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Update: the “edit author slug” plugin works, and did not crash my site 2017 Theme, latest version of WP and BP).

It did, of course, destroy my permalinks, but after recreating them in settings, the site is fully functional.

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hang on: I use TML. Is 7.0 causing seemingly random 500 errors for other folks? I’ve been having a few….

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“The user_nicename info also isn’t exposed in the WordPress admin dashboard, which is why you might be confused”

Bingo! That fact, hitherto unknown to me, is the source of my confusion.

I will try some “edit nickname” plugins on a test site, and report back.

If this doesn’t work, am I correct in thinking I can change nicknames using phpMyAdmin?

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Nobody? Was it TL;DR?

One sentence summary: BuddyPress provides @-mention names for my two administrator users that do not correspond to ANY actual names listed anywhere in those user profiles: how can I fix this problem?

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That edit to the php worked–thanks!

I guess the best thing for me to do is to use content-aware sidebars, or some such plugin, to prominently notify users of all forum activity. It’s unfortunately, since forum activity is the single most important form of activity on my site, but it’ll be better than nothing…

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https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/problem-with-forum-reply-notifications/

sorry, Shane–Henry’s been in both places so I figured he knew the deal–

(also, the comment from JJJ on the github code Henry links upthread seems pertinent)

–and thanks for the php; I will test it on my test site…

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Thanks for the help, Henry–that bbPress function turns out to be riddled with bugs 🙁
(I guess JJJ’s “condemned” remarks would imply the same conclusion?)

Is there a way to completely disconnect BuddyPress notifications from the bbpress forums?

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According to bbpress, this is a BuddyPress thing. They don’t think notifications hooks up with bbpress subscriptions.

In case it wasn’t clear, I’m talking about “Notifications,” the BuddyPress feature. The little pop-up number balloons. Not emails (to which one can subscribe). When I search support forums I see that people use these terms very loosely, but I was trying not to do that!

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OK, thanks!

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uh, shane, respectfully, that’s exactly wrong. Doing what you describes makes that text pop up in a notice banner at the top of the page….

I would love to be able to message all users (not email: site message) but that seems, weirdly, impossible.

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One more piece of info, in case this helps somebody help me.

I also have entered a user called “Alter Ego”. That user, it turns out, can only be private messaged at “alter-ego”. (To clarify: “Prof L” gets private messages using “admin”: the @ symbol appears to be working normally, for ‘mentions’)

So is this a problem with username formatting? Have I accidentally introduced this problem with these usernames?

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Sadly, I’m not here with an answer, but another manifestation of this same problem.

Am running WordPress with bbpress and BuddyPress, Twentyfourteen theme, everything updated except I’ve not yet gone to BuddyPress 2.3.3.

My login is “Prof L”; so is my user name. To the best of my knowledge I’ve set “admin” nowhere in BuddyPress……but to private message me, “@admin” is required!

Update: OK, I see that in email settings, one of the options reads as follows:

A member mentions you in an update using “@admin”

So somehow that has been set to my “handle” (is that the right BP term?) But again, I never to my knowledge entered “admin”, nor does it display anywhere on the front end of the site.

I will try the plugin mentioned up thread, and report back–but wanted to testify that this problem is real and ongoing….