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Hi

I am using latest versions of WP and BP as a directory multisite.

I want students from my conferences to register. I want to include their school and school URL as mandatory registration profile fields, but I do not want these field to display on site so my competitors can harvest my customers addresses.

How can I do this but still have admin access to the hidden fields?

many thanks, Mike

So here is the problem and MY solution. Might not work for you.
What I’m using: WP 3.3.1, BP 1.5.4, & CIMY Extra Fields 2.3.7

I register users from my WordPress page, NOT my BuddyPress page. So not myurl.com/register BUT I AM USING myurl.com/wplogin.php?action=register

What was happening: CIMY generates a key before BuddyPress generates a key. THEN, Buddypress would send out its own email, but WordPress is looking for the CIMY key to activate the user.

Also, when BuddyPress was sending out the activation email from bp_core_filters.php, NOT bp_members_signup.php. It seems that bp_core_filters.php does not seem to have the function to activate a user, but bp_members_signup.php does.

When I would register users from my BuddyPress page instead of the WordPress page, the activate email would work just fine. The email was also being sent from bp_members_signup.php, NOT bp_core_filters.php. How do I know? I altered the email message in filters.php, but then got a different email when I registered through BuddyPress and not WordPress.

Okay. So what did I do?

bp_core_filters.php was overriding my CIMY activation email. When I disabled BuddyPress, I was able to register users through CIMY and my activation link even said ‘?cimy_key=838494040383830209’ (not a real key, obviously) and not just ‘?key=8393834929282’

Before you do this, save a clean copy of bp_core_filters.php somewhere different, so if this doesn’t work for you, you can put the old file back in without any problems.

I went into bp_core_filters.php and DELETED lines 224-255. This starts with:

?function bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification( $user, $user_email, $key, $meta ) {

$activate_url = bp_get_activation_page() . “?key=$key”;
$activate_url = esc_url($activate_url);
$admin_email = get_site_option( ‘admin_email’ );

if ( empty( $admin_email ) )
$admin_email = ‘support@’ . $_SERVER;?

Then it ends with, on line 255

?add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification’, 1, 4 );?

Delete all code between lines 224 and 255. If you have WPMU, above that is the email function for WPMU, in lines 181-222.

Why am I using CIMY and not just extending the profile fields on BuddyPress? I needed to collect address data. It was a requirement to collect address data from the registration. But, it would then display publicly on the profile in BuddyPress. I couldn’t have that. I just wanted the data in WordPress, hidden. Thus, I’m using CIMY.

Also, I use CIMY and hide the buddypress admin bar to strangers. I use the plugin login logout and place the widget in a sidebar to direct to the correct login screen, not the buddypress login screen.

Check it out: http://mediabridges.info

BuddyPress is running but is not handling any registration, activation, etc. But users can still use it.

Is there anyway to make entering a name optional for the profile fields? Thank you!

http://wpmu.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/profile-fields.png

BP user fields dont synch well with the WP user profile fields.
When a user subscribes the values are synched with the WP fields. But when the user updates his profile in BP all WP fields are erased except for the email and username. Which is a big problem because plugins like WP event manager and my custom plugin rely on these fields to function

Also its not possible to edit the full name field (=base field) of BP.