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Hey guys I had the similar problem. I had 3 different user types. The first two could select between 2 user roles (let’s say “part time student” or “regular student”), as the third one had to have a set role of a let’s say “Teacher”. So I needed two different registration forms that would automatically register with user roles.

So what I did was to create a user profile field called “Account Type” (dropdown select) with the options of “Part Time Student”, “Regular Student” and ” “Teacher”. I then used @webizone’s solution for a second registration form. I created the template and added to it a few lines of javascript, basically to remove the “Teacher” option from the select menu.

<script type="text/javascript">

jQuery("#field_17 option[value='Teacher']").remove();
</script>

Now that template is for the registration of “Part Time Student” and “Regular Student”. For the teacher’s is just the regular registration form with the “Teacher” option selected by default.
Now to register the user roles I’ve used @spiritix’s solution from here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-assign-a-wp-user-role-based-on-a-registration/

And to restrict wich forums users can access I’ve used https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/

Hope this helps. Good Luck and let me know if anyone has a better solution than this. Thanks

I think you need a child-theme and change the header.php to include your custom navigation, I have created a similar menu but did require a lot of work in the header.

When new messages the number of messages shows in the message-icon, links to profile page, also woocommerce integrated and a dashboard link for admin only.

The following is in my custom header.php

First code links to profile.
<li><a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain(); ?>" class="activitylink" title="My Account"><span class="dashicons dashicons-admin-users"></span></a></li>

This code deals with messages.

<li><a href="<?php global $current_user; echo home_url() . '/members/' . $current_user->user_login . '/messages/'; ?>"><span class="dashicons dashicons-admin-comments"></span><span class="commentcount"><?php if (bp_get_total_unread_messages_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) > 0 ) { ?> <?php bp_total_unread_messages_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ?><?php } ?></span></a>
</li>

Since I did not want too much in my nav I only used these buddypress features, more would clog up my website too much.

But where it comes down to is with a child-theme you can make it exactly as you like.

Good luck
P.H.

Hi @plumbingsuperstore – Oof, sorry to hear about the problems, but glad your hosting provider had a way to roll back.

BuddyPress doesn’t touch user credentials, so it’s highly unlikely that BuddyPress itself would be the cause of your admin creds not working after BP was installed. I’m guessing that either there’s some user error here, or there’s another plugin interfering with the process. To reiterate, logging into WP should be exactly the same before or after the activation of BP.

Regarding the 404 error when activating your account: When you install BuddyPress, it should create pages called Register and Activate. It sounds like this worked for Register (since you were able to register a new account), but didn’t for Activate. If you try this again, take careful note of the URLs you see in your browser when registering, the URL that appears in the activation email, and the URL you see in the browser after clicking the activation link. There could be a clue here.

One final tip: You can stay logged in as an admin in your browser and still test as another user. Open a private browsing window: Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/private-browsing-use-firefox-without-history, Chrome https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en, Safari https://www.macworld.com/article/1133941/software-web/safariprivate.html

I don’t know of an existing tool to do this, but you could create it yourself. Use the ‘delete_user’ hook, which fires just *before* the user account is actually deleted; you’ll need to do it this way so that you still have access to the email address. Something like:

add_action( 'delete_user', function( $user_id ) {
    $user = new WP_User( $user_id );
    $email = $user->user_email;
    // ...
} );

If you’re fetching user data – like First Name and Last Name – from an external provider like LinkedIn, then you can use that data to concatenate a value for BP’s Name field. This could be done in JS (Name would perhaps be a hidden field, and filled in after the connection had been made to the LinkedIn API). Or it could happen on the server, based on data passed from LinkedIn, in which case you’d have to interfere with the way that BP’s validation works so that Name isn’t required to create an account (see bp_core_validate_user_signup()). But you’ll always want to be sure that Name is filled in, whether before or after the account is created, because BP uses this value throughout the site to populate navigation, headers, title elements, etc.

You can perform an action on the first user login using the ‘bp_first_activity_for_member’ hook.

Hi. I wonder if you’re getting a little confused as to what Super Socializer and BuddyPress actually do? Although they both allow people to have an account on your site, they’re not really the same thing.

Super Socializer allows you to cross-post your own blog posts onto Facebook, etc, and to then amalgamate any comments back to the original blog post. But the important thing to note is that it’s only really about your blog posts.

BuddyPress (with bbPress) allows you to have people create forum posts and send each other messages, completely independently of any blog posts you may make.

Of course, Super Socializer would also be of benefit to a BuddyPress install as it would allow users to set up and log in to a BuddyPress account using their Facebook login.

I’ve never used Super Socializer, btw.

Hope that helps

Peter

I just registered an account to ask for help after installing BP last night. Not for love nor money could I get it to recognize the auto-created pages and add its code to the Registration/Activation/etc membership pages.

I found open thread after open thread on this exact problem, with the same ineffective “solutions” being offered.

I don’t know why I was expecting differently if I opened my own thread, but I just can’t afford to spend any money on this site at the moment, it must be a labour of love.

Ah well. Maybe the BP gods will be kind to me and my issue is some easily solvable, easily overlooked quibble.

The problem you’re having is really common, not related to any specific code or plugin, and it affects pretty much all WordPress emails (contact form emails, notices, etc) that are sent from a web server instead of through SMTP. (SMTP is what your email programs use.) You never know when a site will start having this problem, so it can appear random, or it can seem connected to a plugin, etc. (It hardly ever is.)

Over the past few years sending mail from a web server has become more unreliable due to the various improvements in fighting email spam: SPF/DKIM/DMARC etc. Using SMTP is the only reliable way to get emails to arrive at their destination (unless you really have your site’s email configuration dialed in).

I could get into all the technical issues/reasons, I’ll spare you. 🙂

Short answer:

• Use an SMTP plugin.
• Create an email account that is only used for sending emails from your site. (Gmail account is fine.)
• Do a search in the WordPress.org plugin directory for “SMTP”, and pick one of those plugins: Easy WP SMTP for example.

Once you get those setup, you should be good to go.

Thought about that solution too but i do not want my users to create 2 accounts just to sign up on my site.

How many profiles am I able to make with buddypress on my website, enough for a school community ?

This should be fine. BuddyPress can handle a huge number of profiles quite easily. Note though, your server hardware will need to be good if there’s lots of site activity.

Is it possible to create PREMADE accounts for all these people (students) ?

Yes but you will need to custom code this.

When people post on the main stream, is it possible for them to post anonymously BUT still logged into their accounts ? Just like ask.fm if anyone remembers that.

Not by default. Each activity item is associated with a member. That said, what is displayed on the front end is entirely up to you (or more specifically, entirely up to your theme author).

@leo1951 – if you switch to default 2015 theme – does the same issue occur?

are you sure the emails are not being sent? OR.. could it be that when bp is running, the emails that are sent are “blockholed” by the liked of geemail and aol mail services?

similar situation for me – then I registered an account using my own non-filtered catch all email going to my domain name – and it came right through.. so the issue was really related to getting through the gates of the big providers – not an issue with bp sending them exactly.

there was a plugin a while back.. hmm. maybe its par tof core now.. is you go to users -> sub menu manage signups – do you have such a menu on yours or is this plugin created?

try resending and checking your junk fail folders – and then check your server for error logs and bounces perhaps.

With BuddyPress/bbPress installed you can add a link to your profile with ##profile_link## in the URL input from Links section bellow. Example: ##profile_link##/messages

You can also include the members username next to the My Account avatar with ##member_name## in the Title Attribute field.

For add Create Groups for everyone type in the Title Attribute field
##profile_link##/groups/create/step/group-details/

Are you using a social media plugin to create accounts? That plugin will likely have a hook you can use. If not then you should be able to request one be added

Hello BP Team,

I’m the Founder of MyKenz. We created a website based on your plugin to connect the schools and clubs of the world and teach soft skills to the youth.
This project is very ambitious but thankfully, we have the support and help of very important international partners. The aim is to help kids and teens around the world to learn what they love but cannot find in school.

One day before launching the website to the public, we had a issue/bug on the “Post Update” feature. It works for Facebook registered users and also for manually created users (via WordPress admin dashboard), but it doesn’t work for new users who created their account through “Registration” process.
By ‘not working’ I mean that when a user tries to post an update on the Activity Feed, he sees a message : “There was a problem posting your update. Please try again”.

Our freelance Dev contacted you to help him but your advices were not enough to solve our issue.
The website is now blocked for 2 weeks and we really are in a big mess.

We really need your help to debug this urgently and apparently we cannot do it without you.

Can you please get inside the site and try to find a solution ? We contacted the devs of the template (Woffice from Alkaweb) and they couldn’t do it… They advised us to get in touch with you.

I beg you to help us as soon as possible.

Best regards and wishes for 2017

You have to adjust the CSS to get the title in black. Title is showing on register page, but white on white !

The code for this is

<div class="col-sm-12">
<h2>Create an Account<span class="span-dot">.</span></h2>
</div><!--/.col-sm-12-->

In the CSS you add
.col-sm-12 h2 { color: #000; }

And if you want to change the dot color too (actually yellow), you use
.col-sm-12 .span-dot { color: #000; }