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Xprofile Custom Fields Type (version 2.6.3)
apparently has some problems and won’t be fixed. WordPress.org says:

This plugin was closed on January 26, 2018 and is no longer available for download. Reason: Security Issue.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/

Someone just released a drop-in replacement with an easy migration path:

Xprofile Custom Field Type (version 1.0).
Note, no “s” in “Field.” Also, the directory is different!

BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Field Types

I’m trying it out. Though it doesn’t have a lot of downloads so far, the developer has other plugins on WordPress.org that have been around for a while.

This plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-registration-groups-1/ allows new members to choose groups on registration

Have you looked at https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-shortcodes-extra/ This allows you to create BP profile links to any page and call them in a shortcode, maybe that could help?

This page explains about it:

https://codex.wordpress.org/WP_DEBUG

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );

in wp-config.php, there’s a section a bit over halfway down where WP_DEBUGis set to false, you can add the code there.

I’m afraid I don’t offhand, I agree it would be a useful feature. Maybe you could add it as a feature request?

Then the boffins could look at it.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

Have you looked at the BuddyPress GDPR plugin just released by BuddyBoss?

@bossmanuk try to debug with default WordPress theme (2017) with BuddyPress plugin only it might be possible some theme code is creating an issue.

@stevenseagal follow the steps mentioned here and check error logs
https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress
based on error log we can suggest, how to fix it.

@aronprins if that’s issue with default theme as well You can submit at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/report

Keep eye on https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buddypress-activity-plus-plugin-issues/ thread. That’s all you have to do

The simplest way to disable, at the moment, is to squelch the update_user_meta() call. Untested, but something like this should work:

add_filter( 'update_user_metadata', function( $should_update, $object_id, $meta_key ) {
    if ( 'last_activity' === $meta_key ) {
        return false;
    }

    return $should_update;
}, 10, 3 );

I’ve opened a ticket to discuss disabling the backward compatibility feature in BP. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7882#ticket

I don’t know about “simple”. The function in BP is bp_update_user_last_activity() and that calls WordPress’ user meta functions. I am positive there are filters within that stack you could use to override the value or prevent the writes, but you’ll need to look into that code yourself.

@boonebgorges Do you think we can stop this mirroring yet? And keep _bp_get_user_meta_last_activity_warning in place. Basically, preventing DB writes.

Our position is that we want BuddyPress to provide tools that help site owners comply with privacy legislation.

Our 4.0 release, about a month away, will be our first pass at this. Read the latter comments in https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7698 for linked/related tickets, as well as https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=reopened&status=assigned&status=reviewing&status=new&status=accepted&group=status&milestone=4.0 to see all issues assigned to 4.0 (7855, 7856, 7866, 7867, etc).

We have this fixed for our next release, v3.1. This will be released next week (Wednesday) at the latest. The bug was addressed at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7869

@alpokoskiniva “Repair email” deletes the emails from the “Emails” menu, then re-adds them. You don’t need to do this unless you’ve added a translation to your site after installing BuddyPress, and want the translated emails, or if you’ve made a code change to the email language in the BuddyPress files, which is what @filipponeri20 has done. We strongly recommend that no-one ever changes a core file of BuddyPress, because it will be overwritten when you update.

I have fresh WordPress installation version 4.96 and Buddypress 3.0.

Unfortunately the version 3.0 of Buddypress does not send confirmation email to new registered users. I removed the version 3.0 and tested the version 2.9.4. So in that version it worked.

Several websites are in trouble if the registration process does not work as expected. Otherwise Buddypress is awesome plugin and thanks to the developers. Hopefully the team can fix the case soon.

I also had the same issue. It has been working for the past six months but for some reason I’m now getting the error:

[Thu May 31 03:17:57.637007 2018] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 20994:tid 140462744499968] [client 76.95.217.178:52226] AH01071: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Warning: Missing argument 6 for bp_custom_format_buddypress_notifications(), called in /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 286 and defined in /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wbp/lib/party/notifications.php on line 40\nPHP message: PHP Warning: Missing argument 7 for bp_custom_format_buddypress_notifications(), called in /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 286 and defined in /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wbp/lib/party/notifications.php on line 40\nPHP message: PHP Warning: Missing argument 8 for bp_custom_format_buddypress_notifications(), called in /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 286 and defined in /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wbp/lib/party/notifications.php on line 40

The “Articles” tab isn’t something that BuddyPress adds. If the count isn’t compatible with Nouveau then I suggest you let the plugin author know at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-articles

We have released a plugin to help with GDPR compliance: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-gdpr/
This will be helpful for now, until there is a major BuddyPress release with these features.