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Found this plugin that worked for me:

Wbcom Designs – BuddyPress Activity Filter

> This requires that the site admin be able to add a validated member without the user log in.

So they can make the payment without signing up as a WordPress user on your site?
If they don’t have a login name, then they don’t have an ID and cannot be added to a group – by any method.

If they do have a WP login name, then you can add them in wp-admin.
Go to Groups, mouse-over a Group Name and click Edit.
On the Edit screen you will see this section: Add New Members.

Hi Reiner, I’ve got two options for you. Firstly I’ve built this into a plugin of mine – BP Messaging Control – https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-messaging-control/

So that’s the easy option.

The alternative is to add this code to your functions.php file in your child theme folder:

function venutius_user_deletion_notify( $user_id ) {
	
	$site_admin_email = get_option( 'admin_email' );
	$userdata = get_userdata( $user_id );
	$subject = __( 'User deleted', 'bp-messaging-control' ) . ': "' . $userdata->user_login . '"';
	$message = __( 'A user has been deleted.', 'bp-messaging-control' );
	$message .= "\r\n\r\n";
	$message .= __( 'User Name', 'bp-messaging-control' ) . ': ' . $userdata->user_login . "\r\n";
	$message .= __( 'User ID', 'bp-messaging-control' ) . ': ' . $user_id . "\r\n";
	$result = wp_mail( $site_admin_email, $subject, $message );
	
}
add_action( 'bp_core_pre_delete_account', 'venutius_user_deletion_notify', 10 );

I think you can do that with a WP filter

add_filter( 'wp_mail_from', 'custom_wp_mail_from' );
function custom_wp_mail_from( $original_email_address ) {
    //Make sure the email is from the same domain 
    //as your website to avoid being marked as spam.
    return 'webmaster@mydomainname.com';
}

wp_mail_from

I have that exact same problem with a custom theme. Tried switching back to wordpress theme and disabling all extensions. It did not work.

The buddypress rest api is not installed automatically (like the wordpress api) right?

So if I haven’t specifically installed the BP REST API then I can just update normally in my next scheduled site maintenance, correct? Just checking.

Hi Akstar,

Existing users will become BuddyPress users, however their BP profile information will be blank, ideally you’d add some code to force them to complete any extra items you have added such as https://github.com/buddydev/bp-profile-completion.

That’s pretty much the only difference.

Another feature you may want to think about is if you want the BuddyPress pages to be public or only available to logged in users. For that you would need a plugin, such as https://wordpress.org/plugins/lh-private-buddypress/

Other than that it would be case of enabling the BP features you want for your site.