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You can enable search for names by putting this code in your child themes functions.php:

add_filter( 'bp_activity_get_include_user_search', 'venutius_add_name_to_search' );

function venutius_add_name_to_search( $setting ) {
	return true;
}

Unfortunately there’s not a similar filter for the title, you could raise a feature request for this on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

There’s an old plugin called BuddyPress Links which allows members to add links to a links directory and then other members can vote on those links. I think this would probably serve a similar function to what you want. However, it’s out of date and throws a lot of errors. I’ve been working on updating this and have asked the developer the code can be updated. I think for your requirement it would still need some changes so it recognises videos and embeds the video instead of a static thumbnail for the site. I think this is the closest BP has got to delivering what you want easily.

Alternatively there’s MediaPress which allows video links to be added to video galleries. You can also have a sitewide gallery that everyone can add videos to, this could serve as a basis for what you are looking for.

Another one I’ve just discovered is this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/dynamic-user-directory/ not tried it yet but maybe it will overload that page for you and work.

For side to side members pages you could try my plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-directory-views

Unfortunately there’s not a before save hook for this, only after save. I guess what you could do is wait until it’s saved then validate the password but that sounds like it’s not going to give the desired UI experience. Maybe you could ask for a hook to be added?

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

Hi there,

It’s not clear from the text exactly what you are looking for but it sounds like you’d need to do some customisation. For a lot of BP functions you only need to be a site members to perform a task and you’d therefore need to work out exactly what you’d like to restrict and then write the code for it. There are some plugins that do aspects of what you are looking for, for example https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/ will prevent standard users from creating groups and I’m currently working on a plugin to restrict messaging for users. For bbPress forums you could set the new user role to Spectator to prevent the creation of topics and replies but I think what you are looking for is probably ore granular than this and so will probably need custom code to deliver your vision.

Hi Angela,

One way would be to customise the message already shown at the top of the register page. You can do this by creating your own translation of the text shown, and the translation can say what you like.

See this page for details on how you can create the translation:

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

Once you have created your translation file (.mo) my suggestion for the best way to add it to your site and manage it is to use WPT Custom Mo File.

A lot of things have changed since BP 2.9.
You may need to update in stages instead of all at once.
You can find all the BP versions here.

I took a look at BuddyPress Like and it looks like it’s far from ready for use, so I think I’d look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/favorites/ instead, you could create a Profile page for the users list of likes and add your weighting based on your criteria.

I think based on your requirement that for your ultimate requirement you will need some custom coding. This is due to you wanting to add weighting to the likes.

One option would be to enable new blog posts to appear in the BuddyPress activity stream. That would automatically allow BuddyPress users to favorite the activity and for it to appear in their list of favorites in their profile. However you won’t easily be able to add your weighting since the BP favorites system dones not have this functionality. But that’s the same for any existing plugin. The potential downside is that the BP Activity stream is not just posts (which would have to be enabled with a bit of code).

There are also a number of WordPress post specific likes plugins, however these don’t give you a profile page with a list of your likes and the same issue remains that they would not support you weighting.

If it was me, I’d probably look to use a plugin such as BuddyPress Like as a basis for my solution. I’ve not looked in detail at this plugin but I’m assuming it adds the ability to like posts and display a list of likes in the users profile. That would serve as a good basis for what I was looking to do. It would then need some modification in order to support your specific weighting mechanism. The complexity of that task would depend on exactly how you want your weighting mechanism to work and the technique you use to account for it when displaying the likes list.

Hi there, I can confirm I’m also seeing this behaviour, could you raise this as a bug on Trac?

Hi there, translations do work, I’ve just created a custom MO file and added it to the site using the WPT Custom MO file plugin, What’s New translated to my custom script just fine.

So you want a custom link that only appears when the user is not logged in, correct ?

That is not specific to BP.

Have you tried searching for WordPress solutions?
It’s a much bigger codebase.