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By the way, I recommend you use BP Registration Options to moderate any user signups.

My only suggestion is that you can overload the registration page, this gives you access to the css for the username,password and email input fields, have you looked into that?

Pretty sure this has gone over my head in that I don’t understand the issue, whenever I add an xProfile field to the registration form BP automatically adds a css class I can use for styling, are you not getting that?

Looking at your requirements I’d say this is probably doable, but with quite a bit of customisation. BuddyPress supports member types, so you could set up two member types and make content decisions based on those members types (for example only display a member list for the male member type).

You would however need to do quite a bit of customisation regarding the registration process. These’s a plugin called BP Better Registration that splits the registration process into several parts. This could be a basis of your registration process as you could make decisions based on the selected member types between page loads. So for example at initial registration you can ask for username password and member type, then the next page can ask for registration detaills based on the selected member type. That would all need to be coded.

1-Two main groups, let’s call them “males” and
“females”

2-Both groups when registering must write specific
information about themselves (e.g. MALES must specify: age, nationality, hair
color.) (FEMALES, instead, must declare different things from the previous group)

3-To complete the registration they must pay a fee (I think
that I should use another plugin to do that)

4-Once they are registered on the website “males”
can start to upload media on their profiles

5-Once “females” are registered they can improve
their profiles too

4,5 plus – Is it possible to make that media rely on a
personal server?

6-I want to make possible that only one group can send
messages to other one (e.g. females can write to males but not viceversa)

7-It’s important that only females can check the profiles of
the males and the males are not able to see other males’ profiles (e.g. male1
cannot see male2’s profile but female1 is able to see male1 and male2 profile).

8-Related to point number 2: I need to complete those
information because when females are looking for males they must be able to
categorize them and find only the profiles that respond to that specific
characteristic, that’s fundamental.

9- Is this plugin fully responsive to make it easy to
navigate from smartphone?

The best advice I can offer is to make the registration page as simple as can be, and then ask for more info later, once the user is registered. If the registration page is hard, the user has to _really_ want to join to go through with it.

This blog might help:

https://samelh.com/blog/2017/10/26/add-fields-buddypress-registration-form-profile/

The best option is to use BP Registration Options.

@jonleesky hmm, try this

/*disable registration bp */
function my_disable_bp_registration() {
  remove_action( 'bp_init',    'bp_core_wpsignup_redirect' );
  remove_action( 'bp_screens', 'bp_core_screen_signup' );
}
add_action( 'bp_loaded', 'my_disable_bp_registration' );

add_filter( 'bp_get_signup_page', "firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page");
    function firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page($page ){
        return bp_get_root_domain() . '/wp-login.php?action=register'; 
    }

Let me know bud

during initial registration, WordPress has yet to create a user_id for the member, so can not save the avatar, only after the user has confirmed their email address will WordPress be able to save the avatar and reference it to that user.

There’s two immediate options – BP Better Registration includes avatar upload in the registration process and BuddyPress Force Profile Photo https://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-force-profile-photo/ sets the site so users cannot access it unless they have a profile photo set.

@jonleesky I posted the solution to this nearly two years ago, I have not tested this code recently but you can try it out.

function my_disable_bp_registration() {
  remove_action( 'bp_init',    'bp_core_wpsignup_redirect' );
  remove_action( 'bp_screens', 'bp_core_screen_signup' );
}
add_action( 'bp_loaded', 'my_disable_bp_registration' );

add_filter( 'bp_get_signup_page', "firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page");
    function firmasite_redirect_bp_signup_page($page ){
        return bp_get_root_domain() . '/wp-signup.php'; 
    }

What you will need to do is first create a bp-custom.php file (make sure you add the opening and closing tags at the top and bottom ) and put it in your plugins folder, then paste the code between the PHP opening and closing tags and save.

This should disable BuddyPress registration and let you use WordPress registration as default, hope this helps.

I was able to resolve the problem of no emails being sent after registration by disabling Extended Profiles.
Trying to resend notifications through Manage Signups still failed though. To work around that I had to disable Account Settings.
Making both those changes seemed to fix my email problems.

There’s no easy way. The Plugiin BP Better Registration manipulates the registration page so it’s not impossible, just would need quite a bit of coding I reckon.