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@Annoyed, What theme are you using? Do you have a link I could take a look at. Often the problem is that a theme or plugin includes a different version of jquery to the that comes with WordPress. You could load jquery from google. Put this code at the top of your functions.php (in your theme folder)

`function my_init_method() {
wp_deregister_script( ‘jquery’ );
wp_register_script( ‘jquery’, ‘http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js’);
}

add_action(‘init’, ‘my_init_method’);`

I’m not aware of any documentation outside of the software itself. The functions that do the sync are pretty short and easy to understand. Check out `xprofile_sync_wp_profile()` and `xprofile_sync_bp_profile()` in buddypress/bp-xprofile.php to get a sense of just what’s being synced.

First of all I would change it back to the “full name” field until you figure this out.

What versions of WordPress and BuddyPress are you using?

Try switching off BP, and registering a new user through WP’s normal signup procedure wp-signup.php. Are WP emails being sent? If not, then this is probably not a BP problem, but is a problem with the configuration of your WP installation.

For the first stage of the process (blog, feeds, twitter integration) BuddyPress is overkill. WordPress by itself will be great for this purpose.

If you want forums and other social features, BuddyPress will be a good option. The best place to start is by installing BP on a test installation, playing around with it and asking questions in these forums. Good luck!

I learned PHP by trying to build something. Find a BuddyPress or a WordPress plugin that does something small but interesting, and pick it apart. Try to modify it to do something similar.

If you’ve got a system with lots of people, you may very well have more than one person named “John Smith”. That’s why you need unique identifiers like usernames. The regular name “John Smith” then acts like a piece of profile data. This works the same way in WP as in BP, though WP and BP (for a variety of reasons) store that full name info in different places.

The BP-WP profile syncing is basically a syncing mechanism for full names and email addresses. That’s because WP doesn’t have very extensive built-in profiles. On the vast majority of BP installations, users will never have any contact with their WP profile data – all of their profile management will happen through BP, with changes automatically synced back to WP.

I assume this is on multisite? How exactly do you mean “does not work”? What doesn’t? What are you trying to do that doesn’t work? What did you do just before?

It’s no different than say twitter where you have your @username and then Joe User on your profile

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/

Thats one but i’m not sure it will work with BP. My thought was you could create a “verified” role and then do an if statement for some code to show a verified check badge.

I may make a plugin that adds a verified check.

@localpaper and all the others: this is a working start (at the moment only working with multisites enabled):
http://cleverness.org/2010/08/08/add-user-types-to-wordpress-and-buddypress/

Give it a try.

@zenzard

Everything you ever wanted to know about page templates can be found here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Templates

I’m in the same boat, experienced in WordPress and building my first BuddyPress site. I can’t speak to all the specifics of the photo gallery but overall I’d say yes, a site like that is possible. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a good photo gallery BP plugin out there.

BuddyPress functions should be pretty intuitive if you know WordPress, although BuddyPress is not as well documented. So it helps if you know enough PHP to understand how a function works just by reading the code.

Good luck!