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Hi Etiviti

Thanks for the follow up, it’s really appreciated. The issue seems to have been only related to my admin username which was created before buddypress was installed.

Also, it wasn’t the spaces that were throwing if off… it might be some other vauge incompatibility between wmpu and buddypress names.

I’ll double check before I ask for some more info next time, but I’m sure someone with the same issues as you will benefit from your effort.

@snark, I simply removed the function bp_core_disable_welcome_email() from bp_core_activation.php. But then the password in the welcome email is wrong, as discussed here. Haven’t been able to come up with an explanation/solution for that…

1) By default, an email isn’t sent to the user because the user password is sent via plain text (not a good thing security-wise).

That makes absolutely no sense. If you use the forgot password feature, the password is sent via plain text as well. Why is that OK and sending a password upon registration not?

Most big sites, Facebook, LinkedIn, newspapers, have no problem sending passwords via plain text. Online security is always a balance between security and convenience.

Buddypress is a social network. It’s not a banking website. If you start using credit card payments or paid membership, those scripts usually come with the own security.

Who is going to steal a password to someone’s account on a blog network? Has that ever happened? What would they do with it?

Just my 2 cents. Flame away…

1) By default, an email isn’t sent to the user because the user password is sent via plain text (not a good thing security-wise).

You can re-enable this welcome email by adding the following code to /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php (create this file if you don’t have one – be sure to add PHP open and closing tags as well):

remove_filter( 'wpmu_welcome_user_notification', 'bp_core_disable_welcome_email' );

2) Please post the avatar bug on BuddyPress Trac:

https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket

Login with the same credentials you use on buddypress.org.

3) WP-reCAPTCHA is not compatible with BuddyPress.

BuddyPress uses a different registration mechanism.

You might want to try one of these solutions listed here:

http://www.bp-tricks.com/tips_and_tricks/stopping-the-sploggers/

On the 2nd, Andy worked on this by trimming all whitespace from newly entered values. You can see the changes here:

https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/2547

I tested this on http://testbp.org/, and yes, it does keep the problem from happening for new members. There are two outstanding issues with this however.

1. It silently trims the whitespace, so you have no way of knowing that your username is not what you entered. At a minimum, it should send you an updated username with the confirmation email. Only after looking at the site activity, and seeing my username with the space trimmed, did I realize why I wasn’t able to log in.

2. It doesn’t help any of the existing users with spaces in their names (such as myself on this forum).

Admittedly, this is a tough problem to solve for existing users, but yes, AFIK, it is still unsolved.

This may or may not be your problem, but Buddypress has some issues with spaces in names. Try clicking on the right of this post to view my profile. It uses my actual name “Peter Anselmo” instead of my username “peter-anselmo”. It won’t work. Fun.

Here you go!

<?php

//CUSTOM CODE FOR BUDDYPRESS

//PUT YOUR CODE HERE

?>

What can you put in bp-custom.php?

Lots of things!

Check out this codex article:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

Yeah, the command line conversion is a barrier for a lot of people, as they either don’t have command line access, or if they do, gettext is not installed on the server.

You can find some alternate ways to generate .mo files here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

Also, there is no bp-custom.php file by default. You just create it as a new file, and put it directly in the plugins folder. BuddyPress will automatically check there for it.

Yeah, it’s a bit of work to change strings, but anything simpler would likely not be upgrade-proof, or would be much slower.

WordPress-MU 2.9.1.1 + BuddyPress 1.2rc (upgrade from 1.1.3) = same problem.

If you want, you could use mine As a Demo: Wp.graphic-studio.ch/network

bug reports:

in theme/classified/classifieds-loop.php

bp_ajax_querystring() does not exists in your plugin, so it breaks the engine… how did you get it to work without the function (this is a critic, not a question btw)?

“BuddyPress Classifieds – Roles & Capabilities” was with a wrong version and try to update itself all the time…

@Grosbouff,

cool stuff, many thanks for this !

Sorry if I have missed – do you have a demo-website to see this plugin in action ?

Thanks again !

You should be able to use any text editor to make changes. You just have to be sure to duplicate the string on the “msgstr” line, and only change the duplicate.

Check out this article:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

Open the pot file in a text editor and search for the expression you want to change.

Near it you can see the file name and the line where it is located

@MrMaz :

could you check at my Classifieds plugin and see how to do this in it ?

I did try but there’s always templates which do not load…

Thanks a lot !

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-classifieds

Your functions

-bp_classifieds_locate_template

-bp_classifieds_filter_template

-bp_classifieds_load_template

are at the bottom of the -templates.php page