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why dont you try BuddyPress Activity Stream Bump to Top plugin

Hi, nice one!

Would you like to participate in a small plugin testing? It’s about search inside BuddyPress (groups, members, forums). This plugin will display you info who searches for what and where (in your case mainly members searching other members on Members directory page, as you have only 2 groups and no forum). BP Search won’t break anything 🙂 It just collects information (no “phoning home”). I will than ask you for feedback and suggestions.
If interested – please contact me via [MyUsernameHere]@list.ru

There can be some plugins that make this happen. Try deactivating all of them (except BuddyPress) one by one to see which might cause it.
You could have written some code in bp-custom.php file or in your theme’s functions.php – check those files as well.

Also, groups can’t be added to forums – they are different components. Although groups can have own forums.

OR

You can add these styles to your theme css file:

#members-all{display:none}
#buddypress .profile h4{display:none}

“Tab Base”

To delete Base and all other fields groups names in user profile:
1. find in your theme file /buddypress/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php
2. Delete in that file: this line: <h4><?php bp_the_profile_group_name(); ?></h4>

If you don’t have such file in your theme, than copy this file:
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php
into your theme here:
/wp-content/themes/[your-theme]/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php
and remove the line that I wrote above (with h4).

Members Directory – All Members

1. find in your theme file /buddypress/members/index.php
2. Delete in that file the line with this text: id="members-all"

If you don’t have such file in your theme – do the same thing as written above but for index.php file.

You should understand, that this will break ability to filter results on members directory page.

Community members and wp users are the same thing and are stored in an unique DB table: xx_users which is the one you can bulk import/export.

I invite you to read through the Codex about members and what it does when it extend WP users.

Hi,

review BuddyPress settings page for:
Profile Settings
Profile Photo Uploads [x] Allow registered members to upload avatars

Try this:

function remove_wysiwyg($enabled, $field_id) {
    // change this field_id to the one you need to have ordinary textarea
    if ( $field_id == 22 ) 
        return false;

    return $enabled;
}

add_filter( 'bp_xprofile_is_richtext_enabled_for_field', 'remove_wysiwyg', 10, 2 );

Place the code in bp-custom.php.

Sorry, I was answering an oft-asked question re showing up in members loop.

You can add an activity item:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_activity_add/

You could create a custom action, but it’s more work.
Try using activity_update as the action

The codex has examples of how to use BP_User_Query to filter the loop and preserve the order of ids.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/bp_user_query/#code-examples