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Typically the way to do this would be to overload the members page (buddypress/bp-template/bp-theme/members/members-loop.php) and at your code to display the field excerpt.

First of all, I got the filename wrong, it’s home.php you need to edit.

This should be about the easiest bit of php you can get. But you will need to get ftp access to your site then create a buddypress/members/single directory in your themes/childtheme directory. Then take a copy of the source home.php file.

Home.php creates the basic content for the profile page and if you open it up you will see a section as follows:

		<?php if ( ! bp_nouveau_is_object_nav_in_sidebar() ) : ?>

			<?php bp_get_template_part( 'members/single/parts/item-nav' ); ?>

		<?php endif; ?>

This is what calls the navigation, at the moment it’s the second item being loaded, you want it to be the first, so you just need to move it as follows:

?>
		<?php if ( ! bp_nouveau_is_object_nav_in_sidebar() ) : ?>

			<?php bp_get_template_part( 'members/single/parts/item-nav' ); ?>

		<?php endif; ?>

	<?php bp_nouveau_member_hook( 'before', 'home_content' ); ?>

	<div id="item-header" role="complementary" data-bp-item-id="<?php echo esc_attr( bp_displayed_user_id() ); ?>" data-bp-item-component="members" class="users-header single-headers">

		<?php bp_nouveau_member_header_template_part(); ?>

	</div><!-- #item-header -->

	<div class="bp-wrap">

		<div id="item-body" class="item-body">

			<?php bp_nouveau_member_template_part(); ?>

		</div><!-- #item-body -->
	</div><!-- // .bp-wrap -->

	<?php bp_nouveau_member_hook( 'after', 'home_content' ); ?>

Once you’ve done that use ftp to copy your updated file to themes/child-theme/buddypress/members/single/home.php and test. that should do it.

Did the theme create a number members page or is it using the default BP page? If it’s using the BP page then you could probably overload the members page to remove those items. However the members count is part of the page pagination.

You should be able to do that by overloading plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/single/profile.php, you can place your modified copy in themes/child-theme/buddypress/members/single/profile.php.

You should ask the theme developer to support BP Nouveau

you can add the following to your child themes functions.php file:

add_filter( 'bp_get_group_join_button', 'venutius_restrict_group_join', 10, 2 );

function venutius_restrict_group_join( $button, $group ) {
	global $bp;
	if ( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) || $group->is_member ) {
		return $button;
	}
	
	$membership_total = count( BP_Groups_Member::get_membership_ids_for_user( $bp->loggedin_user->id ) );
	
	if ( $membership_total >= 1 ) {
		return false;
	}
	
	return $button;
}

You can see which BP Theme you are using by going to Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options

Have you looked at the BP Nouveau theme (Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options ) this allows you to set up vertical menus in Customizer.

Ok, this works for me, thank you.

But still in single group, in the group header, the group description will be shortened so oddly!
Is there also a way to change that?

I´m using bp nouveau and 2015 theme.

Hi andhi,

Are you able to crop with just BuddyPress loaded and with a default theme such as 2017?

Hi Raakesh, glad it’s working for you, could you let me know which BP Theme you are using and Ill see if I can write some code to restrict joining to only one group?

Hi there, another plugin to help you is https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/ this will allow you to restrict members from creating more than one group.

If I updated this to include a restriction based on the number of group membership then that would help.

Looking at the code you’d also need to restrict the group join button showing so that it only shows for members not already in a group. How you do this depends on the BP Theme you are using, Legacy or Nouveau.

Hi there, here’s the steps I would take:

Deactivate all other plugins.
Switch to 2017 theme and test
Check for changes to functions.php, wp-config.php, bp-custom.php ( if you have one ) basically any place where custom scripts could be hiding.
Try recreating your emails in the Tools>>BuddyPress admin page.
If they still don’t work
Enable WP-DEBUG, install Query Monitor plus an error log viewer. initiate some emails and see if you get any errors at the same time.

All I can suggest is that you are not copying the functions.php file into the right theme directory, not likely but that could cause the new function not to be seen.

Hi there, I’m sorry but this would seem to be a theme issue ( the theme is adding the menu? ), you should raise this with BuddyBoss.

I’ve looked at the code and it turns out there’s a typo in buddypress/bp-members/classes/class-bp-members-admin.php as follows:

Line 1277:

if ( current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user->ID ) || bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) ) {

One thing to try is to change this on your copy as follows:

if ( current_user_can( 'edit_users', $user->ID ) || bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) ) {

You can also see that the other check is for bp_moderate so maybe my code earlier was wrong? though tbh bp_moderate give a whole bunch of additional features that you probably don’t want to expose to your editors. This is the example code from wp.org:

function add_theme_caps() {
    // gets the author role
    $role = get_role( 'author' );

    // This only works, because it accesses the class instance.
    // would allow the author to edit others' posts for current theme only
    $role->add_cap( 'edit_others_posts' ); 
}
add_action( 'admin_init', 'add_theme_caps');