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@oscar582234,

Try the above combination of tips by @henrywright and mine…

Additionally, use the following plugin to create your First Name and Last Name fields as XProfile Fields:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/

Then use the above plugin to sync them as necessary!

@boblebad,

What you trying to create is a bit interesting and it might take about 3 or 4 plugins to manage fully… So follow the steps below and you’re well on your way:

Foremost, Install this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/
(NB: That is for the More Profile Fields Option)

Step 2:
Install this plugin to achieve the “ticking off boxes, and also make them searchable, like vegetarian, vegan, smoking a.s.o. ?” that you asked:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-better-directories/
(Although the plugin is a little old, the author is a BuddyPress core developer – see if you can work something out with him)

Step 3:
The 4 Membership Plans Stuff is best handled by the free version of the plugin below,
https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/

Step 4:
About the Profiles Completion Meter (35% Completed and so forth, but without the quality stamp!)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-profile-progression/

The quality stamp part is best worked out with the developer of Sweet Date. Just request custom development services from him and you’re good to go.

Hello, I have the same question. Could somebody explain where to put that code ?

Best regards,

I have the exact same problem but I am using the Buddypress Default theme – and I have never tinkered with the code.

I would be very grateful if anyone could give me an idea of what might be going on and how to fix it.

buddypress.php placed in the root of a newly created directory ‘buddypress/’ or ‘community/’ will act as the main template file for all BP screens whether directory or account screens, group screens, it’s the wrapper as it were that provides the main header, sidebar,footer includes and main markup your chosen theme needs, essentially it is a replica of page.php from your main theme, having buddypress.php means you can make changes to that file that will only affect BP screens e.g get_sidebar(‘buddypress’).

when your happy with the basics then read the extended guide which explains further means of creating custom bp templates.

This is very helpful, but the counts for active members on the Member Directory page are still incorrect. I copied the members-loop.php into a buddypress/members directory in my child theme and added the code where you described, but obviously the count for “All Members” and “Viewing x of x members” are coming from somewhere else.

Rick, glad that we’re clearing up some confusion. To confirm, yes, messaging is totally different than posts. Please read the codex links provided. Also, if you really want to take buddypress for a test drive, set up a development site either on a live site or right on your own computer using http://www.instantwp.com/ and then add some “fake” users and messages, and data using this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-default-data/

And then jump in there and click around like crazy, edit, message, post, and see what happens! this is the best way to really check things out without doing any damage to your own site. Nothing compares to getting your hands dirty and mucking about (in a safe test environment).

This way you can really understand what messaging is, what private messaging is, broadcasting from admin to all members, etc. You can also add/remove plugins and check out their functionality, all in the comfort of your own computer’s hard drive or a test environment set up at a test domain/host that you control/own.

Also, keep in mind that buddypress has many features but you do not have to enable them! for example, there is a feature for groups. But you don’t have to enable it! you can add a forum (using bbPress) but you don’t have to! you can have private messaging so members can send private messages to each other… but, you guessed it, you don’t have to enable this feature. Also, another powerful feature is that you can give members of your site the ability to start their own blogs! this is called “multisite” but you can choose to enable this or not. Same goes for “friend connections” feature… etc.

My suggestion is to start with a very simple starting point and then as your community grows, add features that they require or need. It is a far too common mistake for new buddypress users to just turn everything on at the start.

If you don’t want to restrict your membership in any way or to collect money online from them then you don’t need anything else other than buddypress and wordpress. But look through the membership plugin links I provided to familiarize yourself with them and their features just in case. A few are completely free and still have tonnes of features.

Finally, keep in mind that spam registrations do happen. There are many guides and tools to mitigate spam membership registrations. Here’s a good start:

Preventing Spammer Registration

Google is your friend for more info on spam fighting.

You can put this function in your theme functions.php or bp-custom.php

It will prevent the creation of activity entries for the items in $exclude
It will only do that going forward – it won’t remove existing entries.

You need to find out what the activity type(s) is for achievements and add it to the exclude array.

function dont_save_various_activities( $activity_object ) {
 
    $exclude = array( 'friendship_created', 'new_member' );

    if( in_array( $activity_object->type, $exclude ) )
        $activity_object->type = false;
 
}
add_action('bp_activity_before_save', 'dont_save_various_activities', 1, 1 );

You can read more on this great codex page by imath
https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/bp_activity_add-2/