Hello,
I run several buddypress communities for schools. I don’t want users (students) to change their email addresses to ensure that I can monitor site activity. In the settings section of the “edit profile”, I used this code edit to remove the change email part: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/prevent-users-from-changing-email-addresses/
This works well, except when students try to change their passwords, when the system responds with: “Email address cannot be empty” and the password is not changed.
Can anybody help with this please?
Cheers,
Rob.
@marc-birkett So…what exactly did you add to your web.config? Your link talks about the htaccess file which isn’t available for IIS.
Woo is the best I’ve come across so far.
We started a shop extension to a BP site on Jigo, but quickly switched to Woo (a fork of Jigo) because it provided obvious hooks and filters we needed as developers that simply weren’t there on Jigo. Other parts of the API seem richer as well.
You can check out the site: http://www.enterprisenation.com/shop/
There is a plugin for even tighter integration with the BP profile, but we are going to reengineer that as we feel it places some screens in the wrong place and doesn’t provide the smoothest UX as a result.
I’m not a Buddypress developer, but I am advising my users to only use their first name, nickname, or username for the “Name” field. On the other hand you could try removing some of the related script in register.php which controls the content on your Register page. The file can be found under wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php. Just make sure you download the file or back it up before modifying and testing the file.
Hi karmatosed
I am looking for a deeper integration with BuddyPress. For example, a lot of the ecommerce plugins available let your customers buy something. They even let them create a ‘shopper’ account. BUT – this ‘shopper’ account isn’t a wordpress or buddypress account.
I have my eye on WooCommerce at the moment. Perhaps there are some more good ones available?
I uploaded both buddypress and my custom theme via FTP
and checked if all my BP pages were still there and correctly coupled (and they were)
but unfortunately this didn’t help; still no content on all ‘my account’ pages 
Any other suggestions?
My first though is have you updated all your plugins and theme (if there are new updates) to go with your BuddyPress install.
Secondly, have you re-saved both your permlinks and settings under BuddyPress – that would be through the admin?
When you say ‘BuddyPress’ the logins that people use are WordPress so if that’s all you want them to be able to do you are fairly open to solutions that work on WordPress. However, are you looking for more deeper integration with BuddyPress and your shop?
These 3 scripts control the slider or image slideshow. Hard to tell without seeing how you have it setup. If you are just using thumbs and not the slide show you can turn this feature off in the Nextgen settings (I believe it’s under the Galleries tab).
nextgen-gallery/shutter/shutter-reloaded.js?ver=1.3.3
nextgen-gallery/js/jquery.cycle.all.min.js?ver=2.9995
nextgen-gallery/js/ngg.slideshow.min.js?ver=1.06
Thanks @FIQ
NextGen was only installed last week because we wanted to publish a photo gallery. The install and activation of NextGen really had little to no impact on the site — it was already trudging along prior to NextGen.
But I’ll see if I can have it load only on the photo galley page.
Images are optimized using “WP Smush.it”
Not sure what the “slider” is.
As for the widgets, we eliminated a number of them during initial setup. We need the 3-4 widgets we are currently using.
As for the theme, we developed it our self. We have on staff, a pro designer/theme-developer that develops themes for all our WordPress sites. The theme for our BP site is identical to the theme for our complementary public facing site. The public facing site runs a WP blog and it is lightning fast (on the same sever as well)
That’s a ton of scripts. My bet just by looking at it is the Nexgen is slowing things. Check these out….
Only loads Nextgen on pages where it is used:
http://www.markstechnologynews.com/2012/02/nextgen-gallery-optimizer-wordpress-plugin-helps-boost-your-sites-page-load-speed.html
Optimizes images:
http://shanebishop.net/ewww-image-optimizer/
I would limit the number of images in your slider and other basic steps. You should also limit the number of widgets you use. It’s hard to tell just by looking at what you posted. Not sure what type of theme you are using, but unless you built it yourself or are using the default theme I would bet it extremely bloated like almost all premium themes sold today.
I am running buddypress and profile content is showing up as html code as opposed to the text entered in the profile fields. Can someone help with this? I am not sure how to fix the bug.
Thanks.
Tom
Reference: http://community.botane.net/members/tompytel/profile/
So, I have this question about BuddyPress. Just wondering if its possible to create this:
I would like to have two steps before going to the registration page using buddypress. This site I’m creating, its for people that want to create movements (in the default layout on buddypress, its called “Groups”) to help others.
So, first step would be to put in what kind of “Movement” (orphanage, homeless shelter, etc) that they want to help.
Second step, is to fill out the name of this “Movement” and some details, upload a photo, put in the amount of money they want to raise, and the date and time they are doing this.
The Third step, is to go to registration and put in their own personal info to create the user account (Also, it’d be amazing if it showed a confirmation of the choices for steps 1 & 2 as well)
Now, I would like that the first two steps show in a new group or “Movement” under this person’s profile, where people can join this “Movement” and donate. Does that make sense??
Here is an example site: ambassadorsforlife.org. They have three steps, then after, you’ve created a campaign.
I’m hoping that you can somehow direct me in the right direction on how to get this started, or perhaps, direct me to a plugin that could do this. Thanks so much!
@mercime apologies for delay in responding
I would like to keep all BP pages with sidebar.
I really appreciate your help. Thank you once again!
You will need to do this which means creating your own bp-custom.php file. It explains on that page.
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/
@travel-junkie It’s a myth yeah, but it’s not a myth that at each page load, the page is recontructed with all the plugins, filters, filters of filters, and all the rest. The amount count or better said the server settings of many details such as php memory, max_exec etc
You’re right, good coding practice is the primar condition, but who knows that when installing a plugin ? A quality plugin coded under the 4.x area isn’t really quality satisfying today. Awfull plugins writen with the feet, but doing the job (even if penibly) are(where) legion.
Most of the plugin’s user are not php guru’s to see what changed, what is good or not in the code.
Even pro developper’s are not all qualified to be quality dev’s. Go, go, go, allways faster und hektische arbeit zum schluss. You’ll probably know that. 
And what is “quality” in the wpsphere ? 5 minutes install, download a theme, a plugin by one click and bum, done ? In the best case, user will shout “it work’s !”
It’s not quality, it’s just an easy craftwork.
Aber sonst alles klar. Tchuss 
EDIT: a funny conclusion to this just posted here few minutes ago in this tread:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/bp-better-directories-abandoned/
that mentionned this (very explicit in my mind) 
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bp-better-directories-ready-or-not
@Travel-Junkie
How do you go about evaluating the quality of a plug-in? (ie., how would you personally do that if you had a slow running WP site?)
I appreciate your comments and insight.
Read again @frank13 ‘s answer.
You have to make a copy of post-form.php file and put it into your church theme
From within this copy in this copy you comment the line 25, like this
`// printf( __( “What’s new, %s?”, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_user_firstname() );`
Done !
I you ask again i will answering in french
Can anyone recommend a good ecommerce plugin to use with Buddypress?
I need my Buddypress members to be able to use their BuddyPress login details to be able to buy from my store.
Thanks!
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