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Yep this looks like it’s broken, I’ve raised a trac ticket for it here.

Hi there,

Regarding point 1) This could be to do with the source address that is being used for the emails WordPress is sending. it’s pretty old now but I use CB Change Mail Sender to set an appropriate mail sender address.

Regarding point 2) I suggest this must be down to a plugin conflict or some other problem, as I can’t replicate your issue. have you tried it with just BuddyPress running?

I’ve been looking at that, it seems it’s not possible to use that shortcode and create a link with it from a wordpress post, I tried several ways and none delivered the required result.

I’m trying to contact the plugin developer at the moment as I’ve written some extensions to this, I think creating a short code that returns a link to the user name would be quite simple, I could look at this later and let you know how I get on.

Have you looked at overloading your BuddyPress pages?

This is the process of getting BuddyPress to load your costomised pages instead of the default pages. For example, the page that loads the “What’s new” section and post form is located in plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity.posts-form.php

If you copy this file to themes/your-child-theme/buddypress/activity/posts-loop.php you can edit this file and remove the “What’s new” section. You would need to know php to do this.

More information on overloading bp templates is located here: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

A plugin that tries to make the management of your overloads easier is https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-template-overloader/

What I’m doing at the moment is running a mobile specific theme, my main wordpress theme just does not scale down right. By running a theme switcher I’m able to have a mobile specific setup that works a lot better overall.

Regarding mobile devices in particular the button styles used in the current BuddyPress template set is not ideal, I’m hoping this will improve with Nouveau. What I do on the mobile side is I tend to place all the main bp options in the main menu, which with my theme works pretty well.

I think you have to be very careful with what features you offer on mobile, the bbPress forums for example don’t work that well, you can get the basic members pages to work, have chat, basic groups with activity feeds but trying to do much else gets very difficult with mobile.

I think what you are looking for is the ability to place a shortcode on a page, that displays the members header on a page of your choice for any given member id.

There isn’t such a thing, however https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-profile-shortcodes/ comes close in that it allows you to display most of the components of the members header on a page.

BuddyPress Profile shortcodes is a pretty simple plugin, I think it should be possible to combine VapVarun’s contributed code with BP Profile Shortcodes in order to create a shortcode that does something similar to what you are looking for.

If you want to get to know the structure of the BP overload files, could I suggest you try installing https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-template-overloader/ this maps out all of the overload files, it’s pretty daunting the sheer number of files you can modify, but if you look for that one file you can view it’s contents.

Also the link I mentioned but forgot to include about overloading BP is here. https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

One possible way of achieving this could be to implement custom rewrite rules for the URL, I’ve not tried it but here’s a page that describes how it’s done:

How to Create a Virtual Page in WordPress

That’s a WordPress page so you might be wise to ask in the WordPress Forums as well. I don’t knw, hopefully someone will come along who knows?

Have you enabled the wordpress debug and log file? I think that’s where I’d start looking, see if there are any errors shown. I’d also install Debug Bar and Query Monitor.

Query Monitor will allow you to see if the WP query is failing.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-graph-protocol-buddypress-yr/ try this.

@meganelford

Make sure, that you are looking in a correct place for a registered user.
In case of WordPress Multisite – user can be listed in Network admin area, but NOT listed in individual sites Users.

I still think it’s the database that is dishing out the unique keys so it is what’s controlling the user id’s not WordPress itself. BuddyPress just uses the WordPress User Id.

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.

I mean the debug log in WordPress.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress

There’s a few plugins that provide shortcodes, take a look at the BP Activity Shortcode and also Shortcodes for BuddyPress in wordpress.org.

@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.

A good example of a WordPress based “Tutor website” is the mgrmusic.com Music Teacher Database.

Using the Geo My WordPress plugin users can search the database for music teachers local to them. The can also filter the teachers dependant on instrument or level, so this achieves two of the aims you mentioned in terms of the “search page”.

As for sign-ups; tutors submit information via a Contact Form 7 plugin form on a Sign-Up page and receive enquiries in a “Community” area of the website where enquiries are send to teachers, enabling them to respond to the students. I am not sure about how this website facilitates payment from either the teachers or students, however, I am sure you could add some type of Paypal payment facilitation that creates the release of a download file upon payment, in the file a student could find a teacher’s contact details. The whole website is ran on WordPress so it is certainly achievable to create a tutor website based only on WordPress achieving the aims that you set up above.

Hope this helps, I would research the plugins and theme options out there.

Hold the presses! I’ve found a plugin that promises to deliver what you need!

Shortcodes for BuddyPress

If you install this one, it seems to have a group list shortcode where you can specify the id of the user that each group will belong to.

For example [groups-listing user_id=1]

I think this should in the least show all the groups you are a member of, WBCOM, the plugin author are also quite active and may add a feature for an admin= option.

You could give Iframely a shot, it should convert any useful link into a rich snippet embedded post.

Is the link one that is supported by embed? my understanding is that only links with supported URL’s will embed, one such link would be https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/