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I have the same need/concern.

Unfortunately, I think the suggestion from @openring to use https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/ won’t work. I’ve looked closely at that plugin. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with BuddyPress groups. Rather, it seems to have to do with creating it’s own role based access groups. So that’s a way of having more access control over your forums, which is valuable in and of itself, but it doesn’t pertain to BuddyPress.

If you like to keep using Yoast for WordPress pages and exclude BuddyPress from using Yoast, you may try this.

function wpseo_fix_title_buddypress($title) {
    // Check if we are in a buddypress page 
    if ( function_exists( 'buddypress') && ( !empty( buddypress()->displayed_user->id ) || !empty( buddypress()->current_component ) ) ) {
        $bp_title_parts = bp_modify_document_title_parts();

        // let's rebuild the title here
        $title = $bp_title_parts['title'] . ' ' . $title;
    }
    return $title;
}
add_filter( 'wpseo_title', 'wpseo_fix_title_buddypress');

It’s quite probable it just won’t work. BuddyPress intentionally interferes with the page that WordPress thinks its loading (when it’s a BuddyPress URL), and I suspect Yoast SEO will look at this page object, and because we’ve messed with it and because it doesn’t map to a real WordPress Page, it won’t work.

Sorry!

This won’t help your spam issue, that’s another matter, but it will remove the user registration updates on your activity stream (among other activity types, depending on how you configure the plugin)

https://github.com/lenasterg/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types-ls

Well any theme that i have bought for buddypress usage would be at least a year old (probably more) at this point and i not would generally recommend buying a theme that’s old since responsive design trends are still moving so fast. Sorry i cannot personally recommend anything but there are good ways to vet the newer themes as well.

🙂

As of right now, you would have to make a copy of the JS to make your required change:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.6.2/src/bp-templates/bp-legacy/js/buddypress.js?marks=530#L513

This file should reside in your theme’s buddypress/js folder.

Keep in mind that this is the source JS. When used in production environments, this JS is minified to buddypress.min.js.

It sounds like Specular has some built-in BuddyPress support, which is either incomplete or wrongly added.

See if there is a buddypress folder in the Specular theme folder. If this folder exists, rename it to buddypress-backup temporarily and see if the group creation page works again.

If there isn’t a buddypress folder, there is probably a code snippet in Specular’s functions.php that is interfering with the group creation screen.

this place has decent premium themes:
https://themeforest.net/search?utf8=✓&term=buddypress+bootstrap

you can also do a similar search query on the wp.org repository.

Our user details and activity goes into a massive database; however I don’t want this to be impacted by the forum users

If this is absolutely non-negotiable (don’t share the database), you are going to almost certainly have to set up a separate WordPress site, just for your community.

There is one users table in the database, provided by WordPress, and as BuddyPress is a plugin that runs on top of WordPress, we also use that users database table.

If you don’t want new community users mixed up with existing users, you need to put the community stuff on a separate WordPress. Or, write code to filter and customise various lists of users as/when/if you need. BuddyPress Member Types might help.

Look at https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/member-types/ and https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-member-type-generator/ and http://www.buddyboss.com/product/buddypress-member-types/

This is a better question for somewhere on the WordPress.org forums. More people over there, and this isn’t specific to BuddyPress. 🙂

Do other BuddyPress emails get sent?
Do WordPress emails get sent? (comment notification, new user registration, etc).

if you are a non coder would suggest you look at this paid plugin

BuddyPress User Blog

does what u need

“WP was finding it difficult to distinguish users on our current system with users of Buddypress”

correct cause bp adds additional profile fields…xprofile fields like name for example. rest gets stored in the wp_users database.

maybe u can try setting up different subdomains…bp on community.yoursite.com and forums on forums.yoursite.com

check the min requirements here

Getting Started

Basically, you’re trying to built a page menu. That’s WP territory

See here an example using wp_page_menu function which may help to going further:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/notification-count-in-dynamic-menu/

Hi @jpry,

I noticed that you are using buddypress activity plus with apppresser. I am unable to get it to work together on mobile ( don’t see the photo upload icons) . I thought it was not compatible but wanted to check and see does it work for you out of the box.

Never modify original files.
Custom code for BP can be added to bp-custom.php

Hi @buddycore,

have you checked BP’s Attachment API ?

BP_Attachment