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Well, group meta allows meta data to be applied to groups. I’m thinking along the lines of data in the usermeta table which is only consumed by specific groups. This might be expressed as a name/value pair in the profile. So with reference to my original example, a GroupName profile value would include:
school:Robert
home:Bobby
coolGame:Zarcon

The BuddyPress Profile Shortcodes plugin allows for custom fields and related shortcodes to be used. This is much closer to my needs but still not quite there. I can’t create a profile field for every possible group. Ideally there would be a pulldown of groups to which the user belongs, where they can enter the name they wish the use for that group, and the group/name pairs would be displayed in a grid.

Now I’m thinking one of the better user meta plugins could handle that. But I would also need to customize it so that there can only be one WP user with a specific value for a specific group. This is a unique key per group, as some reference to @Bobby can’t apply to more than one person, but the @Bobby in one group can be different from @Bobby in another group.

On the client side, I would then need to modify bbPress to get the user name that’s specifically for the current group, rather than using wp_get_current_user()->display_name or whatever it has there. For example:
get_user_meta($user_id,’groupName_’.$group_id,true)
or better
get_user_meta($user_id,’groupNames’,false)[$group_id]

Actually I’d rather abstract all requests for a user name to a function which can then be replaced with custom code just once. I don’t suppose anyone has already done that, or it’s been proposed as a BP/BBP enhancement?

I’m a noob with coding into WP, haven’t touched BP/bbP, and know little about the APIs, so please bear with me on the syntax and other specifics and focus on the concepts. Thanks.

The more I try to flesh it out above the more it seems possible for me to do this myself. But it would be really helpful if someone has already done it. Or if someone with knowledge in this area can see a more direct line from an exiting plugin to the solution I’m describing.

Thanks for your time!!

Update:
I have to add I have a set up of Buddypress/bbpress on another site on same server & sharing same account (Justhost.com) & there is no issue, with those pages. WordPress & ALL used plugins are up-to-date.

Regards

Hello @hnla,

Didn’t mean to be “shouting” through this message in the subject line, it’s because this is the 4th time I’ve tried to get my message through this BuddyPress forum and out of all my messages from a few days back, I noticed that this recent one I just did was the one that actually went through and I did the other messages just the same exact way as I’ve done before so I don’t understand why my messages haven’t went through the other times. So it’s just been a very frustrating time for the past couple of weeks trying to get help and I haven’t received further help so far from anyone so I’m just trying to resolve everything. But you’re right, and I’m trying my best to work with everyone to get the most feedback that I possibly can to get the job done and resolve these problems.

The off site frame 404 not found page should be working fine now. I just updated the permalinks and when I went to click on the register link, the registration page (as well as the actual website link) was working properly from my end.

As far as the BuddyPress plugin goes, I didn’t know that BP doesn’t have a setting for people to upload files, however when you go to the registration page on my site, there’s an “Choose File” section for people to upload a picture file (for their profile page) on there as someone is filling out the actual registration form, so I just assumed that feature automatically comes with the BuddyPress plugin.

There shouldn’t be nothing wrong with the theme for I had double-checked already from my backend and I spoke to a representative through my hosting provider and after explaining everything to them, they said that I would have to get in contact with one of the BuddyPress developers to resolve the issue and if it’s an issue from the hosting plan, to inform me about it that way I can contact them again to let them know what the specific problem is. So I’m basically going back and forth between BuddyPress and my hosting provider explaining the same thing, therefore I’m pretty much stuck on what to do, so that’s why I’m asking for anyone’s help if possible, because I’ve done everything on my end to the best of my ability.

So here are some screenshots that I hope will be helpful of what I actually was doing through the registration process and hopefully someone can come up with a solution as far as why this is not working properly:

SCREENSHOTS FROM MY MAGNUS WORDPRESS THEME FOR REGISTRATION PAGE:
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Then I did the same exact process with one of the WordPress default themes from my dashboard:

SCREENSHOTS FROM THE TWENTY FIFTEEN WORDPRESS THEME FOR REGISTRATION PAGE:
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And as you can see, the same result happens. So can someone please explain to me why this is happening? Is it a BuddyPress coding issue? Or is it from my end? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

I’ve been staring at the code for a while and it’s starting to make sense.

I’m not great with databases but looking at the function I gather it changes a few fields into primary keys that point to the data table so fields can be individual.

It runs the table modification code on the dbdelta_create_queries hook.

The wordpress codex seems to say that this action will happen anytime a database or a table is created.

Am I right in saying that this only ever has to be run once? Can I just run it once on admin init then remove it and add the modify_bp_global_xprofiles_tablenames at runtime or have I misunderstood it?

I have changed the text in new po and mo files uploaded it to proper folder and nothing has changed.

I am confused by this, This example uses en_US as the sample language definition, and thus buddypress-en_US.mo is the name of the language file you will create. You’ll need to replace ‘en_US’ with the locale of your WordPress site.

So the two file names should not be named

buddypress-en_US.mo
buddypress-en_US.po

Is this the same for everyone using English or is it different for every user? Perhaps thats why its not working for me.
THanks