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I had this test version of a reordered registration form. It works.

But leaving the one fullname field as it is and splitting separate firstname and lastname to wp_usermeta using xprofile_sync_wp_profile() is probably the better solution – thanks Jeff Sayre and Nicola Greco.

How would that work? Has anyone done it? Can anyone point me to code examples?

I’ll try to figure this out myself, but don’t know where to start. Codex and bp-dev.org provide very little information. I don’t know where else to look.

Why is this not built-in to Buddypress registration by default? It would make the system much more consistent, in particular with an added check to make a two (or more)-part name in fullname required.