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Tom replied to the topic Username problems in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 10 years, 10 months ago

Thanks.
Still can’t believe no warning is shown. Strange.

But fixed it by editing the input field, so only letters and numbers are possible to type.
And a message above the field.
Nasty workaround…

Tom replied to the topic Username problems in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 10 years, 10 months ago

BTW: I managed to edit the activation e-mail to include the username. But still no good solution.

Tom replied to the topic how to add new members to groups automatically? in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 10 years, 10 months ago

I think Group-O-Matic could do this. You would need to setup some kind of pattern matching for the school names.

Tom started the topic Username problems in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 10 years, 10 months ago

So I did some tests…
In a standard WordPress install users can enter spaces in their username.
No problem.
E.g. ‘Firstname Surname’ renders as just that, with a space between the words.

But when I activate BuddyPress (no other plugins) with the Twenty Fifteen theme, suddenly the spaces are removed from the username. Without as much as a single…[Read more]

Tom started the topic Create user manually in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 10 years, 11 months ago

Is there a way to create a BuddyPress user (with multiple profile fields) with a function like wp_create_user?

I have an Excel/CSV with user data that I need to import into WordPress/BuddyPress. The users have a lot of extra info I need to map to profile fields. I have not found a plugin that can do this, so I’m looking into doing this manually.