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I stated that the visibility for WordPress Fields are “currently” not user selectable. Why this decision was made was unknown to me, until recently, and appears to be along the same lines of why the “Requirements” metabox doesn’t appear for the WordPress Fields, as well.

Given this conversation, I looked for a possible reason that might uncover a decision to not include such capabilities and found that ticket #8487 (Add visibility and required controls to the WordPress profile fields) provides the history behind why the decision was made not to include the capabilities (visibility and requirements) and why these capabilities have yet to be incorporated (no one has provided a patch).

Currently, the visibility for the following xprofile fields aren’t “user” selectable:

• 1st Text Field – labeled as “Name” by default
• Single Fields – Checkbox Acceptance
• WordPress Fields – Biography
• WordPress Fields – Text Field (First Name, Last Name, Website)

In your example, “surname” as you have applied would be “WordPress Field – Text Field – Last Name” and as indicated the visibility is not “user” selectable.

As to the other xprofile fields the visibility can be set for either:

• Allow members to override – visibility is selectable by users
• Enforce field visibility – visibility is set per selection

Admin can set the visibility during creation or editing of xprofile fields that allow for “Visibility” settings, e.g., Single Fields – Text Box will have a “Visibility” metabox whereby an Admin can set the “Visibility” parameters. See BuddyPress xProfile fields administration for other information.

Your second answer is a bit confusing, if you have the Activity component activated, then all you would have had to do was to enter @username (replace username with your actual username) in the Activity post form and the click “Post Update”, afterwards you could delete the post. The reason for doing this is to test whether or not BuddyPress (BP) is sending emails in general and your issue isn’t just isolated with the changing of email address.

Moving along, BP, by default, has a finite number of email templates with corresponding situations that will fire/send an email based on the situation: For example:

• 21 email templates for a single site installation
• 22 email templates for a multisite installation

You can verify the count of email templates by clicking the menu items “Emails > All Emails” within the wp-admin area. You should have a “Published” count number the is equal to or greater than what was previously indicated.

The email template that is responsible for sending the “email change notice” is:

[{{{site.name}}}] Verify your new email address

Make sure the template is present and the status is set to “Published”. Additionally, check that the situation assigned to this template is:

settings-verify-email-change

If these conditions are true (template is present, published and the correct situation is assigned) then BP should be sending the “Verify your new email address” email”, given that you aren’t receiving errors that might be interrupting the sending process.

OK, sounds good and I’ll consider this topic resolved. FWIW, BuddyBoss is a fork of BuddyPress with obvious differences.

Take care.

I’m not clear on which/what email that is not being sent. AFAIK, there are 2 emails sent for a successful email address change, for example from the WordPress (WP) backend:

1. Email Change Request <- contained in subject line as sent by WP
2. Email Changed <- contained in subject line as sent by WP – after a successful change of email address

For the BuddyPress (BP) frontend:

1. Verify your new email address <- contained in subject line as sent by BP
2. Email Changed <- contained in subject line as sent by WP – after a successful change of email address

For the BP process, please indicate which of the 2 emails is not being sent.

The xprofile field that is indicated in your screenshots is a field that cannot be removed/deleted nor can the visibility be changed. IOW, there is one xprofile field that is required by default with a default label of “Name” and this field cannot be removed/deleted nor can the visibility be changed. The BuddyPress xProfile fields administration documentation states:

It also adds a primary profile field (to store the display “Name” of your members) inside these two groups. The “Name” xProfile field as well as the “Base” & “Signup fields” xProfile field group cannot be deleted.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks like you changed the label from “Name” to “Your Trade Type” which is allowed, however this field has a relationship to the “Nickname” WP profile field and the available options for the “Display name publicly as” dropdown box (both located in any given User’s WP profile page), given that the “field_id” for this xprofile field is equal to 1 (numeric one).

If your question is about the Akismet plugin then read about it here.

With BuddyPress 12.x.x or greater, URLs, a.k.a., BuddyPress Directories, is the default configuration (see BuddyPress URLs settings) as opposed to pages. See Navigation menus for additional set-up information.

In the event that you require BP pages, you will have to install and/or activate the BP Classic plugin.

As to shortcodes, there are no built-in (internally defined) shortcodes for BuddyPress.

See the reply that was given here.

If all BuddyPress links are redirecting to the homepage, it’s often due to permalink issues or missing BuddyPress pages. Try re-saving your permalink settings under Settings > Permalinks, and ensure all required BuddyPress pages (like Members, Activity) are correctly assigned under Settings > BuddyPress > Pages. Also, check for theme or plugin conflicts.

The BP Classic plugin is used to augment BuddyPress when, just to name a few:

• Users require BP pages
• Support for BP Legacy Widgets
• Some 3rd party plugins require the BP legacy parser

Otherwise, BuddyPress should launch, just fine, without the BP Classic plugin.

If you had installed BuddyPress prior to version 12.x.x, e.g. versions 11.x.x and below, then you would have had pages. If you install versions 12.x.x and above, the default will be directories as opposed to pages. If you wish to have pages again, then you need to install and/or activate the BP Classic plugin.

@timostr79,

The BuddyPress pages that you are making reference are automatically available when components are selected. In order to reach these pages/directories, you will have to set up (create) “Navigation” menu items. To assist you with this task, read through the following documentation:

Navigation menus

As to previews, this is available from the wp-admin area via the customizer (Appearance > Customize)