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$user_id = get this from WordPress;
xprofile_get_field_data( $field, $user_id );

The way you are getting members id is only good on member pages. If you are on a blog post you can get the author id, if you want logged in user id get that.

Once you’ve confirmed it is a bug/security issue, you can raise a ticket at BuddyPress Trac. The development team will then take a look.

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

From the dashboard I can’t delete any plugins or themes … RSS Error: WP HTTP Error … I am unable to connect to download new plugins or themes from the dashboard …

@akukskuks BuddyPress activation does not cause those issues. Deactivate BuddyPress. Are the issues still there in your install? If so, you have get WP working without issues first before activating BP again.

How did you install WordPress, via webhost one-click WP install or manually? If you used webhost’s installation script, backup database to computer, then drop tables and start re-uploading WordPress manually via s/FTP. BP does not work well with one-click webhost scripts.

@tduschei you’re welcome. Marking this as resolved.
Added those php tags to that page.

i installed WordPress 3.5.1 with Buddypress plugin 1.6.5

@eraz0r Question is, why are you installing an old BP version when BP 1.7.2 is available for download?

The installation wizard seem to link the pages like this wordpress\activity

Is your WP/BP installed in subdirectory, i.e. example.com/wordpress/? Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and Use the BP Default theme after you activate BP and go through the Installation Wizard (which has been removed/deprecated in BP 1.7 above)

@rkcorp The theme looks great.

While awaiting theme review (up to 4 weeks), please make sure that your theme meets the WordPress Theme Review guidelines. Scanned source code at themes trac and there are issues which need to be be addressed. e.g. scripts and styles in <head> for one.

The following information should be of assistance in getting your theme to meet all the criteria:
* Theme Review – https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review
* Theme Unit Checklist – https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Unit_Test
* Theme Development – https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
* Theme-Check Plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-check/
* Debogger Plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/debogger/

After you’ve updated your theme to meet WP Theme Review guidelines, you’ll just need to upload a new version of the theme. You’ll still retain your place in the theme review queue.

@chase8705
You should always use a child theme instead of modifying the theme directly because if you update that theme then it will overwrite any modifications you made but if you made a child theme then the update will not effect modifications and all mods in the child theme will be preserved. Please see:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/
and
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

In searching for a solution to my problem of unwanted sidebars I found https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/ which provides instructions of how to insert BP specifications into a child theme.

To get the results you want, you need to first create a child theme for your main wordpress theme. Then you put the specifications that apply only to the BuddyPress portion of the site into the child theme. You would need to do this:

So if we want to remove the sidebar for BP pages but not for all WP ‘pages’ or call a specific BP sidebar get_sidebar(‘buddypress’), we could take a copy of page.php and rename it to ‘community.php.’ and have BP use this file for all it’s requirements, as can be seen from the order above the first two files will not be found but the third will be and therefore used.

And so will I – to solve my problem.

One plugin that looks good for preventing registration spam is WangGuard. (Search for it in the WordPress repository.) I’ve just installed it, so can’t tell you if it’s as good as it sounds. (I run a very busy blog and allow commenting by unregistered users. Akismet catches spam and Conditional Captcha deletes it without my seeing it. The latter reduced spam from hundreds of comments a day [marked by Akismet] to near-zero. Only the occasional human spammer gets in.)

Allowing unmoderated registrations is spammer nirvana. 😉 I allowed posting by unregistered users so I could turn off user registration. Now that I’m wanting to use Buddypress, I had to enable registration but installed WanGuard. Within a few hours, I had one registration attempt — even though Buddypress can’t be seen anywhere on the site yet — but no successful registration, thanks to WangGuard. Tomorrow will tell me more.