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And have you set ‘Anyone can register’ to yes?

@websitevala, try Dynamic Widgets. This plugin already supports BuddyPress.

> This is for a client so I need this sorted today, if possible.

Please bear in mind that this is a volunteer support forum not a service

Based on the info you have supplied it’s going to be pretty hard to help. Is WP installed correctly? can you register a user under WP (forget BP for the moment and I see you say you can log in so that answers that question WP is installed) if you can and your DB does actually correctly function then activate BP – if you have installed it via some auto install avoid that and upload a fresh copy via ftp or similar.

`“For the record you don’t re-name the BP files you just ensure they are copied over ”
– well the walkthroughs/codex/instructions suggest you copy the sidebar/header/footer and rename as sidebar-buddypress.php etc so i was just following that. `

My bad yes BP added ‘buddypress’ into the get_*() calls to allow child themes to call distinct header,footer,sidebar named files for the purposes of combining BP templates into existing themes.

This process of converting BP to be used in a third party theme is a choice though, yes there is a level of difficulty and you will require some basic – very basic – coding skills if you have decided to go this route and those will need to be learnt. It is never expected that an absolute novice could cope with this process, the novice needs to rise above that baseline.

mercime will guide you through the process though, but do understand that you choose to go down a customised route so need to to have a somewhat extended skill set now.

There are two ways to make theme compatible with BP template pack – change 16 files (works in all WP themes) OR add foo-buddypress.php files (possible in some themes) – and it will depend on div#container location and other factors.

What theme are you using? I can take a look. Open up header.php, copy all, paste in http://www.pastebin.com, click submit, and post the generated URI here. Do the same for index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php PLUS loop.php or better yet, loop-page.php if you it.

>>I’m using Membership with Buddypress

Membership plugin?

>>and the name won’t display in the user profile even though we are taking that information when they sign up.

What name? Username or display name? If you deactivate Membership plugin, does that resolve the issue?

Deactivate plugins except BuddyPress and BP Template Pack plugin (if you’re using it). Default WP/BP install privacy does not cause that behavior.

@famous you’re welcome. Marking this as resolved.

Not sure if it still works as intended as it is about two years old but you might want to have a look at this plugin. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-usernames-only/

Hi, just took a look at your site and my first thought would be to try deactivating some plugins – I see quite a few javascript errors going on and it may be one of those is not playing nicely with your posting or something is misfiring. It’s kind of the first port of call but one I think may at least rule out some things to look into this further.

I’d also suggest you check your permlinks are saved (or resave just to be sure) and your BuddyPress pages all linked up under settings – did you do that as part of the configuration?

Hmm not sure ‘out of the box’ BuddyPress can do this you may want to look at one of the membership plugin options out there. Most of those are paid though but perhaps a good start would be to look at a few of those. Alternatively someone else may have an idea of how that can be achieved without a plugin.

Good idea sounds like a great plugin gap as I don’t think there is one unfortunately that fits ‘goals’ per say. You have got the Achievements App though http://achievementsapp.wordpress.com/about/ – perhaps that in some ways does what you are looking for? It’s not exactly what you are saying though.

Many thanks @Hugo.

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I’d approach this a different way –

something like:
`
$match_ids = $wpdb->get_var( “SELECT user_id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data WHERE field_id = [whatever the field_id is for State] AND value = [whatever value you want to find] “);
`

$match_ids will be a simple array.
So loop thru the array and create a comma separated string out of the ids.
Then pass the string to bp_has_members() using ‘include’

something like
`
//$get_these_members is the id string you created
$get_these_members = ‘include=’ . substr($get_these_members, 0, -1); //trim the last comma

if ( bp_has_members( $get_these_members ) )
`

That way you could search for any value on any profile field.
Your approach might work, but… yikes.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-members-loop/

@bojan85 tried to work with this plugin aswell but seems non functional..anybody involved in developing for bp who knows if this is even possible to do? Seems like a very basic function that should be included…

try:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-mass-messaging/

OMG, this is almost what i need do you already have it working @davidveldt ?

what i need is:

you have the registrationform, the only things i want visible is Name and Email. and then i would like to have a selectbox with 2 options: Company or Student.

When you register as a company and then login you go to the company profile side. if you are a student then you go to the student profile side. The 2 profile have different profile groups to fill out.

how can i do this?

You can use the admin bar by adding:
define(‘BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR’, true);to the wp-config,
above where it says:
“That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging.”

For added customization install the ‘Custom Admin Bar’ plugin. This will give you full control over the Admin bar including the BuddyPress features.

Thanks @nilssvz
Your advice to add: define(‘BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR’, true); to the wp-config file along with a customizing plugin such as ‘Custom Admin Bar’. Have made it really easy to customize my admin bar and retain all the needed functionality of Buddypress and S2Member. Awesome!