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Secondly, I found that it wasn’t possible to add a main menu link for the currently logged-in user that remains visible at all times. Although I created a custom link, it only appeared in the menu when viewing specific sections (such as Profile, Activity, etc).

Thirdly, I encountered difficulties in adding a sidebar to any of the Buddypress pages, despite my default Blocksy setting for each page to have one. Upon investigation, I discovered that in the Customizer, Buddypress pages were being counted as Blog Posts. Intuitively, I would have expected this setting to be configured in the Buddypress-specific sections. As it stands, without extensive CSS modifications, this means Blog Pages and Buddypress pages will always have to share the same layout.

I’m curious if you’re considering incorporating enhancements or additional features in the Customizer at some point. In my experience, I’ve needed to make a significant number of CSS adjustments to align Buddypress with my desired color scheme and preferences in previous versions. It would be immensely helpful if at least some of this could be achieved through Customizer settings or a dedicated settings page within the plugin. Historically, Buddypress hasn’t adhered to my theme defaults, but I’m uncertain if this is specific to the theme I use or if it’s a widespread experience.

Old post, but I think the behavior you see is WP-driven. The reason I say that is that I have disabled the REST API for WordPress and the link above (e.g. /wp-json/buddypress/v1/members/3) or similar do not retrieve any data.

I used guidance from this SO article.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41191655/safely-disable-wp-rest-api

Having just installed the Activitypub plug-in I hope as the next version of BuddyPress is being developed some consideration is given to added hooks to connect BuddyPress to ActivityPub. It seems to me this would catapult BuddyPress firmly into the future of social media and social internet community.

I am also looking for a way to set a noindex tag on all buddypress member profile pages and addes the above code to my functions.php file, but it doesn’t work.
Could you please advise where to place the code exactly?

Hi @imath,
Thanks for that, and sorry to be a pain (although hopefully I am bringing up things that do need addressing and are not unique to my setup), but I have discovered something else that is not working as I expect, as follows:
If someone comments on an Activity post, on my existing (not test) setup, that comment has the options below it to either Reply, Edit or Delete; but the reply and edit options are missing in my test setup for non-admin users, and the reply one is missing for admin. I am still using the default theme on my existing site, whereas I am using Nouveau on the test site, so is this a Nouveau issue? I downgraded to the current non beta BP on my test site but no difference. I am going to also investigate if a plugin is causing it, but as I have the same plugins on both sites it seems unlikely. I deactivated one plugin that seemed the most likely culprit (Buddypress Edit Activity from Buddyboss – https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-edit-activity/) but it was still the same (except of course this plugin is what adds the edit button in the first place, but the reply one is still missing).

On a bit of a tangent, can I assume that this forum is running on bbpress? It’s just that I am thinking about adding a forum but am not finding this one very user friendly – for example the reply button is not visible until you hover over the post you want to reply to, and then it doesn’t automatically add the “@name” at the beginning, plus everything is written in a code box rather than normal input, just for starters. Font size could do with being larger too. Or is it just me?

We encountered the exact same error… our elementor editor only works if we disable buddypress. We are an online learning platform and when we disable our buddypress, all of our students lose the ability to access their content. This is a major problem and if there is not a fix for this issue, we will have to use a substitute for buddypress that can work with elementor editor.

Any news regarding a fix would be great.

Hello @imath @vapvarun ,

I would like to seek advice and express my concern about a particular buddypress plugin (Buddypress Follow) in relation to the upcoming version of buddypress 12.0.0.

I decided to test buddypress 12.0.0 beta 1 & 2 and noticed that clicking the user navigation menu for following and followers tab triggers an error. The plugin is not compatible with the upcoming buddypress 12.0.0.

Honestly I believe this plugin should have been a part of the default buddypress component long time ago as an the option to select (connection type) would be awesome. Not every community can be built around friendship component.

For example my site has member types (business) and (organisation), it would not make sense for a business to add another business as friends only human entities should do that, using the follow component would be more appropriate.

My fear and frustration now is that ive built a community around this follow plugin with lots of already established follow connections. Upgrading to buddypress 12.0.0 would be almost impossible

The plugin author (ray) has not been responsive about maintaining this plugin, even the team at Buddydev are ready to help develop and maintain the plugin but the author has been silent see Brajesh’s request at https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/issues/111

I also raised my issue at https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-followers/issues/125

But not feedback from the author.

Your help would be much appreciated in contacting ray

Thanks & regards