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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic Problem with emails from Buddy Press in the forum How-to &#038; Troubleshooting</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/problem-with-emails-from-buddy-press/#post-302599</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2019 22:21:09 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi ya,<br />
hmmm&#8230; What do you mean by disposable email? The receiving email address? Or the sending one?</p>
<p>The Sending one is from our server, which is owned by us.</p>
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				<title>Norman Cates started the topic Problem with emails from Buddy Press in the forum How-to &#038; Troubleshooting</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 06:19:36 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m having a very weird problem with Buddypress.<br />
Buddypress 4.1.0<br />
Wordpress 4.9.9</p>
<p>the problem occurs regardless of theme used.</p>
<p>When I get confirmation emails there is a problem in the HTML part of the message.</p>
<p>Part of the HTML seems to be cut off.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a section of the email. There&#8217;s a fragment that is: &lt;hr color=&#8221;#F7F3</p>
<p>You can see that&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1549079"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/problem-with-emails-from-buddy-press/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic When do the BuddyPress xProfile fields get created for a new user? in the forum Creating &#038; Extending</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2018 06:15:59 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks</p>
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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic I&#039;m having notification problems with THIS BuddyPress support forum in the forum Requests &#038; Feedback</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/im-having-notification-problems-with-this-buddypress-support-forum/#post-272629</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2018 05:58:44 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks!</p>
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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic When do the BuddyPress xProfile fields get created for a new user? in the forum Creating &#038; Extending</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 18:45:14 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don’t understand. </p>
<p>Isn’t all the xProfle extra information part of Buddypress?</p>
<p>I haven’t installed an extra plugin that has anything to do with xProfiles.</p>
<p>AFAIK. </p>
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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic I&#039;m having notification problems with THIS BuddyPress support forum in the forum Requests &#038; Feedback</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 23:17:03 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, ignore the last part about the forums dropdown. I found it my menu. In the Forums section. Doh!</p>
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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic When do the BuddyPress xProfile fields get created for a new user? in the forum Creating &#038; Extending</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 23:14:17 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>However, I am using a plugin that sends an email invite to people whoare to become users.</p>
<p>They fill in a simple registration form, then submit it. </p>
<p>And then log in to the website.</p>
<p>At that point, they have access. They haven&#8217;t gone through any Buddypress registration forms.</p>
<p>So I can&#8217;t hook those actions.</p>
<p>At what point in the user&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1151469"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-do-the-buddypress-xprofile-fields-get-created-for-a-new-user/#post-272572" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Norman Cates started the topic I&#039;m having notification problems with THIS BuddyPress support forum in the forum Requests &#038; Feedback</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/im-having-notification-problems-with-this-buddypress-support-forum/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 23:02:27 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I go to my notifications in my profile, I click on a notification. But then it just takes me to the main support page with the list of topics. </p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t take me to the topic I received a notification about&#8230;</p>
<p>Also, is it possible to get the same kind of dropdown I see in the bbPress and Wordpress support forums, with links to:</p>
<p>Topics&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1151461"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/im-having-notification-problems-with-this-buddypress-support-forum/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic Can someone point me at a basic starter for programming using Buddypress? in the forum How-to &#038; Troubleshooting</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/can-someone-point-me-at-a-basic-starter-for-programming-using-buddypress/#post-272570</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 22:30:51 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve tried that using this code:</p>
<p><code>$args = array(<br />
    &#039;field&#039;     =&gt; &#039;Nickname&#039;<br />
);</p>
<p>$result = xprofile_get_field_data($args);<br />
print (&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;);<br />
print (&quot;XProfileData&quot;);<br />
print (&quot;&lt;br&gt;&quot;);<br />
var_dump($result);</code></p>
<p>But all it does is return &#8220;FALSE&#8221;</p>
<p>That xprofile field definately exists</p>
<p>Thanks to someone on WPMU dev, I tried this:</p>
<p><code>$profile_data =&hellip;</code><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1151450"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/can-someone-point-me-at-a-basic-starter-for-programming-using-buddypress/#post-272570" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic Can someone point me at a basic starter for programming using Buddypress? in the forum How-to &#038; Troubleshooting</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/can-someone-point-me-at-a-basic-starter-for-programming-using-buddypress/#post-272568</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 21:35:35 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sweet.</p>
<p>The problem I have is that I&#8217;m used to using variables in loops. $variable etc.</p>
<p>But the loop page is only using functions (AFAIK).</p>
<p>I assume that&#8217;s a standard PHP capability, but I don&#8217;t know how to search for what that&#8217;s called to read up on it&#8230;</p>
<p>I also was ignorant of the alternative syntax for control structures. I&#8217;ve read up on it&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1151420"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/can-someone-point-me-at-a-basic-starter-for-programming-using-buddypress/#post-272568" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic Can someone point me at a basic starter for programming using Buddypress? in the forum How-to &#038; Troubleshooting</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/can-someone-point-me-at-a-basic-starter-for-programming-using-buddypress/#post-272558</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 10:29:28 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’m lookig to get the xprofile data out. And also poke it in. </p>
<p>I’m afraid that you might have to get more basic than what you’ve said. </p>
<p>What’s a loop function and how does it pass data from one function to another. I interpret a loop as a “for each” or a “while” or similar that loops through an array or whatever. </p>
<p>Are these objects or clas&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1150886"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/can-someone-point-me-at-a-basic-starter-for-programming-using-buddypress/#post-272558" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic Can someone point me at a basic starter for programming using Buddypress? in the forum How-to &#038; Troubleshooting</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/can-someone-point-me-at-a-basic-starter-for-programming-using-buddypress/#post-272551</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 06:44:25 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I realised looking at this page:</p>
<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="DriXNp2VWs"><p><a href="https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/loops-reference/the-profile-fields-loop-bp_has_profile/" rel="nofollow ugc">Profile Fields Loop</a></p></blockquote>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"src="https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/loops-reference/the-profile-fields-loop-bp_has_profile/embed/#?secret=DriXNp2VWs" data-secret="DriXNp2VWs" width="515" height="290" title="&#8220;Profile Fields Loop&#8221; &#8212; BuddyPress Codex" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p>
<p>That I have no idea how it&#8217;s getting its data.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no arrays or variables being set. There&#8217;s these functions:</p>
<p>bp_has_profile()<br />
bp_profile_groups()</p>
<p>and so on.</p>
<p>But none of these do any assignments of variables&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1150741"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/can-someone-point-me-at-a-basic-starter-for-programming-using-buddypress/#post-272551" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Norman Cates started the topic Can someone point me at a basic starter for programming using Buddypress? in the forum How-to &#038; Troubleshooting</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 06:32:10 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been wandering around in BuddyPress and Wordpress.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been slowly working out how to get data out of Wordpress.</p>
<p>But I CANNOT figure out how to get data out of Buddypress.</p>
<p>In this page:</p>
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<p><iframe loading="lazy" class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"src="https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_profile_field_data/embed/#?secret=Ro6CWvE3fY" data-secret="Ro6CWvE3fY" width="515" height="290" title="&#8220;bp_profile_field_data()&#8221; &#8212; BuddyPress Codex" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p>
<p>There is some code that indicates how to get data back.</p>
<p>But no matter&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1150731"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/can-someone-point-me-at-a-basic-starter-for-programming-using-buddypress/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Norman Cates started the topic When do the BuddyPress xProfile fields get created for a new user? in the forum Creating &#038; Extending</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-do-the-buddypress-xprofile-fields-get-created-for-a-new-user/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2018 05:27:21 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m trying to set some code that copies the data from a new user across to xProfile fields.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m wondering when that field creation triggers&#8230;</p>
<p>SO that I can insert the function into the correct location using add_action</p>
<p>I&#8217;m hoping that by the time Wordpress gets to the &#8216;user_register&#8217; function, and the actions being added, that the xProfile&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1150684"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-do-the-buddypress-xprofile-fields-get-created-for-a-new-user/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Norman Cates started the topic Would like to show ALL Profile Groups and Fields EVEN if empty in the forum How-to &#038; Troubleshooting</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/would-like-to-show-all-groups-and-fields-even-if-empty/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2018 04:24:47 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I&#8217;m having a really frustrating time getting BuddyPress to show all groups and fields, even if they have no data in them.</p>
<p>I found this page:</p>
<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="E6m3xaoxTr"><p><a href="https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/loops-reference/the-profile-fields-loop-bp_has_profile/" rel="nofollow ugc">Profile Fields Loop</a></p></blockquote>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" class="wp-embedded-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted"src="https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/loops-reference/the-profile-fields-loop-bp_has_profile/embed/#?secret=E6m3xaoxTr" data-secret="E6m3xaoxTr" width="515" height="290" title="&#8220;Profile Fields Loop&#8221; &#8212; BuddyPress Codex" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p>
<p>It talks about the bp_group_has_profile() function. And parameters that can be applied. BUT that function&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1149615"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/would-like-to-show-all-groups-and-fields-even-if-empty/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic Please create Buddypress profile info syncing with Wordpress Profile info in the forum Requests &#038; Feedback</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/please-create-buddypress-profile-info-syncing-with-wordpress-profile-info/#post-272261</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 03:56:17 +0000</pubDate>

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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic Please create Buddypress profile info syncing with Wordpress Profile info in the forum Requests &#038; Feedback</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/please-create-buddypress-profile-info-syncing-with-wordpress-profile-info/#post-272252</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 03:15:31 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>yeah, that plugin is useful, but it&#8217;s only one way. It only goes from BP to WP not WP to BP. </p>
<p>It also has limited WP profile fields available. Although that&#8217;s easy enough to fix by adding items to the array in the plugin&#8230;</p>
<p>The core problem is that once you have BP, there&#8217;s two different places to change the basic profile data. Having&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1140004"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/please-create-buddypress-profile-info-syncing-with-wordpress-profile-info/#post-272252" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Norman Cates started the topic Please create Buddypress profile info syncing with Wordpress Profile info in the forum Requests &#038; Feedback</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/please-create-buddypress-profile-info-syncing-with-wordpress-profile-info/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:48:37 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over that last while I&#8217;ve REALLY been struggling with the disparity between the WP profile info and BP profile info.</p>
<p>PLease, I beg of you, add some functionality to allow two way synchronization with WP profile info and BP profile info.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a limited data set. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s incredibly confusing for everyone that the Profile info does not do a two way&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1139938"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/please-create-buddypress-profile-info-syncing-with-wordpress-profile-info/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Norman Cates replied to the topic Wordpress to BuddyPress profile sync in the forum How-to &#038; Troubleshooting</title>
				<link>https://buddypress.org/support/topic/wordpress-to-buddypress-profile-sync/#post-272239</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:32:07 +0000</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s awesome.</p>
<p>Why is this not a standard part of Buddypress? (Rhetorical question)</p>
<p>IMO, any fields should be designated (or able to be designated) as linked to the WP profile information.</p>
<p>THis is a CONSTANT source of confusion for me and any users. Because some plugins use the Wordpress profile info, and some the Buddypress info.</p>
<p>I get that&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-1139932"><a href="https://buddypress.org/support/topic/wordpress-to-buddypress-profile-sync/#post-272239" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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