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BuddyPress uses the “display name” to know that they have filled out some profile information. It is the only *always* required field inside BuddyPress.

Because WordPress is centered around the “username” and uses the “nicename” for slug purposes, we’re stuck with those no matter what. I like having my username be short for easy log ins if I can help it of course (sometimes “jjj” is already taken.), but I like my display name be my fullname because it’s how people recognize me.

I don’t see a way around this any time soon. And like Andy said, internationally sometimes people have 4 or more names. I use my middle name, but having a “middle name” field isn’t always optimal either so I lump it in with my first name. (All those years of my mom yelling “John James you get over here this instant!!” must have stuck with me.)

You can rename the primary name field to be whatever you’d like, which is designed to alleviate some of the confusion. It lets you decide what that field means to your users. The “username” is the only thing they can’t change, so they’re using that for life.

hi David

No you can not do it in that way.You need to follow the process for migrating from wordpress to wordpress mu.

1.Export your posts/pages

2.take a backup of your wp-content directory

3.Take a backup of database(in case you need it to revert back)

4.remove the wp from server and install wpmu

5.Import the posts from your export file

6.Upload the uploads ,themes directory to wp-content/ in your new installation

If you have a website with thousands of posts,then export import may be trouble.you may follow this instructions in that case

http://welcome.totheinter.net/2008/10/04/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-wordpress-mu/

Hopefully it helps.

It is a plugin for wpmu, since you have to install and use it as any other plugin. And yes, if you use a wordpress single install, you will have to switch over too wpmu first.

They plan on making it available for single installs, but don’t hope on that anytime soon.

Is anyone having issues with any conflicts with the Vote it up plugin and buddy links..?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-featured-members-widget

As far as I know it’s been taken out of WPMU.

Read this, https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/1857.

Sorry, this is the same issue that is bugging me,

1. Is it to say that I redirect the wp signup to register, the problem would be solved?

2. Would it affect the other plugins I have install under wordpress mu?

by the way I am using wpmu 2.8.5a

You can also use the following jQuery technique to put the buddybar in any application: http://teleogistic.net/2009/10/displaying-the-buddypress-admin-bar-in-other-applications/. It’s probably overkill if you’ve only got a single page (since Xevo’s method is so much more straightforward) but it’s nice if you’re trying to integrate another entire program.

A long while ago, Burt Adsit wrote https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/ . I still use this plugin although I couldn’t tell you the last time Burt updated it. he has been awol lately. It still works as it doesn’t appear to be too dependent on the BP framework. For me, I have a blog I use as an “announcements” tool i.e. all registered users can write announcements which get displayed on a widget. So the plugin auto-registers each user to that blog as an “author”. Sounds like this is what you are looking for. Hope this helps.

You can make custom pages inside of buddypress.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/make-your-own-custom-buddypress-page