BuddyPress.org

in the admin, visit plugins, click add new, search “BuddyPress”, install then activate.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins

I’m in the process of integrating buddypress with a custom theme. First rodeo of this type…

How often are the bp-lecacy files updated? I’d like to just merge them into my theme files, change templates as needed, and not load a bunch of extra css and js files. But I’d hate to miss critical updates by overriding all template, style and js files with my theme.

Not sure you can, BP email is not going through wp_mail. Could try to hook here https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/master/src/bp-core/classes/class-bp-phpmailer.php#L118

Not easily accomplished without coding knowledge.

If I were developing this I would not force a user to fill in a form before deleting account. You could send an exit email with a custom email https://codex.buddypress.org/emails/custom-emails.

Example below, change ‘notifications’ to the tab you want to access

function bpcodex_change_notifications_nav_position() {
    buddypress()->members->nav->edit_nav( array(
        'position' => 999,
    ), 'notifications' );
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpcodex_change_notifications_nav_position', 100 );

read more here: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/navigation-api/

Hi,

sounds like an issue with customisation. Which one is difficult to say, specially if what you tell on this topic is related to this one !

Socialize was updated today (6 dec. 2016). Do you use this new version ?
As you use a child you need to check around it too, as BP 2.7 introduced some template improvement. Those may be in the parent now, but what with your custom child files or functions ?

Is “xprofile component” the feature exposed in “Settings > BuddyPress” named “Extended Profiles” (at the very top of the config page)? (It probably is, but I just want to be sure, thanks.)

Yes it is !

it is possible […] to effect the change of either the email or password fields?

Yes it is ! from here: your-site.abc/members/USERNAME/settings/ – the link can be found under the top right usermenu on wp’s toolbar: username > settings > general OR/AND on the buddymenu, when you’re on your profile: Settings ! And that’s it !

For all other BP related questions, please read through the codex, i really have no time to (re)write all explanations. Sorry, hope you uderstand.

Thanks for the background info about WP, @danbp. It certainly is interesting to see how the little old single-user blog platform called “WordPress” has mushroomed into the gargantuan that it is today, following the old adage, “Man expands to fill the available space.”

Obviously I’m a bit of a noobie to WordPress (I’ll admit, so feel free to flame away ;)), but I’d like to ask about your reference to the clause “When BP is activated, and if you use the xprofile component…” I am a bit confused about “the xprofile component” and was wondering if you can help me understand it a bit better.

Is “xprofile component” the feature exposed in “Settings > BuddyPress” named “Extended Profiles” (at the very top of the config page)? (It probably is, but I just want to be sure, thanks.)

I am fully cognizant of the fact that one can preclude access to the WP Dashboard in a number ways, including by Role, etc., and I plan to do that. However, that causes me to provide exposure to the standard WP Profile fields (or as many of thsoe fields that I want to expose, that is) so that the user can modify them. This includes the critical email and password fields.

Relating to this situation, you didn’t quite address my key question as to whether it is possible (without serious WP core hacking — something I would NEVER do, btw) to effect the change of either the email or password fields?

Now listen, I realize that probably sounds like a shameless noobie question, but it really begs the question of whether modifying the email/password fields outside of the WP dashboard is considered “bad form” in some way.

Thanks in advance for your advice and insights.

@uscore713,

i’ll try to explain. You’re using WordPress and a plugin called BuddyPRess which add a community dimension to WP.

Members are the heart of BP. Anything done by the plugin will return something related to members: activities, friendships, dicussion and much more.

How is this possible ?
Because WP let you register members separately. To do this, WP ask for a username(pseudonym), a password and a valid email.

You cannot avoid this, whatever plugin you use. It is how it works.

Now, we have 2 different question in this topic.

1) how to restrict access to profile settings ?
2) do we need a plugin for that ?

About point 1
WordPress was designed to be a blog builder. A CMS with one blog author who was mainly also the site
owner/builder… This changed with the years and today, you can handle a multiauthor blog.

When you install BP, you can still handle a multiauthor blog (or even blogs) and also a big community of different users, whith different (wp) roles.

What hasn’t changed is the way WP handles authors(or members): from within the dashboard, whatever the role.

When BP is activated, and if you use the xprofile component, you can build a registration form who is added to the original wp registration form. This form is then available on each user profile and can be modified from there.

To restrict user access to wp-admin, you can use different technique. This depends of your coding knowledge or working philosophy, with custom code or applying some plugin solution.

This is independant of BuddyPress and out of the scope of this forum. Just remember that BP let you access to your credentials from front-end.

About point 2
– in theory, you don’t need a plugin
– you always need to read about a plugin before using it.
For example, the workaround mentionned in this topic about the usage of Profile Builder.
– here a recent tutorial – for beginners – you may found more advanced advice by googling about “wordpress restrict dashbord access”.

When you read the teaser on that plugin page, you already should have understand that you don’t need it !
Simple to use profile plugin allowing front-end login, user registration and edit profile by using shortcodes.

Astonishment ! BuddyPress offers exactly the same options (among others).

What ever plugin you use, the regiter process of WordPress won’t change, and the user list or the user data will always be at the same place. What plugins do (most of them), is to modify the appearance of that process.

What you can also do is to remove all WP related items from the toolbar, if you use it. This is widely documented and discussed on WP’s support and codex. It’s WP territory and has nothing to do with the fact you use BuddyPress.

Admitting you found a solution for the backend, you need to use BP’s login widget. From there, users can enter the site. And if they loosed their password, they can ask for a new one from there (usually the sidebar, on front-end).

The trouble with the pay for themes is that you need to pay for them to try them out fully so it’s difficult to recommend them as I’ve not played with most of them.

Here’s a few links, Kleo from BuddyBoss works well, there also Community Buider from BuddyDev that just been released:

BuddyBoss

BuddyDev

Theme Forest

For some of my sites I use non BuddyPress themes because they give me the layout options that are required for the site.

What I would do is try some themes, check out what the BuddyPress pages look like. Most themes allow you to set a static front page, which you can edit freely with a page builder, allowing you to add widgets into the main content areas which a lot of social sites use to create a composite picture of the sites various activity streams.

Unfortunately it’s the pay for plugins where you actually get themes designed for social networks from the off, some of these have nice BuddyPress specific page layouts, with the free themes you will get the default page layout for the BP pages.

There’s a few different ways you could go about this, there’s a few privacy plugins that will hide different aspect of the site from public view. One is BP Registration Options, this installs new member moderation (so you can choose who to allow on you site) and BuddyPress privacy, where the BuddyPress pages are all private, but the WordPress pages and posts are still public.

If that’s not private enough for you then there’s BP Simple Private which allows you to hide all aspects of your site apart from the homepage.

BuddyPress used to come with it’s own theme, it’s still there though not really supported.

The theme dictates the look and feel of your site so recommendation is difficult, also there’s a choice to be made between premium and free themes.

For the free themes just take a look over on the WordPress Themes Directory

You could have normal users simply subscribe to a mailing list, there no need to have them as site members, then you could run the BuddyPress install as private, so that one logged in members see those pages.