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Hi. I don’t know what you mean. Can you post an image of the problem to imgur or imgbb or similar?

There are several ways to edit messages. Since these messages are filtered (it’s applied here: https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/5.0.0/src/bp-templates/bp-nouveau/includes/functions.php#L932), you could add something like this in your bp-custom.php file:


add_filter( 'bp_nouveau_feedback_messages', function ( $messages )…[Read more]

Users are considered “active” when they have contributed something to the site. This is judged by whether they have an item in the bp_activity table. You could add fake last_activity items directly to the database table to make it look like they are active users.

You could also change the loop templates (like members/members-loop.php) to actually…[Read more]

Hi @ibes–

I’d try to use Xprofile for managing profile fields. There’s a lot of baked-in goodness with the Xprofile component.

Obviously, I don’t know what will work in your situation, but it seems like name matching is reasonable. You could probably also extend the Xprofile Groups and Fields classes to add some sort of persistent-ID parameter…[Read more]

Hi Tom-

I’d guess that you (or the previous site admin) edited the Display Name field to be called “Name.” You can check by visiting this screen on your installation: /wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup

“Display Name” is usually the first profile field created, so if you inspect the input, and it has the name=field_1, then you can guess…[Read more]

Hi @jannetto96–

I can verify that adding a buddypress.php or community.php file to the root of the active theme directory does result in BuddyPress using that file preferentially over something more generic. Please check that the new file has been created with permissions that allow the _www user (or whatever your webserver runs as) to read the…[Read more]

Hi @javimarcal–

It sounds like you’ll need to visit the updates page in your WP admin dashboard to download and use the language files for BuddyPress and other plugins. The updates page is at /wp-admin/update-core.php

There’s an inline style on your site that is setting the input border to white. It’s most likely being added via some theme setting or via the customizer (because it is being added inline).

Hi @tdurocher–

What screen are you using to change the bbPress “forum name”? (That’s unfamiliar to me.)

BuddyPress uses the user’s profile to manage names, and doesn’t generally interact with the First and Last name fields; it allows the user to manage the Display Name field. For instance, via…[Read more]

Sure, you can add a filter to the bp_activity_can_comment filter point. It is designed to only allow comments on certain types of posts/objects, but there’s no reason you couldn’t take the current user into account in your filter.

You can read more about filters here:

add_filter()

The filter I’m…[Read more]

Thanks @benjiswart for posting the solution you found!

It wouldn’t be wise to edit the wp_user table. You could store the info in the user meta table, or better yet use BuddyPress member types: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/member-types/

Hi @ibes–

You can get the profile field groups and fields by using the function:

$groups = bp_xprofile_get_groups( array( 'fetch_fields' => true ) );

With this information, you should be able to determine whether a field exists and what its ID is.

Best,

-David

Also, if you’re trying to link to the users own profile, don’t forget about the utility url:

http://mysite.com/members/me.

If the user isn’t logged in, it’ll pass them through the registration form to get there.

Actually your code will work either way (no matter what the restrict group creation checkbox is set to). Your function must not be “seen” by WP. Is it in bp-custom.php or in your theme’s functions.php file?

If you uncheck “allow group creation for all users” only site admins will be able to make groups.

Hi @auctionarmory–

That looks promising! The only way you can know if it “works” is by trying it in your environment. Create a couple of test users, one who’s got the somewhat elevated role of “vendor” and one who’s just a subscriber. Then try it when logged in as your test users. If your vendor can do create groups, but your subscriber can’t…[Read more]

See above for a list of user capabilities by role:

2) Choose the users that you want to enable (to create groups). Get the list of WP capabilities for each of them from here (or use a role/capability editing plugin):

https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

Choose one capability which is only shared by those users that will have the…

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Since you’re using BuddyBoss theme (I think) I’d probably ask them first, because the template that loads the message loop is provided by the theme.

That’s a weird problem, though!

The best advice I can offer is to make the registration page as simple as can be, and then ask for more info later, once the user is registered. If the registration page is hard, the user has to _really_ want to join to go through with it.