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Hi guys,

I would like to restrict my registration AND log in process to Facebook only and scrap the original screen.

I only need a few mandatory profile fields which will be taken directly from Facebook.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Cheers 🙂

Parts of the WordPress/BuddyPress profile relationship has been covered elsewhere, but I haven’t been able to find a conclusive discussion on the subject, so I’m taking the liberty of bringing it up again.

First, we have the WordPress profile with the usual such as email address, names, password, bio, along with the dashboard preferences.

Then there’s the bbPress profile with its own forum-oriented tabs, however, it still preserves access to almost all the settings in the WordPress profile, except of course for the dashboard preferences that are no longer relevant in the front-end.

Finally, there is BuddyPress, where only the account email and password are editable. Names, contact info, and the biographical info are not included. There are, however, the Extended Profile’s custom fields, but they do not substitute the above fields.

I think a few things here need clarification (I have linked to existing relevant discussions):

• What’s behind the decision to not include these settings in the BuddyPress profile?
• Why aren’t the bbPress and the BuddyPress profiles merged? #4357
• Why aren’t the BuddyPress and the WordPress profiles merged? #3335
• In addition to above, If bbPress at least to an extent is merging its profiles with the WordPress profile, why is BuddyPress not doing the same?
• Finally, can anybody explain, based on editing template files, how to add these settings, the same settings that WordPress offers at wp-admin/profile.php and bbPress offers in their profile, under the BuddyPress profile’s settings?

Thank you.

Additional reading:
http://buddypress.org/support/topic/please-help-me-understand-a-wordpressbp-feature/
BuddyPress – WordPress Profile Syncronization

How do I make a profile field group conditional? Meaning if none of those fields under that group are filled out neither they nor the group “tab” show.

I’m using xprofile and geomy-wp but I need to use the shortcode for geomy-wp on the actual profile page under the basic info tab and I’m trying to figure out where I put that shortcode. Is there someway to use the profile fields area to have a display field like the text box widget that allows you to create a display field which is NOT filled out but rather displays something rather than an input field?

WP 3.9 | BP 2.0 | single site
I could post all the trouble I ran into on my quest, but it’s quite a list. So let me start by trying to explain what I want to achieve:

I am making a corporate site, which is visible only to registered users (both WP content and Buddypress pages). However, anyone can request an account, providing they are actually an employee of the company. the flow I have in mind is as follows:

Users comes to site and click register
fills in username, email, password en confirm password + 1 or 2 custom fields. redirected to ‘account waiting approval’ temp page
Administrator receives email that a new member wants access. Administrator checks whether user is an employee and approves user
Now user receives email that his account is created, logs in and is redirected to his ‘edit my profile page’

I have tried to accomplish this in many ways, but haven’t succeeded in anything else then stacking plugins.

Registered-users-only-2: keeps unregistered users out of both WP and BP content.
Approve New User: gives administrator the opportunity to approve or deny new users
Erident Custom Login and Dashboard: styles my login.php
BP Disable Activation Reloaded: kills the activation (don’t need it because I manually approve)

This comes really close accept for the fact that the user is required to choose and confirm a new password, but then receives an e-mail with a randomly chosen password. This will not do. I see two solutions:

kill the random password generation (because user has already chosen and confirmed one)
remove the choose and confirm password during registration (because randomly chosen one is also fine)

I have no idea how to achieve either one. Would anybody be so kind as to point me in the right direction?

The values of xprofile fields seem linked:
http://csillamvilag.com/modellek/modell/angelaveress/
Is this intended?

The links go to a search results page, e.g. http://csillamvilag.com/modellek/modell/?s=Felnőtt+modell
If this is intended, then it seems to be buggy as ZERO results are shown.

This may seem a small issue to be honest,,but I bet I’ll hear about it if I don’t at least try to fix it,,
I have the BP form all set up nicely, with extended (xprofile?) fields.
One of the fields is a required date selector.
If I populate all the fields in the form, except one Required field (other than date selector), submitting the form then causes form to reload with an error message, as expected (GOOD and thanks again for the fix BP support).
The niggle, the month & year values of the date selector drop their values, as do the password fields (very often the case with any form submission with a password),, it’s not obvious that the month & year values have dropped, so if the user fixes the field WITH the error message and resubmits the form, of course they now get an error that the date selector field is in error,,, and possibly the password fields as well,,, I could definitely envision a frustrated person trying to register going in circles,,, like a dog chasing its tail.,,, get what I mean???
So any way to get the month & year fields keep their values on an submit->error->reload????
Also, is it possible to do the same with the password fields (obfuscated of course).
Cheers, Kevin Logan