BuddyPress.org

Well, you’ll have to be sure that the “Profile Field URL” field has the id of 6 on your installation. On your site, visit the Profile Fields admin at Wp Admin > Users > Profile Fields (/wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup) and hover over the “Edit” button for the field you want to affect. The link will look something like /wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup&mode=edit_field&group_id=1&field_id=7 showing you the field_id you want to use.

I am trying to do the similar thing, I want to set the display name as the name and last name fields of the xprofile. But it does not work.

Hi Tom-

It sounds like you have a lot of balls in the air. For instance:

Remember, I have removed the original xprofile_sync function.

Honestly, I can’t know enough about your setup to tell you anything for sure. What I can tell you is this:

• bbPress uses WordPress’s “Display Name” field, not a BuddyPress field.
• BuddyPress only updates the WP “Display Name” field when profile syncing is enabled.
• BP’s default sync function also updates WP’s “First Name” and “Last Name”
• The replacement function I provided updates WP’s “Display Name” but _not_ the “First Name” and “Last Name” fields.

Feel free to comment out the “nickname” update line. You won’t hurt anything. You’ll just not update the BP “nickname” field. Which won’t affect the name bbPress displays.

Hi @ibes-

I’d try to use Xprofile for managing profile fields. There’s a lot of baked-in goodness with the Xprofile component.

Obviously, I don’t know what will work in your situation, but it seems like name matching is reasonable. You could probably also extend the Xprofile Groups and Fields classes to add some sort of persistent-ID parameter for each object.

Check out the code at bp-xprofile/classes/.

Hi Tom-

I’d guess that you (or the previous site admin) edited the Display Name field to be called “Name.” You can check by visiting this screen on your installation: /wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup

“Display Name” is usually the first profile field created, so if you inspect the input, and it has the name=field_1, then you can guess that your “Name” field is the “Display Name” field I’m talking about, just renamed, similar to how you renamed the “Base profile.” It sounds like when you’re talking about “Forum Name” you’re talking about BP’s Base Profile > Display Name, but with your own naming convention.

I also was wrong about the synchronization between Display Name and First and Last name. If I update the Display Field to be “Too Slim”, the WP First Name will become “Too” and the WP Last Name will become “Slim,” assuming that “Enable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing” (s you said). The WordPress “Display Name” field will become “Too Slim.” The WP “Display Name” is also looks like what is used by bbPress in its loops.

So, if you want your users to be able to change the name used by the bbPress forums, you’ll need to have “Enable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing” checked. Then, the WP “Display Name” field is updated when the BP “Display Name” field is checked. If you want to leave WP’s First and Last Name fields to not be synced after sign-up, the following code could be added to your bp-custom.php file or wherever you keep your customization code:

// Remove BP's action because it syncs nickname, display_name, first_name and last_name.
remove_action( 'xprofile_data_after_save', 'xprofile_sync_wp_profile_on_single_field_set' );
function my_custom_xprofile_sync_wp_display_name_only_on_single_field_set( $user_id = 0 ) {
	// Bail if profile syncing is disabled.
	if ( bp_disable_profile_sync() ) {
		return true;
	}

	if ( empty( $user_id ) ) {
		$user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id();
	}

	if ( empty( $user_id ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	$fullname = xprofile_get_field_data( bp_xprofile_fullname_field_id(), $user_id );

	bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, 'nickname',   $fullname  );

	wp_update_user( array( 'ID' => $user_id, 'display_name' => $fullname ) );
}
add_action( 'xprofile_data_after_save', 'my_custom_xprofile_sync_wp_display_name_only_on_single_field_set' );

It’s a modified version of this function, leaving the first and last name logic out: https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/5.0.0/src/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-functions.php#L803

Hi @tdurocher-

What screen are you using to change the bbPress “forum name”? (That’s unfamiliar to me.)

BuddyPress uses the user’s profile to manage names, and doesn’t generally interact with the First and Last name fields; it allows the user to manage the Display Name field. For instance, via http://bptest.local/members/admin/profile/edit/group/1/

Adding MemberPress to the mix complicates the issue somewhat, too.

Hi @ibes-

You can get the profile field groups and fields by using the function:

$groups = bp_xprofile_get_groups( array( 'fetch_fields' => true ) );

With this information, you should be able to determine whether a field exists and what its ID is.

Best,

-David