BuddyPress.org

A plugin isn’t strictly necessary, it’s just the easiest option. Alternatively, you can use the wp_mail_from and wp_mail_from_name hooks.

It is actually the default WordPress from email address and name that are used. If you want to change these, try the WP Change Default Email plugin.

@shayariyadav,

thank you for the suggestion. 🙂

But BP is not a blog plugin, but a community tool. And WordPress has already a blog.

Some use BuddyPress for doing something very different as blogging. Some use it as a blog farm (on multisite).

As plugin, it is integrated to WP, so i doubt that BP devs want to do the opposite. 😉

You can anyway post a future request on Trac

The register process is part of WordPress.

For BP, you can see in
\buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\register.php

…but !

the username is already in use is not part of WP or BP.
Do you use an extra plugin ?

@bigswp,

if you have the same config today as @enaijo 5 months ago, update first.
Actually: WordPress 4.2.3 BuddyPress 2.3.2.1 and bbPress 2.5.8-5815

If the issue is still in, ensure that you have some friendship, as you can only invite friends to join a group.

If all this is ok, you can open a ticket.
Give details about your config and any hint about how to reproduce your issue and mention this topic.

Login to Trac uses same credentials as here.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/report

@enad12 – I suggest looking at the plugins in the wp-repo and see if any of them may suit your needs.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=invite

https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=facebook

I myself avoid adding anything facebook to any of my sites as much as possible. In the very few places that I did add anything fbook, I would make sure that they loaded all assets from my site and not a third party server – for site speed and privacy issues as well.

for example the “2 Click Social Media Buttons” plugin requires a double click in order to turn on these third party integration / sharing things – and the author has a write (in German that may needs translating) on his site – which is linked to in the plugin descript – that describes some of the laws in Germany and Europe in regards to leaking user info to third parties – so if you are going down that road I would look more into that and whatever laws you may need to follow in your area of the world in regards to those kinds of things.

Hi,

search a bit here: https://wordpress.org/search/admin+bar

also on this forum:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-make-admin-bar-toolbar-like-on-buddypress-org/
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-org-theme-2/

biographical information, fax and maybe even addresses. These are WordPress or theme specific fields which are not visible on frontend profiles. BP doesn’t use them if you use the xtended profile component.
Anyway…

Try this snippet, and use it to your need from within your child-theme functions.php

function remove_user_fields(){

// Print jQuery that removes unneeded elements
  ?>

  <script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(document).ready( function($) {
    // the magic goes here...
      var ids = ['#description', '#comment_shortcuts', '#color-picker']; // Check in page source for other ID's
      for (var i = 0; i < ids.length; i++) {
        $(ids[i]).closest('tr').remove();
      }
    });
  </script>

  <?php
}

add_action( 'admin_footer', 'remove_user_fields' );

There will be plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory that can do both of these things. Theme My Login won’t do exactly what you need but it’s a great plugin I’d recommend if you need to to bring the login page into your theme.

Are activity updates a wordpress custom posts types?

No. Activity items aren’t custom posts; instead, they live in the bp_activity table. See here for a diagram.

Hi @mhawksey

Can you open a new bug report for this on Trac referencing #5733?

This isn’t possible out-of-the-box but there may be a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory that adds Disqus functionality.

Adding items to the BuddyPress activity stream is very easy. Check out the bp_activity_add() article for more info.

@azaleamollis
Because its not as a straightforward process as it should be these are the the steps I took to remove my plugins from the WP repo.
1.) Send the request to plugins@wordpress.org to remove the plugin using the same email you used when submitting the plugin make sure you state your reason why, be it personal or lack of time to support the plugin etc..
2.) Log into the SVN and delete all of the relevant php in the files between the opening and closing php tags.
3.) As long as you don’t update the readme.txt then current users will continue to be able to use your plugin unless the code is somehow depreciated. If that happens then they will have to figure it out on their own or find another solution. If you don’t want even your current users using your plugin then update the readme.txt as a higher version number with the empty php files which will basically render the plugin completely useless when it is updated.
Dirty trick but it gets the job done! Good luck!