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I totally agree with @peterverkooijen and @codeispoetry
Keymaster @johnjamesjacoby (John James Jacoby) is clearly in another world mushrooming, because of his lack of PHP coding knowledge and world culture giving false arguments. BuddyPress developers years ago came up with this stupid ida of one full name and their DB structure is so messy that they cant be now bothered to change it. on DB structure the user name is not in user column, is just a value like any other form input values. So their change the fullname to firstname+lastname will be a BIG development deal, therefore they cant be bothered with it, so left it as it is. And on support forums like this, they keep defending this silliness by fake arguements like “some cultures use 4 names etc !!!” I guess they are talking about Mexican people have 4-5 names. But their lack of world culture makes them think like it. Mexican, Spanish people has 2-3 first name and then 1-2 last names (surnames), or in Europe some women carry their surnames and as well as their husband’s surname too, so they have 1 or 2 first names and 1-2 surnames. Birth given names are called FIRST NAMES anywhere in the world, and family given or marriage given names are LAST NAMES anywhere in the world. So what BuddyPress could do: Could create 2 name boxes and relevant DB structure, one saying first name (people can enter 1 or 2 or 3 names all around the world people know which ones are their first names and which ones are their surnames unlike the Keymaster @johnjamesjacoby John James Jacoby)) and on the second box they can enter their surname or surnames, thats all. So BuddyPress data would be compatible with all newsletter, emailing softwares and people can search first names or last names etc.. can normalize itself to the world web technology. So if some people dont want to display last names they can, if they want to display the whole full name they can, give people felexibility, instead what they do they behave like dictatorian attitude, they say “take it or leave it” arrogantly, and they keep arguing here with all participants who made BuddyPress this popular, although the popularity fastly going down because of this techology lackings. More importantly culture and attitude and support lackings.

Hi,

You can install WordPress via Softaculous and then you can install BuddyPress plugin or any other plugin from WordPress admin panel.

This is a solution I came up with, for me it works because it works more like Facebook.

In plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/comment.php

I changed the href on line 37 to
<?php bp_activity_comment_link(); ?>

When a user clicks Reply on a comment, it replies the same way it would if you clicked the Comment button.

Buddypress 1.9

Hi
I have the latest Wp and latest BuddyPress 1.9.2
On the new user registration form it has FULL NAME box
But I need FIRST NAME and LAST NAME boxes. So I can in admin panel and users on frontend can register new users can fill their names with 2 boxes. And on search page users can search other users by first name or last name. And I can hide last names for some users etc.. Its always convenient to have first and last names in separate DB columns. So please help me out, how can I have the BuddyPress plugged site of mine to function like above?
Thanks

Hi
I have the latest Wp and latest BuddyPress 1.9.2
On the new user registration form it has FULL NAME box
But I need FIRST NAME and LAST NAME boxes. So I can in admin panel and users on frontend can register new users can fill their names with 2 boxes. And on search page users can search other users by first name or last name. And I can hide last names for some users etc.. Its always convenient to have first and last names in separate DB columns. So please help me out, how can I have the BuddyPress plugged site of mine to function like above?
Thanks

Hi
I have the latest Wp and latest BuddyPress 1.9.2
On the new user registration form it has FULL NAME box
But I need FIRST NAME and LAST NAME boxes. So I can in admin panel and users on frontend can register new users can fill their names with 2 boxes. And on search page users can search other users by first name or last name. And I can hide last names for some users etc.. Its always convenient to have first and last names in separate DB columns. So please help me out, how can I have the BuddyPress plugged site of mine to function like above?
Thanks

Hi
I have the latest Wp and latest BuddyPress 1.9.2
On the new user registration form it has FULL NAME box
But I need FIRST NAME and LAST NAME boxes. So I can in admin panel and users on frontend can register new users can fill their names with 2 boxes. And on search page users can search other users by first name or last name. And I can hide last names for some users etc.. Its always convenient to have first and last names in separate DB columns. So please help me out, how can I have the BuddyPress plugged site of mine to function like above?
Thanks

Hi truthmedia
I have the latest Wp and latest BuddyPress 1.9.2
On the new user registration form it has FULL NAME box
But I need FIRST NAME and LAST NAME boxes. So I can in admin panel and users on frontend can register new users can fill their names with 2 boxes. And on search page users can search other users by first name or last name. And I can hide last names for some users etc.. Its always convenient to have first and last names in separate DB columns. So please help me out, how can I have the BuddyPress plugged site of mine to function like above?
Thanks

Hi @stefwilliams

Enhancement suggestions can be made here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

I added a profile field to the members header.php, it was overwritten when I updated to the latest bp because I forgot to add it to my child theme.

it became the default:
<?php
/***
* If you’d like to show specific profile fields here use:
* bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=About Me’ ); — Pass the name of the field
*/
do_action( ‘bp_profile_header_meta’ );

?>

But the field still appears in the members header! how is this possible?

My problem is, I’m trying to recreate the same site again, but I can’t duplicate it, I don’t know how to edit the members header anymore, or why it still works on my demo, but not when I use the same copy of bp as my demo?

Im getting this error in the members header

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home/palosverdes1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-template.php on line 662

What’s going on? Please help!

Take a look at this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress-functions.php

~Line 110 there are 2 add_action calls to create a join-group button – ‘bp_group_join_button’.

You need to write a function that checks if the user is a member of any group.
If they are, do 2 remove_action calls so that the button is not created.
Except, of course, for the group that they belong to, otherwise the ‘Leave Group’ button will not appear.

You could use this plugin to create mandatory groups that users can’t leave.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-mandatory-groups/

The Group management functionality in the dashboard could help you sort users into the appropriate group.

Something like this would allow you to have users select groups when they are registering

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-registration-groups-1/

@ultimateuser

create bp-custom.php and place it in wp-content/plugins, not wp-content/plugins/buddypress.

copy directly and paste the code below into bp-custom.php you created.

add_filter( 'bp_activity_do_mentions', '__return_false' );

The activity feed in BP has a filter that you can use to select things like All posts, All Comments, All Activity Updates etc. It’s a dropdown on the activity feed. It sounds like what you want is for it to default to just posts, and not to everything (avatar changes, friend requests etc.)

This might help:

How To Customize The BuddyPress Activity Loop

Here’s another topic in which the user was trying to do something similar

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/show-updates-as-default-in-activity/

@aravere

Try upgrading to bp 1.9+ it has had some attention in the user name area: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5185 and https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4622

Cool. Good luck with it. Breaking up your questions also means that someone doesn’t look quickly at this thread and assume everything is solved. Hope it works out.

BTW: Found this that might help the other issue. Haven’t tested it but Brajesh is a brilliant dude so I assume it will probably work. Just follow along on the comment thread below the snippet: it’s hard to tell if he updated the code, or just suggested how to do so.

Prevent spaces in WordPress/BuddyPress Usernames

In the BuddyPress settings, you could just turn off the Friend component.

1. Have you disabled site tracking? Try going to the WP dashboard where you can disable and enable BuddyPress components and check that site tracking is enabled.

2. Maybe check entries are recorded when using a different theme? Twenty Thirteen is a good tried and tested one.

In the BuddyPress admin area, you need to assign a WordPress page (created in the Dashboard under Pages/New) with a BP component. This codex page explains in more detail

Configure BuddyPress