Hi,

I’ve found that users with the author role can verify themselfes, meaning they have the same access to the buddyverified options like the admin. Please let me know how this can be avoided without having to downgrade the author to a lesser role.

Thanks in advance.

Hello there,
This issue is a minor conflict with the way Buddypress core widget works. I’ll give an example with the Members Widget (Code located in BP-Members/Classes/class-bp-core-members-widget.php)
The way this plugin works is that it adds an image to each member name, using a standard HTML code if that member is marked as verified.
You cannot change the way the plugin works, as it’s the best possible way to display a verified tick.

The problem with the BP Members widget is that is uses “user name” as a tool tip for the image of the users displayed in the widget.
So what happens is we have <img src="memberimgurl" title="$username">
What happens is without the verified plugin $Username = John Doe
Afer the plugin $Username = <img src="verifiedtick.png"> John Doe, which causes the tag to close earlier than it needs to be.

SOLUTION:
Remove the tooltip from the images in the widget as follows:
For example Members Widget:
BP-Members/Classes/class-bp-core-members-widget.php
Go to line:129
<a href="<?php bp_member_permalink() ?>" class="bp-tooltip" data-bp-tooltip="<?php bp_member_name(); ?>"><?php bp_member_avatar(); ?></a>

And replace it with:
<a href="<?php bp_member_permalink() ?>"><?php bp_member_avatar(); ?></a>

What I did was simply remove the tooltip to avoid the problem.

One problem with this solution is that if you update BuddyPress you need to re-edit the code.