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@craftersuniversity

I completely deleted the whole database and FTP server space, and re-installed WordPress and BuddyPress, and then the problem was gone.

That indicates it is either your database or your FTP server space that is causing the problem. You’ll need to determine where exactly the problem is coming from by a process of elimination.

The next step I’d take is to use a brand new database with your FTP server space. If the problem persists then you’ll know the problem lies with your FTP server space. If the problem resolves then you’ll know it is your database causing the problem.

My guess is that it’ll be your files and not your database where the problem lies.

Well there is nothing much to it.

If you understand what BuddyPress is, you know it needs to active a few components – you can decide what components you want to activate when you activate the BuddyPress plugin.

Let say if you don’t want private messages then don’t activate it. If you like your member to message each other you should activate.
Only if you activate components you need to create WordPress pages to show those components – simple right?
BuddyPress plugin helps you do that and creates those pages for you, you can save those default pages or change them to other pages.
Lets say you want your Groups not to show up on the example.com/groups/ page but at the example.com/community/ page then you can do so by just changing the name of that groups page.

Normally every WordPress theme should be able to handle the BuddyPress plugin just fine because BuddyPress uses the default WordPress templates to show all the BuddyPress pages.
But if you have an older WP theme or a very complicated WordPress theme you can get into some troubles of course.
There are some WordPress themes that are made for specific fields like photographers or portfolio websites those themes are often made just to target those fields of work and don’t need social media integrations.

They’ve made it more easy to use over the years.

If you look at where BuddyPress was years ago and where they are right now it’s a huge step forward to WordPress like coding.
Will they ever become as easy as WordPress, no I don’t think so, simply because there are only a few people looking after the code of BuddyPress and bbPress.

WordPress has become so easy because they have thousands of great developers looking after the code on a daily base. Those people push each other to the max, for example you have one guy who’s really good at programming new stuff and another girl who’s very good at understanding how a function should work for ‘less experienced’ computer users. Both can connect very well at the Make.wordpress pages and share ideas that become great code and working products in the end.

BuddyPress and bbPress only have a handful of developers who for the love of coding and this plugin put their time and knowledge into this. #respect!
I think they’re doing a great job and yes I also wished it would go faster 🙂
But hey, who am I to say anything, I don’t know anything and have tried to learn PHP a few times so I wish I could contribute more to those products but I failed to understand.

I do have to say if you know HTML + CSS you can do some stuff in altering the layouts which is great in my opinion.

Next up:
Some people are also living on the wrong foot, because they started with WordPress and it’s so easy to use they think WordPress has become some kinda magic power tool that can let everybody do anything online.
Wrong, it’s easy to use and you can do a lot because of all the free tutorials and code online but there are limits.

Some people have zero understanding of coding and want to become the next Facebook – that’s not gonna happen how easy the code ever will be.

hi @jnkfrancis1978mx,

I think Bowe Codes plugin can help you:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bowe-codes

excluding specific ids isn’t necessarily helpful if you have a regularly changing membership…

FWIW – i am not a programmer… i am good at patching together workarounds tho 🙂
somewhere along the way i found this approach to ONLY displaying my level3 members:

<?php while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member(); ?>

  <?php
       $wp_user = new WP_User( bp_get_member_user_id() );
      if( $wp_user->roles[0] == 's2member_level3' ): ?>

which seems to do the trick – this is in members-loop.php

at the top of that file i have
<?php if ( bp_has_members( 'type=alphabetical' ) ) : ?>

it used to be bp_ajax_querystring() which seemed to continually thwart my efforts.

Now it nicely displays my teachers in alpha order with no headache… granted, it’s by first name, which i will eventually figure out how to fix.

Obviously i’m using s2member with buddypress, but i tried it using basic wordpress roles and it worked as well.

so far so good, at least…

Hi @wpdragon,

I think BuddyPress Security Check plugin is the best.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-security-check/

yes but using the terminology you already have, you are really talking about WordPress roles more then Buddypress roles (which actually don’t really exist) some of the functionality you are looking for would probably require something like s2 member to be fully automated the way you describe.

I would try upgrading to to wordpress 3.8. I am not developer though just a thought.