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First you said:
>I disabled registrations using “Registration is disabled” from the network admin settings/network settings and the spam registrations continue.

Now you say:
>– disable registrations (network admin) and the automatic reg stops

Not sure why things have changed, but it’s a clue.

btw – did you change the salts in your wp-config ?
https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Security_Keys

yeah, there aren’t any wordpress filters for that functionality in bepro listings yet. You will have to edit the file templates/form.php somewhere around line 61.

You could change the checkbox html to be a select box and use the same iterator to create the options and check if they have already been selected.

> they’re totally inaccessible afterward
They are accessed on the front-end on a member’s profile page.
your-site.com/members/peteratomic/profile/

>Clicking the “your profile” link in the backend brings up a page
In the Dashboard, that link takes you to the DashBoard > User > Edit screen which is a standard WordPress screen.
If you want to view and edit BuddyPress Extended Profile fields on that screen,
then you might be interested in this premium plugin:
http://www.philopress.com/products/bp-dashboard-user-profile-edit/

I’m having the same issue. I’m also without BP Group Hierarchy.

I’m guessing a brute-force approach would be to try and add in a redirect to the next step, in order to skip the blank step screen. I’m trying to hook into the ‘bp_get_group_creation_form_action’ filter (used to determine where the user goes when he/she clicks the “Next” button in the group creation wizard). However, when I redirect a user by changing the target URL (with a simple text replacement), WordPress gives me a “are you sure you want to do this?” screen. In other words, there seems to be nonce protection that I can’t get around. I’m going to try again later.

Again, the above is very much a brute-force and inelegant (and possibly erroneous) approach.

@posh-john shanebp’s link above will explain the basic approach, however we do provide documentation that covers this sort of area and many others too; please make sure you have given those a good read as they will answer many points you may have, issues beyond what is covered in the documentation are then suitable for asking on the help forum.

Usually i try to avoid modifying template files except where absolutely necessary It is never absolutely necessary unless you are taking over support for that code. One of the most important aspects of the WordPress Theme api is it’s template hierarchy, it’s this that allows ‘Child themes’ to be created, all correctly written themes will be able to work with child themes if the parent theme doesn’t allow child themeing it’s a good indication that you should drop it like a hot cake and find another.

BuddyPress hijacks the WordPress loop and replaces content with component content. So, any posts returned are wiped out and replaced

You could try a custom second loop but there may be issues

Hi Barry, it sounds like you’re not clear on what bbPress and BuddyPress are exactly. So let me try to clarify it for you.

bbPress is a plugin for wordpress which provides you with forum functionality. And because it comes from the same folks who created wordpress, it works great with wordpress and other WP plugins.

BuddyPress is a plugin for wordpress which provides you with a social network functionality. What does that mean? Well, imagine facebook, myspace, or any other social media platform – they have profiles, people can create and fill in their userpages, people can message other people privately, they have an activity page which shows their activity on the site, etc.

bbPress and BuddyPress are two totally different plugins but they work together and can be integrated with one another. But if you want to use just one of them, you can. You do not need to run both.

I’ve tracked down the video I think you refer to:
http://labsecrets.com/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/

And I can clarify that for you as well. BuddyPress used to have its own way of creating forums, called “BuddyPress Group Forums”. But that functionality is deprecated because the developers decided to rely on bbPress rather than duplicate it within BuddyPress. So the latest version of BuddyPress doesn’t have group forums but instead relies on bbPress.

It all depends on what you are trying to do. What you are seeing in “the two forum apps merging to become one” is simply a deep integration between them so IF people want to use both, they can do so with ease and get the fullest functionality out of that combination use.

It sounds like you want a forum. If that is the case, forget about BuddyPress and just use bbPress.

Hope that helps!