@eforreal79 It will be media plugin specific customization. Almost all media plugin which is compatible with BuddyPress use activity meta to save media related info for particular activities.
@orero It will suggest using Gravity form user registration add-on, it will give you WordPress user meta and BuddyPress xprofile fields mapping option as well as gravity form fields. https://www.gravityforms.com/add-ons/user-registration/, it will take care of all user and field validation as well.
@studial you can add a limit on group creation, like who can create a group. How many groups a member can join, or how many members can be part of a group. It can also be auto join to groups based on their member type during registration.
You can check for these plugins
@normancates, BuddyPress has an only primary field as Name, rest are user-defined.
With BuddyPress, you are also allowed to create additional First Name & Last Name fields, and it will need some custom codes like pasted by @krioteh.
@shieldfire that’s menu items, you can un-assign the menu from footer location, or create a different menu for it with your current pages. BuddyPress features will also be deactivated after deactivation.
@twwebbie You will have user data same and after activating BuddyPress, you will also have Profile for all. Ultimate Member saves profile details to user meta, you can export them as CSV data and with CSV you can import them into BuddyPress xprofile fields.
For UM activities, they can not be imported directly into BuddyPress activities, you can check with your developer to create migration script for UM activities.
@hussainarsh contact your developer, you will need to move all customization out of core file edits. It’s hard to suggest anything code fixes with customized BuddyPress version.
@ermejo these notification are related to LMS or BuddyPress action like friendship request, based on their nature need to find out which plugin or theme functions have added them.
