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Extended Profiles on Sign up?

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  • Inactive

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Blimey, Guys!…

    Is it that difficult a question?

    : O

    @peterverkooijen

    Participant

    16 years, 2 months ago

    rant removed

    Short version, no, it’s not easy.

    Inactive

    16 years, 2 months ago

    So what’s the long version?

    ; )

    @peterverkooijen

    Participant

    16 years, 2 months ago

    WordPress MU and Buddypress have separate profile/user management tables that aren’t synchronized and in some ways clash. End users will see different profile editing screens, in wp-admin and buddypress front-end, with different data that have nothing to do with eachother. Users are identified by full name, username, nickname, blogname or whatever depending on where in the system you are and how it’s configured. It’s a confusing mess and my pet peeve.

    But I’m not even sure if that’s relevant to your problem, so I removed the rant.

    @nightlyfe

    Participant

    16 years, 2 months ago

    can the default / built in profile system be extended to have advanced & fully developed profiles (custom fields and such)?

    what is gained by going with bp if so?

    @lostdeviant

    Participant

    16 years, 1 month ago

    I also just noticed that buddypress profiles don’t import from wordpress profiles or vice versa. It takes enough tooth pulling to get people to complete one profile. Adding those fields to sign up would be good because required fields would also have some anti-spam benefits.

    @djpaul

    Keymaster

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Why can’t you just write a custom signup page, and get it to list all of the xprofile groups?

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