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The unique field coming with BP xtended profile is called Name by default. This field name can be changed and you can add some specific description to it to fit your need.

On the register page you have on the left the 3 mandatory fields from WP
username
password
email

on the right BP’s Name field in which you can enter first and last name.

Registration

You forgot to mention your bug report:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6428

At the moment, you can’t.

This is handled in the bbPress plugin:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.7/includes/extend/buddypress/groups.php#L55

You could try overriding those variables on the 'bp_include' hook. See where bbPress initializes BuddyPress:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.7/includes/core/actions.php#L132
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5.7/includes/core/extend.php#L38

So in theory, you could overload those slugs on the bbpress()->extend->buddypress object on the 'bp_include' hook after priority 10.

Untested, but see if that works. This will also break all your old forum links in the activity stream if you did this.

It sounds like the requests are being generated by a plugin or some other custom code – probably related to registration.
Try turning off all plugins except BuddyPress and see it the issue persists.

Try this in your theme/functions.php or in bp-custom.php

function klosurdo_unlink_fields( $field_value ) {

	$no_link_fields = array( 'Photographer Bio' );

	$bp_this_field_name = bp_get_the_profile_field_name();

	if ( in_array( $bp_this_field_name, $no_link_fields ) )
		$field_value = strip_tags( $field_value );

	return $field_value;

}
add_filter( 'bp_get_the_profile_field_value', 'klosurdo_unlink_fields', 99, 1 );

Have you tried this plugin ?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-secure-passwords/

Also:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/strong-passwords/#post-187635

This may help on your second item:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/sorting-by-last-name-goes-wrong-when-having-multiple-words-as-last-name/

it feels like “Groups” are one of the biggest draws to BuddyPress that makes it more social

It’s one of the interrest of BuddyPress, indeed !

Yes, you can remove status from the template. Search this forum, the’re many topics about this subject.

You could remove this from groups/single/home.php – needs just a template overload.

<div id="message" class="info">
<p><?php bp_group_status_message(); ?></p>
</div>

See also this topic

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/number-of-topics-and-replies-in-profile/

Anything about this is explained here

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

and also on bbpress site.

See in bbp forum settings and modify the group forum(parent) name.

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

As it says in that thread – to entry.php
Specifically buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\activity\entry.php

And of course create a template overload of that file.

hi @fmckinnon,

Should we also use BuddyPress?

bbPress is a separate WP forum plugin. You can use it on any WordPress install.

BuddyPress is a separate WP members community plugin. You can use on any WordPress install.

Confused by the difference between “Groups” in Buddypress and the forums … and “Group” forums.

BP groups are members activities grouped under a same hood: the group. So it’s a typical BP behave. A group is not a forum, even if group discussion can be followed with help of a minimalistic publishing tool, the what’s new ? form aka notice editor. A kind of wall discussion retrained to each group, without any usual forum tool.

If you use bbPress AND buddyPress, you have the ability to categorize the forum into groups. In other words, you can assign a forum to any group of your choice.

As you can read on Codex, you have the option for a global forum only, or group forums only or if you have time and many mods, group and global forums.

For the last question, you already know that vbulltetin can be imported. For the user i have no answer because i never used this, but one thing is sure, WP use only one user table, no matter the other used plugin.

BuddyPress “shows” users, but doesn’t manage them. bbPress “shows” topics, but doesn’t manage user. That’s WP stuff.

I don’t know if you should use BP and bbPress together simply in regards of these technical explanation. So far i already experimented with BP, they are many other points to take in consideration if you want to built a community site.

Apparently the issue is clearly related to Boss theme, no ?
You have to ask on the theme support, support is included in the licence price and we haven’t free access, so it’s difficult to help you. Sorry.

I suspect the theme to not use some very recent modification around localization. Since BP 2.0 many strings where enhanced with translators ready comments and somme other little details, like points or comas.

As example, my groups (x) is coded My Groups <span>%s</span> in BP 2.2
As you say it’s not translated, this means that the original (theme) code is wrong.
Could be My groups <span>%s</span> or my groups <span>%</span> (lower case, missing ‘s’)…
Verify this for each string.
Compare the result between buddypress.pot and what you see in theme’s source.

Other common issue example. Groups is not translated on My Profile sub nav menu.

Actually, BP use this in bp-activity/bp-activity-loader.php
'title' => _x( 'Groups', 'My Account Activity sub nav', 'buddypress' )

Not so long in the past, it was
'title' => __( 'Groups', 'buddypress' )

The important thing for gettext to work, is the difference between _x and __ !

Updating a theme or plugin to fetch those kind of details is a time consuming detail work. An the devil is in details… and custom themes use custom functions or complex template overloads.

But at least, you know where and what to control now. 😉

@pinkishhue,

as start point, see here: https://buddypress.org/members/danbp/

Additionaly you can use/be inspired by this:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/hide-admins-activities-from-all-activity-feeds-in-buddypress/#post-223433

Successfully tested on BP 2.2.3.1 WP 4.2.2 Twenty Twelve

I’ve been thinking of this a lot myself, in the way that Facebook or Gmail for example update their title tags. This is a great way of encouraging engagement in the site as people see the number even if their browser is minimised and they’re off working on something else.

I haven’t tried to implement this myself yet but will have a try asap.

I guess it’s a case of:

adding a conditional in to the <title > tag in the themes header.php that says IF there are notifications then display the count. Then, have the page refresh periodically to update the count (or does buddypress do this already to update notifications? I’d have to check)

So just need to find the code that generates the notifications count.

Hopefully it’s that simple, but we’ll see 🙂