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Just wasted $19 to find out that plugin only works on multisite with buddypress, not a single site with buddypress.

Ambiguous product description and lack of an easy refund mechanism makes me warn you off wpmudev.

@landwire I see! That explains it.

Is that something that can be taken to core developers and asked if we can enhance the filter functionality

You could always ask? Trac is the best place to do that: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

@cspowers try the following

//* Remove the entry meta in the entry header (requires HTML5 theme support)
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 12 );

I too am working on getting rid of the wonky layout issues, it is taking some time. The genesis connect plugin for buddypress is misleading in that it has been recently updated, but is worthless for the latest version of the genesis framework with the latest version of buddypress.

Will keep you posted if I come across anything else as I work on this.

Did you follow the part titled “Advanced Optional Step: Removing the database tables”.

That is the key to your question. The settings are all stored in the database tables. BuddyPress does not have an option to purge the database settings upon deactivation. You have to manually delete the tables.

Be careful! You could screw up your whole site if you remove the wrong tables. Definitely back up your database before attempting any of that.

@iameverywhere

I have thought about this a lot as well. BuddyPress spam is SO obvious for a human to figure out. You can detect spammers with almost perfect accuracy in just a few seconds. They all do the same thing. They create an account, then post garbage links. If you have Groups enabled, they create groups full of links in the description. I don’t know of a plugin that will do this, but the best way to block BP spam I think would be to put users in moderation if they post links to groups or activity, just like the setting we have for blog post comments.

Hi guys !

Most of the publishing stuff is regulated from within WordPress settings.
And allowing blog and forums activity comments is a setting of BuddyPress.

If you don’t want your users writing notices (what’s new ?), the only thing that is published by buddyPress, you can remove the notice form from the template or add a conditionnal if/else for the allowed members…

@boblebad, FYI buddypress is not a forum software. The forum plugin is bbPress.

Yeah, I’m suffering the exact same issue.
Wordpress 3.8.1, Buddypress 1.9.2

At first I thought it was because of an update to my Simplepress plugin, but that doesn’t seem to be the issue.

I’d hazard a guess it appeared after the latest BP update.

That’s something i would like to know too.

I need to have free “members” that can’t interact with the forum and groups, it’s okay that they can read/view them, but not answer or create new topics – that’s only for paying members.

It is actually weird that this feature isn’t in BuddyPress out-of-the-box, most other forum software has it.

All the best
Carsten

https://buddypress.org/support/search/spam/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

If you have links like this example.com/members/username then root profiles are disabled. If you have this example.com/username then root profiles are enabled.

Try this:

function my_filter( $query = false, $object = false ) {
    if ( ! is_page( 'office' ) )
        return $query;

    $users = get_users( 'role=YOUR-ROLE-TO-EXCLUDE' );

    $exclude = implode( ',', $users );
 
    if ( $object != 'members' )
        return $query;

    $args = wp_parse_args( $query );

    if ( ! empty( $args['user_id'] ) )
        return $query;

    if ( !empty( $args['exclude'] ) )
        $args['exclude'] = $args['exclude'] . ',' . $exclude;

    else
        $args['exclude'] = $exclude;

    $query = build_query( $args );

    return $query;

}
add_filter( 'bp_ajax_querystring', 'my_filter', 20, 2 );

Note: Change YOUR-ROLE-TO-EXCLUDE to the role you want to exclude. i.e. Author

Adapted from here:

Exclude Users from Members directory on a BuddyPress based social network

I think some of the visual differences could be due to CSS. Fundamentally each of these are different. Take the offices-index template for example. If you view the source you’ll see the body classes:

page page-id-1100 page-template-default masthead-fixed full-width singular no-js

Where as if you view the source of the members directory you should see body classes

directory members buddypress masthead-fixed full-width singular no-js

If the theme you’re using makes use of the body class when styling body.page { // styles ... } then that could be why it looks different?

You’ll need to add your BuddyPress header and footer to the page-office-loop.php file. For example:

<?php get_header( 'buddypress' ); ?>

<!-- bits and bobs here -->

<?php get_footer( 'buddypress' ); ?>

@fuzzielogix Have you checked if registration works if BP is deactivated? If it still doesn’t work, then you need to resolve the issue with your hosting. It registration works with BP deactivated, then check out how to resolve the issue in the email section at https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/faq/

@simple-man BP’s default style for the Member and Group widget avatars have been superseded by your theme’s style where it changed the avatar’s width to auto in one area and in another area, changed it to max-width: 100%. You can add the following to the stylesheet of your child theme

.widget.buddypress ul.item-list img.avatar {
width: 20px;
}

@thom7000 https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/deleting-buddypress/

The fix is posted here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/404-error-on-request-membership-for-private-group-in-bp-1-8-1/#post-179495

I would suggest checking out this BuddyPress ticket:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5140

That’s likely the cause. This bug has been documented.