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It’s most likely a WordPress issue.

Go to the WordPress admin dashboard and create or edit a post and attempt to paste your Medium link there. If it also doesn’t work, then it’s a WordPress problem.

The problem is the Activity component only allows certain elements to be shown in the activity stream.

By default, <ol> and <li> are not among those whitelisted elements.

You can override this behavior with the following code snippet in your theme’s functions.php file or via wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:

// Allow list-item element through
add_filter( 'bp_activity_allowed_tags', function( $retval ) {
	$retval['ul'] = $retval['ol'] = $retval['li'] = array();
	return $retval;
} );

I’ve also opened a ticket about this here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7538

First, assuming you don’t mean real-time locations, members have to enter their location. For that you can use this plugin: BP xProfile Location.

Then you need to write a script that does a radial search for other members. Often this is done using zip codes. It can also be done with lat / lng.

Then you need to filter the feed to include only those members.

I’m not aware of any plugins that provide that package.
But if you are a developer, there are lots of resources for each step and you should be able to cobble something together.

Hey,

I’m experiencing a similar issue with 6k members, I can’t imagine the size of requests at 30k+…

It seems like mine was triggered by use of RTmedia, cause is described in this ticket, together with a patch:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7530

If you’re using their plugin/s this could have been a cause.

Btw cool site 🙂 and congrats on the user count.

You can give this a try: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-disable-activation-reloaded/

Thank you for the pointer, I fixed my email sending issue by installing WP-Mail-SMTP plugin,

I set it to Send all WordPress emails via SMTP.
I ticked Set the return-path to match the From Email.

I’m using cPanel email so I logged into my cPanel email and clicked Set Up Mail Client link
You’ll see the username and password and port you need to put in the plugin config.

SMTP Port: local
SMTP Port: the outgoing port
For encryption I selected use SSL as I have the free SSL installed for cPanel.

Yes: Use SMTP authentication.

Username: your email address
Password: Email password

And that’s it.

Now new users who register an account are getting the email to activate their own accounts.

Jesus why didn’t I notice this earlier but the old plugin I was using is broke: WP Mail From II

Try switching to a WP theme like 2015 to see if the issue really is BP and not your theme.
You can file a bug report here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

Hiya,

There seems to be a compatibility issue with the current version of Buddypress and the latest WordPress 4.8 update. I noticed that all the elements available for users on Buddypress suddenly disappeared as soon as I made the WordPress update. I checked it against one of my other websites which I have not updated yet to WordPress 4.8 and installed Buddypress there and all the elements are visible.

Is there anything I could do in the meantime to fix the problem whilst I wait for the latest BuddyPress update as the website in question is due for launch today, but unfortunately i made the WordPress update late last night which affected the elements I need for the site to function as intended with the use of BuddyPress as an aid.
Thank you in advance

E.

BuddyPress 2.8.x works OK with WordPress 4.8.

BuddyPress 2.9 is due out in the next few weeks.

This is fixed in the development branch of 2.8.

In the meantime, you can manually apply the following fix until 2.8.3 is released:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11520

Hi @babcoltd

You will need to sync the value of your xProfile field with a WordPress role to get this working. I’m not sure that a plugin is available so as far as I know it will need to be custom developed.

You may use my Redirect to profile plugin.
It does exact same thing.

BuddyPress Redirect to Profile

Hope that helps.

Have you tried: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-simple-private/ ?

You can also get it from PhiloPress.

Hi @giuseppecuttone

The BuddyPress Trac ticketing system is the way to follow BuddyPress development. You can view open tickets and even contribute patches and bug reports.

This is a bbPress bug, which is scheduled to be fixed in bbPress v2.6.

See https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2690.

In the meantime, manually add the following fix:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5857

For busy sites, removing old entries can increase performance.

Have you tried BP Bulk Delete ?

You can also get it at PhiloPress.

Read this conversation in its entirety.

The plugin author was kind enough to guide me through the process of making that work. If you follow those instructions, your users will be able to upload their profile photo during registration.

Although this method works, it causes a slight problem: The users won’t be able to update their photo in the future, because the default Buddypress “Change avatar” function refers to a different file, or location, than the xprofile custom fields type location.

If you find a way to fix that problem, please let me know.

There is a plugin called BP Simple Private that allows you to restrict access to all Buddypress pages to logged in users only. Then, if people try to visit Buddypress pages after you install the plugin, they will get redirected to the home page.

But if I’m understanding you wrong – and you want to have a separate site just for your buddypress groups, then I will recommend setting up WordPress Multisite.

And if I’m understanding you right – which bells and whistles do you want to disable? I’ve disabled a few things with CSS & PHP hacks – but like what do you want to see gone?