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Tom replied to the topic Username problems in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting 10 years, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 6 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.