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I’m not an expert on GDPR, but what are other large sites like Twitter doing about this? Twitter’s user handle is approximately the same as BP’s username.

If you want BuddyPress to use something else for the profile URL, you can set the username in the user_nicename DB field and BuddyPress will use that for the user profile URL.

Keep in mind that this might break whatever custom configurations you might have on your install.

If you’d rather not mess with altering the data in the user DB columns, you can also potentially filter 'bp_core_get_user_domain' and 'bp_core_set_uri_globals_member_slug'.

View this ticket for more info:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6694

If you wanted to use a plugin to change the profile URL to use the user ID, you can try using a plugin like this (untested):

LH Number User Nicename

Reminder: Always test in a development environment before deploying major changes on a live site.

The strings “admin” and “firstname-lastname” are no present in the respective user profiles. Those phrases ONLY exist as the @-mention name that appears in the profile page across from the picture.

You kind of answered your own question.

The at-mention name uses the user_nicename field from the wp_users database table. This can differ from the display name. The user_nicename info also isn’t exposed in the WordPress admin dashboard, which is why you might be confused.

If a user registered manually on your site, this would be the Username that they enter on the registration page. If you imported a bunch of users from another system, check your database with a web app like phpMyAdmin or Adminer. You can also use a command-line tool like wp-cli to view the user fields:

wp user list

You can also try using a plugin like Edit Author Slug if you want the ability to edit the user_nicename field, but use with caution (untested):

Edit Author Slug

Test in a local environment before deploying on your live site.

Have you tried Login with Ajax?

Login With Ajax

If you’ve already tried the solutions in this thread:

BuddyPress 3.1.0 is now available!

Then, here are a couple of other possible solutions:

1) Remove the “Reply-To” email address from BuddyPress emails.

By default, BuddyPress adds a “Reply-To” email header to each BuddyPress email containing the admin user’s email address.

I’m guessing email senders might have problems with this because the “From” email address and the “Reply-To” email address could use different domains. Email senders might think this is spammy and would reject the email. Just a guess. You’d have to look in your email logs to confirm.

Anyway, here’s a code snippet you can try in your theme’s functions.php or in wp-content/bp-custom.php:

add_filter( 'bp_email_set_reply_to', function( $retval, $email_address ) {
	// Wipe out Reply-to email header if it matches the admin email address.
	if ( bp_get_option( 'admin_email' ) === $email_address ) {
		$retval = new BP_Email_Recipient( '' );
	}

	return $retval;
}, 10, 2 );

2) Try setting a different “From” email address

If you are having problems sending any email on your WordPress install, you might have to set the “From” email address to one that contains your website domain.

There are a few plugins that can do this. Here are a couple:

Change From Email

WP Change Default From Email

3) Try using a WordPress email SMTP plugin

If all the above fail, try a SMTP email plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/smtp/

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Please let me know if either of the solutions work.

Your syntax is wrong, add quotes around the first 2 parameters.

add_filter()

@der_velli try to debug with Default WordPress theme

@despostillar2009 GDPR support for BuddyPress is in the development queue. Meantime you can try https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-gdpr/

you can use terms and condition plugin you can even add privacy policy with little knowledge of html

You can try https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-users/ it will allow sending email to all members.
It’s not going to create a mailbox for all users 🙂

@optimized Private messaging is available at the individual level, you can use https://wordpress.org/plugins/mass-messaging-in-buddypress/ to send a message to all group members or extend the same

@sambenny you can turn off heartbeat api using for logout users https://wordpress.org/plugins/heartbeat-control/

@eric01 There is a new plugin, you can try it https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-power-seo/

@mrditt you can try BP Lock Plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/lock-my-bp/

Slava, the code that you posted above is the most elegant solution that I’ve seen for enhancing readability. I’m using it through the WordPress “Additional CSS” functionality. It works perfectly on the “Account Details” side on my registration page. However, I’d really love to do the same thing for the “Profile Details” side. I searched for several hours with no luck. Any suggestions would be very greatly appreciated.

~April

For a temporary workaround this worked for me:

buddypress\bp-templates\bp-nouveau\buddypress\groups\single\cover-image-header.php

line 62
<?php echo esc_html( bp_nouveau_group_meta()->description ); ?>

replace with:
<?php echo bp_nouveau_group_meta()->description; ?>

reference: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/esc_html

Have you looked at Auto Group Join? also Registration Groups? These could help you do what you achieve. Auto Group Join includes a handy admin page where you can arrange who is in what group.

Hiding the Group Activity (Home) page is a bit more involved, but one option could be to simply disable activity?

Ah, That’s an error I’ve been unable to fix, the test system I tried it out on I ended up completely reinstalling. I looked all over for what might be wrong but no joy, I think that it’s down to permalinks for the register page becoming corrupt.

I reported it on Trac here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7744

Maybe you can add to the ticket?