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Hey Ben

Auto embeds are a WordPress feature: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/embeds/

You can disable them site-wide with a filter: http://wpengineer.com/2487/disable-oembed-wordpress/

Good luck!
Giacomo

Maybe checkout this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/installation/

This is all great info. One additional sugestion is using the plugin “Use Google Libraries”

https://wordpress.org/plugins/use-google-libraries/

I’m still in the developmental stages of my site, so I have no other speed optimization plugins active, but this one by itself sped up page load times by double.

Another (That I think may be a feature in some of the cacheing plugging mentioned here…) is “Scripts To Footer”.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/scripts-to-footerphp/

I’ve had a little trouble with this one because some of my scripts need to be loaded inline with the page, but it speed up visual page load time significantly. But make sure you check your site for functionality after (Google Map Plugins, ‘Fancy Box’ animation, etc.).

@aronprins
The bp-default theme that ships with BP is being retired so in the future there will not be a theme that ships with BP in favor of theme compatibility. If I was in your position I would just focus on making a really good WordPress theme with standard template structures and it should work with BuddyPress. The bonus is if the theme is good and works with just WP then you’ve not pigeon holed your profit to just BP users.

@aronprins
There is no point in creating a BuddyPress theme any more since 1.7 see:

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

any theme that has standard WordPress template structure is compatible so basically all you have to do is create a standard WordPress theme.
Cheers!

Doesn’t 2.0 have the functionality you need?
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5374

Also, check out WP_User_Query

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User_Query

You can do what you need to easily using the search parameters. For example:

$args = array(
    'search' => $string,
    'search_columns' => array( 'ID' ),
);
$user_query = new WP_User_Query( $args );

Where $string is the user submitted search string i.e. the user ID

[DISCLAIMER: I have no/little experience in design & development in wordpress, so I am learning but thought I comment in effort to be helpful]

I am unsure of the code to search/query results of users but based on he analogy you presented in imputing a # number to show suggested match. I would think is easily possible by echoing out member/user Data id #.

That would be my thought, suggest maybe looking /googling for user meta and how to use them.

I believe this was recently fixed here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/8351/

nirgalo – Apply that change and see if that fixes things.

Right! I see what you mean. You could try letting the guys know over at BuddyPress Trac by raising a new ticket:

http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org

They’ll be able to take a look

Hi @tonymalony

Yes you can tweak the default sign up to do that. Also, consider using something like this to redirect logged-out users away from content you want accessible to logged-in members only.

function custom_redirect() {
    if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
        // redirect
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
}
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'custom_redirect' );

Ref:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/home_url
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_user_logged_in
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_redirect
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/template_redirect

Hi @plinth

It isn’t possible by default. You could set up a new page and direct member’s to it on successful registration. That page would have a form on it which lets the member add profile info. Then when that page’s form has been processed successfully the member is taken to the third page and so on.

template_redirect is the hook you’d need to use and wp_redirect() will enable the page ‘hopping’.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_redirect
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/template_redirect

Note: You’d need to be comfortable with PHP to do it.

> I can’t find any arguments for not including the WordPress profile in BuddyPress.

The arguments are:

– The fields at wp-admin/profile.php are hardcoded in WP. There’s no way we can ask WP which fields it provides in a programmatic way; we’d have to hardcode them as well. This is inelegant; it causes problems when other plugins add their own (hardcoded) fields, which BP won’t know about; and it will require keeping up with WP if they decide to switch which fields are included on that page.
– The fields at wp-admin/profile.php are very odd, and not appropriate for most BuddyPress installations (or most websites that were built after 2004 – who uses AIM, and who among them would want to store that information in their WP profile?)

As noted in the ticket, First Name and Last Name are the two possible exceptions I see here.

It’s probably because of the theme you’re using

If I were you I would try to activate another theme for example twentytwelve https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwelve

With that you won’t have this kind of issues and you’ll still be able to customise the look and feel to make it looks very similar to what you have now

@alanbeck

Hopefully you’ve got this sorted… but if not try this plugin…

http://www.wpexplorer.com/buddypress-wordpress-plugins/ the plugin is rt media 🙂

Cheers
Alex

#4357 – I agree that something needs to be done. bbPress already adds a “Forums” section on a BP profile, so perhaps bbPress can simply redirect /forums/users/USERNAME/ to BP’s /members/USERNAME/forums. I would say this is more a bbPress issue than a BuddyPress one. Please add a ticket to bbPress Trac about this. (Use the same credentials you use on buddypress.org to create a new ticket.)

#3335 already has comments on it regarding why WP’s profile is not included with BuddyPress. I do find it odd that bbPress allows users to edit WordPress’ user profile though… I’ve created a new ticket with some further thoughts – #5619

Hi, folks,

I’ve seen that this thing of activation e-mail is quite a headache for some people using BP. I’m currently having some trouble too. Most of the time, when a user creates an account on the site I’m working on, the e-mail with the activation link is sent ok. But for some users, the link on the e-mail comes without the key (something like http://www.site.com/activate/?key=), what results in the page asking a activation key. The problem is that I can’t reproduce the issue, but I received even a print screen from an user showing that the problem indeed exist.

I’ve installed Unconfirmed plugin to check if there is users that are not confirmed, and there are a couple of users. I can see the activation key for every unconfirmed user. What can be causing this issue?

I’m currently using Buddypress 1.8.1, bbPress 2.4.1, and for the themed login, I’m using Theme My Login 6.3.9. I’m using too WordPress Social Login 2.1.3 for give users a social login option. To style the e-mails, I’m using WP Better Emails 0.2.6.5.

Thanks for any help!

If you are using WordpPress multisite by default anyone signing up to example1.com will be able to log-in to example3.com –
But by default he will only be able to see his own profile. You will then have to manually change his role to at least subscriber for him to participate/see BuddyPress on example3.com

If you don’t have a developer you can try this plugin to automatically assign a subscriber role on example3.com to each new user registered elsewhere
https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-user-management

Good luck!

Use this plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-registration-options/screenshots/