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I’ve set up two users to test various things on site during development, one with Administrator and one with Subscriber roles. That’s what the wp dash is confirming under users.

I also have another function to hide the wp admin bar at the top of the page which includes the is_super_admin(). When its active, the admin bar is removed for the subscriber but not the admin user as intended. So can only assume that there is a problem with my redirect function itself or perhaps its clashing with something else (though I have no other plugins atm).

//Remove wordpress admin bar for all except admin 
function bpmc_remove_admin_bar() {
	if( !is_super_admin() ) 
		add_filter( 'show_admin_bar', '__return_false' );
}
add_action('wp', 'bpmc_remove_admin_bar');

Hi @bewitchingfiction,

I tried it on some of the default WordPress themes and couldn’t get it to work… and it no-longer works on the previous theme used two years ago when I first configured BuddyPress on our site.

My suggested work-around for you until someone is able to get it going again would be to create a password-protected or private page in WordPress for your mods to chat via the comments function. If you use a plugin that allows menu items to only be shown to mods, then no one will know the page even exists.

I use Nav Menu Roles to manage the visibility of menu items on my site. Unfortunately, it’s not compatible with my theme’s menu… so every time I want to add or change a menu item’s visibility, I have to change to another theme to use it , then change back. Clumsy, but it works! https://wordpress.org/plugins/nav-menu-roles/screenshots/

I first installed BuddyPress on our site a couple years ago and all worked as expected. However, it was decided we wouldn’t pursue BuddyPress as part of our solution at the time. Earlier this year, we decided to re-instate it, which is when I noticed this new behavior…

There have been a lot of updates in WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress during this time, so I’m guessing something somewhere along the line, but may not have been addressed yet. I haven’t found any fixes online for it, which is why I have posted here.

Just to clarify, HIDDEN FORUMS appear for Keymasters and Moderators, but not to members of them who haven’t been assigned to either of these roles. They can, however, access the forum if they have the URL for it. So, at the moment, I am having to make all members of hidden forums be moderators in order to keep my site navigation clean.

Perhaps @bphelp could shed some light?

already removed the error. you can see that in the area of members appears the avatar and the homepage will not appear?

Area of members:

Homepage:

gave the following error:

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near ‘: 1)’ at line 1]
SELECT id, user_id, field_id, value, last_updated FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data WHERE field_id = 2 AND user_id IN (displayed: 1)

Read on the internet that I must pass the id as parameter for bp_core_fetch_avatar:

<?php
$userid = bp_loggedin_user_id();
echo bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( ‘item_id’ => $userid) );
?>

But do not know where I have to put this code or how to implement in my code. Can you help me?

Hi Dan,
I tried all the above, and nothing seems to be working. Now, as you will understand for ‘BuddyPress Support’ Theme I find it odd to have such a big bug after having re-activated and everything. I am resistant at completely reinstalling unless it’s the last straw, but I am also quite demotivated as the theme just sent me this answer:

“This is not a theme issue, as you have updated only the wordpress. Also updating wordpress will not delete any records in your DB. Please contact buddpress support team regarding the issue.”

Hence, it’s not them or the theme, but it’s something within BuddyPress. I’d rather not have to change plugin options with 400+ users on my platform, as I really like the flexibility BuddyPress gives me. Hope you understand.

Best,
Fab