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Hey Allen,

You might want to check out the /buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php file.

Specifically line 749 for the BP_Core_Members_Template class and line 884 for the function bp_has_site_members().

Hope that helps in pointing you in the right direction!

Hey, Roy-

I’m currently working on the BP Privacy Component. You can read a little more about its status here. It is a very hush, hush, secret project–as you might expect for a privacy project!

This is a WPMU issue and not a BuddyPress-related one.

There are some great WPMU plugins by dsader that limit the WordPress backend:

http://wpmudev.org/user/56/

I suggest checking those out.

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Just read over your post again and you say you want to eliminate the entire backend? Off the top of my head, I don’t know if that’s possible.

I don’t think anyone has attempted this in BuddyPress yet, but I could be wrong.

Since you are talking specifically about altering how WPMU deals with blogs, I’d suggest posting this question on the WPMU forums so that their gurus can answer. Whereas you might receive an answer on the BuddyPress forums, the WPMU forums is the more appropriate place for such questions.

I advise that you first do a through search of the Mu forums before posting.

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/

I’m using bluehost.com and used their simplescripts to get it installed version 1.0.2

I’m asking what version of WPMU, not BuddyPress.

By the way, if you continue having issues, I’d advise avoiding using SimpleScripts. Read this entire thread for more details.

Read the first half of this post. It applies to your situation as well.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=3363#post-18447

@steveyb23

So you are not even having success installing WPMU?

Site Admin > Options > Allow new registrations

This menu has nothing to do with BuddyPress. WPMU must be functioning properly before installing and activating BuddyPress.

Which version of WPMU are you attempting to install?

I suppose an “internal blog” for buddypress plugin

similar to wire, with simple post and comment

and not a “redirect” on complete wordpress blog

is right?

Here’s a link that might help:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2925#post-15949

Thanks for that Tracedef!

I forgot to upgrade the Buddypress Support plugin in bbPress as well! *bangs head on table*.

The thing that threw me off was the version number of the BuddyPress bbPress plugin; it was the same as in BP 1.0.1, so I thought I didn’t need to upgrade!

When I need to find out which file(s) produce a page, I take some code from the page source, search my offline copy of WPMU/Buddypress with it and see what comes up.

I use ‘extended find’ in Macromedia Homesite, but there may be other tools you can use.

Which version of WPMU are you running?

Also, read this thread for more possible info on why you’re having issues with BlueHost.com

Hiding a field on a form is not that difficult. As long as the required data gets added to the database by some other means it doesn’t change the underlying foundation at all.

As I said, I’m sure that with enough coding you code get this to work. But it might require core hacking. If so, that would be a change to the underlying foundation. I’m not sure without trying it so your best bet is to talk with the WPMU gurus on their forum.

It is not a WPMU issue.

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The WPMU forum will just send me back here and rightly so.

Whereas they may indeed send you back here, it is a WPMU issue. Just because you think it is a BuddyPress issue does not make it so. I’ve said that several times, DJPaul has said that, jjj has said that as well.

WPMU’s functions take care of the underlying registration process. BuddyPress just hooks into that process, adding a few of its own fields and checks along the way. WPMU does not allow you to position the username field in a different sequence–not without behind the scenes changes. Of course it is easy enough to hide it via CSS, but whether or not you can then write data to it, bypassing WPMU’s field validation protocols is a different story. I have not tried that. I am not sure. But, it is a question that must be asked of WPMU, not BuddyPress.

You said above that:

I’m not really a coder. I understand I’ll need to learn from scratch or hire someone.

Well, if you aren’t looking at how the underlying registration functions are coded, then how can you say with such certainty that this is not a WPMU issue?

I have not spent all the time that I have responding to your various questions in your various threads to get rid of you. If I didn’t want to help, I would simply have ignored your posts. I’m offering you support and pointing you in the best direction for the given issue. You can choose to ignore my advice. That is your prerogative.

Perhaps you’ve already spent time on the WPMU forums and did not get the response you have wanted. We’ve been as helpful as we can here.

Without contracting with a coder or coding yourself, you’re out of luck.

I’ll send you an email later… I’m also going to lock this thread as per the normal with these “looking for coder” posts; people can see you are after some work done and can contact you via the messages section of this site.

This website isn’t so much about the hiring of developers as much as it is about the development and support of the software itself. Many of us do website development on the side (or as a main source of income) and I suggest you keep an eye out for those people.

You can also check out the BuddyPress Job Board group and see if anyone volunteers there?

In the future I’m sure a few developers will step forward as goto guys.

Firstly, in response to the post you made that got me here (which I deleted out of respect for the topic starter,) please don’t ask for help in someone else’s topic. Everyone’s questions hold the same water here, and we’re all drinking from the same cup. I have no idea what that means, but it sounds like a good analogy.

If what you want to do is replace the word “Blog” all through-out a BuddyPress install, you’re going to need to modify the template in a few places, as well as some core files that gettext that out for you.

I haven’t really tried tricking the gettext into translating specific words for me, but I bet it’s possible to do, albeit probably not easily.

Fact is, that BuddyPress can still only build off of the weaknesses of WordPress itself. What you’re trying to do can really only be worked around with smoke and mirrors, because WordPress itself doesn’t really care what your real name is; the fields exist simply to add depth to a username.

Short of developing your own MU/BP plugin to shift the emphasis, you’re out of luck. Usernames are 100% necessary, because it’s how you login and out of the site, along with your password. Usernames cannot include characters other than alpha-numeric, so you can’t use an email address either. This means they MUST create a username. You could make a plugin or modify your registration to force the creation of a username based on two fields (first name + last name) but that means you’ll need to tell the user what your website made their login name to be, instead of letting them make their own.

There really are only a hand-full of sites that don’t use some kind of username as a login, and in my opinion it makes more sense because not everyone uses the same email address for life, and what happens if I registered with my work email address and get laid off, and I need to login but forgot my password? Now my new password goes to an email address I have no access to. In this case, username makes the most sense, and is almost fail safe unless you’re REALLY having a bad day and forgot your username too.

What about people like me, that like to use their middle names? I get no respect I tell ya!

Are you using a custom theme of some kind? If so, did you copy over the code from bphome/functions.php? If not, do you have any other plugins installed, and can you verify that you have BuddyPress installed 100% correctly?