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Hi @espyd,

Sorry you are having this issue after upgrading. Just to help us understand why it’s happening, could you reply to these questions:

WordPress version ?
WordPress configuation ? (Multisite or not)
If multisite: is BuddyPress activated on the main site or in a sub site ?
In the General settings of WordPress is the registration setting on ?
Are you using a cache plugin ?

Hi,

it’s not possible without heavy code modification. The usermenu is intended to be on the toolbar.

But you can give this a try. All items will be visible on the toolbar, instead under the howdy.

function laura() {
global $bp, $wp_admin_bar;
remove_action( 'bp_setup_admin_bar', 'bp_members_admin_bar_my_account_menu',4);
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'laura', 4 );

Reference: /bp-members/bp-members-adminbar.php:74
WP Codex wp_admin_bar

@slothlovechunk – Thanks for your in-depth debugging.

This does seem like a bug. Can you create a new ticket with exactly what you wrote here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket (use the same credentials as you use here on buddypress.org)

And reference this ticket where the meta SQL changes were made:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5919

Thanks so much!

Note that there is a Trac ticket for this also, should it turn out to be some kind of BuddyPress bug: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6194

@philippmuenchen @henrywright

Ok got it.

First i’ve just created this ticket and suggested a patch to solve the issue.

Now, you can still have it working by simply requesting a ‘not single’ member type using false as an extra argument eg :
bp_get_member_type( bp_get_member_user_id(), false );

So you’ll get the member type name, but not the singular name. If you want to have the singular name, here’s another gist :
https://gist.github.com/imath/3a5c5ade44eae997fdfd

Hi @jessy-marco

Thanks for pointing this out. I’ve opened a Trac ticket to try to get this fixed.

Hi @format19

These are the capabilities that admins have which editors don’t:

• activate_plugins
• create_users
• delete_plugins
• delete_themes
• delete_users
• edit_files
• edit_plugins
• edit_theme_options
• edit_themes
• edit_users
• export
• import

If you’re not comfortable granting full admin rights, then perhaps you could cherry-pick these? As you probably know, the add_cap() function will add capabilities to a given role.

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

Hmm, it sounds harsh that you get burned and have problems on each update because ive not really had many problems when updating in the past, maybe a few small ones but not many, and if i have had a few problems ive just held off updating for a couple of weeks until the fixes have been issued into buddypress or the plugins.

After trying out “ALOT” of themes (paid and free) with buddypress and wordpress over the past 2 years i have made my own conclusion that the best themes to use in both cases are usually the bare bones and lightweight themes that can have things integrated by yourself as and when needed, this way you are cutting out alot of problems that can be caused within the theme itself, i know some themes look amazing but they can also cause alot of problems for you in the future if not regular updated by the developer.

If your comfy with design i would always opt for a lightweight and barebones theme and build upon that. less things built into a theme = easier to troubleshoot! (This is just my opinion)
I have tried numerous themes that have caused wiered things to happen with certain plugins, yet work fine on the default themes for example.

As for setting up a local test server, this is quite easy to do now, you should definitely look into using something like XXAMP and give it a try.

I still havent got round to testing the new buddypress update yet on my themes and plugins as i fell asleep lol.

Another option might be something like this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/. I haven’t used it myself, so I’m not positive it still works.

If P2 fits your needs, there is a P2-Likes plugin. https://wordpress.org/plugins/p2-likes/

P2 is not a standard theme. There is a lot of custom stuff going on there, so unlike most themes, you will have trouble making BP and P2 play nice.

If you need Likes on BP, this looks to be an option: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-like/

Didn’t know “Featured Posts” was a Twenty Fourteen thing. Oops! 🙂

For anyone else reading, some more info on the “Featured Content” option in Twenty Fourteen can be found here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Twenty_Fourteen

Will try to look this when I have some more time.

About the member widget avatar CSS, looks like Twenty Fourteen showcases a bug 🙁

Try this patch to fix the staggering issue:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5817/5817.clear.patch

@onesmart – After looking into this some more, I would say this is a bug with the WP-reCAPTCHA plugin.

They are incorrectly using the 'wpmu_validate_user_signup' filter. You should use another reCAPTCHA plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=recaptcha

@onesmart – Can you list exactly which plugins you are using with links to the repo?

There are numerous reCAPTCHA plugins. I tried WP-reCAPTCHA by itself, but that doesn’t include any BuddyPress integration and doesn’t create the error?.

Update – Error duplicated (needed to submit the form!). Doing some more research. More to come.

What modemlooper meant to say was, try adding a custom menu under “Appearance > Menus” in the WP admin dashboard.

Follow the steps in step 2 of this codex article:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/how-to-set-up-your-main-site-navigation-using-the-built-in-wordpress-menus/#step-2-create-your-main-navigation-menu

did these plugins not work?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-groupomatic/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-auto-group-join/

or function

function automatic_group_membership( $user_id ) {
   if( !$user_id ) return false;
 
   groups_accept_invite( $user_id, $group_id );
}
add_action( 'bp_core_activated_user', 'automatic_group_membership' );