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Hi everyone! I’m currently testing BP 1.5 and found some issues, one is that when I look at a member’s profile, next To the avatar are supposed to be the display name and below the @username…

When a user registers and completes the field “full name” (the base name field) for example putting “Juanma Guerrero” in that field and “juanmaguerrero” in the username field, and completes the registration, after activating and looking to his profile page, you can see right next to the avatar “juanmaguerrero” as the full name and “@juanmaguerrero” below.

When I go to the admin panel >> Users >> and edit “juanmaguerrero’s” user, I can set to show publicly the fullname “Juanma Guerrero”. Then I see in the profile page next to the avatar the “Juanma Guerrero” name and below the “@juanmaguerrero“.

Now another issue! If logged in with this user I go to “edit profile” and do anything like hit the “save” button or try to change the fullname field content, an error shows telling that there was an error while saving the changes and once again we go to square one where both times the username is displayed right next to the avatar. And I can’t change this info…

Now checking my Database I see in “wp_users” -> juanmaguerrero I see that this fields and values… (among others):

|| user_login || juanmaguerrero
|| user_nicename || juanmaguerrero
|| user_url || (empty)
|| display_name || (empty)

I hope this information is useful! Does someone encountered this issue? Can you help fix it? thanks a lot!

I found what’s triggering the Issue. I had changed the names of the profile fields from the admin menu (which should not break this anyway ). Changed the Profile Field Group “Base” and the default input “Name” for “Info” and “Full Name” respectively. That broke the saving data system.

Hope the core developers cant fix this, thanks!

I was not able to reproduce either issue. When new users sign up, their display name is correct. And data is correctly synced back and forth between display_name and the BP name field.

Have you changed the name of your Full Name field? What did you change it to?

oops, you answered my question before I asked it

Yes, that sounds like a bug. I have opened a Trac ticket, which you can follow for updates: http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3469

When’s the last time you svn upped your installation? Or are you using one of the BP 1.5 betas? I’ve been told that this issue has been identified and fixed since BP 1.5-beta-2: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3469#comment:1

Hi! @boonebgorges thanks a lot for your help! I’m currently using bp tags_1.5-beta-2-4925 (downloaded the .zip file).

@boonebgorges I just added the changes shown on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4939 and it worked JUST FINE!!!! thanks a lot, man, really! Excuse my ignorance but what is the repo url of this “more-fixed-version” of bp? so that I can checkout this and test “up-to-date” thanks again!

Great!

If you’ve got command-line access to your server, you can check out latest development version via Subversion. Create an empty directory /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/, and then
svn co http://svn.buddypress.org/trunk
The nice thing about this is that you can then upgrade to the latest development version at any time by going into that directory and typing
svn up

It’s not recommended that you run the trunk version on a production server, though – only a development or test server.

Thanks! yey!

Whoa, Just updated to 1.5 current version and this issue started to happen again I’ve checked and the file mentioned in https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4939 is “updated”, some clues on where can the error be? Thanks!

I’m having this same issue as well, sort of. I upgraded my production site to 1.5, since all worked well with my test installation. Upon upgrade, all Full Name fields were replaced with the data from the usernames field. So, usernames are displayed in place of the Full Name in the member header as well as the profile section. Only after reading jorge’s issues did I attempt to change the field names.

What’s odd is that in the activity stream, new entries retain the Full Name while replies to entries display the username – even when a user is replying to their own activity. I’ve tried rolling back to 1.2.10 – just the buddypress plugin itself, not the whole database – but the problem persists. Any ideas devs? @boonebgorges @djpaul

Oh, and also, when logging back in after I’ve rolled back to 1.2.10, Full Names are restored as the default display name across the site.

@boonebgorges Is there any known fix for this or some page were we could search for a solution? thx!

Can somebody sum up the problem in a sentence or two? I’m confused by this thread.

@boonegorges yes, please forgive me. I’m using BP 1.5 (the “definitive” version) and the last version of WordPress. Here’s the thing:

After editing the profile fields of a user and hitting the “save” button, an error shows telling that there was an error while saving the changes and if the fullname of the user was changed, it shows the username insted of the previous one.

(i.e: I set my fullname to “Boone Gorges” and hit “save”. Then the fullname field shows the value of “boongorges”).

Now checking my Database I see in “wp_users” -> boongorges I see that this fields and values… (among others):

|| user_login || boongorges
|| user_nicename || boongorges
|| user_url || (empty)
|| display_name || (empty)

This was fixed on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4939 but that worked on BP 1.5 beta 2 but now with the release of “Lombardi” it got back to the same problem.

Thanks for your help, very much