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Thanks for noticing this, kennibc.

I’ve attached a fix for this here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/6770/6770.01.patch

The change you’ll be interested in is located in the /bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-filters.php file.

Disable starring messages with this snippet in wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:

add_filter( 'bp_is_messages_star_active', '__return_false' );

To remove the ‘Delete’ link from the messages inbox, you’ll have to override the inbox template and remove the ‘Delete’ link.

Read the Overloading Template Compatibility theme files section of this codex article for more info.

The template you’ll want to copy over to your theme to override is this one:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.4.2/src/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/messages/messages-loop.php

You can open a bug report for this on Trac (the login details will be the same as those you use here in this forum).

BP Simple Private might be helpful?

Error: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

This happens when clicking on ‘Pending’ in Users when BuddyPress is activated only on main site of multisite install but, you can see pending users at /wp-admin/network/users.php?page=bp-signups i.e. network side.

@imath posted a working patch for this issue which is scheduled for BP 4.4 branch (hopefully)
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5977

Hope this helps.

This site does not support PM.

BP uses the same method for reporting security issues as WP:

Reporting Security Vulnerabilities

Hi @hatherley

security [at] wordpress.org is the place to contact about this kind of thing.

Hi,

I use buddypress for my site but its login override default wordpress login box. I don’t want it because visitors will have to sign up twice.

Can I retrieve default wordpress login back and use buddypress login in my custom page (I want to put a CTA button in my homepage directing to a login page)?

Please let me know if I have submitted a question in the wrong thread.

Thank you.

Alicia Fritz Herman.

Re WP cron jobs – use this to see what is running and scheduled:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-crontrol/

If you’re running vanilla WordPress, with BuddyPress as the only plugin installed and you’re sure you have no custom code in place, it may mean your install has been compromised. You should check to be sure this isn’t the case.

Just a thought, have you tried using a standard theme such as Twenty Fifteen?

Those pages don’t actually use CPTs at all which means you might not be able to use the scripts_to_footer_post_types hook in this case. Which scripts are you trying to move to the footer? It’s easy to move them manually (without the need for a plugin). When enqueuing the script, you set the 5th param of wp_enqueue_script() to true.

Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script

Some plugin developers do require more recent versions of PHP but by doing that they limit their potential number of users. The solution could be for WordPress to add an admin notice “You are using an insecure version of PHP, please bug your host to upgrade”. Then once the stats indicate a small number of are users left on 5.2, they can stop supporting it. Note though, even a 1% figure for 5.2 could amount to millions of websites (considering the huge number of WP users overall).

Also, WordPress is doing lots already by working closely with hosts to make sure they’re all aware of the PHP version they’re offering and in cases where it is very outdated, urging the host to upgrade.

All that said, JavaScript is now coming into the game 😉

Ty for this great plugin @shanebp i will try this later and leave a review on wordpress repo.

I may even be swayed to purchasing the premium version soon as the redirect would come in handy for me when restricting them.

I think the new password restrictions were a WordPress feature, not BP

Agreed @mcpeanut, the speed improvements alone are worth the upgrade. PHP 7 also has some useful features that us developers would love to use. Problem is, most cheap hosts will still be on something like 5.4 so we can’t use any of the new features in our plugins.

To get an idea what version of PHP WordPress users are on, take a look at these stats:

https://wordpress.org/about/stats/

there are various wordpress plugins that remove it completely or via useroles etc, do a search on the wordpress repository
do a search for this plugin maybe? Disable WP Admin Bar Removal

BP uses the wp_mail() function to send email. Ref https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_mail/

BuddyPress now includes PHP 7 in its tests so sites running PHP 7 should be covered:

Ref: https://twitter.com/JJJ/status/673520650624061441

Regarding taking advantage of PHP 7 features, the plugin won’t do that. Any feature introduced after PHP 5.2 won’t be in BuddyPress yet because 5.2 is the minimum requirement to run WordPress.

wp_bb_posts is bbPress 1, *not* BuddyPress. 🙂

I don’t know if there’s anyone interesting in working on that old versions of bbPress any more. If you haven’t already, I’d suggest posting on https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ so that at least the issue is logged.