BuddyPress.org

You probably can consider this plugin as usefull:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mycred/

You probably can consider this plugin :
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mycred/

Please do not make duplicate topics that regards the same subject matter as it clutters the forum. @mercime and @modemlooper has already responded on the first topic here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/charge-a-fee-to-upload-media/
If their suggestions doesn’t work the only options you have is build this functionality yourself or hire a developer to do it for you. You may want to post on the jobs board:

BP Jobs Board

or here:
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
Good luck!

@bphelp,

Of course if your try the plugin in buddypress child theme other than the default will not work fine beceause the plugin use the default buddypress template !

the plugin work with all wordpress themes if the theme use legacy buddypress theme,
if it is child theme, in this case you must customize the plugin templates by modifying the template files. Just copy buddypress-wall\includes\templates\bp-default folder to your theme and edit the templates.

A lot of Buddypress plugins present a template and suggest a customisation if the theme is buddypress child themes.

Which premium plugin did you find?

To make uploading an avatar a requirement you’d have to have an upload form on the registration page. This used to happen in BuddyPress. Some discussion on it in this thread:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-buddypress-avatar-upload-in-registration-form

@villnoweric
The codex is your Buddy!
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/how-to-set-up-your-main-site-navigation-using-the-built-in-wordpress-menus/

@ubernaut and is WordPress or WordPress Multisite?

Hi @ubernaut

What WordPress and BuddyPress version do you use?

The reported users are listed in our DEV installations.

If you mean activity comments…

$bp_location = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Location&user_id=' . bp_get_activity_comment_user_id() );
echo $bp_location;

If you mean post comments, I think you need to create a custom comment display.
Example: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_comments#Comments_Only_With_A_Custom_Comment_Display

Disabling usernames sitewide sounds like a huge task to me. BuddyPress needs a unique identifier to use in URLs. Have you thought about providing your members with the ability to change their username?

BuddyPress Username Changer

You’d just need to send a global message to all members letting them know how they can update their username.

I’m pretty certain there is no way to avoid them having a username, although in principle you could auto-generate a string of random characters that they never see.

I’m not familiar with the wordpress.com sign-up, but you could always pretty-please the Jetpack people to see if they will port it across to wordpress.org.

Or look at the various social networking plug-ins. Social Login allows “your visitors to comment, log-in and register with their social network accounts” and works with WordPress and BuddyPress.

If you want something more specific, then you may have to contract a developer to do it for you (then release it as a public plug-in!).

WordPress requires a username which, once set, cannot be changed. People change email addresses, so an email address as username is not permitted.

You can, though, use a plug-in called Email Login which lets users log in with their email address, so that they can use a username to register but then forget it and user their email address to access the site.

@xiot
Try my trick instead. Tested and works! Get the code here:
Redirect Logged Out Visitors To Register, And Logged In Users To Profile Using A Dummy Page

@shanebp,

Thanks for your snippet which works great with standard buddypress message system but did not work if using BP Profile Message UX plugin, is there anyway to make it work please

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-message-ux/

tahnks

best place for that kind of thing is:

buddypress.trac.wordpress.org

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-followers/ ?

I know this thread is old, but I want to help those that are in the same boat as I am in while searching for this issue on Google, I hope it is also pertinent to this thread fully as I believe these issues are linked together.

I was having an issue with this too, where the activity streams on the home page were showing times that are 7 hours off because of GMT time being 7 hours off from me.

This problem can easily be fixed by setting your WordPress’s main timezone settings to something like -8 instead of the city name ie; Los Angeles.

But I could not go this route because I’m currently using Ajax Event Calendar plugin, which requires the timezone to be a city name for some weird reason. Thus I had two plugins that wanted two conflicting things.

This is the fix I came up with that seems to work just fine for me : )
In buddypress: \bp-core\bp-core-functions.php
Find: function bp_core_time_since
Change: $newer_date = ( !$newer_date ) ? strtotime( bp_core_current_time() ) : $newer_date;
so that bp_core_current_time() becomes bp_core_current_time(false)

This passes over to the bp_core_current_time() which defaults as true which sets it to automatically handle the activity time differences as GMT instead of your time zone.

I’m not a WordPress pro but it looked like you could just hook into this function if you wanted to or override it, but this was the route I knew how to take.

As a result of that group forum tab was vanished.

@chathuranga Not seeing this issue. Is this a new WP/BP installation or are your group forums created in BP version earlier than 1.6? What other plugins do you have installed?

I’m using buddypress.1.8.1, bbPress 2.3.2, wordpress-3.5.2 and buddypress default theme.

have you upgraded to WP 3.6 yet?