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Thank you for bringing up the issue you’re facing with profile image uploads on the forum. I understand the frustration that comes with encountering difficulties after updating to the latest version of BP. It appears that the update might have introduced a bug or compatibility issue. To assist you, I suggest trying the following steps: Firstly, clear your browser cache and cookies to eliminate any potential interference from cached data. Secondly, temporarily disable any plugins or browser add-ons that may interact with the image upload process. This will help identify any conflicts causing the upload problem. Additionally, ensure that your image dimensions are set to 150 x 150 pixels in Photoshop before uploading, as you mentioned this workaround has been successful for you. By following these steps, you should be able to overcome the profile image upload issue. If the problem persists, I recommend reaching out to the forum’s support team for further assistance. Best of luck in resolving this matter, and please don’t hesitate to ask if you have any further questions.

@ingenxcomputers I am seriously stressing because my site is constantly being violated by Russian bots after this latest update and you are splurting out nonsensical questions … Seriously?

The plugin I mentioned is very well documented. I suggest that in the future you do a bit of homework first before jumping in without offering any advice or solutions

If you’re looking to add a background image and personalize the ‘Sign Up’ page further, you can use custom CSS. Here’s a simple example to get you started:

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#signup-form {
background-image: url(‘your-image.jpg’);
background-size: cover;
background-position: center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding: 24px;
}
Replace ‘your-image.jpg’ with the URL of the image you’d like to use. You can customize the padding, background size, position, and other properties to suit your preferences.

To implement this:

Access your platform’s customization or theme settings.
Look for an option to add custom CSS.
Paste the provided code snippet.
Save your changes.
This should apply the background image to the ‘Sign Up’ page as per your specifications. If you have any questions or need further assistance, feel free to reach out.

opps ] Let me provide you with an alternative approach that disables the activity form for users, making it more secure. You can achieve this by disabling the form functionality entirely. Here how you can modify the code to accomplish thi

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function disable_activity_form_for_non_admins() {
if ( ! current_user_can( ‘administrator’ ) ) {
remove_action( ‘init’, ‘function_that_creates_activity_form’ );
}
}
add_action( ‘init’, ‘disable_activity_form_for_non_admins’ );
In this code snippet, replace ‘function_that_creates_activity_form’ with the actual function name or hook that creates the activity form. This modification disables the activity form functionality for non-administrative users by removing the action that creates the form during the init hook.

This way the form wont be available in the HTML markup, making it more secure compared to just hiding it with CSS. Remember to place this code in your theme’s functions.php file or in a custom plugin file.

Again make sure to back up your site before making any changes, and test the modified code in a safe environment first to ensure it works as expected. If you encounter any issues or have further questions, feel free to ask!

Old post, but I think the behavior you see is WP-driven. The reason I say that is that I have disabled the REST API for WordPress and the link above (e.g. /wp-json/buddypress/v1/members/3) or similar do not retrieve any data.

I used guidance from this SO article.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41191655/safely-disable-wp-rest-api

@awol, regarding your bbPress tangent — my experience is that neither the BP forum (this one) nor the bbP support forum work the way BP and bbP do “out of the box.” Perhaps it has something to do with the theme, or perhaps they’re customized. But if you want to see how they’re going to work together your you, I’d suggest setting up a test site and installing them with your theme. Also robin-w on the bbpress forum has a plug-in that allows for a lot of customization and is pretty good about answering these kind of questions.

Hi again @imath,
This is a separate query from before, and is really a question about what the new BP will change, if anything, with regard to the methods of adding activities. The reason I ask is that I have been trying to do the following on the latest version of the ‘old’ BP; at present I have certain posts being created automatically when users click/tap or hold certain buttons, via a form plugin; some of these are custom post types, but some are regular posts. I have had no problem with the custom post types in terms of adding them to either the main Activity stream, or individual Group Activity streams (both or just one), but cannot get regular posts to go anywhere other than the main Activity stream (and the Profile Activity of the user), and what I want is to be able to post them to either both main and group, or to just group (Profile Activity is not an issue). If there are no changes coming that impact this, I will need to create another custom post type to deal with this, but obviously I would rather avoid that if I can as it would entail quite a lot of extra coding/changes to existing code, so if there are any further details on existing or planned changes in this area it would be great if there is some link to them, or if you have any information you can share. I haven’t yet got all the relevant code for my existing site set up on my test site for beta BP, which I will do if you can confirm that there are changes in the beta that will allow me to achieve my aims.

Also, what are the plans for the Legacy theme? Should I plan to move to Nouveau? Or will a new BP theme become available that will work alongside my WP child theme? I am using Nouveau in my test site but I am struggling to achieve certain things that I can do with Legacy on my existing setup. But I am not particularly happy with either of them because of the amount of css edits I need to make, particularly with relation to things like buttons, inputs, tabs etc.

I appreciate all the work that has been and is being put in, so please don’t take my comments and questions as criticism, I’m just trying to avoid unnecessary work!

Hello,

It seems like you’re working on a multi-author website and you’re looking for a way to control access to user profiles. Specifically, you’ve implemented code to deny access to administrators’ profiles, and you’re interested in extending this functionality to subscribers as well.

To achieve this, you can modify the code you provided to include conditions for subscribers. Here’s an example of how you might achieve this:

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// deny access to admins and subscribers profiles. Users are redirected to the homepage
function bpfr_hide_admins_and_subs_profile() {
global $bp;

// Get the current user’s role
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$user_roles = $current_user->roles;

// Check if the user is an admin or a subscriber
if (bp_is_profile && $bp->loggedin_user->id != 1 &&
(in_array(‘administrator’, $user_roles) || in_array(‘subscriber’, $user_roles))) :
wp_redirect(home_url());
exit;
endif;
}
add_action(‘wp’, ‘bpfr_hide_admins_and_subs_profile’, 1);
This code snippet checks if the currently displayed user’s role is either “administrator” or “subscriber,” and if the conditions are met, it redirects the user to the homepage.

Remember to replace ‘administrator’ and ‘subscriber’ with the actual role names used in your WordPress setup.

Thank you for reaching out, and a special shoutout to “TWITCHFOLLOWERFORGE“. If you have any further questions or need additional assistance, feel free to ask!

No one ever answers questions raised here. It’s so annoying and frustrating.

Hi @clicksnlikes. I feel your pain. The thing is, this is a volunteer-led community, so everyone tries to help when they have some time available.

Registered Users and members are unable to use the create topic function on my site as somehow it’s only available for guests or non-registered members and admin.

Has this behavior you’re describing been like this from the start, or has it started to occur recently?

No one ever answers questions raised here. It’s so annoying and frustrating.

Registered Users and members are unable to use the create topic function on my site as somehow it’s only available for guests or non-registered members and admin.

I’ve been trying for an entire week and none of the topics here helps at all so i’m not sure you’d get any answer to your questions either.

Hi @josiejackson

A few basic questions:

• Did Editing Basic Profile Group work before, i.e. is this a new error message, or has this been like this from the start?
• Did you try switching to a different theme, to see if the error still shows up?

There’s a good template to follow here that helps the community helping you troubleshoot what the problem might be.