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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

The difference is in the scale and the level of complexity.

buddypress + WordPress on a single site is relatively simple to setup
wheras Buddypress+ WordPress Multisite is more complex and requires additional hosting resources

The functionality difference is on a single site install your users will be posting to a single blog whereas on a multisite instaall each user would have their own blog to post to.

If you are just seting up the site then my advice would be keep it simple and go for a single site WordPress+Buddypress setup

I’m a great believer in keeping things simple,and WordPress Multisite creates an additional layer of complexity which you probably do not require in initially.

The problem here is the bp_has_message_threads() function itself. It comes with hardcoded checks to override the $box to sentbox or inbox based on the results of bp_is_current_action().

You could try something this, in lieu of bp_has_message_threads():

function bp_custom_has_message_threads( $args = '' ) {
	global $messages_template;

	$r = wp_parse_args( $args, array(
		'user_id'      => bp_loggedin_user_id(),
		'box'          => 'inbox',
		'per_page'     => 10,
		'max'          => false,
		'type'         => 'all',
		'search_terms' => isset( $_REQUEST['s'] ) ? stripslashes( $_REQUEST['s'] ) : '',
		'page_arg'     => 'mpage', // See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3679
	) );

	if ( bp_is_current_action( 'notices' ) && !bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) ) {
		bp_core_redirect( bp_displayed_user_domain() );
	}

	$messages_template = new BP_Messages_Box_Template( $r['user_id'], $r['box'], $r['per_page'], $r['max'], $r['type'], $r['search_terms'], $r['page_arg'] );

	return apply_filters( 'bp_has_message_threads', $messages_template->has_threads(), $messages_template );
}