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Hi! We have tested the soon-to-be released BuddyPress 14.5.0 with WordPress 6.9 and haven’t found any issue yet. I personally tested with the Astra theme too.

“There has been a critical error on this website.”

Could you share the error you see? That will help me try to identify the issue.

For reference, the Topic Owner (TO) has opened Trac Ticket #9322 (Bug report at the core for the members loop).

If you are referring to the “built-in” search form on the Members directory page, it searches all xprofile fields that have entries in the bp_xprofile_data table, as well as, the “users table” (“user_login” or “user_nicename”) for the given search term. Additionally, the query is based on the “Like” operator with a “wildcard” (%) in front and after the search term, e.g., LIKE '%" . $searh_term . "%'".

In essence, a word such as “usable” will return as a hit for a search term of “usa”. So, what you will, most likely, want is a more advanced search capability of which you can:

• Code it yourself – see flexibility in members loop, caveat: this is old information but it provides insight as to how to go about it, sans a search form.
• Give the BP Profile Search plugin a try to see if it fits your needs.

Other than the above examples, there are available commercial plugins that you should be able to find on you own.

Interesting, I didnt know that and already thought about designing my own suspend/warn plugin.
Nevertheless buddypress has no blocking feature so if you want that users are able to block other users if they get intrusive then you need to chose one of the described plugins or code your own one.

I am using this plugin but I wanna get rid of it in the future because it seems that it is not more maintained. Currently it throws a lot of warnings which not getting fixed.
An alternative could be a similar plugin from buddydev. But today I red that he wants to start his own community plugin, so I wonder if he will still maintain his buddypress plugins in future. And its a paid plugin.

The only alternative for me if I switch to buddydev and then have the same lack on maintenance, build my own plugin or fork the bp tookit plugin. But be aware that this plugin also installs freemius which grabs data from your website which the buddydev one does not.

Hope that helps.

Typically, when a block theme is in use, there won’t be a “Menus” option/section under “Appearance”. For a block theme, WordPress has some basic information about creating menu items at the following:

Site Editor navigation

Additionally, there is some limited info located at the following, as it pertains to BuddyPress menu items:

Site Editor Navigation <- BuddyPress menus

You will have to provide additional information, so let’s start with a few questions and see where that leads:

• What was the previous version of BuddyPress before you upgraded to 14.4.0?
• What does the error log reveal?
• What steps have you taken to troubleshoot this situation?

See the following threads to see if they get you closer to an answer:

Blocking private messaging for Subscriber users
Restricting private messages

The caveat with plugins is that for a variety of reasons they might get abandoned at some point in time. Oddly or fortunately enough the author of the BuddyPress Restrict Messages plugin also created (seems like this one is a better fit for your stated requirement):

BuddyPress Messaging Control

However, the caveat of support for this plugin still applies.