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I can’t replicate your issue so it must be down to your environment or something else. You didn’t mention which WordPress Theme you are using, maybe it’s that?

Did you try following the instructions?

1. Paste in your theme functions.php
2. Load the site in a browser
3. Then REMOVE this function from your theme functions.php

/*
 * Paste in your theme functions.php or in bp-custom.php.
 * Load the site in a browser
 * Then REMOVE this function from your theme functions.php or bp-custom.php.
*/

function buddypress_add_last_activity() {

  $members =  get_users( 'fields=ID' );
  // $members =  get_users( 'fields=ID&role=subscriber' );
  
  foreach ( $members as $user_id ) {
        bp_update_user_last_activity( $user_id, bp_core_current_time() );
  }

}
add_action('bp_init', 'buddypress_add_last_activity' );

1. set up a child theme.
2. inside the childtheme directory there will be a functions.php file.
3. place your custom code in there.

You should add customisations either in your themes function.php or in a bp-custom.php file placed in the plugins directory.

I’d first try switching your BuddyPress theme to BP Legacy in Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options. and see if the menu appears

Both should be displayed on the left, if they are being centered then I think you have something that is affecting the CSS for these already. Do they still center with a default theme such as 2017 loaded?

One issue I came across recently was the theme was hiding the user profile fields by printing them with the colour white with a white background. So my first suggestion would be to switch themes to a default theme such as 2017.

Have you done any customisations that could affect this?

This one is not that straight-forward there is a filter you can use as follows:

function bpex_role_disable_avatar_uploads( $default ) {
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
		foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
			if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
				$default = true;
			}
		}
		
		return $default;
	
}

add_filter( 'bp_disable_avatar_uploads', 'bpex_role_disable_avatar_uploads' );

However this causes BuddyPress to simply show the user that they can upload their profile image via gravatar, and I’m afraid you can’t switch this off.

So the alternative is to remove the Change Photo tab and admin-bar menu item:

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpex_remove_change_profile_photo_tab', 50 );
add_action( 'bp_setup_admin_bar', 'bpex_admin_bar_remove_change_profile_photo', 50 );

function bpex_remove_change_profile_photo_tab() {
	
	if ( ! bp_is_user_profile() && ! bp_is_user_activity() && ! bp_is_user() && bp_displayed_user_id() != wp_get_current_user() ) {
		return;
	}
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
	foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
		if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
			bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'profile', 'change-avatar' );
		}
	}

}

function bpex_admin_bar_remove_change_profile_photo() {
	
	global $wp_admin_bar, $bp;

	if ( ! bp_use_wp_admin_bar() || defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	$user_id = get_current_user_id();
	
	if ( ! $user_id || $user_id == 0 || ! is_numeric( $user_id ) ) {
		return;
	}
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
	foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
		if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
			$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu( 'my-account-xprofile-change-avatar', 'my-account-xprrofile' );
		}
	}

}

You’d need to put this in your child themes functions.php or a bp-custom.php file in the plugins directory.

Hi Debby, I found time to test this, if you install WP Featherlight and then make the following change:

<?php $fullsize_avatar_url = bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( 'type' => 'full', 'html' => false, 'no_grav' => true, 'item_id' => bp_get_member_user_id() ) ); ?>

<li <?php bp_member_class(); ?>>

	<div class="item-avatar">

		<a href="#" data-featherlight="<?php echo $fullsize_avatar_url; ?>"><?php bp_member_avatar(); ?></a>

	</div>

You will have your avatars in lightboxes. However these will probably be small. The default is only 150 pixels.

You can change this with the following setting placed in either your child themes functions.php or a bp-custom.php placed in the plugins directory.

define ( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_WIDTH', 150 );
define ( 'BP_AVATAR_FULL_HEIGHT', 150 );

change the 150 to your preferred pixel size for the image.

Hi there, some answers:

1. You can change the layout of profiles by overloading the profile files and css, see: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/theme-compatibility-2/ it’s possibly a bit advanced for you right now but all the files in the plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/your-bp-theme/buddypress can be copied, modified and loaded from your child theme directory. Similarly you can overload the css to make styling and layout changes.

1b. The default is for horizontal navigation unless you’ve changed it in Customizer>>BuddyPress.

2. The BuddyPress extended profile is editable from the front end, and avatar too. It’s only the wordpress profile that’s enditable in admin and most BP sites don’t use that as t’s really set up for authors.

3. I recently posted the code to combine all the profile activity feeds into 1, https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-combine-activity-tabs-to-one/

4. https://wordpress.org/plugins/cb-change-mail-sender/

5+6 are bbPress questions, for the best answer you should post on their forum https://bbpress.org/forums/

7. Assuming you have set up the groups directory page and enabled group creation by users in Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options, users will have the option to create groups on the Groups directory page and also from the Groups menu of the WordPress toolbar ( top right hand side of the screen, hover over your avatar image, drop down will appear one option will be groups.

Which buddypress_functions.php file are you talking about? I’d have thought you’d put it in your themes functions.php file or a bp-custom.php file located in the plugins directory.

Also I’d load it in the action hook ‘bp_setup_nav’, not ‘wp’.

I think it would be possible yes. If you look at plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/your bp theme/buddypress/members/members-loop.php for example, you can see the link for the members avatar being created for the members directory page.

Most lightboxes use a data tag to identify that the link is to open in a light box, so you could overload this file and replace the href with the link to the full size avatar and add the data tag as required.

You’d then need to add the Javascript for the lightbox, probably in a plugin and together that should work.

There’s nothing off the shelf that does this though.
However that would stop the current default of clicking on the avatar taking you to the members profile. That might be a problem for you but I guess you could simple add another button to visit the members profile.