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If you install BuddyPress on the main domain you can use the Display Widgets SEO Plus Plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-widgets-seo-plus/ (I’m the developer) to show/hide widgets on specific sections of a site.

Just released version 1.1.0 which includes specific widget logic support for BuddyPress/bbPress, could set the widgets for the BuddyPress parts of the site to NOT load on non-BuddyPress sections, this would stop some ‘bleed through’ of content from BuddyPress to the rest of the site.

That being said, from an SEO perspective (my background is SEO) there are other issues that could leak out to potential Google visitors.

Check this Google search: https://www.google.com/search?q=WordPress+Plugin

Note the WordPress Plugin Repository listing (1st result) has six additional indented results (called sitelinks: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/47334?hl=en).

The 6 links for the WordPress Plugin Repository listing are benign, but if there was an adult section of WordPress it could be listed as a sitelink.

From a WordPress perspective there’s also the core WordPress Search functions. The Static Pages that BuddyPress uses for ‘holding’ the BuddyPress specific output can be found via a search. If you have the default BuddyPress setup try using the WordPress Search Form to search for the word “Members”.

This will find your BuddyPress Members Directory Holding Page.

Same result with “Registration”, “Activate” and “Activity”.

It’s difficult to prevent bleed through of different types of WordPress content, so if your client is conservative I’d suggest a sub-domain/other domain to play it safe and manually add interlinking via Text Widgets and Nav Menu Links.

David Law

I’m not sure about integrating fb into the activity feed but you can display the FB page activity in a widget with Custom Facebook Feed, also there are a couple of Social Login plugins to allow FB users to log in to your site using their fb credentials.

Have you tried asking on the WordPress forums? the activation email is a feature inherited from their so they might have an idea

Actually I’ve opened an enhancement ticket about this: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3025#ticket

I’d still post your question in the bbPress forum, maybe I’m missing something.

https://bbpress.org/forums/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-tools/

This one claims to be able to hide parts of the admin bar

Yes the default operation in BP groups is that you can only invite friends of your BP Profile. You can change this behaviour with Invite Anyone, which gives you the ability to invite your friends to join the site and for you to invite any BP user to the group, not just your friends.

Another plugin that you might like to think about is BP Auto Group Join, with this plugin you can ensure all new site members automatically join a group.

With these two plugins, you can invite your friends to join your site and make sure they all join your group at registration.

For points 1 and 2 you need to ask at the BuddyDev forums as they are not BP issues.

For point 3 you can edit BuddyPress emails in Dashboard>>Emails.

For point 4 there’s some plugins that will hide the admin bar for certain user types, I’ve not tried them but try searching the WordPress plugin repository one I saw that might do the trick is https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-admin-bar/

This being looked into on:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7360

I see that BP 2.7.3 is due the day before PHP 7.1 GA. Perhaps a fix can be included in this release so there’s no lag between PHP 7.1 GA and BP working on PHP 7.1 – otherwise I assume we’ll be waiting for BP 2.7.4?

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.7.3

PHP 7.1 Final is due on December 1st and this issue is still present in the final RC (PHP 7.1 RC6).

It looks like BBPress had a similar issue, which they’ve now fixed… https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2987

How about these plugins?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-upload-for-bbpress/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-enable-tinymce-visual-tab/

Have you looked at https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-activity-shortcode/ Maybe that could do what you want?

#7357 duplicated an earlier created https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7349

So @tizianopitisci, I closed your ticket in favour of #7349.

Use ‘role__in’.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_users

Try increasing your memory. Ref

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

What is this supposed to do? d($included_users);

If you want group members, you need to use bp_group_has_members not bp_has_members.

Turn on debugging while you trouble-shoot your code.

I’m not sure if this is still of interest – but BuddyBoss has developed a premium theme Social Marketplace that could probably do what you’re looking for:

Social MarketPlace

Yes, you would also need WordPress (free) and BuddyPress (free) and WooCommerce (free) to get it running. I haven’t tried it myself yet, but I’m currently working on a site using Social Portfolio by BuddyBoss and I must say they did a great job. It can be quite demanding to get everything working, but so far I have no complaints. Cheers!

I don’t have an exact fix but I went into “Emails” from the WordPress Sidebar and edited the email that is sent on a new message sent trigger. I just took out the {{subject}} and {{quot}} tags and then just put a message that they have to login to view the message. hth

Found this on another forum and after some tweaking finally got this to work. This will only work if you force all new and existing non-paying users into one group however without some further tweaking. If a non-paying user tries to click on the “messaging” tab in wordpress it will redirect them to any page you choose. I chose the memberships level page. =D

function bp_disable_messaging() {
	global $bp;
	
	if ( pmpro_hasMembershipLevel('NonPayingLevel') && bp_is_current_component('messages') ) {
		wp_redirect( site_url("/PAGE URL/") );
		exit();
	}
}
add_action('wp','bp_disable_messaging');

Try this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddydrive/

Google this: buddypress file sharing

Depending on your ability as a coder, you could adapt some code or write it from scratch.

…you are losing people and ultimately future profits and benefits

BP is free open source code. There are no direct profits.
These forums are moderated by volunteers.
There is no promise, explicit or otherwise, that you will get an answer.

How does someone who does not constantly do coding for a living really get BuddyPress to function?

The primary intended audience for users of the BuddyPress codebase: Site Builders and WordPress Developers.

The widgets and shortcodes you tried ( BuddyPress Sitewide Activity ? ) probably do not include the images because widgets generally output a compressed view and images can take a lot of screen area. It would be relatively simple to tweak such a widget to include activity images.
If you don’t know how to code, you can post a job here.