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I am not saying that it’s not practical to use but if it is restricting you to create user through this then the workaround can be the solution I have suggested and I think it will send a mail to the user to let him/her know that their account is created on the site.

If you want exactly same functionality like BuddyPress registration then please check this plugin as well https://www.gravityforms.com/add-ons/user-registration/ and this is the link where they notified that it is integrated with BuddyPress https://docs.gravityforms.com/user-registration-add-on/#buddypress-integration

Thanks

so, @shanebp forgive me if resurrecting this thread is a bad idea, but it has the information in it that i have a question on, and i figured it’s easier to use this one to talk about my issue rather than create a new thread and link back here.

i looked at the bp-custom.php file you linked to for this issue and i’m unsure where i can find the correct code to use with it….because i am actually not trying to merely hide members from the directory, but am instead trying to hide them from the directory and ALL other users on the site. i want to make it so that the user profiles basically are unreachable…along with each user’s information.

so i believe (not sure, but i believe) that to achieve this is i would need to make sure the profiles are handled in one of the following ways:
– password protected from view, accessible only to admins/keymaster
– never loaded at all somehow, via bp-custom.php
– the template for user profiles is blanked out somehow, so information is never put in them
– get the buddypress profile for users — when clicking on an avatar — just redirect to the main site page

of course, i have no idea if these guesses are the way to achieve the goal i really want….which is to have only one profile used (i’m using woocommerce’s account screen for their profiles)……i have no need for a buddypress profile to be used in addition to the woocommerce account profile page that i have them already using.

i honestly just want each user’s personal profile page in buddypress to be disabled. so they can’t see their own profile or any profile of others.

whether that involves forwarding users to the site main page when they click on a user, or (ideally) not being clickable at all, or….oh, i don’t know. as long as no buddypress profile is viewable by any member in any way. not even by the buddypress user themselves.

and yes — this would also include hiding member names from search.

note: i don’t care if they can see the member list in the hidden group forums; that is the only place i care to see members listed. but i don’t want those member avatars to be clickable in a hidden group forum. not ever.

thoughts????

That is not default BP behaviour.
BP does not create a page called ‘My Account’.
It sounds like it is due to your theme or some other plugin.
To test, try deactivating other plugins and switching momentarily to a WP theme like 2016.

Two users have reported this, however I’m unable to replicate it. I’ll create an account on your site and see what the notice looks like.

> Typical use cases…

Those scenarios don’t require multiple accounts to use the same email address for registration.

The ‘assistants’ could have their own account.
And then create an interface where a ‘VIP’ could select members to ‘operate and update certain sections of their accounts‘. Or ‘communication from each sent to their same email address.’

The latter use-case is quite simple.

The former would be more work. How granular the permissions are is determined by how much code you want to write.

Ray,
While this is a valid workaround, which we have tried. But its confusing for the end user and they sometimes fumble with the alias format and lose out account access, creates support overhead etc.

The need described by kama is similar to facebook pages or YouTube channels – they are a social network with members having profiles but also multiple members can manage a page or a YouTube channel.
Typical use cases for VIP members who May want their assistants to operate and update certain sections of their accounts without giving away the credentials of their account. The VIP user could allow read/write permissions to certain sections of the profile. For e.g. my assistant can edit my profile, but not read my private message’s or change my subscription type

I don’t think that would work. WordPress only allows one email address to be tied to a user account.

You could probably create a secondary profile field or user marker for additional email addresses, which you could then tie to email communications. Would be a lot of work to add all that custom code to fire those secondary emails though.

If I were a user wanting multiple accounts to use the same email address, I would just use email aliases to create new accounts. This can easily be done with GMail (ray+user1@gmail.com, ray+user2@gmail.com). Then all email communications would be received at ray@gmail.com.

I think you are looking at a few plugins and probably a bit of custom code. One part to your potential solution is that sharing of posts to groups etc. I’ve written a plugin called BP Post Status that allows posts to be displayed only to specific groups. You could couple this with Co-Authors Plus to allow more than one team member to be able to edit and update the post.

That’s one option. Another option is to use BuddyPress Group Documents, this allows documents to be created and edited by the group, it’s another approach to the problem.

Not sure about statement of account, you mean like a paid membership model? Paid Membership Pro maybe, something like that?

I also experienced an issue with new users. One of my new users attempted to login after creating her account, and received a message telling her that she didn’t have access to a form on my website. I checked that plugin’s role settings and they are correct.

I just tried to duplicate her error, and created a test account. Upon clicking the “Complete Sign Up” button, I was directed to a page showing a summary of RSS Feeds I have on my site. VERY weird.

I’ll follow this thread for possible tips since they are recent and similar as they may be derived from the same cause.

Whoops, I forgot instructions on how to change the account details fields. Here, I updated it:

To change the text on the regular (Account Details) fields, make a copy of wpcontent/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/register.php and place it in themes/your-child-theme/buddypress/members (a folder which you will have to create).

Then, open that file and replace every instance of <?php _e( '(required)', 'buddypress' ); ?> with your asterisk (*).

Then, to change the text on profile fields (Profile Details), just add the following code to bp-custom.php (which, if it doesn’t exist, you’ll need to create in wpcontent/plugins).

function bp_change_required_label($translated_string, $field_id) {
		return '*';		
}
add_filter('bp_get_the_profile_field_required_label', 'bp_change_required_label', 10, 2);

This function hooks into the function bp_get_the_profile_field_required_label() in buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-template using the supplied filter. It takes the translated “(required)” string and replaces it with “*”. which will also remove any translation – but that should be acceptable for a symbol in most cases.

@grounder BuddyPress use same user table to display users, it does not have its own instance to save the password. It might be possible you are using some custom approach to create an account, and it does not set the password, and WordPress is generating an auto-generated password for it.

It works now for me.

I have just registered a Hotmail account and a Gmail account. Both works.

There some things you can try:

– Go to dashboard -> settings -> buddypress -> pages and change the activation page associated to buddypress, now it’s “Activar” (I think you are Spanish, I’m from Málaga), You can create another page called “Nuevo usuario” and then associate this new page to BuddyPress.

– Restore the emails (Dashboard -> tools -> BuddyPress)

It should work now for you too once you are not adding the Unsubscribe header anymore.

The users get this message when they have yet to activate their account, it’s a basic feature of BuddyPress – each new user gets sent an activation email.

If you got to your wp-content/plugins/buddypress directory you will find the US translation of BuddyPress – buddypress-en_US,po, make a local copy of this and load it into PoEdit, you can then create your own translation, changing the words how you link, just search for the phrase you want to change.

@richard2001 Could you please elaborate your situation.
To my understanding
1. If you are not receiving email, the probable cause could be with the server hosting. Kindly create an email account with your server hosting and use the same email account in the WordPress. Go to Settings > General to change default email address.
2. Go to Buddypress setting and check if the Notification option is checked.