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The BuddyPress Custom Profile Menu plugin should really help you out with this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-custom-profile-menu

(full disclosure: it’s our plugin )

See http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66204/showing-the-users-username-in-registration-email-or-activation-page-with-buddyp

Hey! for BP 6.1 :
Lous thinking!
Working on the same problem. Maybe try this advice. The problem is; you cant send private not-friend-messages or mentions or scale up to blog-user-based systems with whitepaced usernames. In the end the user gonna need to enter no-whitepace-names. So interacting nicely would be better approach:

1) To accept the user to type whitespace, but not record them, using jQuery
2) Use EMAIL also to login https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email-login/

Example for 1) :

– Leave the register process AS IT IS in bp 6.1 -as now accepts:

Donald Duck = donAld duCK = or HOWEVER a user choose their username with lowercase/ uppercase (This is good for loggin back in – many forgot their cases). The username avabililty checker don alows any other combinations either by default (DonaLD-DUCK is occupied).

– Run a jQuery on(‘keyup’) function as a validator when form appears at :

a) register
b) Loggin in
c) Changing username (if enabled by any plugin)
d)* Display name (xprofile required field) = profile edit BASE submit

OBS : The keyup replaces any whitepsace on the fly when user typing in their Username with hyphens. Diffrent browser handle this diffrent, so a onfocus need to be provided if user PASTE their name. NOTE : YES The user with no javascript has to look at the instructions instead …

The results will become : “Donald-Duck” as username, loggin in however letters cased.

If you don wanna show this white-space replacement, Use ‘onsubmit’ instead of keyup -so it can be added silent. But I think its better to LEARN the user to use Hypens – by see the “forced action”. The user will need to write correct usernames when sending/ composing messages and mentions and feeds and…if you scale up.

GOOD: “donald-duck” as the sitewide username = key (private messages, mentions and slugs for blogfarms etc etc)

Also – for user exp – Use a tooltip to make it CLEAR that we are replacing their favorite username with hyphens.

* Display name field, change in the template to ‘hidden’ in xprofile situations. Menaing: NEVER let the user be avaible to fill that out. So the trick comes to the register process. This field is hardcoded required. Let the field be hidden by CSS, added a clone of Username field in the submit. Let the username be Masterfield so avabililty check running ok. Then you get rid of Display name showing SAME for diffrent users – if they can type by themselfs.

Special if you dont wanna display/ using First and Last names:

I have hidden the Display name field in register/ everywhere, cloning username data on Submit, splitting hypens so it displays Donald Duck.

In the payment forms Firstname = Donald Last name = Duck
OTHERWISE the first name will be Donald-Duck and last name Empty.

Summary:

Don mess with php tweaks so urls get crazy, you loose quality of your collected database if ya cant scale up or migrate in the future. I tried everything and belive me, a small site will starting have problems very soon. Don core files, its security reasons why no filtering is easy to do here – I suppose, after trying everything with authenticate filters and hooks.

I woluld like a plugin to Change ALL custom messages provided in the sign up processes in WP. Including The boring email without username provided. The Welcome Pack can do this with some trix. So the user-name is shown in confirm message.

/ Hope it helps.

This SITE is such a confusing site. Become a buddy freak since mars and this site I cant understand. Where Am I? In a group or in a forum? In a private activity? When can I search for What?
Searching doesnt work and everything is SOO Old.
And Google points here all the time.
Just finding reply button isnt easy.
Bad for the wonderful Buddypress WordPress solution.

@techstar please post at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/forum/
you could also post at http://jobs.wordpress.net

Hi, recently worked on a datingsite, and a school intranet for BP and scanned 6 month of Getting BP private. Have a lot of notes -and one popped up when reading this post:

http://picklewagon.com/wordpress/new-user-approve/

“When a user
registers for the blog, the user gets created and then an email gets sent to
the administrators of the site. An administrator then is expected to either
approve or deny the registration request. An email is then sent to the user
indicating whether they were approved or denied. If the user was approved,
the email will include the login credentials. Until a user is approved, the
user will not be able to login to the site.”

Try this as a start – didnt remember if I have (Went trough TONS of solutions of reg process, but I saved this link so maybe its useful…), The fix might be to preserve the passwords somehow instead of autocreate them when aproved.

/ Maybe gonna share my solutions later for the BP datingsite – lot of privacy filters and hooks…

The plugin is no more supported. You can install the new version from here.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-media/

Something like this https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-user-account-type-lite/

There’s no import plugin that I know of that’s out in the market. You’d need to code the script yourself or hire a developer to do so https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/forum/ and/or http://jobs.wordpress.net/

There’s https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-user-account-type-lite/
haven’t tested it though.

Try this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/

@mercime Hey no problem. Just out of curiosity even though that plugin has not been updated, do you know if it works with the current versions of WP and BP? I know sometimes it just a matter of testing with the current versions and updating the readme.txt in the plugin to reflect it will work with them. Thanks again.
@tdempsey2012 if @mercime confirms the questions above this may help give a you a reason for friends on your site. Also you may want to check out the plugin BP FriendPress https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress-friendpress.zip . It allows you to show your friends and your own activity in the activity stream for your users like facebook does. The admin still see’s sitewide activity.
Edit:
@mercime @r-a-y @tdempsey2012 I just tested r-a-y’s plugin on my test server with the latest versions of WP and BP and its working as it should. Subscribers get denied sending a private message if they are not friends, and the admin can send a private message to anyone regardless of friendship. Is there a chance of getting @r-a-y to update the repository to reflect this plugin is still valid for the current versions of WP & BP? Thanks!

@shawn38 Apologies, no bug at all. It’s my bad, I forgot I have BuddyPress Message Privacy Plugin installed in all sites ever since There’s a free https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/ but it needs to be updated for current BP version.

– Pagelines theme with BP -> if I recall well, Pagelines has a premium plugin to make Pagelines theme compatible with BuddyPress

– You can find examples of BP multisite installs at https://buddypress.org/showcase/

– Create a Network – https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

– Before Installing BuddyPress – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
– Installing BP – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/

@amy-joy Two things:
1. Go to Settings > Forums and check/add that the path to your existing bb-config.php file is correct
and/or
2. Download a copies of WordPress and BuddyPress to your hard drive and re-upload WP and BP folders manually i.e., via FTP/cpanel/file manager/etc.

Re BP Activity Plus: It has not been updated for WP 3.4.2 nor does it show it has been updated for current BP versions. To get support for this plugin, please post at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-activity-plus and click on Support tab. Deactivate this plugin and check if duplicate posts are resolved.

Hi mercime. I set up a test site on my localhost(mac environment). I then recreated the same set up on my hosting space using a fresh download of both wordpress and buddy press. I think I have located the problem to my permalinks in that WordPress includes the index.php in the permalink and this inhibits buddy press functionality(?). I have mod rewrite enabled on the server and have tried numerous elements from other support threads e.g. ensuring .htaccess is correct. I don’t have a url at present as I am only putting it up as a test site and by the time I had posted I took it down! let me know if this is enough information and any help would be most welcome.