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It’s not entirely clear what you are asking. BuddyPress does not install an “About Us” section. If that’s what you are trying to remove you are in the wrong place.

Hi David

I’ve moved this topic to Your BuddyPress.

BuddyPress doesn’t let you change username but there are plugins available that will let you do that.

BuddyPress Username Changer

Hi @grimbot,

Members are the heart of BuddyPress. So it is important to understand that members are core and that anything related to them is quite “delicate” to handle.

In your case, removing the member directory doesn’t mean to remove the page called members, because this page is BP territory and, like i said, it is core. If you remove it, you avoid BP to work.

First thing you can do is to remove any access to this member page on your theme.
Go to appearance > menu and uncheck “members” from the BP menu.

A 508 error indicates that your site has reached the resource limit.

You could talk to your hosting provider about getting more resources.

Or you can google ‘buddypress 508 error’ – there is a lot of info available.
For example: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/plugin-buddy-press-leads-to-error-508-what-to-do/

Try this in bp-custom.php

function sg_gettext( $translated, $original_text, $domain ) {

    if ( 'buddypress' !== $domain )  
           return $translated;

    switch ( $original_text ) {
        case 'Add Friend':
            return 'Something Else';

        default:
            return $translated;
    }
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'sg_gettext', 20, 3 );

If you install BuddyPress on the main domain you can use the Display Widgets SEO Plus Plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-widgets-seo-plus/ (I’m the developer) to show/hide widgets on specific sections of a site.

Just released version 1.1.0 which includes specific widget logic support for BuddyPress/bbPress, could set the widgets for the BuddyPress parts of the site to NOT load on non-BuddyPress sections, this would stop some ‘bleed through’ of content from BuddyPress to the rest of the site.

That being said, from an SEO perspective (my background is SEO) there are other issues that could leak out to potential Google visitors.

Check this Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=WordPress+Plugin

Note the WordPress Plugin Repository listing (1st result) has six additional indented results (called sitelinks: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en).

The 6 links for the WordPress Plugin Repository listing are benign, but if there was an adult section of WordPress it could be listed as a sitelink.

From a WordPress perspective there’s also the core WordPress Search functions. The Static Pages that BuddyPress uses for ‘holding’ the BuddyPress specific output can be found via a search. If you have the default BuddyPress setup try using the WordPress Search Form to search for the word “Members”.

This will find your BuddyPress Members Directory Holding Page.

Same result with “Registration”, “Activate” and “Activity”.

It’s difficult to prevent bleed through of different types of WordPress content, so if your client is conservative I’d suggest a sub-domain/other domain to play it safe and manually add interlinking via Text Widgets and Nav Menu Links.

David Law

BuddyPress does not come with shortcodes I’m afraid, these are from some other plugin

http://hookr.io/functions/bp_add_friend_button/

buddypress\bp-friends\bp-friends-template.php ~Line 338

This is similar to what I’ve been looking for, so far I’ve not found an easy way to do this. It’s not actually a BuddyPress issue, it’s bbPress that creates the Forum list. So this is a question for the bbPress support forum.

That’s great!

You might be interested in my website http://buddyuser.com it’s my attempt to help newbies get the most out of BuddyPress, It’s got lots of plugin reviews and how to guides, you might like to give it a look.