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@shivam-kumar
Thanks for the link and for creating the how-to.

Hi @mmaccou my site was also suffering from the same issue until few days back but one of the way by which i prevented the fake account registrations on my site is by putting minimum allowed character restrictions on my registration form input fields you can read a small howto and details on it from here
I hope it helps
Thanks

I do not see how to create a new topic and this is as close to being related to the issue I am experiencing….

This would be an easy solution until BuddyPress has resolved the issue of verifying the new email.

With Buddypress 2.1, when a person changes their email address, it does send an email. However when the verification link is clicked, it still gives the pending change message… Also, I have noticed that it gives two different emails. The first is the new one set and the second says to check the email of the old email address….

Like this:

There is a pending change of your email address to
ryan@redesignexxxxeb.com
.
Check your email (
ryanxxxxx@gmail.com
) for the verification link. Cancel

It’s not buddypress but WP who manage registering and concerning bots, they go directly on your server.

A good starting point is to read the WP Codex:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress

And at least,
Never use “admin” as username
Never user wp_ as table prefix

If you search for “spam” on this forum, you will find many topics about this subject.
And the latest one, even if not directly related to your issue, is one of the sticky post on the forum homepage. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things/

Sorry to answer you with a big laught, it’s not html but php. 😀
You should also find the time to read more attentively the forum, or search by keywords.
in this case: hide xprofile fields

https://buddypress.org/support/search/hide+xprofile+fields/

You’re welcome. Glad you got it. 😉

Sorry i just realized i forgot a point….

If your install is at the site root, aka www folder
/xampp/www/testbuddy/
/xampp/www/testbuddy/wp-content/
/xampp/www/testbuddy/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/
…..

the htaccess rules should look like this

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Just in case of

if you’re using latest xampp, you have respect the new way to declare DNS. One for the server itself, and one for the site.
:80 virtual host port is a server rule and has nothing to do with buddypress.

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost

AND (this is a bit new), you have to set the same for each site running locally

127.0.0.1 buddylocal
::1 buddylocal

This is how it works for wampp. Check the xampp help or documentation if you use linux to get sure.

@jwchameleoncorp BuddyPress Codex (Documentation link above) is your friend.

You will need to install bbPress forums which integrates well with BuddyPress. There is a step-by-step guide at https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/ You just have to decide on what forums setup you want for your site.

Hi @amic58, @tecca

When BP is installed and xProfile is activated, the original WP profile settings are not accessible to user.

The WP register process use only username, password and email and BuddyPress add by default a Name field as base for other extended profile fields.

In short this means that username and name fields can contain a same information(a name, a pseudonym, a first or/and a last name). The plugin you mention is best for a WP install where user had choosen first/last name as output on post, comments, etc Once BP is activated, this became a little different.

Now to the initial question.
The CSS trick is a very inelegant solution as it lets everybody knowing how BP works to surround this invisibility. You’re also loosing any flexibility if you want to show some fields privately for example.

You can do this properly with a little snippet, as explained here:

Using bp_parse_args() to filter BuddyPress template loops

Here’s an example which let you hide fields or fiels group to members, but not to site admin

function bpfr_hide_profile_field_group( $retval ) {
	if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) :	
	
	// hide profile group/field to all except admin	
	if ( !is_super_admin() ) {		
		//exlude fields, separated by comma
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '1';  
		//exlude groups, separated by comma
		$retval['exclude_groups'] = '1'; 			
	} 
	return $retval;		
	
	endif;
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_hide_profile_field_group' );

Add it to bp-custom.php or your child-theme functions.php

Of course you can also choose to show a field or group, but remove the possibility for the user to edit it later. Simply add more conditionnal to the function.

Here another example:

function bpfr_hide_profile_edit( $retval ) {	
	// remove field from edit tab
	if(  bp_is_user_profile_edit() ) {		
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '54'; // ID's separated by comma
	}	
	// allow field on register page
	if ( bp_is_register_page() ) {
		$retval['include_fields'] = '54'; // ID's separated by comma
		}		
	
	// hide the field on profile view tab
	if ( $data = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=54' ) ) : 
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '54'; // ID's separated by comma	
	endif;	
	
	return $retval;	
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_hide_profile_edit' );

Hope to be clear.

I installed BuddyPress using the install wizard

@ryanp11 What version of WP and BP are you on? What theme are you using? Can you change to the Twenty Fourteen theme and check if issue is resolved?

Did you followed these recommendations ?

Configure BuddyPress

hi @buffos,

despite your details, i have to ask:

• did also activate the Register page ?
• can you register from the back-end ?
• do the other component page show up ?
• is RewriteEngine On in htaccess and is that module enabled on your local apache server ?
• have you checked the error logs of php, apache, mysql ?

Configure BuddyPress

Ah, gotcha. Alright, so if you want to remove the Mentions tab in user profiles, you’ll need to add this to your bp-custom.php or functions.php file:

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'remove_mention_tab', 999 );
function remove_mention_tab() {
  global $bp;
	bp_core_remove_subnav_item($bp->activity->slug, 'mentions');
}

To remove the latest update portion in profiles, I think the easiest solution is to open up the member-header.php file located in your theme. It’ll be in a folder called either buddypress or community:

yourthemelocation/buddypress/members/single/member-header.php

Find the following line and remove it:

<span class="activity"><?php bp_last_activity( bp_displayed_user_id() ); ?></span>

If you can’t find that file in there, it’s because the theme author hasn’t edited it specifically for the theme. You can simply drop it in the folder if it’s not there and then edit it. It’s originally located in the /plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single folder