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Haha I have about 47 different plugins installed into my site and it runs fairly smoothly. The only thing is my geolocation plugin causes my page to refresh the first time you view it.

Aside from that, I found this article: http://bp-tricks.com/snippets/displaying-certain-profile-fields-on-your-members-profile-page/

In step 2 it shows PHP code to grab profile field data. You’ll have to either edit the template you want or create your own tab if you want it on a new page besides one of the pages you already have up on your site.

As far as adding social icons, I used this tutorial: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/display-users-social-follow-buttons-in-profile/
But that one requires xprofile fields.

Hope that helps some! 🙂

Does the area you want your users to write need to be like many different blog posts? Or just like a single biography section?
I can help you with code for a biography section. For that you need Xprofile Fields installed.

For blog posts, the answer I’ve gotten for that is to activate a Multisite network and then get the plugin for front-end blog posting (look for one that is compatible with BuddyPress).

Hopefully an answer can come here (for documentation sake):
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-get-all-extended-fields-values-given-user-id/

Hmmm.

Would it make you happier if either of the following were true?

1. Buddypress did not have a “sidebar” at all, or
2. Buddypress’ sidebar merged with one of your sidebars, i.e. your stuff [specialized information and menus, etc.] and Buddypress’ stuff [Members, Groups etc] showed in the same sidebar

If yes, then take heart because this is easily achievable. If not, then you are talking
about finding a theme that uses three sidebars (whoa!).

Yes, I’ve just tried to go back through my forum replies and the second page always goes back to this site’s home page.

Hovering over the link for page two of my forum replies shows the address it points to is https://buddypress.org/page/2/ – when clicking on it one is shown the home page with that in the address bar.

If I change the address to https://buddypress.org/members/aces/forums/replies/page/2/ I can see the page 2…

Buddypress does not “create” its own sidebars. It uses the theme’s.

Maybe it will be a good idea for you to try it out with a couple of free themes. The default wordpress theme (twenty fourteen) comes with two sidebars, you can probably play around with that a bit.

It should work the same way with a paid theme as far as Buddypress goes.

Yes, adding stuff to the activity stream is easy with plugins like Activity Plus, Buddypress docs.

Also, Buddypress allows for automatic embeds in the activity stream from a lot of sites, including youtube. You just have to drop in the URL in the “Whats new” box. You can refer to the link here for more information: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/embeds/

Embedding media to other pages would require custom coding, as @shanebp has pointed out. Where exactly do you intend to show your embeds?

Take a look at the post by henrywright on this page.

There are plugins like Activity Plus that allow embedding things like a uTube link in the activity page on a member’s profile.

There are several pages in a member’s profile, including a profile page that has data describing that member. There ways to allow for what you want, but it would require some custom coding, iow. not an option out of the box, afaik.

When you say ‘Name appears in the Buddypress list’, by ‘list’ you mean the yoursite.com/members page?

The name field is how a member is identified, so it’s used in many places on many pages in BP.

Do you mean that you don’t want certain members to appear anywhere on the site ?
There are ways to make certain members only visible to site administrators, but it requires custom code.