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@shaungreen
I am not sure I am following you but if you deactivated that plugin and a new user can register and activate an account and login successfully then this is not a BP or bbPress issue. It needs to be taken up on that plugins support forum if you insist on using this plugin. Otherwise you may want to look into alternatives! I have used:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-force-profile/
It forces a user to complete the required xprofile fields before they can interact with the site and seem like a good deterrent against spam registrations.

Did that make sense? where I said “This would work well if (2) wasn’t happening to begin with. Then again if (2) wasn’t happening to begin with you wouldn’t have the problem.” – I should have actually said (1)!

@starapple

This webpage has a redirect loop

This is likely to result from two redirects in place. 1. wp-login.php is redirecting to the BuddyPress login page. 2. The BuddyPress login page is redirecting back to the wp-login.php page.

From this, I’m assuming you’re using the firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page function? This would work well if (2) wasn’t happening to begin with. Then again if (2) wasn’t happening to begin with you wouldn’t have the problem.

The solution here would be to find out how BuddyPress is redirecting people away from wp-login.php and remove that redirect. I think r-a-y’s remove_action gist is what you want. The rest of the code you’ve added I think is safe to remove.

fair enough… I don’t use either…

@aces
Actually the second snippet on that page is a redirect which works well when combined with r-a-y ‘s code.

@starapple
Create a bp-custom.php if you dont have one already. For more on that see:
https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/bp-custom-php/
Then copy both snippets from the below link into bp-custom.php :
https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/5578432

@starapple

There are two different ways to disable buddypress registration on https://gist.github.com/r-a-y/5578432

Please never advise people edit core files. Core files must never be edited as you may cause unintended issues to develop and changes will be overwritten on update.

The code Henry showed is how one displays a tag cloud in template files https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_tag_cloud

The question is how your theme is handling this, directly coded to sidebar/s? some function that is called in some manner? hard to tell how the theme manages it so you really need to address the question to the theme author, also it not really a BP question really as this is a WP function.

@zorro1965
BP is still in active development. You can view some sites here:
http://www.bpinspire.com/
Keep track and feel free to participate here:
http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/

Thank you thank you @cpagan200 and @halo-diehard – you have saved me hours of perplexment and bemusement with your germane intervention.

@jptdesrosiers
Never tried it but you can:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/baw-invitation-codes/
On the front page follow the link to the Developers tab for the version that should work with BuddyPress! Let us know how it works out for you!

I would like to create a section where people can sign in and answer questions and add their image and then have people see their answers.

@cortttt Sure. Use BuddyPress Extended Profile Fields to highlight the best of your community https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/extended-profiles/
Make sure that Extended Profiles is checked in wp-admin Settings > BuddyPress > Components

At the top of the sections would be a running total…total years lost to illness

Check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/ and then customize the plugin to include the running total years lost to illness or use/rename birthday field

@mattadams premium theme clubs usually have forums support for its members. Have you tried searching the forums re BuddyPress compatibility or asking if theme author can provide it? We have no access to the premium file so have no clue what proprietary templating system it’s using that’s circumventing easy integration with BuddyPress.

One solution could be as simple as creating a buddypress.php file which contains the WordPress loop with the_title and the_content tags along with the necessary HTML structure and theme tags. You’d then upload that file to the root of your theme’s folder in server and that’s it.

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

Template Hierarchy

Good luck!

@fpats BP works with nearly all WordPress themes. It doesn’t work perfectly in themes with proprietary templating systems but there’s a solution for that.

You can ask the theme author for a buddypress.php file which has the WP with the_title and the_content among the theme’s template tags for that specific theme. Upload that buddypress.php to the root of your theme folder in server and all BuddyPress components will use that file to autogenerate content.

@life1134
You could try this and take what you need from it:
http://wpmu.org/how-to-build-a-facebook-style-members-only-wordpress-buddypress-site/

I had the same problem and was hunting for a solution only yesterday. After much searching and trying various plugins (some VERY old and inoperative) I found this very new one:

Private BP Pages

Just use that text as the search text for ‘Add New’ from your WP plugins page.

See my review here

https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/private-bp-pages

The edit I mention is important. Seems to work fine but I need to do more testing.

Did you use a one click install for WordPress?