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@jakewho

Prevent spaces in WordPress/BuddyPress Usernames

@squeebo
Its kinda hard to compare when one doesn’t even know what WPeddit is. I seriously doubt whatever WPeddit is would be on the same level as BP as it has been in development for 5-6 years.

I have a feeling you are trying to do something that is practically already there.
Every profile has a unique link. Here is the link for your profile:
https://buddypress.org/community/members/tripvips/
You can give this link to anyone who wants to view the profile. Here “give the link” means anything you can think of: post on Facebook, post in forums, post in forum signatures, attach this link to profiles on 3rd party websites (when you post comments for instance).
If needed, you can create a banner type images for posting anywhere with the link “under” image leading to the person’s profile.

The above is basics and if you want to have different “codes” leading to the same profile, you simply need to look into things like URL cloaking/redirecting/shortening/tracking. Using these, you can have differently looking URLs, all leading to desired profile’s URL.

Did I not fully got your question, or are you trying to make things a lot more complicated than they are?

Regards

Don’t thank me yet! You might be hating me in a few days:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-get-the-profile-field-name-and-its-value-in-the-members-loop/
I plan on releasing it on the WP repository!

Why! Is this deliberate confrontation? Generally speaking one wouldn’t do this or at least only do this if one didn’t give a hang about what people thought about you.

@shanebp
Don’t thank me yet! You might be hating me in a few days:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-get-the-profile-field-name-and-its-value-in-the-members-loop/
I plan on releasing it on the WP repository!

1. members are searched by profile fields
2. you can create unlimited profile fields
3. there may be an events plugin
4. BP has invite only private groups
5. there was a geo plugin, not sure its up to date
6. members are unlimited

hi @caycee !

consider what djpaul answered here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/wesley-daniel-chain-problem-in-buddypress/#post-171672

and on the plugin page
Requires: WordPress 3.2, BuddyPress 1.5 or higher
Compatible up to: WordPress 3.5 / BuddyPress 1.6
Last Updated: 2012-10-9

@bloxblox
Its really not good to reply on 2 year old threads. Anyway there is a plugin for that and from what I can see it still works decent even though it has not been updated in a few years.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-edit-activity-stream/

@modemlooper
“Neither Facebook, Twitter or Google+ allow yo to edit activity/ status updates. Seems like it’s the normal on the interwebs.”

Facebook does let you edit now.

Even if they didn’t, is that a good reason to not allow it on buddypress? Facebook do lots of things that don’t follow the “golden rule”.

@squaredindex If you’re using a WordPress theme, not a BP Default child theme, check out BP Theme Compatibility information at
a. https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/
b. https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/

Basically if you want to change ALL the BP pages to have a sidebar or not, then create a new file named buddypress.php and paste in the code of your theme’s file which has a sidebar or a full width layout. Then upload buddypress.php to the root of your theme’s folder in server. For theme compatibility to work, your theme should have the_title and the_content within the WP loop. Read a) above.

If you want to mix-and-match BP pages with full-width and two-column (with sidebar) layouts, read b).

@squaredindex
Have you reviewed:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/
If your parent theme has a page.php or index.php in the root directory then copy one of those files over to your child themes root directory and rename it to buddypress.php

I have the same problem. However, my hide_sitewide values are “1” for private forum entries, but are being completely ignored with the sitewide activity is shown.
I, too, upgraded from legacy groups to sitewide forums.
I am running bbPress 2.4 with buddypress 1.8.1
I have run the forum tools script to repair hidden forums, but this hasn’t made a difference.
I’m really worried about this security breach and – despite seeing a number of posts in here pointing this out – the development team seem unable to recreate it at their end. Nevertheless, it seems it is affecting people like us and we need to lock it down ASAP.
Thanks.

I’ve been having the same problem. It’s a huge security breach and I’d love to get to the bottom of it. I’m using buddypress 1.8.1 and bbpress 2.4.
It’s actually really scary, since my private forums are having sensitive conversations that they believe to be private when, in fact, they are being broadcast in their entirety to everyone. This is horrendous.

i think it should be in buddypress core… not as a plugin.

yes if you are making a child them then you can copy and past or after that you can edit files. if you are making a theme or it is not a child theme so there should’t be any sidebar till then you don’t add the code

hi squared index you don’t mention what type of theme you are creating. if you are creating a child theme so you have to copy all files with the folder which have sidebar from defaul bp-them like activity folder with the index file or other folders and main index file after that simply remove the line

<?php get_sidebar( ‘buddypress’ ); ?>

usually this file locate in the last of index files.

visit on my site http://www.vellamind.com/activity/

i have chage the position of side bar in my theme

Good luck