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This plugin will force usernames only across the site. If your usernames are their real names, that might be a fix: https://github.com/r-a-y/buddypress-usernames-only

Small caveat from the plugin readme:

By default, display names are enabled in the member header on profile pages. If you prefer usernames to be shown, add the following snippet to your wp-config.php file:

`define( ‘BP_SHOW_DISPLAYNAME_ON_PROFILE’, false );

Can you expand on that?

In a traditional install, on a Multisite network, BuddyPress is Network enabled by default. This doesn’t mean you have a social network on every site in your network, by default, when BP is network enabled, all it’s functions live on your main domain. The network activation allows that main domain to collect all of the activity from all of your subdomains. If one of your subdomains has bbpress active, then the forum posts from that subdomain are populated in the activity stream on the main domain. The main domain becomes the hub on which all activity from across your entire network of subsites is collected and can be seen.

If you don’t want your main domain to be the one that is collecting everything, and instead want that to be some other subsite on your network, you need the instructions I provided above.

Unfortunately, this code did not work at all 🙁

Likely you’ll need to change the selector #buddypress .standard-form div.radio div label so that it’s appropriate for the theme you’re using.

…which I have uploaded to the root of the buddpress folder

It should go in the root of the plugins folder.

bp-custom.php

@RafVin Here’s how to hide “All Members” tab with CSS.

Find a file called “style.css” in the wordpress active theme, add the code below and re-upload the file.

#buddypress div.item-list-tabs ul li.selected a {
    display: none !important;
}

Warning! When you update your theme, you’ll loose these CSS changes so try doing this in a child theme if you’d like to retain the changes when you update your theme.

Showing custom tasks under personal? Well that requires some custom PHP coding or probably a plugin. Hopefully, someone will help you with this.

@konberg find a file called “style.css” in the wordpress active theme, add the code below and reupload the file.

#buddypress .standard-form div.radio div label {
    text-transform: lowercase;
}

Warning! When you update your theme, you’ll loose these CSS changes so try doing this in a child theme if you’d like to retain the changes when you update your theme.

Let me know if that works.

I’m not sure what you mean by the “Top Tab Recipe”. If your theme is adding a custom post type, then you need to register that post type in order for it to populate the activity stream, and the user profile activity. BP should do exactly what you are looking to do once you do that: https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/post-types-activities/ Maybe your theme is doing this for you already if you are seeing activity generated when you post a recipe in the custom post type area.

Your alternative idea in the last paragraph would also certainly work. You don’t need multisite for that. Make every member of your community an Author on the main site: everything they publish will appear in the Custom Post Type “Recipes” archive, along with all the posts appearing on each users profile: this is their customized space, particularly once header profile images launch in BP 2.4. This would also give you more control over the experience. You could create a publishing checklist to make sure all the recipes are categories and tagged appropriately: https://github.com/danielbachhuber/Post-Checklist

Thanks for the reply on this and sorry just now getting back…life got in the way…can you explain in newbie elementary terms exactly what you were discussing in regards to having me show up as admin and not just looking like a logged in user on buddypress…what is happening is…when I log into my wordpress I show up on my webpage as like a logged in user..doesn’t say admin or anything…I want to be displayed as a admin/moderator for the site…how do I do this…in elementary terms please as I am new to WordPress although I have learned so much and have actually almost put up a complete website…but I am even newer to buddypress although I have it up on my site…these little kinks such as this one are getting in the way…thankful for this buddypress support forum….if you could help I would greatly appreciate it!! Rhonda

Can you describe the steps you took? Also provide any error messages you got along the way. We also need details of your environment (see When Asking for Support).

It doesn’t work like that. In a multisite instance, your users can all have their own blogs (think wordpress.com). What BuddyPress does is allow you to see all of the activity from those subsites in one Activity feed (among other things).

I have set up the categories in the main site, and I expected to see the same categories on every site, but it doesn’t work.

Although this isn’t a BP feature, there is a plugin that does this. It hasn’t been updated in a while, but you could test it out, or purchase support from Brajesh and request a fix if you run into issues:
http://buddydev.com/plugins/mu-global-terms/. There’s a write-up on the plugin here: http://wptavern.com/wordpress-multisite-global-terms-plugin-share-taxonomies-across-a-network

Also in the user activity stream I cannot see the posts the user has written in his own blog.

That SHOULD work. You mention a custom post type though: is that the activity you are hoping to see? By default BP only shows posts and comments, not custom post types. You can register custom post types: https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/post-types-activities/

If the subsite that you are hoping registers activity is set to discourage search engines in Settings/Reading then it won’t register on the main site.

You may also want to try one of the default themes (twentyxx) to see if it’s your theme screwing things up. Many themes that tout themselves as BuddyPress-Ready, are doing some funky things best left to plugins in their functions.php file.

Check out this page, specifically option B: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installation-in-wordpress-multisite/

If you Network Activate BP, but then change what BP considers it’s “home” by adding this constant as described in that codex article: define ( 'BP_ROOT_BLOG', $blog_id );

Then bbpress activity from your main/root domain should populate the activity stream of your BP subdomain.

You can add items to the activity stream with bp_activity_add(). You could use your form values to build the content argument.

Ref: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_activity_add/

I’ve recently installed Buddypress to my WP theme

Can you explain exactly the steps you took?

Have you tried raising this with your theme’s creators, this seems more like a theme problem than a BuddyPress issue.

I have been searching for the same, hide admins from GROUP members list.
It seems all the forums point to https://buddypress.org/support/topic/hide-admin-from-members-and-activity/

Which the second block of code does not work, for me anyway, breaks my site.

So how do I hide the admins from GROUP members list, not all members list, I have those hidden.

First think I would try is to deactivate all of your other plugins and see if register works.

Another thing to try is to create a different page for register, point buddypress at that and see if that fixes it.

The Group Extension API is the best way to add a page & creation step.

Group Extension API

Wonder if this is related to https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6685 ?

Which theme is that? BuddyPress doesn’t ask for 2 usernames. The WordPress username and the BuddyPress username are one and the same. It looks as though your theme is asking for it twice