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We actually built a plugin for that function, wich was based on eventpress from kunal! It worked for a while, but we are rebuilding it using custom post! We believe on that, and the powerful from having your own custom post to update with wordpress and no depending of others plugin that can be updated or NOT.

@larrysmith1000, @Arwym, @FitzUCF, @janismo, @hnla
I don’t know if anyone is still looking at this, but I think it is a topic that is worth pursuing. What seems to be getting lost though is what it takes to do the job.

A facility like Justin Tadlock’s members plugin is a big help. It provides a mechanism to define and edit roles and apply them to users. That covers a lot of territory. However, unless the content management part of the software looks for and enforces those roles, it is meaningless. Justin provides a facility to do that if what you are talking about posts/pages and potentially custom post types. That is fine for WP content or even things like BuddyPress Docs where Boone implemented it as a custom content type (although I haven’t look at the details of his implementation relative to permissions). However, BP adds additional content types. And it is not just FORUMS. Groups are a content type. Private messaging is a content type. etc.

That is where the current_user_can() checks make sense. Users should have permission to perform actions. That doesn’t necessarily mean new roles, but it does mean distinct capabilities. Those capabilities can then be assigned to any role that makes sense. But the capability list needs to be published like it is for WP https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

The mechanism for assigning capabilities to roles and roles to users and doing the actual check is all WP. It’s already there. Justin provides UI to access it. What I am seeing missing in BP is published string literals that have meaning in terms of capability sets and I assume the current_user_can() checks that actually make it happen. (I looked for it on Google and this is where I was directed!)

@DJPaul you talked here in terms of BP1.3, which is now 1.5 I believe. Did any of this actually make it into the code? If not, it sure would make sense to me to find it’s way on to a revised RoadMap.

My 2 cents!

It *should* change it. That setting’s implementation in 1.2.9 had a few issues, so I spent a bunch of time in 1.5 making it better, but that doesn’t help you. When it’s set, you are trying to pick a user from the member directory rather than copy/paste the same URL, right?

Try this plugin : https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/

regards

Did you try setting the name compatibility constant as per that codex page you linked to in your post?

do the “broken” user names all have spaces in them? (in general)

Okay, all of my pages like this are also not being found. All of my logged-in admin dashboard stuff works ideally…then when I go to the actual site, the links all go to a “ERROR 404 – PAGE NOT FOUND”
I am hosted on hostgator, and I am not sure I created the blog.dir correctly when I went multi-site.
Thanks anyone who can help!

why not post a notice to have users change their username using this plugin

Allow Your Users to Change their Username on your BuddyPress Based site

I created a static page, but it still shows ‘members’ and ‘group’ tabs, which I don’t want on the home page, as the buddypress social is just one of may things we have. Also, I don’t want the login to show up on the home page. Am I going to have to create a separate home page outside of wordpress?

Easiest thing to do is check out the phpDoc in the code itself.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-core/bp-core-component.php#L6

Basically it requires a few basic parameters to identify the component, and calls the parent class function to put them into action.

It uses its own catch-URI schema and pushes its templates based on the URL in question without rewrite rules:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.2.9/bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php#L7

Are you using the_content or the_excerpt to show the content? the_excerpt should give you exactly that an excerpt so if using you would need to make that smaller:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

Specifically useful to you would be this:


function new_excerpt_length($length) {
return 20;
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');


https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/restrict-usernames/

@incrediblehimachal As valuser mentioned above, install BP Template Pack plugin
The process – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
An example – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

You mean what is using activity / groups and files in it unless I’m mistaken?

I can’t think of a quicker method than having the default theme open with child and following the path it’s fairly accessible in 1.5.

Some links that may help you:

https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/the-bp-default-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

However, if I’ve missed the mark can you give me an example of what you want to do may help me see?

So what was the solution. I am banging my head still. I have reinstalled every damn .js file I can find from new download from wordpress.org.

Try – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/