( $default ) {
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
		foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
			if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
				$default = true;
			}
		}
		
		return $default;
	
}

add_filter( 'bp_disable_avatar_uploads', 'bpex_role_disable_avatar_uploads' );

However this causes BuddyPress to simply show the user that they can upload their profile image via gravatar, and I’m afraid you can’t switch this off.

So the alternative is to remove the Change Photo tab and admin-bar menu item:

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpex_remove_change_profile_photo_tab', 50 );
add_action( 'bp_setup_admin_bar', 'bpex_admin_bar_remove_change_profile_photo', 50 );

function bpex_remove_change_profile_photo_tab() {
	
	if ( ! bp_is_user_profile() && ! bp_is_user_activity() && ! bp_is_user() && bp_displayed_user_id() != wp_get_current_user() ) {
		return;
	}
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
	foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
		if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
			bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'profile', 'change-avatar' );
		}
	}

}

function bpex_admin_bar_remove_change_profile_photo() {
	
	global $wp_admin_bar, $bp;

	if ( ! bp_use_wp_admin_bar() || defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	$user_id = get_current_user_id();
	
	if ( ! $user_id || $user_id == 0 || ! is_numeric( $user_id ) ) {
		return;
	}
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
	foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
		if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
			$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu( 'my-account-xprofile-change-avatar', 'my-account-xprrofile' );
		}
	}

}

You’d need to put this in your child themes functions.php or a bp-custom.php file in the plugins directory.

Have you read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/add-custom-filters-to-loops-and-enjoy-them-within-your-plugin/

To add the feature where people can post updates to the user would involve adding the activity What’s New form to the the users all activity page. It’s an odd quirk of BuddyPress that the standard profile based activity update form only displays when the viewing user is the profile owner.

You’d need to load the lightbox javascript of your choice and change the link info depending on which lightbox you want to use. It’s going to be different depending on which lightbox you choose to use. You may need to add additional Javascript.

I guess if you installed WP Featherlight then you should just need to add the featherlight attributes as specified in the plugin readme. This isn’t specifically a BuddyPress question, it’s a lightbox question and it’s not something I’ve ever done so you might be better off asking the WP Featherlight developer if you are struggling with their instructions.

Hi there, some answers:

1. You can change the layout of profiles by overloading the profile files and css, see: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/theme-compatibility-2/ it’s possibly a bit advanced for you right now but all the files in the plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/your-bp-theme/buddypress can be copied, modified and loaded from your child theme directory. Similarly you can overload the css to make styling and layout changes.

1b. The default is for horizontal navigation unless you’ve changed it in Customizer>>BuddyPress.

2. The BuddyPress extended profile is editable from the front end, and avatar too. It’s only the wordpress profile that’s enditable in admin and most BP sites don’t use that as t’s really set up for authors.

3. I recently posted the code to combine all the profile activity feeds into 1, https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-combine-activity-tabs-to-one/

4. https://wordpress.org/plugins/cb-change-mail-sender/

5+6 are bbPress questions, for the best answer you should post on their forum https://bbpress.org/forums/

7. Assuming you have set up the groups directory page and enabled group creation by users in Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options, users will have the option to create groups on the Groups directory page and also from the Groups menu of the WordPress toolbar ( top right hand side of the screen, hover over your avatar image, drop down will appear one option will be groups.

Which buddypress_functions.php file are you talking about? I’d have thought you’d put it in your themes functions.php file or a bp-custom.php file located in the plugins directory.

Also I’d load it in the action hook ‘bp_setup_nav’, not ‘wp’.

Hi there, BuddyPress uses the WordPress login page, so it sounds like it’s working correctly. Unless I’m missing something?

I think it would be possible yes. If you look at plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/your bp theme/buddypress/members/members-loop.php for example, you can see the link for the members avatar being created for the members directory page.

Most lightboxes use a data tag to identify that the link is to open in a light box, so you could overload this file and replace the href with the link to the full size avatar and add the data tag as required.

You’d then need to add the Javascript for the lightbox, probably in a plugin and together that should work.

There’s nothing off the shelf that does this though.
However that would stop the current default of clicking on the avatar taking you to the members profile. That might be a problem for you but I guess you could simple add another button to visit the members profile.

We only do BuddyPress support here, for other plugins you should raise a request on their wordpress forum.

This uses the activity loop as an example, but the approach could be modified for the members loop.

Add custom filters to loops and enjoy them within your plugin

Have you got a link to your groups page?

Also, there should be a create groups option in the BuddyPress admin bar dropdown menu. – on your site, hover your mouse over your avatar on the top right side of the screen, a drop down menu should appear, in this list there should be a Groups option, this should open to include a Create Group option.