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On my test site I’m not getting this error, so it’s likely to be something interfering with that BuddyPress page.

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

It’s where you can ask for new features or report a bug.

This link here describes swapping out the What’s New testarea for a rich text editor, it might give you some ideas.

Either that or add it as a feature request on BuddyPress Trac

This depends on the nature of the files and the plugin that is allowing the upload. All files will go into a subdirectory of the uploads directory. BuddyPress Avatars (profile images) for example go into the uploads/avatars directory, Profile cover images go into the ploads/buddypress/members/user_id/cover-image directory.

Additional media uploads would need a plugin. mediapress for example and in that case they would go into the uploads/mediapress directory with a subdirectory for either member or group gallery uploads.

Looking at your requirements I’d say this is probably doable, but with quite a bit of customisation. BuddyPress supports member types, so you could set up two member types and make content decisions based on those members types (for example only display a member list for the male member type).

You would however need to do quite a bit of customisation regarding the registration process. These’s a plugin called BP Better Registration that splits the registration process into several parts. This could be a basis of your registration process as you could make decisions based on the selected member types between page loads. So for example at initial registration you can ask for username password and member type, then the next page can ask for registration detaills based on the selected member type. That would all need to be coded.

I’ve raised the links problem on BuddyPress Trac, I’ve been able to add rich text editing to the compose and reply boxes for messages, it’s quite involved doing it but if you’d like that feature I can help you implement it.

Standard debugging practice would be to deactivate all other plugins except BuddyPress, switch to a default theme such as 2017 and see if the error remains. If not then it’s a plugin or theme that is causing the problem, if the fault remains then there’s something wrong with the BP installation.

Well what your error is saying is that on line 237 of /public_html/dev/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-caps.php there is a call to a function called bp_is_user_inactive, which it’s not recognising as being defined. There can be a number of reasons for this:

The function has not been defined
The core file that loads this function is missing or not found
A plugin or some other file is interacting with WP to the effect that it can’t see that function.

Installing Query Monitor and Debug Bar, turned on Error Logging in wp-config.php may help you gather more information about the error.

This function should be defined in plugins/buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-functions.php around line 1129 so one check you could make is to see if it’s there.

Some of your requirements can be delivered using alternative methods. BuddyPress comes with a friends widget for example, which displays the users friends. You can turn this into a shortcode using Shortcode any Widget, which will allow you to include it in a page area.

I think you should add this as a new feature request into BuddyPress Trac, I think it should be a core feature since you will want to for example send a message to all friends in category X, or send an activity update to just those friends. I think that functionality would need to be enabled in core.

Just so you know, I’m revamping BuddyPress Profile Shortcodes plugin and hope to add a lot of the features to have been asking for, I’ll let you know when it’s ready.

I got the visual editor working for messages, It’s also accepting some html content. Links don’t work though.

Also check out this post:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-for-writing-messages/#post-254869

For the first part of your query, check out the two “Mass Messaging” plugins for BuddyPress, these give you the ability to send a message to all users.

Regarding sending html content, it’s not a great story but you can configure BP to accept some html tags, see this discussion:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/tinymce-for-replying-to-messages/#post-259368

I’ve been playing with this but have not been able to get the visual editor working, but the second half of the code snippet is what you are looking at, relating to enabling html tags.

Most themes support BuddyPress these days, thanks to template compatibility in that the BuddyPress pages are displayed and work. What most BuddyPress theme’s mean when they say they support BuddyPress is that they have modified the BP theme files and/or css in order to provide BP specific features.

There’s over 100 template files that can be overloaded, most BP specific themes do not touch the majority of these, they tend to concentrate on just the main pages such as the members and group list and profile pages to give them a theme specific feel. Much of this modification is simply to add their own specific css to allow better control of how a page looks.

To make overloading of the template files easier I created a plugin called BP Template Overloader. This displays all of the files available for overloading, allows overloads to be set up and allows you to compare your overloaded file with the BP master file.

You would need to take the plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/post-form.php file and put it in themes/child-theme/buddypresss/activity/post-form.php.

This is used to create the What’s New form in the Activity, profile/activity and group/activity pages.

This kinda sounds more like an authentication problem that one with BP per se, but you say it only happens on the BuddyPress login, not the WordPress login? When you say “run it on a responsive sit” what do you mean?

Is it just the BuddyPress pages, or the whole site? When you took BuddyPress down did that solve the problem?