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I don’t believe that BuddyPress itself could be configured to do anything like this.

Are you using any other plugins that might perform redirects, or restrict access to content?

What’s your setting at Dashboard > Settings > Reading “Your Homepage displays”? I wonder if there’s something funny happening there.

> Could it be a problem in the generate button link function ?

It’s possible, but it’s definitely not a problem with BP in the most general sense. I’m looking right now at an installation that is running Twenty Seventeen, and the buttons in question are clickable. It *could* be that you have another plugin that is somehow modifying the markup so as to make the buttons unclickable. Here’s what the markup for these buttons should look like (this specific example is the ‘Public Message’ button, but they are all similar):

<a href="http://example.com/activity/?r=username&_wpnonce=97df4e3389" class="activity-button mention">Public Message</a>

Does yours look similar to this? If not, then there must be a plugin or some JS interfering.

If possible, you could send me login credentials (my buddypress.org username @ gmail.com) so that I could see from a logged-in user’s point of view.

@852cmd Hm, that string – ‘Error! Please upload Profile Picture’ – doesn’t come from BuddyPress. This should be your clue: whatever code is generating that string is probably also doing the blocking itself. Try searching your codebase – including your theme – for this error message.

You can post a job here.

Have you read:

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

Hi @ikipac – Do you mean you want to turn them off here on BuddyPress.org? Or on your specific BuddyPress installation? And by ‘notifications’ do you mean the email notifications, or the messages shown under the blue number near the top-right of the screen?

Email preferences are on the Settings panel of a BP profile. Here on buddypress.org, that’s at https://buddypress.org/members/ikipac/settings/notifications/

The screen notifications (behind the blue number) can be turned off on your own BP installation by disabling the Notifications component (Dashboard > Settings > BuddyPress). It’s not possible to disable this feature on your buddypress.org account.

Hi @chhayaparikh1963 – Thanks for the post!

I agree that the ability to post from the front end would be a good improvement for BuddyPress. It’s a bit complex to think about how it might be developed for BP itself, since it’s likely that many BP sites will want the feature implemented in different ways: limiting permissions to specific kinds of users, linking groups to sites within a multisite network, specific taxonomies for posts created from particular front-end contexts, etc. That being said, it’s something that’s long been on the radar of the BP development team. A recent ticket that outlines the issue is https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6736

In the meantime, I know you said you have checked out all the third-party plugins, but I will say informally that I’ve had pretty good luck with BuddyForms. https://themekraft.com/buddyforms/

I wholly agree with the sentiments of the guy who posted this.

I think bbPress and BuddyPress are, frankly, appalling offerings to ordinary WordPress users.

They may well be excellent tools for developers, but they are the most user-unfriendly bits of software I have encountered in WordPress. Indeed, they make me wonder whether WordPress is for users anymore, rather than professional developers.

It simply should not be this complex, and dismally supported, to have a forum on WordPress.

I agree wholly with the view that there should be a premium paid-for service with a solution aimed at WordPress users – that is people who create editorial and run a site. Not the professional developers, who can look after themselves.

It does not surprise me that outfits like Wix are growing given this direction of WordPress. If it is for developers only – who hone their marketable skills doing this stuff – then fine.

For an ordinary user, who is not totally useless on WordPress, I have found this BBPress / BuddyPress combination utterly toxic and a waste of time.

The simplest answer is probably to style that span as display: block then you have a number of options for forcing it below other elements. It’s going to depend a lot on your theme.

If you choose to modify the template, the template to modify would go in child-theme/buddypress/members/member-header.php.

There are a few non-BuddyPress reasons I can think of for this:

• The page is cached by WP Super Cache or a similar plugin
• Your shared server has some sort of caching built-in (like object caching or expires headers)
• Your browser is using the cached version from your last visit to that page (try a different browser to test)

The setup you describe works ok for me on my local test (no caching enabled) installation. You might contact your hosting company to see what is enabled on your shared server.

hi,
bp_is_member() is not available in BuddyPress.

For your task, You should use
bp_is_user()

Hope that helps.

Regards
Brajesh