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Can you show us the full path you have to your child theme’s member-header.php file?

It should be your-theme/buddypress/members/single/member-header.php

Note: Please do not provide a .php fix. I edited the php a couple days ago to apply a fix (unrelated to this one) and it crashed my entire site. I will not be editing the php.

I suggest then that you consider contracting a developer to do this for you or contact memberpress to provide a solution.

We are a volunteer help forum for buddypress, the best we can really do is provide code that might help you but doing that while bearing in mind offering code is more than should be expected on these sorts of forums.

That seems beyond the scope of buddypress, you may want to search for a gamification plugin. Also, don’t hold your breath on getting an answer here. For such a popular plugin, the support sucks and I’m becoming less and less of a fan of buddypress. The solutions aren’t straight forward, it’s “Here modify 20 files and create this new child theme and create 1000 lines of code”. Not a very user-friendly plugin compared to others.

Take a look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/match-me-for-buddypress/ I think this is a good start.

You need to contact the creator of that plugin: buddypress-who-clicked-at-my-profile

I was dealing with this problem too. It might not be exactly what you’re looking for, but in my case I just decided to hook into the BP signup, extract the full name, split it at the first space and then update the WordPress ‘first_name’ and ‘last_name’ user metadata fields with the results.

Here is the code you can add to your functions.php or custom plug-in:

// define the bp_core_signup_user callback 
function ac_bp_core_signup_user( $user_id ) { 
    // make action magic happen here...
    $fullname = bp_get_member_profile_data( array( 'field' => 'Name', 'user_id' => $user_id ) );
   //split the full name at the first space
   $name_parts = explode(" ", $fullname, 2);

   //set the firstname and lastname for WordPress based on the BP name
   //firstname
   if( isset($name_parts[0]) )
        update_user_meta( $user_id, 'first_name', $name_parts[0] );

   //lastname
   if( isset($name_parts[1]) )
       update_user_meta( $user_id, 'last_name', $name_parts[1] );

   //not needed for an action, but I always like to return something
   return $fullname;
}

// BuddyPress save first name last name to WP profile on signup 
add_action( 'bp_core_signup_user', 'ac_bp_core_signup_user', 10, 1 );

Thanks for the reply, so you’re saying I should rename this field to “First Name” and create a secondary field for “Last Name” ?

That’s one approach you could take.

If there is nothing special about the field, is there a hook or filter where I can replace the field entirely and map them to first / last name fields in WordPress?

I think not unfortunately. You could request one be added by opening a ticket on Trac

Yup, it’s failing on groups_is_user_member() in bp-groups\bp-groups-functions.php.

You could hack that function, but I think what you really need is a filter hook on the return.
Then your task would be simple.

groups_post_update() in bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress-functions.php uses groups_is_user_member()

You could create an enhancement ticket on trac.

I fixed it by changing the code in function bp_send_email in file /buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-functions.php.

Before:

$must_use_wpmail = apply_filters( 'bp_email_use_wp_mail', $wp_html_emails || ! $is_default_wpmail );

	if ( $must_use_wpmail ) {
		$to = $email->get( 'to' );

		return wp_mail(
			array_shift( $to )->get_address(),
			$email->get( 'subject', 'replace-tokens' ),
			$email->get( 'content_plaintext', 'replace-tokens' )
		);
	}

After:

$must_use_wpmail = apply_filters( 'bp_email_use_wp_mail', $wp_html_emails || ! $is_default_wpmail );

	if ( $must_use_wpmail ) {
		$to = $email->get( 'to' );

		return wp_mail(
			array_shift( $to )->get_address(),
			$email->get( 'subject', 'replace-tokens' ),
			$email->get_template( 'add-content' )
		);
	}

we do need to send rich HTML emails. Is there a way we can configure BuddyPress’ custom instance of PHP Mailer to use our SMTP server?

I am also looking forward to this option. I am using Gmail SMTP plugin to send email and it is causing to send plain text.

I’ve just removed bp_is_member() from the Template Tag Reference so there’s no confusion going forward:

Template Tag Reference

http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/2.6.2/files/bp-notifications-bp-notifications-template/ ~Line 507

That shortcode is not part of BuddyPress, you need to refer your request to the plugin developer for the shortcode, would that be BuddyDev?

I do not use Twitter. When I register for a WordPress website, I do not realize that the username will be revealed in BuddyPress. I prefer to see my username as part of the login secret and I think many of my BuddyPress friends will feel the same. I would like to see a setting that makes it possible to use the real name or the nickname on screen as is the case for comments to postings in WordPress. Or a plugin to do so.

this may be a good start https://wordpress.org/plugins/match-me-for-buddypress/

How do I do that on the server side?

You’d use the modulo operator, like in my example above.

Did this work for you?

Actually, what hnla points out is correct. Disregard what I previously wrote, I was thinking of something entirely different!

index-directory.php has to be a full template with get_header() and get_footer().

You should copy your theme’s page.php template and rename it to index-directory.php. Then move this file to wp-content/themes/YOUR-THEME/buddypress/groups/index-directory.php.

Please note that template hierarchy means modifying the surrounding elements of the page. If you just want to modify the group loop itself, then just copy /groups/groups-loop.php and make your changes to that file.