Hi Tiffany,
Thank you for the suggestion.

1. Do you want to randomize the list? or do you want to control who appears first?
2. We do have the ability to select by member type currently. We will be adding the role option in our future update.

Regards
Brajesh

I was wondering about this for a while. It would be FANTASTIC if we could add recently active to the alphabetical order. I want to reward the active members. Some of the featured members that start with
“A” never log in.

Hello Mike,

Thank you for posting. Please try the following code:

add_filter( 'bp_after_has_members_parse_args', function( $args ) {

	if ( ! function_exists( 'bp_featured_members' ) ) {
		return $args;
	}

	if ( bp_featured_members()->in_the_loop() || ( isset( $args['scope'] ) && $args['scope'] == 'featured' ) ) {
		// Available options: Accepts 'active', 'random', 'newest', 'popular', 'online', 'alphabetical'.
		$args['type'] = 'random';
	}

	return $args;
}, 15 );

You can put this code under the “bp-custom.php” file.

For more info: https://buddydev.com/docs/buddypress-guides/what-is-bp-custom-php/

Regards
Ravi