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I would like to reshape the registration page

1st:

I would like divide it horizontal (instead of vertical).

2nd:

I would like to have boarders around each of the two parts ‘account details’ and ‘Profildetails’ – gladly similar to that design:

via http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/guides/modifying-the-registration-form/

3rd:

I would like to insert explanatory text between the two headlines and the corresponding form field.

Below ‘account details’:

‘Diese Daten werden für Deine Registrierung als neues Mitglied und die Einrichtung Deines eigenen Blogs (Webseite) benötigt.’

‘Profildetails’:

‘Diese Daten werden künftig in Deinem Profil angezeigt. Einige Angaben sind verpflichtend, um aussagekräftige Profile zu erhalten; bei anderen Formularfeldern ist es Dir selbst überlassen, ob Du Angaben machst oder nicht.’

4th:

I would like get all profile field groups displayed on the registration page.
I know that I get all profile fields displayed on the registration page, when I assign all fields to ‘base’-field group. But I would prefer to use the field group titles for structuring the registration page.

So, it should be lilke:

Basisinformationen
– Name
– Teamgründung bzw. Geburtsjahr
– Geschlecht
– Ergänzende Hinweise zu Deinem Geschlecht

Kontaktdaten
– Telefonnummer
– Eigene Webseite
– E-Mail-Adresse

Geographisches
– Staat
– Bundesland
– Landkreis bzw. kreisfreie Stadt

5th:

I guess, it would be most comfortable, to have within the Dashboard check boxes for deciding, whether a certain field group or field should be displayed on registration page or not.

6th:

a) I would like to delete the check box ‘Ja, ich will eine neue Seite erstellen’.
And I would like, that the users have not only to decide for a user account, but automatically for a blog as well.

b) I would like to delete as well: ‘I[ch] möchte, dass meine Webseite in Suchmaschinen erscheint und öffentlichen Verzeichnissen um dieses Netzwerk herum.: Ja Nein’.
Instead ‘Yes’ shall be the standard answer for all blogs of the network.

I’m pretty new to WordPress and BuddyPress (I’m more familiar with .NET stuff). I’m struggling getting a new BuddyPress site set up. I’m just testing on a local machine for now, and using WebMatrix 3 to set up a test WordPress site (web matrix installs 3.5.0 I believe). I then do all the WordPress updates which brings me up to 3.5.2. After that, I’ve made 2 separate attempts to get BuddyPress working. In one case I tried installing BuddyPress directly (1.7 I think). In the other case, I tried installing Commons in a Box (and I end up with BuddyPress 1.7 again).

I’ve tried using the “Twenty Twelve”, “BuddyPress Default” and “Commons in a Box” Themes. I’ve tried various settings for Permalinks.

The rendered pages all seem to have URL’s like: “http://localhost:SomePort/activate/” or “http://localhost:SomePort/Members” when pointing at BuddyPress component pages. However, the pages’ actual permalinks seem to be “http://localhost:SomePort/index.php/Members” or “http://localhost:SomePort/index.php/activate”, etc. (i.e. the permalink includes “index.php” in the path).

I’ve tried the BuddyPress ‘repair’ button that comes after the “The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activity Streams, User Groups, Members” message. I created a new blank page for each corresponding component and assigned it. When I click the [View] button beside each, the URL used is something like “http://localhost:SomePort/index.php/register”. However when I view the live site, the URL that actually gets rendered for the registration page is “http://localhost:SomePort/register” (it’s still missing the index.php file in the path.

Here is my site: http://www.rtxi.org. I had an existing WP v3.2.1 installation and installed the following plugins through WP admin: BuddyPress v1.5 and BuddyPress Template Pack v1.2. I was using an existing template and edited the pages to fit in my page layout, but I see the same issue when I use a standard Buddypress Template. I went to the BuddyPress settings on the WP Admin side and selected the option to install a single site-wide forum rather than group-based forums. I also edited my forum and topics base slugs to /support and /support/topics b/c there was a message about conflicting pages. The activity stream, member, and registration BuddyPress pages work fine. They are assigned to pages in the Buddypress settings and my member directory has a search box. The Forums is set to a page called “BB” and nothing shows up there, it is a blank page and I think it’s supposed to be the Forums Directory with a search box. I manually created a WP page called “Forums” and set it to point to /support. So I have a menu item that gives me links to the two forums I created and everything there works fine.

I really need users to be able to search the forum from the user side of WP. I want a search box that either searches both forums, or at least a search box when someone is viewing all the topics in one forum. I looked at the tutorial for doing a unified WP/Buddypress search function but the quick install there didn’t work for me and I haven’t looked into it further. I also looked for the search forms in the Buddypress php files and copy-pasted some snippets into the forum pages, but none of that worked. Is there a bit of code that will do this?

Maybe I’m not understanding, not maybe, definitely, not understanding the whole roles and user blogs relationship within Multisite and Buddypress. I’m getting all kinds of craziness happening Seen here and now after years of registering users and blogs being created and adding users to some sub sites and not others, I’m left with users belonging to some sites not others, some where superadmin is a “hidden” admin on some subsites where he can’t be removed! And I’m just confused to how all of this is “supposed” to be set up right where I don’t get the “as seen here” issue above. I’m gettting some users who don’t even get assigned a primary blog at all while others get assigned a random site as their primary blog. I just want to get to a point where all admin sites are well managed as far as users go and where user blogs are clear of random subscribers, where everyone is either admin to their own blog or they belong to the mainsite and all is good.

What is the best way to have roles assigned to users on a buddypress multisite install.

I would think all members should belong to the main site at registration, right? Not any other admin site in the network. At least just the main site.

Once,if, the member creates a blog, that particular blog becomes that members primary site, right?

If a user contributes a post to any other site in the network, does that site become part of that user’s sites? as seen on wp-admin/network/users.php where users get listed a column called “Sites” with blogs they’ve somehow become part of.

When I activate/reactivate buddypress what happens that chaos occurs to my wp_bp_user_blogs table where users begin getting assigned different blogs that they are not admin on. And superadmin blogs begin getting dropped from the table all together.

What should a regular user’s role be in a buddypress multisite network? What the heck is “member” and “inactive” role.

Why do users have to be assigned a role to be recognized as an author on another blog on a network? I have many sites in network that have frontend posting forms where users can submit posts. I trust that because they are part of the network that this would be no big deal…often times I need to add this user to the specific blog for different authoring things to work properly and for the member to be recognized as the author. So that’s where I have to add members to sites that begins to muck things up in the questions above.

how can I reset the primary_blog in the wp_usermeta table for all users to be the main site?

How can i reset the blogs and userids in the wp_bp_user_blogs table to be only superadmin and his blogs & users and their blogs that they are admins on…ONLY.

How is all this related within the world of bp!? It’s causing me a lot of pain right now! Please help. Can someone point to a BP Multisite User Roles for Dummies post somewhere? And also a plugin that will “force” user roles to all network members the way I want them.