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Check out Roles and Capabilities. If your admin and custom roles share a common capability then you can distinguish these roles from the rest of the roles that don’t have that capability.

See
current_user_can() and user_can()

You would use them like this:

if ( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) {
    // The current user can manage options so do something special.
}

if ( user_can( $user_id, 'manage_options' ) ) {
    // The specified user can manage options so do something special.
}

Here is the BP release archive page:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/releases/

This is what I would do. Disclaimer: Don’t blame me if anything goes wrong with your site. 🙂

Now with that out of the way. First of all, backup your database, your plugins and theme.

Next, make sure you have a development environment set up. Do not do this on a production site!

Disable all BP plugins to be safe.

I would update to the latest version of WordPress first. Then, upgrade to BuddyPress 1.9.2. Then, update to BuddyPress 2.0.1.

Update any outdated plugins and reactivate the BP plugins. Then, test your site out. See if there are any bugs.

Once you’ve confirmed everything is good, then do the same on your production site.

No. You’ll need to add a common capability to the roles you are targeting, see
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_cap

Hi,

Depending on the theme you use (regular WordPress theme, BP Default or a child of it, or a standalone BuddyPress theme), you can override some templates to achieve your goal.

Have a look at the codex starting with this page : https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

If it’s a regular WordPress theme, then you can can add a buddypress folder in it and copy these templates into it respecting the ‘tree’ :
– bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/index.php
– bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/activity.php

Once done, you should have :
– yourthemefolder/buddypress/activity/index.php
– yourthemefolder/buddypress/members/single/activity.php

Then into these two files search for bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' ); and you should see a line above an if statement containing is_user_logged_in().... Replace is_user_logged_in() by bp_current_user_can( 'theminimumcapability' )

where theminimumcapability is the the role capability you’re targeting. See the WordPress codex to define it : https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

Now we are talking very basic WordPressing here.

Go to the appearance/menus screen and from there it’s pretty self explanatory.

click on ‘Create a new menu’, call it whatever you want, then select what pages you would like to appear in the menu.

Underneath the list of WordPress pages you see a tab full of Buddypress options that can also appear in the menu, one of which is the log-in/log-out button.

Regards

Anyway an image says more as words (in our case).

Check if this plugin can help you:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-profile-tabs/

In your first topic you asked: It is possible to turn off this notification?

Yes it is, and the solution is in the first link. The other link is given as reference to the code, who is in a core file. Such core files should never been modified directly.

You need to study a bit WP and BP codex to understand how to achieve this, and learn a bit more about buddypress customization. You are also free to hire a developer by posting at http://jobs.wordpress.net/ or somewhere else.

One easy way to begin is to search and read this forum first i guess.

hi @jjjaay9,

BuddyPress (BP) is a community plugin (a bundle of 8 distinct components and many other features) for WordPress. These components are all optionnal, but in any case, publishing is the territory of WordPress.
If you want to allow front-end publishing for your users, to avoid them going directly into the admin, search some plugin on the WP plugin repo or use a theme who provide such facility.

For example consider the theme P2, it probably contains anything you listed. (so far i remember)

User guide is here.

Group exclusion doesn’t work on a single install for the moment (only on MS).
More advice on this here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5650

one-time username change from the admin area for users after their first login?

@pixieblitz I used http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-username-changer/ last year. Back up DB and check if it works for current BP version or post at developer’s forums.
On another note, https://wordpress.org/plugins/username-changer/ will allow the site/super admin to change the username of each user from wp-admin area instead of diving into DB.

Finally I opened a ticket !

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5700

@shanebp,
forcing a translation is not the best solution, even if it is a solution.
Mine by hacking the core file is not better, as we loose it at the next update.
Your function won’t be loosed, but it should be used by caution, as gettext pass a second time on ALL strings. It’s not dramatical to force the translation for one string, but what will happen if someone use this trick for 20, 50 or more strings ? Performance trouble !

I’ll track this further before opening a ticket.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/gettext
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/gettext_with_context