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Hi @davidself1001,

i think BP Profile Tabs is a plugin to create “nice looking tabs using the jQuery UI”, it is not the xprofile component !

xprofile fileds and field groups (the tabs) management is located at
dashboard > users > profile fields. What you see on that screen is normally what you have in the DB.
Once you created fields and field groups in xprofile, you will see the group tabs in the plugin.

You misunderstood me.

Remove any define’profile’ and it each time you visit a profile the default activity screen will show up.

But this may not work in your configuration as anything related to, at least, BuddyPress is going through site/activity/something/. You have to check for this as it is wrong.

Perhaps in Dashboard > settings > general. What is WordPress URL and site URL ? Or have you added activity in a plugin or even in htaccess ?

Hi,

you’re using a one page theme, which is not the easiest to start with for a beginner.

I would recommand that you read first your theme documentation.

One of the first line of the documentation contains:
This WordPress theme can be entirely configured via WordPress Theme Customizer […].

I encourage you to use that feature, before adding custom code.

I tested the theme. Downloaded and activated. I didn’t upload the bunch of additionnal plugins recommanded by the author. At a first glance, all seems to work correctly. And my register page has a header.

Out of the box, the theme comes with a header image. You can change it via the customizer.
Dashboard > Apparence > Header

As it is a one page, you have no (easy)possibility to assign different headers to different pages, like what you apparently try to do. The BP register page runs with the same header as the site.

To change the CSS or BP templates, you need a child-theme. This let you make customization without loosing your changes after a theme, a BP or WP update.

In the style.css of the child theme, you add this rule for the new header color:

#header .bottom-header h2 {
    color: #000;
}

You can, for test purpose, add it to /illdy/style.css (which is empty). But be aware that it will certainly be overwritten at next update.

Any other question related to your theme should be asked on theme support (you already asked there for the same as here).

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

BP is a WP plugin, don’t be confused by what i wrote. By same level i was meaning this :
BuddyPress does not work on installations where you give WordPress its own directory. (install guide::Required)

Glad you got it back to normal.

@johnykoch Well, it’s gated — I’m not getting past the homepage (registration) without creating an account, which I’m not going to do just to see the site. That said, it does feel slow.

Are you using any kind of caching? Page caching? Object caching? If you could list your plugins, that’d be helpful to help you if you don’t know.

Your homepage is 1.5Mb (!) and takes 5 seconds to load for me. Both are pretty heavy for such a light-looking page, you might want to look into that.

Using the logged-out homepage to test on isn’t a bad idea. I’d suggest starting by adding https://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/ which will only show up for Admin users, and load the homepage a few times, and see if it tells you anything useful. Notably, PHP warnings or errors, as well as slow Database Queries.

That’s a good start, and I can offer further advice on the specifics of each of these if you require as you’re able to supply further data.

Spam is a serious subject, not a taboo. WordPress codex talks about. Why shouldn’t BP do the same, specially because it can drain spam which need special attention ?

If you read Hardening WordPress, you will find a lot of references to third party plugin. I don’t believe there is an issue, if you mention wordpress plugins available on the plugin repo. Even premium plugins can be mentionned i think, as long as you specify they are premium.

It’s a temporary information and i wouldn’t try to alter or remove it.

It use WP heartbeat API and what you’re looking for is defined in this (filterable)function:

bp_activity_heartbeat_last_recorded

Yep, like @hnla said. BuddyPress’ DB requirements are the same as WordPress’.

An aspect like DB is really A WP one rather than BP one. BP as a plugin running under WP uses the DB as created initially by WP so if WP is running or able to run on … then BP will.

https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/

It is recommended that 5.6.0 be used but WP will run on older versions.

@jek-fdrv,

we’ve discussing about this “tab” issue on this ticket:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7304

I invite you to jump in if you have any comments. You might also find a solution for your use case.

This page has my own suggestions to try to avoid spammers, this combo dramatically cut down on the number of spam registrations and those that get through I hold them in a queue with BP Registration options a ban then based on discrepencies in their registration information.

http://buddyuser.com/setting-up-wordpress-ready-for-buddypress

It relate to this filter bp_get_profile_field_data

This example will hide tabs and fields to all except admin

function bpfr_hide_profile_field_group( $retval ) {
	if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) :	
	
	// hide profile group/field to all except admin	
	if ( !is_super_admin() ) {		
		//exlude fields, separated by comma
		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '1';  
		//exlude groups, separated by comma
		$retval['exclude_groups'] = '3'; 			
	} 
	return $retval;		
	
	endif;
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_hide_profile_field_group' );

These tricks hide the tab content, not the tab itself. (it seems that it doesn’t work for groups at the moment…i asked devs for information) Use CSS display:none to hide the tab or consider this plugin.

Once registered you have no other choice as to remove them manually.
To retain spammers, there many plugins and methods. Afaik none is the perfect solution and in many situation, you’ll need to use a mixed protection.

There many topics on the forum about spam… Search them and make your opinion.
That said, you might follow some basics to harden WordPress, which is a good debut (table renaming, ban “admin” as username, etc). After that, a bunch of anti-spam plugins will calm down their activity on the site. (ban-hammer, buddypress honeypot, etc) Also keep in mind that you won’t probably never avoid spammers. But there is a big difference between 2 spam/day and 1000/per day. 😉

As site admin you can create new users and give same a low strength password. This is basic WP management. You already have a link for this part of the work.
If you have “hundreds” of friends to add it is of course a bit different – meaning it will not be done in 5mn. But it is not to me to tell you how to do this and where to find any knowledge document to achieve it. Codex are made for this – but sorry, i can’t sytematically lead any question asked on this forum to the appropriate page. My brain is not a codex summary ! Hope you understand. 😉

You have to search on WP Codex and eventually on BP Codex. Essentially because of the phone number field, which is a custom field. You can do that with or without BP – and that’s why i said it’s not a BP question.

If you want to take the BP route, you might check the code from BP Default Data, to understand how this plugin insert fake content to BuddyPress.