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Very odd – it appears that this too is caused by your theme, as BuddyPress itself just inherits the mobile styling of the toolbar from WordPress (and the WP toolbar looks fine, as shown by your Dashboard screenshot). Try reaching out to the theme author to see whether they’re able to identify the problem.

This is sort of a big WordPress question that lots of people would like to change, but it’s not that easy. You could try using the plugin Theme My Login, which would need to be applied carefully, as it overlaps with BP a bit. https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login/ (I have no idea if this is a good plan, you’ll just have to try it.)

The black bar across the top is a WordPress per-user preference “Show Toolbar when viewing site”. There are many resources on the web about how to disable it/change the behavior:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+disable+toolbar+for+subscribers

Hi Carsten,
Do you want to disable the toolbar(Rich text area) and use plain text area?

If that is the case, you can put following line in your theme’s functions.php or the bp-custom.php(in the plugins directory)

add_filter( 'bp_xprofile_is_richtext_enabled_for_field', '__return_false' );

Hope that helps.
Regards
Brajesh

Hi,

WP’s toolbar is not part of BP, and not part of your theme. This bar belongs to WP.

I suggest that you don’t remove(or deactivate) the whole bar, but only remove any menu item belonging to WP, except the “howdy” menu where BP install his sub-menu items.

To do this, you have to use some custom functions related to wp_admin_bar class.

Use $wp_admin_bar->add_node or $wp_admin_bar->remove_node

Codex reference:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_node

…and a little tutorial, in case of!

How to Customize the WordPress ToolBar

When you are on frontend, your profile tab, you should see follwing menu items under the buddy nav bar:

View | Edit | Change Profile Photo | Change Cover Image

and the same items under your user menu (below Howdy), in the top right corner on the Toolbar, as submenu of the Profile item.

If it isn’t case, some common issues can be:
– you omitted to save your BP options
– you use a cache and see the site content from before BP installation
– there is a weird bug in a file
– your theme isn’t taylored for BuddyPress
– there is a conflict with another plugin

What you could try:
– double check your settings
– clear the cache
– reload a fresh copy of BP via FTP
– test with a Twenty theme
– you have to debug

Note also that you can only load ONE avatar or ONE cover image at a time and that you have definitely only one picture for each bundled with your account.

Hi,

sorry but this is not related to BuddyPress.
Dashboard access is part of WordPress and the way it is displayed on your screensht indicate that it is also theme dependant somehow.
You can hide any menu item from the WP toolbar by following these instructions

or you can chosse to active/deactive the toolbar option in BP settings or use a plugin to limit dashboard access.

It looks like your theme has replaced the toolbar… ?

To confirm that the issue is due to your theme, try switching momentarily to a WP theme like 2015.

The toolbar is part of WordPress, not BuddyPress.
BP offers in his Main Settings to show the Toolbar for logged out users (default: enabled).

Removing WP’s toolbar is a very common task, widely commented and explained over the web and on WP’s codex. Read here.

BuddyPress’s toolbar menu works like any other toolbar sub-menu item.

See WP codex for details

Read here for some usage examples explained in details:

How to hide / remove the General tab under Settings

Hi @mohamedalikortli,

thank you for the sharing, but I am afraid that your proposal is not acceptable in regard of coding best practice. I let your snippet in place, but i also warn all readers to use it, unless they know what they do.

This forum is public and most users coming here for help are querying at first for BuddyPress related issues solution, not third party plugin tricks like the one you share here. The majority is also not very comfortable with php or even site development.
This aspect is one of the main reason to provide usefull and safe code.
IT IS NOT THE CASE HERE – and i wouldn’t recommand it.

Not because it doesn’t or wouldn’t work ( and i haven’t tested it), but because it is not correctly written. Allowing such a snippet is like encouraging (and by the way perpetuating) bad practices. Hopefully you understand and agree that we don’t want this on the BuddyPress support forum.

@sbrajesh ‘s BuddyPress Clear Notification plugin was last updated in march 2016, which is pretty recent. I doubt that the bug is in his plugin and i expect more a menu related issue… but this is only an expectation of mine.

If you estimate that your workaround is helpfull for that plugin, get in touch with Brajesh or publish it on the plugin support.

By the way, next time you publish code on this form, use the code button available on the editor toolbar to insert it properly.

FYI about what you did wrong or not properly:
– hacking a core file. Notification template should be used, but from inside a child-theme, not directly from bp-legacy).
– comments should be in english (some in your example are in french)
– your recommendation is against all WP usage:

copy this script into ur document root where u have installed ur wordpress

– you can add custom code via bp-custom.php. There is also no need to go to wp root, when you can do the same thing from within your child-theme.
– why do you recall jquery ? It is already loaded when you run BP…
– i’m not a developer, but i’m pretty sure there are other things to mention about coding.

In regard of the script itself, BP provide much simplier way to delete notification or show a delete button: reference.
You’re also using french in that script.

Calling a file “test” is ok, but in that case you should provide some explanation on how to finally use your snippet. As already said, not everybody here is able to understand – and use raw code – when you provide a workaround. Providing code is fine, providing code+tutorial is always better.

Désolé d’être sévère et rien de personnel, mais juste une mise au point nécessaire.

[modlook] @jjj, @DJPaul, @boonebgorges, @mercime, @hnla, @shanebp, @henrywright

Sorry, but we can’t assist you for premium theme or third party plugin issues. The toolbar is part of WordPress and BuddyPress only allows you to show/hide it for logged out users. See checkbox in BP’s main settings: Show the Toolbar for logged out users.

Control if you have a specific function runing in your theme functions.php file. If you don’t know how to proceed, ask for help on your theme support. If you find nothing in the theme, ask on woocommerce support.

Hi guys,

which theme do you use ? Try with Twenty Sixteen or fifteen, and if you deactivated the toolbar in your settings, try to activate it, then activate BP again.

Another thing to try is to not use the theme customizer. Setup WP, then BP and use a twenty theme, without customizer actions. This basic trio should work.

If your site use php 7+, try to use only php 7.0 (not 7.0.x) as BP is not ready for the very latest php version at this time… You could also try to use only php 5.6 instead of 7.0…

Just in case of, as this was already mentionned on Trac, you can follow about that issue on #7406

Is “xprofile component” the feature exposed in “Settings > BuddyPress” named “Extended Profiles” (at the very top of the config page)? (It probably is, but I just want to be sure, thanks.)

Yes it is !

it is possible […] to effect the change of either the email or password fields?

Yes it is ! from here: your-site.abc/members/USERNAME/settings/ – the link can be found under the top right usermenu on wp’s toolbar: username > settings > general OR/AND on the buddymenu, when you’re on your profile: Settings ! And that’s it !

For all other BP related questions, please read through the codex, i really have no time to (re)write all explanations. Sorry, hope you uderstand.

@uscore713,

i’ll try to explain. You’re using WordPress and a plugin called BuddyPRess which add a community dimension to WP.

Members are the heart of BP. Anything done by the plugin will return something related to members: activities, friendships, dicussion and much more.

How is this possible ?
Because WP let you register members separately. To do this, WP ask for a username(pseudonym), a password and a valid email.

You cannot avoid this, whatever plugin you use. It is how it works.

Now, we have 2 different question in this topic.

1) how to restrict access to profile settings ?
2) do we need a plugin for that ?

About point 1
WordPress was designed to be a blog builder. A CMS with one blog author who was mainly also the site
owner/builder… This changed with the years and today, you can handle a multiauthor blog.

When you install BP, you can still handle a multiauthor blog (or even blogs) and also a big community of different users, whith different (wp) roles.

What hasn’t changed is the way WP handles authors(or members): from within the dashboard, whatever the role.

When BP is activated, and if you use the xprofile component, you can build a registration form who is added to the original wp registration form. This form is then available on each user profile and can be modified from there.

To restrict user access to wp-admin, you can use different technique. This depends of your coding knowledge or working philosophy, with custom code or applying some plugin solution.

This is independant of BuddyPress and out of the scope of this forum. Just remember that BP let you access to your credentials from front-end.

About point 2
– in theory, you don’t need a plugin
– you always need to read about a plugin before using it.
For example, the workaround mentionned in this topic about the usage of Profile Builder.
– here a recent tutorial – for beginners – you may found more advanced advice by googling about “wordpress restrict dashbord access”.

When you read the teaser on that plugin page, you already should have understand that you don’t need it !
Simple to use profile plugin allowing front-end login, user registration and edit profile by using shortcodes.

Astonishment ! BuddyPress offers exactly the same options (among others).

What ever plugin you use, the regiter process of WordPress won’t change, and the user list or the user data will always be at the same place. What plugins do (most of them), is to modify the appearance of that process.

What you can also do is to remove all WP related items from the toolbar, if you use it. This is widely documented and discussed on WP’s support and codex. It’s WP territory and has nothing to do with the fact you use BuddyPress.

Admitting you found a solution for the backend, you need to use BP’s login widget. From there, users can enter the site. And if they loosed their password, they can ask for a new one from there (usually the sidebar, on front-end).

The Member Toolbar is the BuddyPress drop down menu, do you mean the tabs on the profile page? There’s lots of discussions about changing those tabs

Adding Your Plugin’s Link to the BuddyPress Member Toolbar Menu

I don’t understandd this paranoïd question: So this is another case where they decided to leave out any option.

– Who are “They” ?
– What are the other case ?
– Which options are leaved out ?

Really mysterious, unless the truth is elswhere ? May be in the Twilight Zone ?

You have the option to disable the Toolbar under Settings > BuddyPress > Options.
You have the possibility to use BP’s login widget under Apparence > Widgets

Hi,

the toolbar belongs to WordPress. How to remove items is explained here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_node
Searching the forum will certainly bring you some more hints too.

Hi,

it seems that you have a lot of pages on the site and that you use weird settings.

I would do the following:
– remove any redirect settings and other done via plugins.
– deactivate all plugins except buddypress.
– activate 2016, and not a child theme.
– ensure that each active BP component has a page assigned and that this page is unique, without any template or model assigned. Just a title and nothing else.
Actually, you have links like “…/americannexus.net/activity/members/” (found in the Who’s on widget). Or the link to Archangel’s profile indicates “../americannexus.net/activity/members/archangel/”

That’s unusual and cannot work properly, except if your WP is in a directory called “activity”. And it is not the case ! Note also that BP should be at the same level as WP.

– set up pretty permalinks (what ever but default option) and save.

– and read attentively the install guide.

Other dysfunctionning points:
The toolbar has a Register button who link to ../americannexus.net/join/ (this works correctly)
but the homepage shows ../americannexus.net/register/. If you want visitors to register, send them to /join/ page and not to an empty page.

…and of course, this link doesn’t work too (at least for a not logged visitor) : ../americannexus.net/activity/groups/create/

Here the list of correct slugs of a default BP install:
– your-site.net
– your-site.net/register/
– your-site.net/activity -> BP site activity page (active by default)
– your-site.net/members/ -> BP members directory (mandatory)
– your-site.net/groups/ -> BP groups directory (if group component is active)

These BP pages are dynamic and depending the context, you can have ie:
your-site.net/members/USERNAME -> goes to a profile
your-site.net/members/USERNAME/friends -> goes to the friends screen of the specified user

It works the same for groups.

Once BP and WP are working correctly together, you can reactivate the child theme and your plugins.

I will be your savior,
for same rasons, wordpress decided not show admin bar like default in mobile.
It is so,maybe, because when user log in in mobile device, a lot of menu will be showed… really I dont know why…
But if you dont have this problem, and want show admin bar for log in an log out users, you must add in CSS the following codec:

@media screen and (max-width:782px) {
    #wpadminbar {
        display:block;
    }
    html {
        position:absolute;
        top:-46px;
    }
}

The codec where say html position absolute is for delete noise black bar located in the up side zone.
If you want, you can also show the notification icon (I think it is named budlle notification) into the admin mar, adding the following codec in CSS zone:

/* Show only default top level items */
	#wp-toolbar > ul > li {
    		display: block;
	}

I have gone mad to find the solution, but now we have it.
If you dont want show menu in admin bar to the suscriptors, colaborator and authors, you can use the AG CUSTOM ADMIN plugin. It hide them and help you in a clean design. (you can also hide wordpress logo, and so much things…)

Now, I have only a litlle / big problem:
the drop down menu, when I click in the “notification icon” in the admin bar, is not showed correctly… It is showed from the “notification icon” to the right zone, so in mobiles user can red the title of the notification.
The solution is show the dropdown menu from the “notification icon” to the left zone. So, also in mobiles users can red the title of the notification.
Can you help me for to make that?
I have helped you, now I hope someone can help me 😉
Thank for your support and have funny

Hi @sherissa_r,

General is the default landing tab for profile settings.
To remove it, you use these functions:
to remove the item -> bp_core_remove_subnav_item()
to define a new one -> bp_core_new_nav_default()

You may also want to remove General from usermenu if you use WP’s toolbar, in which case you need -> $wp_admin_bar->remove_node()

Note that General is also the default sub-nav template for all other Settings (Emails & Profile visibility). When you remove the item, you remove also the template. That’s why you need to define a new landing tab.
Note also that once General is removed, you will only see the other settings buttons, but no the content of the new defined tab. It will only appear once you clicked on the button.

Here the snippets you could test (add them to bp-custom)

function bpex_change_profile_settings_default_tab() {

	if( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) :

	$access        = bp_core_can_edit_settings();
	$slug          = bp_get_settings_slug();

	$args = array(
		'parent_slug'     => $slug,
		'subnav_slug'	  => $slug . '/notifications/',
		'screen_function' => 'bp_settings_screen_notification',
		'user_has_access' => $access
		);
 
	bp_core_new_nav_default( $args );

	endif;

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

function bpex_remove_general_item_on_usermenu() {
global $wp_admin_bar;

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

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

function bpex_remove_profile_settings_general_tab() {

	if( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) :	

		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'settings', 'general' );

	endif;

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