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You can add custom option fields for References and Places Worked:

Profile → Edit

Not sure that adding a memberlist as drop down is very clever. What if you get a community of hundreds of members ?

To get database info, see here: (that’s a common WP task)
https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb

The easiest way for that is to use the language file.

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

This can be done with bp_parse_args(). See the Using bp_parse_args() to filter BuddyPress template loops article for a tutorial.

Then create a template overload of this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\register.php

In that file, prevent the display of certain fields by checking them by using
bp_get_the_profile_field_id() or bp_get_the_profile_field_input_name()
in the loop: while ( bp_profile_fields() ) : bp_the_profile_field();

thanks for your input, @danbp.
There is, of course, a reason why i want it as requested 🙂
On my registration form, i only want to show one field to not bother new users with unnecessary fields. this one field is in my base group.
All other fields are arranged in another group.

From my point of view, it doesn’t make sense to show two tabs on the profile-edit page, but it does make sense to show as less fields as possible on the registration page. I think UX comes first today. Customers pay our rent, so we should avoid putting spokes in there wheel. I also think buddypress is doing a pretty bad job here regarding UX (Of course this behavior gives structure, but we pay with UX for it). Since we live in 2015 it shouldn’t be a matter of “hacking” to reduce the amount of inputs and clicks for such “trivial” actions (from a users perspective) like editing a profile.

Is that reason enough? 🙂

See here:

Filters & Constants Reference

About bp_get_displayed_user_nav_ As you see, there is a a final undescore
This is a dynamic function name which need to be completed, depending the place you want it to be modified.
bp_get_displayed_user_nav_<css_id>.

bp_get_displayed_user_nav_<css_id>

See a working example here, to understand how to use it
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-sub-nav-only-for-displayed-user/#post-234852

The Theme My Login plugin is useful in handling redirection. Taken from the plugin’s feature list:

Redirect users upon log in and log out based upon their role

I’ve done this myself using the plugin and can confirm it works quite well with BuddyPress installed.

Hi,

you need to track down the issue,perhaps a JS conflict in backend. Or have you the same problem on front end too ?

Follow instructions from here:

Troubleshooting

Yes !

Configure BuddyPress

Modifying the Registration Form

Customizing

To check you’re on the right “page” in BuddyPress, use the appropriate function
Groups: bp_is_groups_component

Activity: bp_is_activity_component

Member: bp_is_members_component

To the best of my knowledge, @-mentions in BuddyPress require the activity component to be active.

BuddyPress use 3 pages by default: members, groups and activity and a small bunch of templates depending the context.
These 3 pages are not used as ordinary WP pages, and exist for internal usage with WordPress, as slug placeholder only. These pages must stay empty and independant of any template or model.

The best way to add featured images, is to hook into an existing function/filter or action. There’s no need for a static page.

For more complex addition, you can use plugin.php template file which exist in /single/ directory of members and groups component template.

See get_posts and get_the_post_thumbnail on WP Codex
Post type of featured image is attachement

Read also about BuddyPress:

Post Types Activities

Template Overload from a Plugin

or a working example similar to what you try to do (if i understand you correctly).
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/my-contributions-tab-with-subtabs/#post-244609

Please don’t double post.
The answer to your question is similar to the answer in the same thread where you also asked this question.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-disable-html-in-buddypress-private-message/

There is no global filter for message boxes.
You have to find the filter hook as in the thread referred to above.

Read from here:

BuddyPress Links in WordPress Menus

Members Navigation Menus

Hi, I have the same issues:

– the buddypress register page is not creating users, after submit it shows the register page again and the passwords are gone.

– there are no users displayed in the backend

– there are no pending users

i have followed all directions found online and on this forum, fresh install of wp with fresh install of bp, no other plugins active etc…

Should I use an older version of bp? Do I have to create manual pages as the default bp theme is not active anymore?

http://acadayear.com/home/groups/ is also not found.

Do you have User Groups enabled here?
…/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-components

Have you assigned a page to Groups here?
…/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-page-settings

Have you read this?

Configure BuddyPress

@mcpeanut

I am currently testing my buddypress install on one of my servers with nginx

Are you using Nginx with php-fpm? I’ve been tempted to do that for BuddyPress. It’d mean moving all of my .htaccess directives to Nginx server blocks but I think the effort would be worth it for the performance improvements.

@ch1n3s3b0y Hi there, im gonna chime in on this as im starting to believe that buddypress can most definately scale vary well (even though its not been proven yet to scale to say a million users+ i think its quite possible), as henry may remember from previous threads i have commented in i have decided to look into the ultimate server configurations to try and find the best way to actually move forward into my own buddypress build.

This has meant concentrating and learning about lots of different server configurations for the past couple of years in-between my other projects.

Do you think Buddypress can support hundreds of thousands, if not millions of users?

Lets just switch this notion right on its head, rather than ask yourself if buddypress can scale to a millon users start asking yourself if your server setup and configuration can scale to a million concurrent users instead.

The key to success on a buddypress active and busy site becomes more of a server and administration task rather than how you have buddypress setup on a basic server config (before long you will bottleneck somewhere if you do not setup for expansion).

I know it seems daunting to think about all of this rather than install it build it and launch it and expect it to scale! But to me doing something half hearted isnt the way forward with a serious build on any project. If you prepare and understand the potential problems before you have that killer network built with 100s of thousand of concurrent users its much better to be prepared than to sit back and go NOW WHAT! when you finally grind to a halt and noone can use your site anymore and you dont know how to fix and expand it. Proactive is the way forward.

I am currently testing my buddypress install on one of my servers with nginx and HHVM (hip hop virtual machine) that was created by and is used by facebook instead of standard php, this speeds up the PHP execution speed PHP code is translated into C++ compiled into a binary and run as an executable to really speed up the way php works, therefore making everying load much much much much faster! I have only just started messing around with HHVM and will keep you updated. is anyone else actually running HHVM? if so please do share with me your finding, to me this seems the way forward with any buddypress installed website.

Also as i have stated before once i have decided on my final server configurations and im 100 percent happy with exactly how my setups work with wordpress/buddypress to scale to massive amounts of users i will create a post and guide on how i have it all set up, but still will take me more time yet. and also as stated before if anyone else does want to give there 2 cents on it feel free because on these forums there is not much talk about actual configs that people are using, even though i do realize this is server tech department, i also believe it is a valid issue for buddypress because instead of questions about scalability there could also be a few answers which is my ultimate goal. 😉

Hi @qurgh,

use bp_loggedin_user_domain function and wp_nav_menu_items filter to add the item to an existing menu, like this: bp_loggedin_user_domain( 'kag/ship/' )

See here for a working example:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/url-for-menu-to-logged-in-users-profile-page/

WordPress reference:

wp_nav_menu_items

https://codex.wordpress.org/Navigation_Menus

BuddyPress reference

bp_loggedin_user_domain