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rtMedia is a huge, massive cluster of bugs. Awful. I have installed and uninstalled it at least 7 times in the last month, trying to give it just one more chance…. Every time I do, I discover a new bug.

Give BuddyDev’s Gallery plugin a shot. It’s premium ($30 for a 3-month “club” membership), but it’s got actual (if spotty) support – and without the attitude you get from rtMedia’s developers.

Also – and this is big for me – it includes the ability to embed media, rather than hosting. I really don’t want to be in the video hosting business at this point.

@bphelp,

Of course if your try the plugin in buddypress child theme other than the default will not work fine beceause the plugin use the default buddypress template !

the plugin work with all wordpress themes if the theme use legacy buddypress theme,
if it is child theme, in this case you must customize the plugin templates by modifying the template files. Just copy buddypress-wall\includes\templates\bp-default folder to your theme and edit the templates.

A lot of Buddypress plugins present a template and suggest a customisation if the theme is buddypress child themes.

@fungi-amoeba @nexus66
I tried the plugin but it didn’t seem to work on various themes. Also it seems some of the same functionality came from @brajesh ‘s post here:

Facebook Style Activity Commenting with BuddyPress

I would like to see this work though on all themes in the future.

Will give it try..

Which premium plugin did you find?

To make uploading an avatar a requirement you’d have to have an upload form on the registration page. This used to happen in BuddyPress. Some discussion on it in this thread:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-buddypress-avatar-upload-in-registration-form

@villnoweric
The codex is your Buddy!
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/how-to-set-up-your-main-site-navigation-using-the-built-in-wordpress-menus/

@villnoweric
Try this it is a slightly modified snippet I did earlier but fits your requirement. Follow the instructions in the code.`
// PLEASE NOTE FOR THIS TO WORK:
// Before adding this code to bp-custom.php
// https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/bp-custom-php/
// you will need to create a new page in the dashboard and name it
// something like “Dummy Page” for example or any name you choose.
// Do not add this page to your menu because it is just a dummy page
// for the redirect. Then go to Dashboard/Settings/Reading.
// Under “Front page displays” select “A static page.” Then use the
// “Front page” drop-down menu to select the page you created. In my
// example for instance I selected “Dummy Page” for my front page.
// Done! Now logged out visitors get redirected to the register page,
// and logged in users get redirected to the activity stream.

/* Redirects to profile upon login, and logged out users are redirected to register page */
function bp_help_redirect_to_profile(){
if( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_front_page() ) {
bp_core_redirect( get_option( ‘home’ ) . ‘/activity/’ );

}else {
if ( !is_user_logged_in() && !bp_is_register_page() && !bp_is_activation_page() )
bp_core_redirect( get_option( ‘home’ ) . ‘/register/’ );
}
}

add_action( ‘get_header’, ‘bp_help_redirect_to_profile’,1 );
`

Hi @ubernaut

What WordPress and BuddyPress version do you use?

The reported users are listed in our DEV installations.

hi pcwriter. thanks for this response. I am looking for a reporting tool about users and also plugin(?) with which I can get an analysis of trending topics in the buddypress community at a given time. Does something exist?

I found rtMedia to be great when I was testing it. I know you mentioned it’s not working, but it’s honestly the most quality media plugin I’ve found for BuddyPress. I think if you’re having this many problems with plugins, you might want to see if it’s your theme that’s causing these errors. Otherwise if you find other plugins, those may not work as well.

Disabling usernames sitewide sounds like a huge task to me. BuddyPress needs a unique identifier to use in URLs. Have you thought about providing your members with the ability to change their username?

BuddyPress Username Changer

You’d just need to send a global message to all members letting them know how they can update their username.

There was an alternative to BuddyPress Media (rtMedia) – I think it was called BP Media. I’m not sure if it is supported anymore or even in the WP plugin repository but it might be worth a try if you can get hold of it. That said, rtMedia is working very well for me on my test site. Will be putting it live in the next few weeks.

I’m pretty certain there is no way to avoid them having a username, although in principle you could auto-generate a string of random characters that they never see.

I’m not familiar with the wordpress.com sign-up, but you could always pretty-please the Jetpack people to see if they will port it across to wordpress.org.

Or look at the various social networking plug-ins. Social Login allows “your visitors to comment, log-in and register with their social network accounts” and works with WordPress and BuddyPress.

If you want something more specific, then you may have to contract a developer to do it for you (then release it as a public plug-in!).