BuddyPress.org

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-do-i-create-a-non-group-specific-forum

I came to this thread and read all the way through hoping I would see the answer at the end of the rainbow. eborg9 totally has a point and boy he sure had to work to make it. eborg9, I feel your pain.

Case in point, I am using BuddyPress for an alumni group. They won’t know what to do with a username other than use it login (would be nice if they just used their email addresses). Usernames are displayed all through my BuddyPress site and there is no way to turn that off. This is counter intuitive for my audience. In fact, for my site they need to see each other SITEWIDE by “first name + last name in school” (aka: maiden names for women). This shouldn’t be so difficult. I’m surprised there isn’t a plugin to modify the Sign Up form and to edit the profile output. I would pay for such a plugin and I know others would. Does one exist that is for sale? I don’t expect to find one for free.

My site members shouldn’t have to navigate to a members directory and do detective work to figure out to discover another members identity if they belong to an open community established so they can communicate.

Sounds like what ClothUnderground kind of created: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/gallery/forum/topic/clothunderground-com-launching-tomorrow/

For the most part. You’d have to mention specific features and functions to know whether it matches all of the features you’re thinking of or not. There have been many people who have moved their ning network over to BuddyPress. Although, it depends on which features of Ning you think are important.

The BP Media plugin should cover most of the photo and video needs, but you’ll have to check it out to see if it has everything you want.

Jeff, what’s the solution then? Or how do we prevent this in the future? I read the ticket, but I’m at a loss. I’m encountering this problem right now, and I had to go into phpmyadmin to correct all the user_nicename fields to remove the -2 at the end. do we simply ask people not to put spaces in their usernames?

@vanisia Try the mail from plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/

@junebob I agree it’s unfortunate, but this isn’t an error on other BP intalls. Just BP.org. Not to mention that most BP installs don’t have a million users the way BP.org does. I’m sure boone will eventually fix this too on BP.org.

good to hear! Aside from buddypress this is going to be the cornerstone of the next project I work on.

I just installed BuddyPress 1.2.6, and the plugin states that it is compatible to 1.2.4. Will it still work, and if not, what must I modify ? Also, do I need to have bbpress plugin installed also ? That is not mentioned in the readme.

Any idea please?

Thank you very much!

he who has the last laugh…

Hahahahaha, so much for the referral to that board then hnla, lol
Just my luck!

****Edit – found the new home for this, search pointed me to this thread and thought group was gone.***

So, looking through the forums, it appears you guys have been trying to find a solution for over 2 months for this. Is it really that complex? I can’t imagine any other bug that could be worse on buddypress, considering uploading an avatar is one of the first things new members do, and many people don’t like using external apps like gravatar.
It doesn’t really give a good first impression of buddypress.

I too am experienceing this problem.

buddypress Stylesheet is missing.

using WordPress 3.01 and BuddyPress 1.2.6

Continuing from this thread: need-to-display-real-names

This thread might provide you with useful background on user names: Is-it-possible-to-create-a-community-where-people-can-use-thier-real-names

There already exists the ability to set and use ‘Display Names’ is that not sufficient for your requirements.

@pcgs51 please don’t post questions twice it’s considered bad form and will not get attention any quicker and causes us unnecessary work.

Locking this thread please continue in the other one you started:

i-would-like-to-hide-my-members-usernames

I also have the same problem with reCAPTCHA

With wp 2.9.2 e bp 1.2.5.2 reCAPTCHA is not work !

oh yeah, what Paul said. I may attempt a plug-in. Not a full fledged blog posting plug-in but more a notes type thing like on facebook.

when is the release of the next version? I’ve been waiting to get the videos resized too!!