BuddyPress

@nipponmonkey: I tried your solution above, but now all my pages are blank and nothing is visible… I added it directly to my functions.php and changed/added absolutely nothing. Did I make an error?

@ffemtkl – to customize those emails, what about trying this plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/new-user-email-set-up/

When you were importing info, were you importing checkbox data? That was alsop problematic for me and I have no idea what format I should prepare that data so it goes in nicely….

Ok, I have feedback for you on the “Import from Ning” plugin if I use it to upload a normal CSV file that is not originally from Ning. I hope the developer @boonebgorges of the plugin reads this to give him some ideas about expanding the ability to use this The plugin does work, but [...]

@ffemtkl – good creative solution I am reading the docs now and will attempt imports and tweaking soon. I will let you know the result.

@DJPaul: tks for the info, though it doesn’t make me smile I searched for other plugins that allow for bulk import that include xprofile fields, but I find none. Any thoughts on ways to handle this? direct import via mysql is not a good solution as my client needs as wysiwyg as possible. Are we [...]

I just re-installed my Buddypress site and switched from WPMU+Buddypress to just normal WP+Buddypress. The plugin here now appears to not work: http://manojkumar.org/user-import-for-buddypress/ I manually uploaded it to my server and activated it and all seemed fine. But I can find no link to the plugin within my adm area. Maybe it does work fine [...]

Ok, I did this the “difficult way” by directly adding into the database. I wish there was a much easier way to handle this

Here is the code I used — you need to tweak it for your won requirenents based on how your setup exists: