BuddyPress.org

My understanding is that there is no working search function – not sure why the search box is there!

Here are 3 sites built on BuddyPress that provide for business listings and reviews:

http://plazaa.de
http://bitsythis.com
http://somibo.com

They are all heavily customised builds, and use the BuddyPress member features to provide user accounts – where they create and manage their listings and reviews, and also send messages to other users.

BuddyPress is helpful in that it provides a backbone of classes and API functions for the accounts and messaging. If you want your users to have profiles, and easily access their listings / reviews, then it may be the best choice. If you want minimal profiles and are happy to build your own custom functions to handle that part, then yes vanilla WP and a form solution (bespoke, gravity, or some other 3rd party) is fine.

That’s a bit off topic for this thread, but BuddyPress does not use custom post types.

Is this the page you mean: http://www.enterprisenation.com/become-member/

Is something that can be easily implemented if outlined in a tutorial? Or made into a plugin? I’m sorry to hijack this thread btw, but since spam is obviously a major issue with Buddypress, if sites like the ones you create have found a way around it, you could be helping tons of people if you share, in detail, the way you did this. Or you could at least make a ton of money if you sold it in plugin form.

I, too, am curious how custom post types come into play here. Does Buddypress itself use custom post types for activity or groups at all?

You can do this but you might want to use something like gravity forms if you are not using the social features.

I do not give support for added plugins. I do not test with any added BuddyPress plugins unless explicitly stated. Your best bet is to remove the add actions from the mobile theme where the added plugins are placing code to strip your site down to bare essentials. This is generally a good idea for mobile UX.

The next version of the plugin will not allow added plugins to be used unless I make sure they work. This will be to avoid posts like this. I can’t support every iteration of site that BuddyPress wills. Having individual sites is great but that is because BuddyPress plugin developers are creating plugins for BP. No one as of yet has contacted me to say they want to add the mobilized version of their plugin to support BP mobile. That being said i’m making it so BP plugin devs can add the mobile template files themselves to their plugin. It’s a win for you and me as I won’t have to support every plugin my self.

If you are sure they are not going into the recipient’s junk or spam filter then the following page might help: https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/

Hi Hans,
you have to digg in the prehistorical 1.0 version of BP
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/1.0?order=name
where you can find this old coutry field and a csv file with different countries.
You can find some interesting code in buddypress 1.0/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-classes.php

Good luck !

Ok, to set new fields for your members you should read the paragraph ‘Optional: Set Profile Fields’ of this tutorial
http://wpmu.org/the-illustrated-guide-to-installing-and-setting-up-buddypress-1-5/

if you mean login in with email, then you can try this interesting plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email-login/

then you can add a function in the functions.php file of your active theme to change the label of the sidebar login form :

add_action('bp_after_sidebar_login_form', 'bp_login_by_email_adapt_login_form');

function bp_login_by_email_adapt_login_form() {
?>

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
usernameoremail = $("#sidebar-user-login").parent().html().replace(/Username/ig, 'Username or email' );
$("#sidebar-user-login").parent().html(usernameoremail);
});

<?php
}

or if you’re using a child theme of BP-default theme, you can add/edit the template sidebar.php and replace the label for=sidebar-user-login by Username or email.