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My Avatar Default was set already to Mystery Man.

So let me ask this…

Maybe it is not overwriting because it already saved the mystery man avatar to their profile? Is that what is happening?

I am trying to get BuddyPress to use my default avatar for all instances where the member has not yet loaded a picture (or avatar). But maybe my thinking is wrong…

Please confirm that I can or cannot overwrite the mystery man avatar, at anytime, on the fly?

Thanks @r-a-y !!

Ughh…excuse my frustration.

Scope and Objective: to enable the Admin (me) to create user accounts. To capture the username created and pro grammatically write to an external file in order to allow user to authenticate though our private authentication method. And to enable new user to receive a welcome email at time they get setup.

I do not care anything about when/how/why/or where they login or activate themselves so as to appear in BuddyPress. That is all down stream stuff that has nothing to do with my process.

The only effective hook I have found is the `add_action(‘user_register’, ”);` Works like a charm.

However, in order to get the user to be seen by BuddyPress I need to go through step #2 and Add New User in the Buddypress Admin page. That is where I tell WP/BP they are allowed access to the “site” and it is also where they get their role assigned.

I have over 200 users to setup in the next week. If I could just cut down my process time by 50% — that is to eliminate the 2 step process and make it a 1 step process — I would be a little happier.

I need to get the Buddypress equivalent hook to WP’s `add_action(‘user_register’, ”);`

That is why I am asking for an enhancement to BP to get an equivalent hook. Down the road it will make my setup life easier.

I have some screen shots over here –> http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/59649/how-to-hook-into-add-new-member-in-buddypress/59937#59937

They might help trigger something you have done or seen in your BP implementation process…

Thanks !!!

With some assistance from @r-a-y:
The bp_core_signup_user hook does something after BP has registered the user. Registering the user does not mean the user is activated yet.

I ran a test:
`function myTest() {
echo ‘fingers are crossed’; exit;
}
add_action(‘bp_core_signup_user’, ‘myTest’);`

I created a new user in the BuddyPress Add New User form. I checked the box to not send an email.

Results:
(1) add_action() interceptor did not echo and halt — not what I desired
(2) new user got an email — also, not what I desired

Any suggestions @r-a-y or other BP Guru’s? Thanks

Thank Roger,

It took a month to get a response from the developer, thus me trying to figure it out in the meantime. Their answer:

“Yes, this is in fact because i’m generating a random username for users
(since we don’t want them to use it anyway.) But you can modify the code,
which is somewhere in the gantry framework – buddypress plugin folder, and
generate it from the display name or whatever. I just wanted to make sure
there were no invalid characters in it.”

Mainly to help anyone that looks here and tries to take away that `bp_core_signup_user` is the solution…well, it isn’t.

In my plugin I simply replaced:
`add_action(‘user_register’, ‘rebuildAuthUsers’); // rebuild the authorized user list anytime a new user is created through WordPress`

with:
`add_action(‘bp_core_signup_user’, ‘rebuildAuthUsers’); // rebuild the authorized user list anytime a new user is created through BuddyPress`

It did not intercept the registration process and launch my function.

Still digging…

Can’t be done (http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/59656/how-to-make-a-discussion-group-sticky-in-buddypress).

Have posted this as a Trac entrancement request. Hopefully it will get attention there…

I have installed the Suffusion BuddyPress Pack and it works correctly on one site but not the other. I will check there too.

Awesome @aces…I think we are getting closer…Do you know where I insert <img src="http://my.BuddyPress_site.com/wp-content/themes/my-theme/images/mystery-man.jpg" /> ?

Do I place it all by itself in my functions.php file? If I do (being a PHP coder) I know a stray html tag will show that image on every page. I need to somehow wrap it around a do_action() or and add-action() or an add-filter() or an add_filters() — I believe, as I learn more about hooking in WordPress/BuddyPress.

Thanks for guiding me on what to most out there is such a simple replacement to the out-of-the-box Mystery Man image graphic.

Thanks @mercime

@aces That’s great, thanks for the quick reply.

@mercime tyvm. it worked just switching from the game portal theme to the defalt and back. It does look like I will have to make updates in the defalt first then switch back.

@ Sofian J. Anom
That might just work out perfectly, however I do have a further gui integration question for you.
With a simple WP page you have a menu bar with items on it (pages, catagories, etc) Of course those can also have sub entries below them when you mouse over them.
If I go with a multisite i be able to have a menu entry on the main site thats, lets say; ‘Buddypress’ (for lack of a better example, and then on mouseover have drop down items for ‘groups’ ‘forum’ ‘activity’ ‘friends’ etc. and clicking them takes them to the appropiate spot on the subsite?
I’ve never seen a menu item that links to a page on a subsite. If this can be done, and I can find a coding example then that’ll work perfectly for my needs.
Thanks for your input, I’ll make sure to read up on those links tomorrow.

edit: i just glanced through those pages and I have alot to read, are you aware of anyway to integrate stats across a network of WP sites onto the main one visable in the main dashboard?