Hi Daniel,

Could you point me to the page where they offer that suggestion?

In my opinion that’s not the correct way to customize the members loop when the include query arg is present, because it will certainly break all the plugins that use the same query arg, as BP Profile Search does.

If you are interested I could post the correct way to achieve the same customization.

You can add this code in your theme functions.php or in bp-custom.php:

add_action ('bp_ajax_querystring', 'expert_inclusion', 10, 2);
function expert_inclusion ($qs=false, $object=false)
{
	if ($object != 'members')  return $qs;

	$args = wp_parse_args ($qs);
	$users = explode (',', include_experts ());

	if (isset ($args['include']))
	{
		$included = explode (',', $args['include']);
		$users = array_intersect ($users, $included);
		if (count ($users) == 0)  $users = array (0);
	}

	$args['include'] = implode (',', $users);
	$qs = build_query ($args);

	return $qs;
}

This seems to work 🙂

function expert_loop_querystring( $query_string, $object ) {
    if ( ! empty( $query_string ) ) {
        $query_string .= '&';
    }
 
    $query_string .= 'type=alphabetical&include='.include_experts();
 
    return $query_string;
}
add_filter( 'bp_ajax_querystring', 'expert_loop_querystring', 20, 2 );

Is that to stop it filtering if it isn’t the members loop?