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To edit the BuddyPress registration page, you’ll need to customize the template file directly, as it doesn’t appear in the WordPress Pages menu. Go to your WordPress theme’s folder (preferably a child theme) and navigate to buddypress/members/register.php. If the buddypress folder doesn’t exist in your theme, copy it from the BuddyPress plugin’s directory (usually wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/). Once copied, you can modify register.php as needed, adding custom fields or adjusting the layout. Remember to back up your changes to avoid losing them during updates.For more details visit fintechzoom.com

I think best practice really depends on your target audience and what features they may expect or desire from their profile.

One of that main profile customisation features provided in BuddyPress is the ability to “overload”, a profile template file, replacing it with your own customised version. This is a simple way to add your own features to the profile pages.

However, overloading a page means any updates to it in future by BuddyPress would need to be manually added to your overloaded page, so this method, although simple, is not the only way to add custom features to profile pages.

If you look in the plugins/buddypress/templates directory, and investigate the templates in, for example bp-nouveau, then you can see there are a lot of action hooks you could use to add further content in specific locations in each page.

This second method allows you to keep the BP provided templates unchanged, but still add the content required.

The most configurable profile I ever created was for a social networking community that wanted the user to effectively create their own theme for their profile pages. So I built the following additional plugins for the site:

1. a theme specific plugin that allowed the user to fully customise their profile colour scheme.
2. A custom header plugin that allowed the user to select their own header image.
3. Similarly, a custom background plugin.
4. My profile home and sidebar user widgets plugins to allow the user to add their own content into their profile pages.
5. Menu customisations to bring all these customisation options into a single location, and remove/simplify them in other places.
6. Integration with the overall blogging platform – providing the user with areas where they can showcase their own blogs, and also allow them a variety of options as to who those blogs are shown to.

Those are just a few main examples as to the possibilities, but most of them do require some form of coding.

I have a similar issue. After plugin updates, the activity page url often stops working.

To get around it I have to add “-3” to the end of the activity page url, and then create a redirect as we have urls going to the activity page in our menu. It works for a while, but eventually stops working. When this happens, I change the url back by removing the “-3” and remove the redirect.

I need to change the members url as well by adding “-3” to the end of it, or removing it depending on which url is working.

This typically only happens after running plugin updates. This last time a plugin auto updated and we lost our urls. wpmudev. I’ve turned off auto updates so I can keep an eye on things, but it would be good to know what’s causing this.

I have the latest version, and BP classic, also the latest version. WP and everything else is kept up to date.

Thanks

1. Which version of WordPress are you running? latest

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install? installed at /

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? root

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version? always up to date.

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. yes

6. Which version of BP are you running? 12.3.0

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? yes. using BP for over 5 years. kept up to date weekly.

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones? too many to list…

9. Are you using a standard WordPress theme or customized theme? custom

10. Which theme do you use ? Thrive

11. Have you modified the core files in any way? no

12. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? no

13. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? not running bbPress

14. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files. https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress autoindex error happened around the time a plugin auto updated, which I suspect caused the url change. The plugin was wmpu dev, but other updates cause this as well. error references public_html/.well-known/. not sure if this is related.

15. Which company provides your hosting? liquidweb

16. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? alma linux

17. Which BP Theme are you using?

18. Have you overloaded any BuddyPress template files. no

19. Any other site customisations that might have a bearing on the issue? Not that I know of.

20. What BP Template Pack is activated in your installation? You will see that under Dashboard > Settings > BuddyPress – Options page. New Template/Nouveau Template

Worse for me.

I have a problem installing BuddyPress from a “fresh” installation of WP. The WP installation works correctly, nothing to report. I go through the plugins admin page and search for buddypress, download it and install it and activate it. No error message, installation seems to work. I have the additional menu items including the URL slug management page. But none of the pages work, all fall to 404. Even if I change a slug for a custom one and save. Nothing works.

The only particularity is that the initial installation of WP is in French. But even if from this “fresh” installation in French I revert WP to US English, nothing happens, none of the slugs work!

1. Which version of WordPress are you running?
6.4.3

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install?
Main domain install : http://www.sudnat.be

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?
in the root

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version?
not relevant, new WP install

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.
yes

6. Which version of BP are you running?
12.3.0

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?
No, fresh install

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?
None

9. Are you using a standard WordPress theme or customized theme?
Twenty Twenty-TwoVersion: 1.6, no customisation

10. Which theme do you use ?
Twenty Twenty-TwoVersion: 1.6

11. Have you modified the core files in any way?
no

12. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?
no

13. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?
not running bbPress

14. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.
I have the additional menu items including the URL slug management page. But none of the pages work, all fall to 404. Even if I change a slug for a custom one and save. Nothing works.

15. Which company provides your hosting?
ovh.fr

16. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else?
Apache

17. Which BP Theme are you using?
BuddyPress Nouveau

18. Have you overloaded any BuddyPress template files.
no

19. Any other site customisations that might have a bearing on the issue?
no

20. What BP Template Pack is activated in your installation? You will see that under Dashboard > Settings > BuddyPress – Options page.
New Template/Nouveau Template

Hello, I have a problem installing BuddyPress from a “fresh” installation of WP. The WP installation works correctly, nothing to report. I go through the plugins admin page and search for buddypress, download it and install it and activate it. No error message, installation seems to work. I have the additional menu items including the URL slug management page. But none of the pages work, all fall to 404. Even if I change a slug for a custom one and save. Nothing works.

The only particularity is that the initial installation of WP is in French. But even if from this “fresh” installation in French I revert WP to US English, nothing happens, none of the slugs work!

– BP Version 12.3.0
– WP Version: 6.4.3
– No extra plugins (only BP)
– No extra feature added in BP (only the default features)

Any help ?

Hi Varun

The code snippet does not work for me.
The Friends label does not change, neither in the Friends component nor in the Buddypress user account menu (top right on screen)
Snippet added with Code Snippets plugin.

Could you advise please?

Hello sorry for that but problems also on my side

When upgrading to BP12

1.I get a critical error if i try to change slug
2. when i try to access a link i got https://xx.org//membres-xx/userxBP_SETTINGS_SLUG
(same with BP_FRIENDS_SLUG, BP_GROUPS_SLUG, BP_MESSAGES_SLUG , BP_SETTING_SLUG) <== think this is due to the template custom menu..

(template use Grimlock)

i use :
BP Classic
BP Maps for Members
BP Profile Search
BP xProfile Location
BuddyPress Docs
BuddyPress Extended Friendship Request
BuddyPress Group Chatroom
BuddyPress Group Email Subscription
Sélectionner BuddyPress Member Type Generator
BuddyPress Message Attachment
BuddyPress Profile Completion
BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Field Types

(yes a lot of them but if it work form me it work for all 🙂

Thank for your work and your help

@imath,
Thank you for your response and apologies for my tardiness – I had no idea that the Discussion settings had any impact on Buddypress Activity but you are correct, this was what was causing the issue. Is this documented anywhere in the Buddypress docs/codex? I made the mistake of assuming that Buddypress activity was a separate entity to the blog posts and comments but obviously it isn’t, so do all the other Discussion settings impact it as well? I can obviously test myself but if there is any resource on this that would be very useful.

Regarding the BP Classic issue, thank you, although I have now made a significant design change and workaround so I don’t think it will impact me any more, and that also applies to the issue I reported with the nav menu highlighting, although that will impact others. Basically I have created a custom Members directory page on a WP page so that when that is a sub menu item of Activity any visit to a Profile page does not highlight the Activity menu item as was happening with the standard Member directory. Also from my testing I have not encountered any issues that will require BP Classic to be activated, and if I do I will probably devise another workaround.

Good luck with preparing to launch the release of BP 12!

Hi again @vapvarun,
Sorry to say that BuddyX is a disappointment – it is nowhere near as flexible as Blocksy, for instance you can’t adjust sidebar width, you can’t have the sidebar at the top on smaller screens, you can’t move the menu, the header is also less useful and many more things that I have discovered in just a few hours. Also still the same issue with buttons not consistently styled, and no options to style forms, tabs etc. I honestly think it would be just as much work trying to get the consistent styling that I want as it is now with Blocksy, but with less flexibility in getting the design I want. The problem derives from Buddypress though rsather than either theme in terms of the styling because BP uses so many different classes for things that could be grouped. My only ultimate solution is to eventually grasp the nettle and completely rewrite all the relevant templates, but I simply don’t have time now, and with all the changes in the pipeline it might prove wasted effort as well.

Hi @imath,
I don’t know if one of the below might be related to what @vapvarun posted, but in my early testing of 12.0.0-beta1 (with latest WP and using Blocksy theme and Nouveau) there are a few things cropping up; firstly I don’t seem able to customise the css by duplicating Nouveau’s css in my Blocksy child theme folder, either inside a buddypress folder or just in the child theme folder, and can only achieve changes in my child theme’s style.css (I suspect this is unrelated to the new Buddypress but I haven’t yet tried it with Legacy); secondly, it doesn’t seem possible to add a main menu link to the currently logged in user that is visible at all times – I have created a custom link but it only appears in the menu when viewing the various sections (i.e. Profile, Activity etc); thirdly, I was struggling to add a sidebar to any of the BP pages, even though my default Blocksy setting is for each page to have one, and discovered that (in Blocksy at least) in Customizer it is counting BP pages as Blog Posts, whereas intuitively I would have thought this should be set in the BP specific sections, and without extensive css work means that Blog Pages and BP pages will always have to be the same. Are you considering adding/improving what can be done in the Customizer at some point? I have found I have to make an awful lot of CSS edits anyway to get BP to match my colour scheme and preferences in previous versions of BP and it would be a huge boon if at least some of this can be achieved with the Customizer settings (or a settings page in the plugin). BP has never followed my theme defaults, but I don’t know if that is because of the theme (and the two standard BP templates) I use or if it is like this for everyone.