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The login page shown in the 1st screenshot is due to having the Community Visibility option set to “Members Only” (Private Community) within BuddyPress options. This option was introduced in version 12.0.0 and there appears to be some situations in which the default WordPress login page appears as opposed to the intended “Private Community” login page. Nevertheless, the “Private Community” login page can be disabled by utilizing the bp_view_no_access_redirect_to_login_screen filter hook and you will want your callback function to return a value of true. The following link is the line of code where the filter hook resides for v14.3.4:

bp_view_no_access_redirect_to_login_screen

The registration page shown in the 2nd screenshot is actually the BuddyPress registration page. Why it looks different is because the Buddyx theme is utilizing CSS rules to alter/change the appearance. You should contact Wbcom Designs support regarding the restoration of the default appearance.

This is been asked before in different topics with various solutions offered. There is one solution that may work for you, which is represented as a GitHub Gist:

Disable BuddyPress Signups feature

The Gist came from a reply that is located here.

Another solution is provided by the LoginPress plugin that has a coding example that is similar to the Gist code. The code is located near the bottom of this page.

Other than those examples, you can read through other conversations related to this topic that may be better fits for your situation.

Hi,

Search for bp_before_signup_profile_fields , that would allow you to add content above the registration fields.

Similarly, bp_after_signup_profile_fields allows you to add content below the fields.

go to wp admin/dashboard – settings – buddypress – settings – and here you should have settings to adjust how registrations are handled.

I cant confirm since I have official registration set to active. But if I remember you can set your settings to either manual or automatic here.

Please try and confirm 🙂

Ran into the same issue until I realized that logged in user get redirected to the home page logged out user get the login/registration form.

Hi,

Some of the answers may have to come from the Theme developer, i.e. Re-Hub theme, for example:

1) How can I configure the user profile page? There are elements I find unnecessary for my website, and I’d like to remove them: the sharing buttons, the “write a note” option, etc.

The “sharing buttons” and “write a note” options are not standard for BuddyPress and are either introduced by your theme in use or possibly from a plugin you have actuated.

Additionally, without getting into a lot of detail, depending on the template pack in use, e.g., Legacy or Nouveau, there are an assortment of template pages that can be overloaded/overridden (requres advanced knownledge).

2) Users registered on my site can publish articles using a frontend plugin, comment, etc.
However, nothing appears in the “Activity” section: even if someone has published an article, nothing shows up. Similarly, nothing appears if they leave comments, someone replies to their comment, or tags them.
Also, what does the “Favorites” button correspond to? With the theme I’m using, users can save articles as favorites, which are then displayed on a dedicated page. Is that what it’s supposed to refer to?

As to “articles“, I’ll assume these are synonymous with “blog posts“, typically these are synced to “Activities” via BuddyPress settings (wp-admin > Settings > BuddyPress) by enabling the “Site Tracking” component within the “Components” tab and enabling the “Post Comments” option under “Activity Streams” within the “Options” tab. See Post comments

As to “Favorites”, think of these as “bookmarks”, IOW, Activity items may be marked as “favorites” or unmarked as “Favorites” which will be listed within the “Favorites” tab, if marked accordingly and, yes, Favorites behave as you have indicated.

3) On the profile page, users can change their username and select a username that’s already in use (which isn’t allowed during registration). How can I fix this?

Usernames are unique and cannot be changed. In a “users” profile, the username is preceded/prefixed with the @ symbol. What may be confusing is the “Name” field which is more akin to the display name, to be more precise, it appears to be the “Display name publicly as”, which can be the same as the username or can be different from the username. What’s confusing is that there specific BuddyPress profile fields that correspond WordPress profile fields that may or may not have the same nomenclature. See Your Profile Screen – names section.

It seems like you are trying to fix something like, there can only be one user with a display name of "Alice". Rightly or wrongly, I suppose confusion abounds when a “display name” is conflated as being a “username”.

Perhaps, someone else will have a better or more precise explanation than I have provided.

I also want to edit the registration page and customise the messages on it and the way it looks, so I tried this too. What I did was, I created a child theme in its own separate folder called buddyx-child. Since the steps say to

`Paste it into your theme folder in wp-content/themes/your-theme/buddypress/members/register.php.

I created a folder called “buddypress” in the child theme folder, then in that folder, created a folder called “members”, and copied and pasted the “register.php” file there and made my edits there. I typed some test messages using the paragraph HTML tag <p> and the message shows on the registration page, BUT the visual layout of the page changes. I don’t know why that is when it’s supposed to inherit the CSS from the parent theme. If I move the “register.php” file out of the buddypress/members/ directory and put it directly in my “your-theme” (ie my child theme) directory, then it doesn’t work at all and the child theme just inherits the original registration page.

Anyone with any ideas?

If you want the “Name” (display name) to always be set by default to “username”, you can add this code into your functions.php (or preferable using the Snippet Code plugin WPCode – with a PHP snippet code).

This should setup the default display name to always show the “username” when creating new user profiles.

// Function to set the display name to the username for new users or profile updates
function bp_sync_display_name_with_username($user_id) {
    // Get the user data
    $user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
    
    if ($user_info) {
        // Get the username
        $username = $user_info->user_login;

        // Update display_name to the username
        wp_update_user(array(
            'ID' => $user_id,
            'display_name' => $username
        ));
    }
}

// Hook the function to user registration and profile update actions
add_action('user_register', 'bp_sync_display_name_with_username');
add_action('profile_update', 'bp_sync_display_name_with_username');

Also, you can add another function to sort by alphabetical by default if this continues to be causing you issues.

// Function to set default BuddyPress member sorting to alphabetical
function bp_default_members_sorting_alphabetical($args) {
    // Check if the 'type' is not set, set it to 'alphabetical'
    if (empty($args['type'])) {
        $args['type'] = 'alphabetical';
    }
    return $args;
}

// Apply the filter to the member query arguments
add_filter('bp_after_has_members_parse_args', 'bp_default_members_sorting_alphabetical');

Let me know if that works for you.

Also please note that the name field marked in the Users > Profile Fields with “(Primary)” IS the display name itself. This should be the field users use upon registration of their user – and this is also the field the BuddyPress Member Directory uses to sort content Alphabetical.

Try download this plugin – and switch to the user you created (can also be done from backend) – and “login” with that user. Normally users show up, when they have logged in after registration.

Maybe that works. 🙂

User Switching

Hello again 🙂

The user you’re setting up, is this a legit setup with a mail (where you can activate the account)?. If not, then maybe give this a try. Normally users must activate their accounts from a mail they receive upon registration before they’re visible on the directory.

Also, what settings have you setup under the following:
Settings > BuddyPress > Options

This might make it easier for me to see if anything in there is the culprit. 🙂