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@axcelluloid Please try to debug at your site using default WordPress theme and keeping BuddyPress plugin only at your site. Inside your site, it must be some custom code or 3rd party plugin which is adding those warnings.

@jgflores
As per my understanding

— BuddyPress does not save any data related to IP address inside cookies.
— All the profile fields which you have created for your users are kept inside your WordPress database only, not linked to any 3rd party application. If you are using Akismet plugin for spam protection for BuddyPress, they will check logged in member IP address to cross check with their spammer’s database log, again that’s not the BuddyPress thing.

@cartessius it will be a combination of the plugins, using BuddyPress cusotmization to build up relation will need lots of customization, but MLM plugin like https://wordpress.org/plugins/affiliate-mlm-party-plan/

Binary MLM

will create a relation between the user and can display theme tree structure.

For BuddyPress, they will be an independent member with their social profile and you can easily display their parent or children user info at their profile easily via minor code edits.

For Assigning them rank, you can use any gamification plugin like mycred, badgeos and you can also automate these rank based on their activities.

@stl314 You can try https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-articles/ it will allow your members to add blogs.

@normancates You can make a suggestion for it as a feature request at following link https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/report

@jayell12 you can copy those files from BuddyPress template folder inside the child theme at the same path
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress/trunk/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/

Profile header will be loaded using https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress/trunk/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/member-header.php file

@orero It will suggest using Gravity form user registration add-on, it will give you WordPress user meta and BuddyPress xprofile fields mapping option as well as gravity form fields.
https://www.gravityforms.com/add-ons/user-registration/, it will take care of all user and field validation as well.

As a free option, you can check https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontend-registration-contact-form-7/

@datenfresser Try to test if your server can send emails sometimes its disable at the server end, in most of cases server itself create an issue. Try https://wordpress.org/plugins/check-email/ to check email sending.

@stl314 you can also try https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/

@normancates, BuddyPress has an only primary field as Name, rest are user-defined.
With BuddyPress, you are also allowed to create additional First Name & Last Name fields, and it will need some custom codes like pasted by @krioteh.

You can try https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp2wp-full-sync/, hopefully, it will help.

@normancates you can check for https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp2wp-full-sync/ plugin, it will allow mapping your xprofile fields with WordPress User Fields.

That’s awesome.

Why is this not a standard part of Buddypress? (Rhetorical question)

IMO, any fields should be designated (or able to be designated) as linked to the WP profile information.

THis is a CONSTANT source of confusion for me and any users. Because some plugins use the WordPress profile info, and some the Buddypress info.

I get that they probably need to do that. But at least let us synchronise the data.

Including display name options…

Please, BP / WP developers, slam an interface on this and let us keep our data consistent.

Cheers,
Norm

BuddyPress does not use WordPress user roles or capabilities. Technically, there is a bp_moderate capability, but we map that to roles that have manage_options capability (by default), or Network Admins, in multisite.

Even so, some parts, including the Profile Fields admin screen in wp-admin, require the manage_options capability.

So, basically, add the bp_moderate capability to all your custom roles, and if that doesn’t work, they’ll need the manage_options role — which, warning, gives them a lot of WordPress admin power as well.

No ways around this at the moment.

Go to the Pages menu in WordPress and manually create new pages named “Activity”, “Members”, etc.; then go to Settings>BuddyPress>Pages and select the new pages from the respective drop-down menus. BuddyPress should then push the appropriate content to those pages automatically.

I am having the same problem as the original poster, with roughly the same specs (except I am using WordPress 4.9.5 and a shared hosting provider). I even deleted BuddyPress and installed the new beta 3.0 version, but still no component pages were auto created.

Assuming that there is somehow no solution for BuddyPress failing to auto create component pages, are there shortcodes (and/or other page content) you can share in this thread for manually creating the component pages (Members, Activity Streams, User Groups, Register, Activate)?

@twwebbie You can check https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-wc-vendors/ , it works with WC vendor pro

@twwebbie You will have user data same and after activating BuddyPress, you will also have Profile for all. Ultimate Member saves profile details to user meta, you can export them as CSV data and with CSV you can import them into BuddyPress xprofile fields.
For UM activities, they can not be imported directly into BuddyPress activities, you can check with your developer to create migration script for UM activities.

For BuddyPress WooCommerce integration you can use https://wordpress.org/plugins/wc4bp/
Paid membership pro also offer free add-on for it https://wordpress.org/plugins/pmpro-buddypress/

@rhormazar above code had the same purpose to enable it for all members, the same code is also used inside buddyextender plugin https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddyextender/trunk/loader.php

@akswer Friend type is not part of current features. It’s not like regular WordPress Post category. It will need to be extended and need to add one more parameter for friends and add a new option for the user to add specific friend inside their list Like Inner Circle, Friend or Acquaintance. You can request for a feature inside https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/report

@bizzibi @cassihl If you are only looking for BP notification only not as email for new topics, you can try
https://github.com/buddydev/bbp-bp-notify-new-topic

For bbPres email notification, you can check

bbPress Notify (No Spam)