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@spikespiegel,

please read here and provide more details and if possible give a site URL.
All of your topics are so far related to some weird settings of your wordpress/buddypress installation. So it is somehow complicated to help you if you don’t resolve this first.

There is no shame to read the WP codex by the beginning: get started and to follow each step.

Hi @simpleone,

you can actually only hide xprofile fields. Hiding field groups is not possible, due to a bug.
But it is corrected for 2.1 and you’ll find a patch on the trac.

You can already apply the patch to 2.0.2 bp-xprofile-classes.php and the above snippet will work. Add it to bp-custom.php or theme’s functions.php

To hide an xprofile group, use bp_parse_args like this:

function bpfr_make_profile_tab_members_only( $retval ) {
	// hide to non members
	if( !is_user_logged_in() ) {
           // exlude groups, separated by comma
		$retval['exclude_groups'] = '4,5';
           // exclude fields, separated by comma
       		$retval['exclude_fields'] = '1,39';			
	} 
	return $retval;	
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_profile_parse_args', 'bpfr_make_profile_tab_members_only' );

@onogbebor
You really need to be more clear in what you hope to achieve. If you have WordPress installed and have also installed and activated BuddyPress then there is already a connection with MySQL and the BP tables are already created.

Goggle ‘wordpress membership plugin’.
There are several plugins that will allow you to set membership levels and assign members to them.

You might want to post a trac ticket here:

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

This is a complete custom job; but you can find out how it was made by looking through this trac Milestone that compiles all the details of the fixes and enhancements made to the site. Sadly it isn’t just a theme and a couple plugins you could easily activate on your own site.

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

get_current_user_id() returns an int. Not sure if the type in this case will make much difference but perhaps your function is expecting a string?

Try doing this:

$user_id = get_current_user_id();
$user_id = (string)$user_id;

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

Sometimes it’s much easier to just write a custom query.
See: wpdb

Buddypress does not “create” its own sidebars. It uses the theme’s.

Maybe it will be a good idea for you to try it out with a couple of free themes. The default wordpress theme (twenty fourteen) comes with two sidebars, you can probably play around with that a bit.

It should work the same way with a paid theme as far as Buddypress goes.

You could take a look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/
It allows you to make all pages/posts private by default. You can (optionally) exclude upto 10 pages/categories to show to the logged out visitors.

@semperfideles
You could try:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/
Full disclosure I wrote the plugin but you can check it out and see if it fits your needs.

There are plugins like Activity Plus that allow embedding things like a uTube link in the activity page on a member’s profile.

There are several pages in a member’s profile, including a profile page that has data describing that member. There ways to allow for what you want, but it would require some custom coding, iow. not an option out of the box, afaik.

Or you could try a plugin like: https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/

@henrywright
No, the languages file in /wp-content/languages doesn’t get deleted upon upgrading WordPress.

I read another solution here

1. Install and activate this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-exec-php/

2. Create a new page called “Friends” or whatever name you want and add it to your menu.

3. In content of this page, add this code

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;URL=http://blabla.com/members/<?php global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();

echo sanitize_file_name($current_user->user_login). “”;

?>/activity/friends/”>

4. You may still need a way to hide this menu from logged out users. Plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/if-menu/

@richonbp

@henrywright Pretty much nailed it just so you have a second opinion so I would go with his suggestion. You may also want to post a job here as well:
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
Good luck!

Hi @richonbp

(1) A combination of PHP, JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax is the usual.
(2 – 4) Depends on your requirements
(5) Usually a combination of WordPress and BuddyPress to begin with. Then any plugins you need. You might also want to choose a theme

Hope this helps!

When you’re ready to go ahead, try posting your requirements and some contact information on the BP Jobs Board – there are some good programmers around that check on that forum regularly.