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You appear to be using the BP template pack so more than likely step 3 manually editing the BP files to match the themes required markup structure hasn’t been completed.

As this is a new site and BP now has theme compatibility built in from 1.7 using the template pack ought to be considered a redundant exercise now. I would disable the template…[Read more]

Not sure how that plugin may affect things but normally you have to login to the site to actually tell BP a user is now active by adding a value to the last active field in the db

What response are you looking for then?
An agreement?
Or someone to code you a plugin given you’ve title this thread ‘Plugin Request:’

This is a site build issue, a themeing problem, something the developer would deal with, not really sure why this would be a plugin or anything to do with core app really.

There are no ‘Staff’ this is an open source project and the forum is maintained by volunteers, in fact all involved are volunteers from lead /core developers to moderators, contributors and general kindly people that try and give advice, an important distinction to make.

Problem? carried forward into each upgrade! that is a bit of an assumption…[Read more]

Always perform a quick search first, sort of topic that has come up a few times.

https://buddypress.org/support/search/?bbp_search=profile+fields

keep scrolling down through them, you’ll find example code to work from.

Start using it in testing if possible Henry ( assuming your not just referring to production sites 🙂 ), feedback from people like yourself that grasp things is invaluable to the project, you may well spot an issue that’s passed the rest of us by

@davol Why are you using the bp-default theme by way of the template pack plugin, the whole thrust of BP 1.7 was to provide theme compatibility, template pack plugin ought to be considered redundant now for new sites/themes.

You should really remove those copied directories and the plugin and just let theme compat take over. If you need to modify…[Read more]

No they wouldn’t as you are working in a child theme.. aren’t you! if not you should be.

I’m not sure but scanning your post possibly suggests smething amiss in your understanding of BP, as modemlooper points out hiding fields is easy and along with the privacy controls on BP profile fields you can ensure that they are set to both required and…[Read more]

the answer to that question is in the codex 🙂
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_redirect – it doesn’t exit automatically!

bp_is_current_component( ‘activate’ ) you’re trying to tell the page the active component is ‘activate’?

whereas ‘activate’ == bp_is_current_component() works or at least does for other components, I’ll always var_dump things like this out to see what they are returning

Given that BP 1.7 introduced theme compatibility, and 1.8 will extend that considerably as we have now brought into play a new level of template hierarchy along with placement of assets CSS/JS in BP directories the question is moot, as you can do either but a child theme is always a child of whatever parent theme you have chosen to use – unless…[Read more]

Please check the codex for documentation first:
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

If that doesn’t help then post back with current issues.

or you could study the DB tables and manually manipulate the fields, not really that difficult. as for emails you can send if you configure a program such as sendmail along with an email account set up with a catchall forwarding to the main email box.

@benjino before Henry or bp-help posted if you had searched and scrolled down you would have seen the post to which I referred, but no problem :).

Guys this has been covered! which is why I requested a site search, not to be mean but to follow a forum principle of not repeating itself and of using it’s archives. 🙂

the latter functions miss an important trick covered in a previous post on this by mercime and in the first example here by Henry and will be, in all likelihood, spitting out the…[Read more]

You’re going to need to get some basic skills especially in the PHP area if working with WP/BP as ther is a need quite often for running up functions – in terms of files to hold that WP provides only one really in themes functions.php, BP provides bp-custom.php that can initiate functions for BP regardless of theme in use.

For the nav question…[Read more]

it always is the bloody issue in so many cases, wish people wouldn’t install the damned things unless there’s a real need. 🙂

As I said on the other thread this isn’t a BP issue. Blog is a somewhat generic term it doesn’t really refer to any WP component, BP can refer to ‘blogs’ but that is in the case of WP multi site activated. For BP to work out of the box you need do nothing, although if you want the registration process functioning that is a WP function managed…[Read more]

You have caching plugins running so check those out as possible causes?

You would probably need to remove the link from the WP dashboard menu screen as it’s not really possible to apply any logic from that point and instead write a function to place a link to the register page if !is_user_logged_in() and then filtered through ‘wp_nav_menu_items’

Failing that approach you could take the slightly more cumbersome?…[Read more]