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That’s mainly a styling thing.
You should be comfortable using Firefox or Chrome and their developer consoles, where you are able to preview changes.

These links will be help you as well:

Add BuddyPress Styles to a Theme

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/custom-css-changes/

Don’t forget to either include your styles via external file in your plugin or use your child themes, not to lose changes on parent theme update.

The best way – to allow access to specific pages for logged in users only. As GoogleBot is logged out – it will lose access and eventually remove indexed content. You can remove manually from Google Web Developer Console for this site as well.
There are quite a lot of topics like these here on the forum. Just google it.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-members-only/
etc

You can’t do that in PHP. Well, actually you can – but you will break all the styling, as you will filter our header/footer.php files include. So basically it’s not a good idea.

The best idea – to use a child theme. You can than even switch to that child theme for specific pages on your site. One of the ways to do that: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-different-themes-for-pages/

Another idea – do some magic with BuddyPress templates. It’s totally possible, but you will quite heavily modify them (that will complicate future maintainability).

Also it would be easier to help you if you provided a URL to your site.

see here:

Using bp_parse_args() to filter BuddyPress template loops

If it doesn’t work in your child theme functions.php, use bp-custom.php

Standalone because bbP is used separetely and not as group forum, which is a popular config when BuddyPress is activated. FYI (in case of):

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

Create a template over-load of this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\member-header.php

In the overload, remove the span that shows the last_activity blurb.

They ARE. See https://codex.buddypress.org/activity-embeds/

@tranny,

turn off email notifications
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/turn-off-email-notifictions-in-functions-php/

limit friendship (premium)

BuddyPress Limit Friendship

This is outside scope of BuddyPress support as the login system is core WordPress. You may get better answers in the WordPress forums.

– you can add a condition for logged-in user on the directory template.
– for the menu itself, and specially if it is a wordpress menu like primary, you need to write a function. Here another tutorial for this. It’s similar to the other i’ve mentionned previously, but with more examples (including positionning and conditionnals).

wp_nav_menu()

wp_get_nav_menus()

And you can also open an enhancement ticket if you estimate this should be part of BuddyPress and not only WordPress.

@tranny,

dealing with spammers is a long run work, to not say a never ending work. There is no miraculous plugin or trick to stop them.
And even if you would be a genius coder creator of an extra super original spam shield, you could be sure to became target #1 of all spammers, because in this case, you would represent the absolute challenger of all code breakers !

Back to real life.

Most of updates spam comes directly into the DB. Bots are clever and don’t need to login to do that.
Some spammers are real people, and once they are logged, they do their stuff manually. These people can be isolated, but to do this, you have to find them in the user list. Which is absolutely not easy and time comsumting. And of course, this is not prevention but intervention, after you where spammed.

You could also track IP‘s, but again, this can be helpfull only AFTER you where spammed. But getting ip’s on admin user list is a great way to gain time. Once you have the IP, you can consult many anti spam sites who store any bot and user known to be attackers. And eventually ban them with this plugin.

For now, first thing to do is to clean your user list. Whatever suspect username, like a589xdf or special to BP, Bill UNERHOOD, can be eliminated. The first example use alpha-numeric digits, the second a very well formed first and last name. It’s extremely rare that normal users enter such credentials. In addition to this, you can check their email. Why would you, for example, have members with a polish email (@blogmedykamenty.pl) if you’re in New Zeeland and your site relates about pets ? In this case, you can raisonably doubt about an interest between medicaments and pets ! You can fire such user.

All this may be good and well, but you have also to hardening WP. This means using another table prefix as wp_ at very first. And second, to not use “admin” as user name. Never !
Read also @venutius tutorial

You have to clean out the existing spammers, unfortunately manually. And to avoid upcoming spam.

To calm down the bots – in case you receive dozen of spam daily, close all comments and deactivate notices and messages component in bp settings for 2 or 3 weeks.

Also, in case you’re on a dedicated server, you really need to enforce his security. But this is out of the scope of this forum.

I tested by switching my WordPress locale to da_DK and the dynamic timestamp is loading da.js correctly.

@adjunkten – If you want to help debug, can you add the following line:

var_dump( $locale );

after lines 31 and 42 of this file?
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.7.0/src/bp-core/bp-core-cssjs.php?marks=31,42#L22

Your time stamps looks correct, I’m guessing you mean the Danish translation isn’t working correctly?

You can grab the newest Danish Buddypress translation here https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/da/default/wp-plugins/buddypress followed by merging your current buddypress-da_DK.po file in poedit like this http://www.marketpressthemes.com/blog/how-to-merge-two-po-files-using-poedit/, translate the words you needs to translate, save it as both buddypress-da_DK.po and buddypress-da_DK.mo – and reupload it to your server in your language folder.

How do I add a new member to buddypress from the backend of WP?
They are the forum moderators and group admins.
So, how do I “activate” them?

What should be understood from your questions ?

Adding a new user from backend and/or promote it as mod or group admin ?
Adding a new user is not related to BuddyPress, but to WordPress.

To promote users as mod or admin or add new user to a group from back-end
dashboard > groups > select the group > edit > anything to do that is at the bottom of the screen.

If they are known to you then you can set them up in the way that you suggested, if you choose not to send them and email, that will prevent the activation mail going out and they will be free to login, you will have to tell them their password though.

To those that have not activated their accounts you can view them in the Dashboard>>Users>>All Users views, their one view called Pending, it’s in here you will find unactivated users.

You could always turn registration on, for them, let them see a new users view of getting set up on the site.

I’m trying to put together a guide to setting up social networks with BuddyPress, you might like to give it a look, it’s here: It’s spread over multiple chapters that you can access via the “Installing BuddyPress” menu.

It’s nothing official, just information on what I’ve discovered over the past couple of years so it’s pretty current.

Because pages are not user related items ?

Members Directory page is in the Pages section of the menu customizer. If you want link to it you take it from there.
The BuddyPress section contains dynamic items for logged-in or logged-out user.

Check from here(experimental – uncomplete) or here(stable – complete)