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I’ve not seen a tagging plugin for Buddypress, I think the @Username option must be it.

I’ve not encountered any issues locally.

My preferred setup is Chassis to provide local WordPress environment on vagrant; then adding BuddyPress however you prefer (from wp-admin or manually). Works great on OSX (although there are some general config changes with VirtualBox on El Capitan).

https://github.com/Chassis/Chassis

Hi, no need to shout, writing in capitals is really rough. [Mod – topic title modified]

In a WordPress system, you can only upload allowed medias. You already know (probably) that you can embed videos in post by simply copy/pasting the video link into it. This works also with BuddyPress when you enter a video URL to a profile field, it plays automatically, without any additionnal player.

MP3 is an audio format and you can use the same technique as for videos. Read here.

For more advanced display, you have several possibilities by plugins (rtMedia or MediaPress) or by building a custom display which fits exactly to your need. You don’t want a plugin (?), so i’m affraid you have to do something from scratch.

That said, keep in mind that allowing users to upload “big” data files to your site is a mess. First because of the upload limitation in WordPress (by default 2 mo max.) This can only be increased if you have access to the server settings (eg. php_ini and httpd_conf). And if you have some traffic and many MP3, you need a generous bandwith. That’s why it’s recommended to use external services to store these datas. But if you follow this, you can only use what WP allows.

Before thinking about a miraculous snippet in bp-custom, give more details about the scenario you imagine for users (file amount, file size, why do you want this during registering and not later, and so on…).

Depending your answers, the solution can be very simple or very complicated.

Asked and answered many times.

If you’ve turned off all plugins and are using a WP like 2015, you should not see the warning.
Then use your theme.
Then start turning on plugins, one at a time.

Please do not hijack threads or double post.

Your reg page shows the standard layout.
Adjusting the layout may require changes in the css for your theme.
There are many articles about customizing the registration page.
Google: buddypress customize registration page

There is no free media solution that will work seamlessly across WP Multisite and Buddypress, that is comparable to at least some degree to scripts like Elgg or Easysocial for Joomla … Rtmedia paid version is little better but using and uploading media has become so intuitive and easy (along with site super admins options eg how much to allow to upload in one go) that standard cms-es like WordPress, Buddypress, Joomla, Drupal are lacking far behind : for example see Whatsapp – how easily you can add picture from you phone cam or webcam in your gallery ( for Buddypress, Elgg etc you can do this for profile photo only) – such capacities are totally absent in social scripts like BP (WordPress or WP Multisite without BP is somewhat better if used with Jetpack).

We will never catch-up – you will never catch up unless you have deep pockets. WP+BP rest on its laurels and its sad how FB monopoly is destroying the fabric of inter-connectivity of internet.

Mediapress is not a user-friendly solution if you have to quickly or in a moderate time, deploy a social net site.

bbpress is the forum component of WordPress, it can integrate in Buddypress Groups to provide them with forums but will also work standalone.

Trouble is other then the lack of buddypress support I really like my theme, I guess that’s always going to be an issue unless I can find an alternative that has the right look and feel. None of those that were listed for example seem to support a header image, which I find is desirable. Also, they tend to be a bit too buddypress centric as far as I can see.

Pretty sure next set of templates will have members as a grid, yes. All of the popular third-party BuddyPress themes have done it like this, so we’d be foolish to not do the same.

Regardless of how you added the users, if you chose to not have emails sent, you need find a WordPress plugin that will do this for you (if any exist — resending emails is a bit niche).

If you added them through BuddyPress on the front-end, emails should have been sent out. I’d start investigating the mail configuration on your server to check it is correctly set up to deliver email.

I am looking into how promptly we may be closing old discussion threads (if we leave them open, someone replies to them months or years later, normally with a “did anyone ever find a solution” etc”, and the discussion’s out of date). I can’t see any threads that you’ve started recently that have been closed, so I’m assuming you meant generally.

Also, we appreciate your feedback. This isn’t the first time you’ve complained about some of the design/theming aspects of BuddyPress, but unfortunately threads like this don’t help us make the software better. You’re more likely to get a better response if you share unconstructive comments like these on your own site/blog rather than these support forums (if you do, be sure to link us here to it so we can go read it). Thanks.

In post #190874 on the topic you’ve linked to, snippet 2 has the line:

$excluded_user='1'; // Id's to remove, separated by comma

You can just add more user IDs like this and those IDs will be excluded from the loop:

$excluded_user='1,34,56,201'; // Id's to remove, separated by comma

So it is better for this plugin to do the styling.

BuddyPress is intentionally built to be flexible. Even though it works well “out-of-the-box” it isn’t designed to be finished. If we added everything to core, then it would bloat the project. The idea is for you to extend your own personal copy of BuddyPress with plugins and themes to make it unique. There’s 2m+ BuddyPress sites out there (according to the number of downloads) and we wouldn’t want them all looking and acting the exact same.

Best request so far on this forum and surprised you reopened this thread. Buddypress, bbPress, and WordPress are so easily close the threads before anything is even discussed and easily just assumes its better to go to a theme author to implement it when it not the theme author that works on this plugin at all. Theme Authors are 3rd party. So it is better for this plugin to do the styling.

It’s easy to add a member’s display name.
Create a template overload of this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\member-header.php

Then replace this:

	<?php if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) && bp_activity_do_mentions() ) : ?>
		<h2 class="user-nicename">@<?php bp_displayed_user_mentionname(); ?></h2>
	<?php endif; ?>

With this:

        <?php if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) && bp_activity_do_mentions() ) : ?>
            <h2 class="user-fullname">
                <?php bp_displayed_user_fullname(); ?>
                <small>@<?php bp_displayed_user_mentionname(); ?></small>
            </h2>
        <?php endif; ?>