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My apologies to all. I found out how to fix the problem of not being able to add additional tabs to the profile section for users on a main social site empowered by BuddyPress. You have to go to WordPress admin > Users > Profile fields and you can add any fields to the profile section of your social site website that is empowered by BuddyPress. This allows users to add their name, bio, location, work, education and anything else you want them to be able to add in their profile on your social site empowered by BuddyPress instead of in the backend of the wordpress page. Also, you can install a plugin that prevents your users from clicking on the dashboard link in top left toolbar and going to backend profile of WordPress, which is called Remove Dashboard access Version 1.1.3 | By Drew Jaynes and can be found at https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-dashboard-access-for-non-admins/ That said, problem solved and may my solution fix this same users not being able to add more fields in their profile section on a main social website powered by BuddyPress that other admins encounter permanently.

One way is to use the wordpress toolbar dropdown as I described earlier, there’s a profile option and in there you can select change profile 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.

So long as you have groups enabled then you should see create group in the Groups page, and also as an option in the WordPress toolbar under groups.

The basic option is to set up a redirect for anyone but admin, that would involve adding some code to your functions.php. There’s probably plugins that d it, but it’s quite simple with code if you are happy with that.

That would not stop links from appearing in the WordPress admin-bar / toolbar. Would you still want to give them access to the BuddyPress menu options via the toolbar?

I’ve recently launched a BP specific Front End editor and I’ve included all the various hide admin code in that. You can choose to hide the admin-bar altogether or prune out the menu items you don’t want to display, such as the +New menu item.

Here’s how to remove forums from all users profile tabs and toolbar menu, this code would need to go in your child-themes functions.php:

function venutius_remove_forums_on_usermenu() {
global $wp_admin_bar;

	if ( bp_use_wp_admin_bar() ) {
		$wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'my-account-forums' );
	}

}
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'venutius_remove_forums_on_usermenu' );

function venutius_remove_profile_forums_tab() {

	bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'forums' );

}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'venutius_remove_profile_forums_tab' );

Untested, but try:

function custom_format_buddypress_notifications( $action, $item_id, $secondary_item_id, $total_items, $format = 'string' ) {

    // New custom notifications
    if ( 'custom_action' === $action ) {
        
        $custom_title = "You have new custom notification";
        $custom_link  = get_permalink( $item_id );
        $custom_text  = "You have a new custom notification";

        // WordPress Toolbar
        if ( 'string' === $format ) {
            $return = apply_filters( 'custom_filter', '<a href="' . esc_url( $custom_link ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( $custom_title ) . '">' . esc_html( $custom_text ) . '</a>', $custom_text, $custom_link );

        // Deprecated BuddyBar
        } else {
            $return = apply_filters( 'custom_filter', array(
                'text' => $custom_text,
                'link' => $custom_link
            ), $custom_link, (int) $total_items, $item_id, $secondary_item_id );
        }

        return $return;

    }

}
add_filter( 'bp_notifications_get_notifications_for_user', 'custom_format_buddypress_notifications', 20, 5 );

There’s a setting for that in Settings>BuddyPress>Options – Show Toolbar to logged out users.

“Show Toolbar when viewing site” is a WP setting.
Somebody probably has such a function.
But you should ask a larger audience – try wordpress.org/support/

@omshankar no need to hide the complete toolbar, you can change option for WordPress logo inside plugin with your custom logo

The buddyPress toolbar is also the WordPress Toolbar. There is no function in BuddyPress to hide the toolbar completely, however there are a number of general wordpress plugins that will completely hide the toolbar.

I remember squirrelling around one site to find what had caused this and it turned out to be a front end publishing plugin that had a default setting to hide the toolbar.

So my first question is this – are you sure it’s BuddyPress causing this? have you deactivated all other plugins and still get the problem with BP loaded?

Which top menu options? the WordPress toolbar?

Hi @eliasgetguineapig

Do you mean on the WordPress Toolbar? (this thing — https://codex.wordpress.org/Toolbar )
If so, if you search for ways to customise or hide the WordPress Toolbar, you should get some clues. It’s not a UI component provided by BuddyPress.

Ok, so basically this toolbar that you are seeing on the top of your site when you login with your new user account is not really a full admin dashboard bar. It only links to the part of the back end dashboard that allows the user to edit his profile in the back end. Nothing else can be messed with by anyone but the admin. Try it out and experiment with it. you’ll see.

Also, if you want to turn that feature off, simply login to the back end as admin, go to “settings” / “buddypress” and on the 3rd tab “Options”, simply deselect “Show the Toolbar for logged out users”