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I would like to add an address field for my users during subscription, not jsut a text field but a real auto complete adresse so that they could search for each other according a certain location after…
I found GEO my WordPress, but I am not sure it’s actually linking the user address.

Thanks a lot

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Adrien K

I’m pretty inexperienced with web development, and I’m setting up a Buddypress site for the first time. I’m experience all kinds of craziness with usernames that is bound to confuse the users. Here are the problems.

1. On the “Edit User” page, the “Username” field shows the username for the user who is logged in, not for the user whose profile is being edited (with or without Buddypress).

2. At registration, leading, trailing and consecutive spaces in username generate incorrect error message (with or without Buddypress).

3. At registration, some valid WordPress username characters (e.g. ‘_’) generate an error with Buddypress.

4. At registration, single interior spaces in username are removed from username without notice.

5. When ‘-‘, ‘.’, or ‘@’ are used in a username, Buddypress uses an altered version of the username in many situations instead of the real username, even though the registration page specified that usernames can contain these characters. The altered version is formed by removing all ‘@’s and replacing a sequences of ‘-‘s and ‘.’s with a single ‘-‘. For example, when sending messages to a user, you have to type the altered username instead of the real one. URLs contain the altered version. The “Howdy” message contains the altered version. I tried inserting the line define( ‘BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true ); into wp-config.php as suggested at but I didn’t see any effect.

This is a mess. Please help. I would prefer to allow all the characters I can, but if there is a way to fix these problems by forbidding some characters, I would accept it. Also, I can’t find any specification of what WordPress considers to be valid usernames.

Thanks.

I am developing a custom Buddypress theme, and I would like to add navigation in the member directory that mimics the functionality of this page on another site:

http://www.codart.nl/426/curators/directory-of-curators/

Ideally, it would work pretty similarly: the navigation would have a link for each letter of the alphabet, the links would generate bookmarkable urls with query strings, and the member directory would be filtered appropriately at those urls.

Code for the navigation would be something like this:

<?php for ($i=0; $i<26 ;++$i ): $this_letter = chr(ord('A') + $i); ?>

     <a href="<?php echo add_query_arg('Last+name+first+letter', $this_letter, bp_get_members_directory_permalink()); ?>"><?php echo $this_letter; ?></a>

<?php endfor; ?>

What would be the most appropriate place to hook into to alter the member query? Again, ideally it would be able to grab the query string from the url to dynamically define the filter.

Right now, there is an XProfile ‘Last Name’ field, which is set up to sync with wp_usermeta#last_name through the plugin, “BP XProfile WordPress User Sync”.

Using WP 4.1 & BP 2.1.1

Hello all. The plain old WordPress registration form does not ask for a password. Instead, WordPress emails the person a randomly generated password. However, the Buddypress registration form requires the person enter a password. How can I make Buddypress generate a random password like plain old WordPress does? Thanks.