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I have the same need/concern.

Unfortunately, I think the suggestion from @openring to use https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/ won’t work. I’ve looked closely at that plugin. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with BuddyPress groups. Rather, it seems to have to do with creating it’s own role based access groups. So that’s a way of having more access control over your forums, which is valuable in and of itself, but it doesn’t pertain to BuddyPress.

If you like to keep using Yoast for WordPress pages and exclude BuddyPress from using Yoast, you may try this.

function wpseo_fix_title_buddypress($title) {
    // Check if we are in a buddypress page 
    if ( function_exists( 'buddypress') && ( !empty( buddypress()->displayed_user->id ) || !empty( buddypress()->current_component ) ) ) {
        $bp_title_parts = bp_modify_document_title_parts();

        // let's rebuild the title here
        $title = $bp_title_parts['title'] . ' ' . $title;
    }
    return $title;
}
add_filter( 'wpseo_title', 'wpseo_fix_title_buddypress');

It’s quite probable it just won’t work. BuddyPress intentionally interferes with the page that WordPress thinks its loading (when it’s a BuddyPress URL), and I suspect Yoast SEO will look at this page object, and because we’ve messed with it and because it doesn’t map to a real WordPress Page, it won’t work.

Sorry!

Welcome Pack! Small world.

Can you try disabling Welcome Pack? That certainly interferes with user registration.
Please also try disabling iThemes Security.

Then, test registration again, and see what happens.

If it still doesn’t work as expected, if you can switch your theme to one of the default WordPress themes (leaving those two plugins disabled), test again. If you have a test environment (say you might be using Pantheon hosting, for example), this should be easy to do, though if it’s only one server, I appreciate you might not want to modify your production site too much.

As of right now, you would have to make a copy of the JS to make your required change:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.6.2/src/bp-templates/bp-legacy/js/buddypress.js?marks=530#L513

This file should reside in your theme’s buddypress/js folder.

Keep in mind that this is the source JS. When used in production environments, this JS is minified to buddypress.min.js.

Our user details and activity goes into a massive database; however I don’t want this to be impacted by the forum users

If this is absolutely non-negotiable (don’t share the database), you are going to almost certainly have to set up a separate WordPress site, just for your community.

There is one users table in the database, provided by WordPress, and as BuddyPress is a plugin that runs on top of WordPress, we also use that users database table.

If you don’t want new community users mixed up with existing users, you need to put the community stuff on a separate WordPress. Or, write code to filter and customise various lists of users as/when/if you need. BuddyPress Member Types might help.

Look at https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/member-types/ and https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-member-type-generator/ and http://www.buddyboss.com/product/buddypress-member-types/

This is a better question for somewhere on the WordPress.org forums. More people over there, and this isn’t specific to BuddyPress. 🙂

Do other BuddyPress emails get sent?
Do WordPress emails get sent? (comment notification, new user registration, etc).

perhaps this might help

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/screenshots/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/

In order to update a custom table you’d need to use the wpdb class.

Hi,

BuddyPress doesn’t handle registration. That’s WordPress territory.

You may read about WP two step authentication:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Two_Step_Authentication

And here’s a tutorial from which you can built a multi step authentication:

Building a Multi-step Registration Form for WordPress

Good luck !

Deactivate all plugins and the theme and test registering from WP using a Twenty theme as first.
Then activate BP and re-test.
Then activate S2 or whatever you use for paid membership and again, test.
And finally, you have to test your theme (if not a Twenty one).

FYI, BuddyPress doesn’t handle the password field, but WordPress.
You’ll probably get better answers on WP or S2 support forum.

This one also looks good got updated today
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-articles/

Emails not sending have many possible causes. For the sake of clear discussion, please make your own topics, don’t bundle in on the same one.

@jtburlew Please check to see if your site sends WordPress emails reliably? (i.e. comment notification, password resets). Please also let me know what plugins you are using. Anything that changes POP3 or IMAP behaviour, or redeclares the wp_mail function, in particular.

@imath has never reported with emails not sending from his French language WordPress sites, so I am assuming this is a server configuration problem – or incompatibility with something WPML is doing – rather than it being down to some character within the email string.

What plugins do you have active?

Does your site send WordPress emails reliably? (i.e. password resets, comment notifications)

@maryt66 You’re welcome. You can subscribe to the latest BP development news at https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/ or check out https://buddypress.org/blog/

Cheers.
Mercime

(I’ve asked https://profiles.wordpress.org/petya to reach out to @idichoo to help get started with translations)

Just to note that the “add friend and cancel friendship” tooltips, among other tooltips have been removed in BP 2.7 trunk (see #7090).