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No one knows where this string is located ( in which file ? ) ?

Not sure exactly what issue you are facing with bbpress.

@jamesdonegan

You can check out and download older versions at https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/developers/

1.8 is at https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.1.8.zip

@pelaso
It is really only so much we can do with the info provided, and as @hnla stated it is a guess as to what could be wrong. Maybe you should consider hiring a developer. If you decide too then you can leave your job and contact info here:

BP Jobs Board

As well as here:
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
Good luck!

You have to give the field a title when you add new profile fields via WP Admin > Users > Profile Fields. Whatever you’ve chosen as your field title is what you should use

you’re right, I just tested myself and it doesn’t do the job. This will work – I just tested it out on my dev install:

<?php 
    if ( $string = xprofile_get_field_data( 'BIO', get_the_author_meta('ID') ) ) {
        echo $string;
    }
?>

Note: Replace BIO with your field name.

@3rdaxis did you change the field name to the name of your bio field?

Found where to create a Trac and have done that.

I am having this exact problem, too, @hnla. The same thing was happening awhile back, and somehow it was resolved… but now it’s back.

I am using WordPress 3.6.1 and BuddyPress 1.8.1
I have created a custom child theme to the bp-default. I have tried disabling my child theme, and the same issue persists.

I am unable to find a download for 1.8 to revert the registration.php page. (Found lots of information about 1.8, but not an actual download.)

THank you for your help.

(I am also happy to create a Trac ticket, but I’m not sure where/how to do that.)

I do hope they didn’t really say could only be fixed by buddypress support. Generally email issues are not BP problems, and currently BP has no issues I’m aware of in sending registration emails, which also is really a WP function.

Easy check that should have been run first would have been and still ought to be tried is to disable BP and simply try registering an account under WP.

Often email issues fall under the heading of ‘Domain Record’ issues i.e email servers rejecting an email as it can’t be verified as authorised on the sending domain or there’s no PTR record or SPF record, or simply that the server sendmail is at issue, these though are not really problems that lie with WP or BP which normally happily send out emails.

Search this forum though as these issues have been discussed many times and you’ll find more info in the archives.

@icepin while I write all my code as text domain translatable and if a plugin provide for a languages file lookup I would hardly ever really call the above ‘easy’ when a user simply needs to change one little character and where we’re not talking about a distributed theme or plugin.

@idavidson

The file that contains that translatable string is register.php if your theme is running bp in theme compatibility mode then the file being used lives in /bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/

However you are NOT advised to edit theme files residing in the core plugin, if you wish to directly edit a template file you must make a child theme of the theme you are using and copy the template files over and edit in the child theme.

instruction for that may be found in the BP codex, and child theme creating guides in the WP codex.
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

N.B. Any criticism of the above grammar or general syntax will be ignored! 🙂

the easiest way would be to create a folder called “languages” in your wp-content folder and put a copy of buddypress.pot from wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-languages.

– Rename the new buddypress.pot from “languages” to “buddypress-en_US.pot”
– Download Poedit – http://www.poedit.net/download.php – and install it
– Open “buddypress-en_US.pot” with Poedit
– Press Ctrl + F and search for “Registering for this site”. The string should appear.
– In Translation field put any text you want. It will simply replace the original text.

This is pretty much the best way to use your own words in your BP installation rather then modifying the core files. It might sound complicated but it’s actually pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

Cheers

It all very much depends on where exactly you want to display the bio info.

$user_id is the key variable you need, but obtaining this value is done differently depending on where you are on your website.

If you want to display bio info in a member’s blog post footer then add this to your theme’s single.php file:

<?php
$user_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
echo xprofile_get_field_data('field=BIO', $user_id); 
?>

Note: You will need to change BIO to whatever you’ve called your bio field when setting it up.